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Yesterday I expressed the need to see things they really are, to be successful in business.

I must confess I’m not perfect, and I’ve made the mistake of prescribing qualities that don’t exist to people and things… many times before and with painful outcomes.

Take opportunities for instance, I once lost thousands on investing in a “highly promising” venture linked to stocks, when the market trend was headed down and evidence suggested the marketing was going to keep going down. At the time, I ignored the trend and evidence. I blindly fell for the venture promises, and only dreamt of the future windfall. I also gave more credit to the person leading the venture than I should have. I went on only the assurance of that person from someone I trusted.

I’ve bought into courses and programs that promise big windfalls too. Often, they don’t deliver. The bigger the promise, the less likely it’ll deliver.

I’ve learned my lessons, and fortunately, the lessons are finally paying off. If there’s anything valuable I can share from this, it’s be wary of big sales promises and look at them while strongly rooting yourself in reality.

A key factor to a business leader’s success is the ability to see things they really are – not how they’d like it to be.

By this, I mean one must be able to make objective assessments in order to succeed. Vision is not the same as objective assessment of the current situation. One can see a picture of the future, while knowing where they truly are today. The problem comes in when one sees the future, doesn’t see where they truly are today, and draws a roadmap to the future based on a starting point of false reality.

The challenge is we all have the tendency to prescribe qualities to something or someone, even when those qualities don’t exist.

We believe an opportunity will be a winner even when the evidence suggests the opposite for instance, or we think someone likes us when they really don’t. The fact is we all have imagination, and we can see the world with a blend of imagination and reality.

To be successful however, one must assess the reality – without the imagination – and make appropriate decisions. Failure to apply reality is a recipe to be taken advantage of, by others or one’s own imagination.