9 Universal Principles for Creating, Growing, and Achieving Your Vision
By Phil Lower –
People talk about having a Vision for their business or of their future. If you want to succeed, learn these nine principles below.
1. Have a Vision Bigger Than Yourself
Not having a vision is like working at night without light, the moon, or the stars. A vision needs to be larger and greater than you and where you are now. Don’t limit your vision to what you can see or believe right now.
2. Inspiration Can Come Suddenly
Be ready for inspiration and write the vision down. Creativity is part of the process. Be prepared even at night with a rested and unfettered mind. The process of envisioning where you want to be is deliberate. Expect that anything could inspire you.
3. Envisioning is a Deliberate Process
There is no correct time frame for completing your vision. Envisioning is deliberate. Write down ideas. Marinate on them. Your Business Plan is a living breathing map to your future. Update your Vision statement and bring all your activities in line. Since most of us aren’t used to envisioning how great something can be, enjoy the ride and take lots of notes. Keep them where you can readily access them. Revise your business plan as necessary.
Anything else is wishful thinking.
4. Write Your Vision down
A vision is a call to action. It can be confusing until it is expressed. That is why it is so important to write it down, to make it plain, and to gear all efforts towards its accomplishment.
Get it down on paper with a pen. There is something to actually writing it that imprints it on your mind much more clearly than typing it into the computer. It takes on a personal quality.
If there is no written vision, the business can only go on the spoken word of the owner. Without a vision, you might as well be walking around your company or job naked since you’re exposed to everything that comes by.
5. Declare and Share Your Vision
Vision can be multiplied like multiple photos creating a panoramic view. By sharing the vision with others they become proponents or opponents of what you’re working to accomplish. Keep the proponents and take them along with you as far as they help you accomplish the vision.
The vision is not for everyone that is with you or for whom you know. Walk the walk, and talk the talk, of your vision.
6. Protect Your Vision
Letting other people influence your vision, when they are not part of the process, could damage it. Remove those who negatively influence your vision from life. If you can’t, inoculate yourself against their poisonous beliefs and attitudes. Whether they leave you alone, depart from you, or you’re deaf to them, you win.
7. Accomplishing Your Vision is a Deliberate Process
It may seem like you’re too weak to accomplish your vision right now – and you are. Keep pushing. As you become stronger personally, organizationally, financially, in your support network, you’ll move forward faster and faster.
Track your progress. Move players around to accomplish your Vision. Be prepared to gather ideas from different sources and experts.
A vision emboldens you to commit to action. Talk about it, Commit to it, and See it done!
8. Your Vision is for an Appointed Time
A vision is for a particular season. It is a breathing living thing. Work for it. Know it is coming. It will not be later than its appointed hour.
9. A Warning about Your Vision
If you’re given a vision, not pursuing it is disobeying your life’s calling. Just because you can’t accomplish something now, doesn’t mean the vision isn’t for you. Learn, grow, change, network with people who can help. See it done!
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Phil Lower is the Head Coach / Founder of the 5 Minute Business Mind and Paladin Business Coaching. Using high-integrity, exploratory techniques and building strong decision-making skills, he has coached for-profit and non-profit business owners, officers, directors, professionals, civic and religious leaders, students and mentees, from 29 different countries, to help them accomplish their Goals, Visions, and Dreams.
Through 5MBM, he is accomplishing his vision of providing professionals, executives, and small / medium sized business owners access to amazing wisdom and wide ranging experience gathered from across the globe to assist their endeavors.
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