Your Life and Your Business Imagined: The Value of Vision Part I. Victory Audiobook Chapter 8
Victory Audiobook Chapter 8 – Your Life and Your Business Imagined: The Value of Vision Part I
Create the Vision of the life you want, then create a business that makes that life reality
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” Proverbs 29:18
The Value of Vision – What exactly do I mean by that?
FIRST…from personal experience – I know what its like to work with no vision and I know what its like to work with Vision.
Everything is BETTER with Vision!
How to find meaning and money by Doing the WORK OF VISION!
What do I mean by that – The Work of Vision?
Go to Work ON your business.
What does that mean? Working on your business?
OH… create systems! Yes it’s that – BUT something else first!
GERMANS saying….”Never go to the second thing first”
The First thing is VISION.
VISION AND SYSTEMS – GO TOGETHER
EFFICIENCY IS DOING THINGS RIGHT – EFFECTIVENESS IS DOING THE RIGHT THINGS!
- DRUCKER
THEY GO TOGETHER – LISTEN…YOU HAVE TO HAVE BOTH!
“A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world”
Vision work is thinking work
It is THINKING Work – and so most people wont do it.
People will avoid “Thinking Work” It doesn’t feel particularly productive! People would rather be Busy Doing – than thinking.
Vision work is Thinking Work – PEOPLE DON’T VALUE THINKING WORK.
VISION WORK:
- Quiet meditation. That dream that is inside of you.
- It won’t go away
- It scares you a little – or a lot. If it doesn’t scare you at least a little…forget it
- Your Value Proposition. This podcast is about Growing You and Growing your Business – – – most are business owners.
- How does your business serve others
- Who does it best serve
- How are you differentiated?
VISION…IS FINDING THE FEW THINGS – – –
VISION IS GETTING CLARITY!
We are so easily distracted
We live in the age of Shiney Objects and SquirrelS – or as I heard it said – Shiny Squirrels
PHIL KNIGHT – THE CREATOR OF NIKE!
SHOE DOG – “IN the beginners mind there are many possibilities – but in the experts mind – there are few.” SHUNRU SUZUKI – Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
Cash Follows Clarity – knowing exactly what to say yes to – and what to say NO to
Cash Follows Clarity
