Vision, Discipline, Passion and Conscience

Express Your Voice: Vision, Discipline, Passion and Conscience (64-93)

“More powerful is he who has himself in his power.” Lucius Amaeus Seneca

The highest expression of the four intelligences: (65-66)

Mental: Vision
Seeing with the mind’s eye what is possible in people, projects, and enterprises that comes when our mind joins need with possibility. When there is no vision, people fall into victimism.

Physical: Discipline
Discipline is paying the price to bring the vision into reality and comes when vision is joined to commitment. When discipline is absent people fall into indulgence, sacrificing what matters most for the pleasure or thrill of the moment.

Emotional: Passion
Passion is the fire, the desire, the strength of conviction and the drive that sustains the discipline to achieve the vision, and it arises when need overlaps with talent. When passion is missing people fall into insecurity and the empty chatter of the social mirror.

Spiritual: Conscience
Conscience is the inward moral sense of what is right and wrong and the drive toward meaning and contribution, and is the guiding force to vision, discipline and passion. When conscience is absent people are dominated by ego.

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish of spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself.” Susana Wesley

From The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey