Vision: Apple predicted iPad, Siri and Facetime in 1987

The question is.. What’s Your Vision?

A good friend of mine @DavidCitraNg, tweeted this article this morning

Basically it’s about Apple’s vision video from 1987 on the Knowledge Navigator that pretty much foreshadowed the functions of iPad, Siri and Facetime today. That was 24 years ago. I am amazed by this. But I think this is what a Vision is suppose to do. How many corporations or individuals claim to have a vision that drive them forward, yet in years to come, nothing come to life? Do we give up, find a different vision and move on? Was it a vision to begin with or was it simply an idea?

The first two definition of “vision” from Dictionary.com:

For entrepreneurs out there like myself, what is your Vision? What is it that you want to come to be for your business, your organization, your life?

I have several projects in mind waiting to be executed. I have to be honest, it’s hard to focus and really pour yourself out if you don’t know exactly what you want. I could easily fall into the trap of being like everyone else, doing what everyone else does, and then what? A Vision drives you forward, encourages you to keep going, and keeps you going straight toward your goal.

Another important thing is a Mission Statement. The difference between a vision statement and a mission statement, as I understood, is that a Vision statement is a your goal, where you want to go. A Mission statement defines your steps, what you would do specifically to fulfill your vision. 

So let’s take the time to sit down, formulate a vision and a mission statement, may it be in form of an audio recording or a video composition like Apple’s: