Picasso-Vision And Your Vision
Picasso-Vision
A woman, courage bolstered by a few drinks too many, accosted Picasso at a function.
“Mr. Picasso,” she barked, “could I ask you a question?” Picasso humoured her. “Why
don’t you paint people properly?” she exclaimed. Picasso looked quizzical, “What ever
do you mean, madam?” The woman rummaged through her handbag and produced a
black and white photo of her husband. Thrusting it under Picasso’s nose she
continued, “Like this! Like this! This is how real people look, not like your awful
paintings of them, with the eyes all over the place, and the ears on top of the head!
This is my husband, you see?” Picasso took the picture from her and inspected it
casually. He paused, and returned the photograph to her sniffing, “He’s very small and
flat then, madam, isn’t he?” First lesson of modern art: not everyone visualises things
in the same way. Do not try to force your inner pictures to become “photographic.
We all need to have our own unique vision!
Freedom is Vision
(Inspired by Psycho Cybernetics, 1960, Author Maxwell Maltz)
People often fear, consciously or unconsciously, that
if they define their goals and make them precise they will
in some way lose their freedom to be spontaneous.
Some say it takes away from living moment to moment.
I don’t think it’s true…
In fact, it’s only through personal vision that man can
achieve psychological freedom in any significant sense of
the word!
We have goals and desires whether we decide to face them
or not. By picturing our goals we accept the truth of our desires
in an authentic way that allows us to deal with, their contradictions or negative self-talk.
If I have no vision I am motivated by conflicting and unconscious motives.
If I have a vision I have the freedom to resolve these conflicts and to refine, modify and improve my goals.
No vision means no control.
Is Your Vision clear and define? Do you have a vision board?
You really are great at expressing your thoughts and vision through words and art. I continue to be impressed. Personally, it took me awhile to actually develop my vision. Surface goals of money and tangible items often create what we think our vision is. In reality when you allow feelings and emotions to take over of what it will be like to reach your goals, that is when it becomes clear.
That’s so true Heather…I continue to define my goals and the great part about that is if I don’t make it exactly as I hed planned, I just tweak it, change a few things, re-align myself and off I go! Always hitting closer and closer to the targets!The only way to fail is to quit! You seem to have great clarity and I love how you write!
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