“When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.”

--Pete Townshend, principal composer and lead guitarist of British rock band The Who.

I just saw The Who on in Brooklyn, part of the “Who Hits 50” Tour, celebrating their half a century as a band. Townsend said halfway through the packed concert that it seemed that getting to these big arenas start to happen within a year for today’s young performers. But it took The Who years before they played big venues like Brooklyn’s 675,000 square-foot Barclay Center that seats up to 19,000 fans.

That kind of exciting result requires vision – a very clear picture of the results you want to produce.

In the 1979 documentary film “The Kids Are Alright,” – the Who’s biography to that point, Townshend said that whatever The Who were doing, they were doing it big. That explains his signature big windmilling move he does with his arm when playing guitar, the smashing of instruments, and lead singer Roger Daltrey swinging the microphone in big wide helicopter propeller swirls. Even when the late John Entwistle played standing still as a spider in a web, his fingers would roll across the bass like a swift predator.

As I talk to clients this week, I ask all of them: what’s an extraordinary result that you want to produce in a period of time that would be a tremendous victory.

I ask you the same thing: what is an extraordinary result that you can envision celebrating? Lock it in your vision now, and you will do what it takes to succeed.