Bring Your Vision to Life by Ralph McCall

Bring Your Vision to Life is a practical, nuts and bolts guide to passionately pursuing your God-given vision. Many books may inspire people to pursue their vision, but McCall's Bring Your Vision to Life provides a clear, step-by-step plan for actually accomplishing your vision. In my view, this isn't a particularly "feel good" book as many books on this subject are, but it is practical and may provide more actual help when it comes to knowing how to turn a dream into reality than some of the more inspiring books out there.

Pros

• Well organized and easy to follow.
• Provides practical daily assignments.
• With discipline the plan can be worked through in 25 days.
• Following the steps in the book can result in a solid plan for accomplishing your God-given vision.

Cons

• The first chapter started a bit slow.
• Unless the reader does the assignment at the end of each chapter, not much will be gained through the book.

Description

• Genre: Nonfiction, Self-help
• Release Date: 2006
• Author: Ralph McCall
• Publisher: Déstinee SA
• ISBN: 978-0-9759082-2-8
• Format: Paperback; 216 Pages

Bring Your Vision to Life by Ralph McCall begins by asking the question, "What if?" That question is the first step to bringing dreams and desires to life. Many people allow their dreams to be stolen by pursuing that which is expected of them, rather than following their passions. Such pursuit leads to a less than fulfilling life. Bring Your Vision to Life provides a workable plan for doing just what the title promises.

As readers work through the daily assignments, their dreams will begin to take shape in a way that will enable them to actually happen.

The 25 chapters are broken down into the following seven actions:

• Identify Your Vision
• Establish Your Map
• Manage the Stages with Wisdom
• Set and Achieve Targets
• Be Accountable
• Take Action
• Get the Spiritual Implications

As you can see the first step is clearly defining the vision, and the remaining steps help the reader to work toward the defined vision.

Although the book is divided into 25 daily assignments, some of them might be a bit much to accomplish in a day. Some readers may find it more realistic to work through the book slower than the author intended, but one thing is sure: following the steps in this book, though not a surefire way to accomplish a vision, will certainly give readers a clear road map for pursuing God's call on their lives.

Ralph McCall's experience spans numerous cultures and countries. He is a writer, consultant, and speaker, and has directed several companies in Switzerland, worked at the International Trade Center in Geneva, Switzerland, and managed Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He has started numerous businesses and provided coaching to many entrepreneurs.

Favorite Quote from the Book

As a book that is more practical in nature than inspirational, it was difficult to find a specific sentence or paragraph to quote. However, each chapter began with a quote. The following, by Stephen S. Wise, is my favorite: "Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith."