Your vision is the grandest, highest, greatest thing you can imagine for yourself. Martin Luther King Jr. galvanized a civil rights movement that changed the fabric of American life for black and brown people. It started with a vision. Learn from his legacy and let your vision guide your course so that you achieve things in your life and work far greater than you could have ever imagined.

Visualization is the process of creating a vivid mental image of a future event. Cognitive scientific research indicates that since the brain doesn’t know the difference between a real memory and an imagined one if you envision something vividly enough, your mind perceives it as something real that you’ve already experienced. This is why many celebrated athletes, such as Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Jack Nicklaus, and others successfully use visualization to level up their game. And so can you!

Humility is not typically thought as a strength, and certainly not a core leadership attribute. But a closer examination of trailblazing leaders of our time highlights that they all possessed the quiet trait of humility, and argues that this trait is what helped them to achieve their success.