Rich Butler is a Church Unique reader who posted the following entry on his blog. It's an interesting and helpful perspective that having clarity is one thing but having push through is another:
IQ (What you know) __EQ(What you can handle)__AQ(what you do)
In other words, the IQ is the intelligence quotient, the AQ is the ability quotient and the EQ is the emotional quotient.
I'm not smart enough to have come up with this matrix of birthing your dreams, visions and strategies. But I'm smart enough to take notes. I was having coffee with a life coach, consultant and friend a few weeks ago and this is what he illustrated on the table as we chatted.
What I learned from our meeting. Most of us have dreams and intelligent information in our minds, yet we often times don't have thick enough skin to move through the EQ to reach the AQ, which is the implementation.
You see this illustrated with unemployed Harvard Grads and those not finishing high school making millions on Wall Street. The EQ (your emotional threshold) determines what information develops feet and runs like the wind.
Godin calls this process the DIP.
What information (vision) do you have that hasn't come to pass because of your limited EQ? When God gives vision, he equips you to accomplish it. However, it's never easy. Thank goodness Jesus' EQ included JOY.