Without a reliable vision, progress is not in view. The foundation for improvement, change and progress is vision. The president of Coca-cola during World war II named Robert Woodruff made a powerful pronouncement "I see a vision that wherever soldiers are 5yrs from now, they will be able to buy bottle of Coca-cola for five cents" They made it and then he expanded the vision and said "I see people all over the world being able to drink Coca-cola" That is how Coca-cola expanded because one man was able to see what naturally speaking at that time, did not make sense at all.
Sam Adeyemi once said "Until our eyes see, our ears hear and our hearts grasp, things cannot move from the invisible world to the visible". Our past failures and painful experiences have tendency to erect barricades in our mind. The truth is that your past does not dictate your future. It's what you do today that opens the way for tomorrow. But you need to change your approach if you have been getting a bad result because traditions have power to frustrate vision. The methods we have used before frustrate our capacity to innovate.
Another thing I have noticed is that most people to do not have a flexible mind with God. Without that you can't create the future. It's only in your imagination that God can take a duplex and a new car and match it with you when you do not even have a room or a bike. You have to eradicate your rigid mind to see the next level.
Lastly start where you are, but do not stay there. It is not a crime to start small but it's a crime to stay small. Never build for yesterday; build for tomorrow. Your tomorrow will be better than your yesterday.