Visions are dreams that start with goals.

If you don’t have a Vision how can you GPS where you’re going? You’ll become a person without a map because your map is your vision. An excellent example of a person that was bonded to their vision is Michael Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards. A British  Olympian

This week I watched the movie Eddie the Eagle, which was about a very determine young man from England who throughout his life was told to give up on his dream. A vision is a dream. It can be achieved with the right mindset and encouragement.

This young man one would think was dealt a bad hand. But the funny thing was he was dealt the hand that God knew he could overcome to reach his vision.

Eddie’s vision was to become an Olympian after the doctors and his family told him that he should give up sports (because they felt he wasn’t any good and his childhood handicap). That he should take up reading. So the first book that Eddie picked up was a book about The Olympic and all its glory. At the age of 10 Eddie received his vision. He was full on track for this.

He was starting setting his goals.  He changed his mindset to this vision. He began to train in his vision. He trained all the summer sports that he could until he found that his vision was one-sided and that he needed to adjust it. Same vision of becoming an Olympian but now he had define what an Olympian looked like to him. He didn’t get discouraged when he wasn’t successful at the summer sports. He got to work.

By trusting the process that was laid out for him. He trained as a Skier and when the British Olympic change the rules on him. He was once again adjusted himself to stay on the course of his vision. He placed his trust in the vision and found another way to achieve his goal because he had enough faith to not only see his vision but to believe that it was going to happen.

Eddie believes he was an Olympian. Through his needed to fulfill his purpose he was able to become a Ski jumpers. Self-training and funding himself. Even one the other Ski jumpers laughed at him, even when he was told at the age of 22 that he was supposed to train as a ski jumper at the age of 6, he didn’t let that stop him.

He took his vision with him as he tried the 15m ski jumper and landed it on his first try. He then took his vision to the 40m and crashed but got back on it. Final making it to the 70m he almost broke his body. But his spirit and mindset were still on becoming an Olympic. Even when he made the requirement jump that the British tried to impose on him, he still overcame them from seeking to stop his vision.

Making it on the 1987 British  Winter Olympic team. He was not what people wanted when they see an Olympian. But Eddie had a vision, to become an Olympian. His goal had been set at age 10. He didn’t dip from the plan. He made his purpose hadn’t.  He even tried the 90m jump which he never tried during the games. He didn’t win the 70m or 90m drops in faceted he we dead last in both.

Trusting God for Vision.

Trust is always a hard thing to do. To trust is to give up the control over yourself and the situation you’re going through. When you feel like you, have been doing everything for yourself.

I know firsthand. I feel like making my vision board was the first step of me handing over God my trust. I was handing over my secret desires that were precious to me. I wasn’t sure if he could handle these things for me. I was scared not to know when these things would get done because I knew I could trust myself.

I knew that if I was on my desire that things would get done the way I wanted them to be. That my friends was the problem. I was in the case of my desires because I trusted myself. So exercising my faith through the vision board, I was forced to giving up control. Give up my trust placing it into God’s hands.

The funny thing is that even though I trusted myself with my desires. I was failing and letting myself down with my poor chooses in the man that I date. In not completing my classes so I could move on to finish my degree. I was going after jobs that I didn’t want just to have income, and I was relying on myself.

As I began to trust more in God and change my mindset and understand that Gods promise nothing that he is not going to do. My faith began to grow.  This Sunday I went to church, and the Pastor said that all you have to do is stake a cake crumb to God and watch him work on your behave. Because the same ingredients that were in that whole cake are still left in that cake crumb.

So imagine if you’re take your cake crumb size or mustard seed faith in God and watch his give you more than a plant or cake. I  don’t know about you, but I’m ready to be the cake shop owner. More than owning the shop I want to own the whole block that cake shop is on.

Trusting in God will allow you to stop relying only on your skills to get things done.

Make sure to read Do you have Vision? Part  if you missed it.