Creating Your Vision

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

Helen Keller

Today was our company’s yearly vision board lunch and I wanted to not only take this opportunity to share mine but to explain how important it is to everyone out there that creating a vision is really key to being successful. This task was assigned by our President, Claire Ansell, to every member of our company and we then shared our visions with the entire team.  It was a great team building exercise and also allowed us to get to know everyone on a more personal level.  It was very interesting to see how differently everyone was motivated.

Vision boards are visual representations of your goals and desires. They can be made a number of different ways, but their main purpose is to assist you in visualizing, and thus feeling, how you want to feel when your goals are achieved.  This is the key to manifestation. Over 75% of people tend to be visual learners which makes visualizing and visual images so effective.  And what better motivation than seeing your goals reached!

Many people have vision boards for their life goals, but they can be powerful tools in your business as well.  Consider creating boards for:

• ·         Your brand
• ·         Your customer experience
• ·         Your financial goals
• ·         Your definition of success

Many successful people tell of how they set a goal and used some sort of vision board technique to help them get there. One of my favorites is the story of Jim Carey who, as a broke and struggling young actor, wrote himself a check for ten million dollars for "services rendered". He kept that check in his wallet and looked at it often to remind him of his goal.  Jim's check was indeed a "vision board" of sorts. It was a visual representation of his dream and "seeing it" helped him believe it and achieve it. 

No matter what your business goals and dreams are, a vision board can help you clarify what you really want. The process of creating one helps you to visualize what your success will look like and you might find that what you really want changes as you build the board.  When visioning your success, it's okay to dream big and it's also okay to shoot for just a little over your comfort zone.   As you get closer to your goals, revise your board to include new milestones, too

 

Have you taken the time to visualize what you want for your business?  What success means to you? 

Visit www.GGRInternational.com to learn more about how GGR can help you develop your company vision and help you achieve your goals.