Your Vision is YOUR Guide.
Each year it is critical to take a few minutes and review your vision and assess how it connects to your current status.
Where are you at?
Where are you going?
Two BIG questions.
Have you taken the time to do this yet, this year??
It is important to always be evaluating your business and how it is doing. This is where you can learn and grow. If you have a vision and you are off-track and moving in the wrong direction it is important to look at that. Does the business need to shift or does the vision.
If you decide to just go forward without evaluation, then you are missing critical information and opportunity.
This annual (minimally) evaluation, helps you to refocus, re-inspire, reactivate your business goals.
You can use our business and marketing assessment to do this if that is a good fit.
But if not, there are some basic questions to ask yourself.
- What is going well?
- What is not quite right yet?
- What would make it right?
- How can you move this forward?
- What can you learn from what you have accomplished and have not accomplished this past year?
Creating a powerful vision, is what draws you into the future, but it is also a valuable business tool that you can share with your customers and potential customers. Your vision, can be an “attractor factor for your business. When people align with your vision and see its value, are excited by it, then you become more attractive to them.
My book, Launching Your Dreams talks about vision as does Business Growth CORE in the Womenpreneur’s Resource Center. So, you can see it is foundational to what I believe. Take some time to dream, envision and then put together your strategic plan.
Vision comes before strategy.
Strategic planning without a clear strategy is filled with goals that aren’t leading you in the right direction. Your strategies need to point you to the future and your vision.
It is a big mistake that many people make. They create strategy without vision.
When you have taken the time to create a powerful vision, share that vision, then you can create your strategies and they will be easier to implement. Vision leads you, strategy gets you there.
EnVision is my annual webinar that guides you step by step through this process.
Evaluation comes before you can create your plan for the year. Take the time to evaluate your year and what you accomplished.
Launching Your Dreams: Making WILD Ideas Happen gives you the step by step of making it happen.
Don’t just let your idea sit — it can be your life!!
It’s about taking action on your dreams and making them your reality!!
In the fourth edition, I share my story but also the HOW to making it a reality.
My dream was a cross country bicycle ride — in the process of making it happen, I found an International sponsor, a advisory committee and ended up with a 4500 mile bike ride.