Having a clear vision for your success, where you want to be, and where you are heading, is sometimes overlooked as a strategy for building a business. But it can shape the foundation for everything else. Your vision will allow you to build your strategy, and your strategy will allow you to execute the goals and tasks, and that will ultimately lead to success.
That’s the true power of a vision – it permits us to see beyond our present condition and see what we want and plan how to get there.
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What is a vision?
A VISION IN ESSENCE IS YOUR OPTIMAL FUTURE STATE.
It can refer to your business and your personal or whole life. They are intertwined.
Your business vision is all about where you want your business to go, how that business will grow, and what it is that you want to ultimately offer and solve. In ten years, time what do you wish to have achieved?
In your personal life, it refers to the overall goals and aspirations you have and how you wish to live your life. Having that strong picture in your mind will help to guide you along the way.
Why is vision important for success?
A vision allows you to get a glimpse into the life you want, you can feel it, and you can sense the person you want to become, and the life you will have and that creates
Having goals unfortunately is not enough. You need that larger destination in mind to create the RIGHT goals – without it, it’s fruitless labor. The mental picture will help you direct your actions, and you will make better decisions that will guide you closer to that vision.
How do you create a master vision?
Creating a master vision means that you do not focus on only one area of your life, but all the areas of your life. It’s about ensuring that there will be no conflicts in the areas of your life if you pursue a goal in one. Everything aligns.
Imagine you build a business so that you can build a better life for your family. If that business is created in a way that does not give you freedom and takes time away from your valuable family time, then It likely will not make you or your family happy. The goals do not align.
If you want to achieve that ultimate vision for the life you want, understanding how a change in one area of your life will affect another area is imperative.
That’s the only way of creating a MASTER VISION.
But what are the 4 components of a powerful vision:
- LIFESTYLE
- RELATIONSHIPS
- FINANCES
- BUSINESS/WORK
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Don’t expect that it will happen overnight.
Both creating the vision and achieving it won’t happen overnight. Accepting this will help you for two reasons.
Firstly, knowing that you are planning for the long haul will allow you to think bigger and broader which can only mean the vision will be more aligned with the life you want.
Secondly, taking your time to think through that vision, work on it, break it apart, and revise it, is how you ensure that it is the right fit for you. The clearer and more focused it will be, creating the necessary momentum to work towards it.
Look 10 years into the future.
Allow yourself to dream big into the future. It’s likely that your life, across the different areas, will massively change during this time.
Taking at least some of the possibilities into account can massively help you to create a vision that will be sustainable and achievable in the long term.
You will be far better equipped to anticipate challenges and build the resilience to overcome them.
Determine your goals.
So you’ve now allowed yourself to dream big and you’ve looked 10 or so years to the future.
Now we’re getting to the part where you begin to put those visions into a vision-building strategy. The first step is determining and setting goals.
The vision is the endpoint, but between now and reaching what you’ve envisioned, come smaller goals broken down into manageable steps.
Find a way of goal planning that suits you the best, it may be a notepad, a goal planner, or an app. Whatever works for you, but the key here is planning and writing the goals down.
Create broad goals initially, then take each of those goals and keep breaking them down until you get a baby step by the baby-step trajectory of what you need to do.
Get clear on you and make it personal.
This is a powerful little technique that will massively up your motivation.
Vague statements for your goals will not trigger the same kind of emotions and emotional attachment as personal ones. Yet, those feelings of excitement and happiness, and success is what will keep you persevering through the thick and thin of business building.
As well as keeping you moving forward, personal visions and goals will keep you focused. When your goals and vision are personal, it can increase your sense of accountability to yourself. This can motivate you to take ownership of your actions and be more proactive in pursuing your goals.
Make it inspirational.
If your vision or goals feel like a chore – let’s face it, you won’t want to work on them.
You want to want to work on your goals. You know that feeling of waking up in the morning and can’t wait to get out of bed because you are feeling enthusiastic and excited to get started? That’s what we are aiming here for.
But how exactly do you get there?
Make sure your goals align with your overall purpose and focus on that purpose rather than the task when working towards a goal. For example, rather than saying.
“I want to get more clients” try saying “I want to help 10 people overcome their limiting beliefs”.
