The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

Let's face it. No one is obligated to believe your vision. However, when you have persevered enough and seen the vision bring fruits or it becomes a reality, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon of belief.

The fact is that everything is created at least twice. The first creation is when you get the vision, the idea, the purpose, or the passion to pursue it. At that moment, there is no evidence that it will work.

In fact, at that moment, it tends to go against the grain, against the popular status quo. There are at least four ways that a visionary will be affected when they are misunderstood by friends and loved ones as they pursue their vision. Listen in.

Let's face it. No one is obligated to believe your vision. However, when you have persevered enough and seen the vision bring fruits or it becomes a reality, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon of belief.

The fact is that everything is created at least twice. The first creation is when you get the vision, the idea, the purpose, or the passion to pursue it. At that moment, there is no evidence that it will work.

In fact, at that moment, it tends to go against the grain, against the popular status quo. There are at least four ways that a visionary will be affected when they are misunderstood by friends and loved ones as they pursue their vision. Listen in.

When a visionary is misunderstood by friends and loved ones, for the most part, it will be because they are taking a stand that is different from what the status quo offers.

People will not see what you see, feel what you feel, and hear what you hear. That should be what you and I have to understand from the get-go.

At times we get it wrong when we think that people will have the same passion as we do with our purpose and our pursuit. When they don't, it affects the visionary in different negative ways. this is one of them. Listen in.

When a visionary is misunderstood by friends and loved ones, for the most part, it will be because they are taking a stand that is different from what the status quo offers.

People will not see what you see, feel what you feel, and hear what you hear. That should be what you and I have to understand from the get-go.

At times we get it wrong when we think that people will have the same passion as we do with our purpose and our pursuit. When they don't, it affects the visionary in different negative ways. this is one of them. Listen in.

We all go through pain in our lives at one point or another. Perhaps the greatest pain that we suffer is not physical pain, it is the pain in our souls that is brought about by being misunderstood by the people that we expected to understand.

Many times a visionary downloads something out of this world, and just the fact that it doesn't fit in the status quo of the day, we vilify them and make them go through lots of inner turmoil.

This is one of the greatest pains that a visionary can ever go through. It is one of the prices they pay for their vision, to choose between the vision and the family, the vision, and friends. Listen to this.

As a visionary or someone who is hot on the heels of purpose pursuit, make no mistake about it, you will be misunderstood. No one is obligated to believe you. No one.

So when you are misunderstood, you will go through several things. It is very important for your friends and loved ones to come alongside and help you, support you and shield you, providing a strong belief in what you do.

But what happens when they don't? And believe me, they won't at some point in time. This is when you will discover that blood is not necessarily thicker than water. Listen to this.

As a visionary or someone who is hot on the heels of purpose pursuit, make no mistake about it, you will be misunderstood. No one is obligated to believe you. No one.

So when you are misunderstood, you will go through several things. It is very important for your friends and loved ones to come alongside and help you, support you and shield you, providing a strong belief in what you do.

But what happens when they don't? And believe me, they won't at some point in time. This is when you will discover that blood is not necessarily thicker than water. Listen to this.

A Jesus-type of visionary will always be misunderstood and for good reasons. They are unlike anyone we have seen. They take on massive "impossible" projects.

In our world, we can equate this kind of visionary to an Alexandar The Great, a Julius Ceasar, a Napoleon, a Shaka Zulu, an Abraham Lincoln, or even to some extent, a John F Kennedy or a Martin Luther King Jnr.

One can even say an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs exemplifies this kind of visionary. It is easy to see how many of these people were misunderstood, in fact, many of them were killed. Let's see what to do with this kind of visionary.