The Vision

The Vision is a book of seventy-six short reflections, each a page or less, written in the first person. Its title names its subject: the deliberate picture a person forms of their own life — "A vision is not given, it's created, by you" — and what changes once that picture is in place. From there the reflections move through the terrain around it: self-worth as something made rather than measured, pressure and procrastination, money as an enabler that reveals character, patience applied selectively, boundaries, criticism, betrayal, and the slow work of knowing yourself well enough to know what you want.

The voice is plain and direct, reasoning from lived incidents — a trashed notebook of writing, a lost career path, five months in an unfamiliar place — toward conclusions the author tests on himself before offering them. Many reflections turn on a reversal of a familiar saying: a backup plan can be a ticket to failure, knowledge is not always power, happiness is a state maintained rather than a stage reached. The chapters stand alone and can be read in any order; together they record one person holding a life steady by thinking it through.