Changing the way you think about the goal, goes a long way.
Keep expanding it.
Investing the time and energy to continually expand your vision and stretch its limits can open up more previously unidentified opportunities. Any opportunity to grow and improve is a way to get you closer to your vision.
On occasion, our lack of self-belief can make your vision just a little bit too humble. You think that at least you can achieve the bare minimum or if you don’t get the
Go back to the vision you have initially identified for yourself, and I dare you to expand it just that little bit more. Did you say you want to make 100,000 a year? I dare you to add that extra 0 at the end.
Develop an action plan or road map.
This is the moment you start prioritizing which goals or tasks you need to tackle first and how to best start executing them.
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Do a time-cost-analysis. How much time will this goal or task cost me and will it be worthwhile that time investment?
Prioritize the goals and tasks that are most time-cost-effective.
Adapt it as needed.
Since you are thinking about our lives 5 to 10 years into the future, a lot of changes in that time. So, stay flexible when needed.
The circumstances in the whole world and in your inner world can and probably will change. By being open and ready for that you will know when the right time is to adjust your vision.
This will ensure that you do not get stuck in old ways just because that’s what you set out to do and ultimately this will keep you on track to achieving the success that is meant for you.
Follow your intuition.
Trust that instinct. You might relate to this too but for me personally, every time I didn’t listen to it, I was proven that I should have.
Your intuition is your subconscious mind working before your conscious mind has time to catch up and process the information. Your intuition is a mental reflex. It’s there to protect you so trust it because it draws on your subconscious knowledge and experiences.
Don’t fall into the imposter trap.
Those thoughts and feelings of feeling like an imposter will likely come up, at one point or another. In fact, most of the people that you might associate with being successful in the world, have often admitted to experiencing it.
It’s a right of passage for us alpha female girl bosses.
But just because it is, does not mean you shouldn’t do anything about it. Address it because it will make your entrepreneurial journey easier.
How?
By challenging the negative thoughts and allowing yourself to fully celebrate your successes. No matter how small.
Make it positive.
Making your goals and visions positive can help you stay motivated, focused, and energized as you work towards achieving them.
Rather than focusing on what you don’t want, focus on what you do want. Frame your goals and visions in positive terms, and describe them as things you want to achieve, rather than things you want to avoid.
Use positive language: Use positive, empowering language when describing your goals and visions. For example, instead of saying “I want to lose weight,” say “I want to feel healthy and strong.” Positive language can help you feel more motivated and confident about achieving your goals.
Stay open-minded.
Instead of focusing on the outcome you want to achieve, allow yourself the flexibility to explore different ways to get there.
Recognize that there will always be some level of uncertainty when pursuing a goal. Being open-minded means accepting that you may need to adapt and change course along the way.
Start acting like the person you want to be before you become them.
Start living your life as you have envisioned your future self to live. This is not about pretending you are there; it is more about beginning to create the persona of who you want to become.
Acting like the person you want to become is a very powerful way to manifest that reality.
What are the best ways to create a vision for success?
Jumping on from the whys and hows and into some awesome tools that can help you create that vision. Try theses –
1. Write down the 5 most important things in your life.
Once you have done that, prioritize them.
2. Try making a vision board.
I really recommend Canva – it’s so great for planning and designing inspirational vision boards. Try a free trial here. It is free but if you want to take your designs to a whole new level, I recommend the pro version.
I have put off getting the pro version for ages (to save monies) but eventually took the plunge and invested and it has paid off.
3. Try the retrospective clarity technique.
I hear this when I was listening to an interview that Boss Babe Inc. did with Steven Bartlett. He talked about a technique where if you are faced with a challenging decision or even when you are trying to determine what your vision for success is, you can try to get in the headspace of you an 85-year-old. Ask yourself which side of the decision you would regret the most.
Is it taking that promotion to get an extra 5k a year or is it starting that business and building freedom? You get the point.
The idea is that as an 85-year-old you will have this retrospective clarity as to what is truly important and will not allow the small irrelevant things, like other people’s opinions to hold you back.
So hopefully you are now equipped with the steps and tools to help you build a powerful vision – so go out there, and build that vision, so that you can create the dream.
