It is amazing when you start working hard for something, you start to research about the business you want to launch, and while you learn about it, things start to click. You start to see connections of all the things you know and hold dear with the new information you are learning about this new business. It's like a sign from above, you can call it everything you want depending your particular religion or set of beliefs, but the important thing is that once you see all these connections popping up and you start tracing all the dots, you have to believe and have faith that the path you have taken is the right path for you.
Life for some reason wants you to complete this path, so I say you follow it, you'll be fired up and excited and will want to know more and do more and move as fast as you can, just don't forget to plan ahead. Don't let the feeling that everything is falling into place cloud your judgement. You now have a vision of where your path is heading, having things click will allow you to see where you are and where you want to go.
The vision is crucial for an entrepreneur, it let's you know where you are aiming, knowing where to aim will let you create the actions that have to be taken to reach that target. If the actions do not render the desired result, don't worry, you still have your vision, stick to it, just find a different approach, improve your actions. This could be launching a new campaign, targeting a different market, creating a new product or service, it doesn't matter what action you take as long as it is focused on your vision.
A leader without a vision is a failure as a leader, how is the team going to follow a leader that doesn't know where to go? A leader with vision is a great leader, just see what other great leaders past and present have done. I recommend to read biographies of great leaders. Abraham Lincoln, Mandela, Gandhi, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Walt Disney, Patton, Bolivar, Asoka, Churchill, Napoleon, you name it. Every great leader in history had a vision and kept to it and created their own path.
If you start a business without a clear vision, you will fail, you will learn that vision is key, but if you find your vision before starting you will save yourself great headache. What could be your vision? To be the greatest contractor in your area, with amazing quality, 5 of 10 working crews, strive for happy customers all the time, provide the best materials and finishes for your projects even if that means doing the job with someone else. Maybe you want to be the cupcake tycoon of America, selling cupcakes on the web, door to door, on a store, reaching millions with delicious frosted pieces of happiness. It is up to you what you want to do, as long as you have a long term look of what you want to do and what do you want to achieve. Follow your vision and everything will fall into place.
For me, finding my vision required me to have a little alone time, I had little time to actually meditate, clear my mind and find a solution to the problems I want to solve. So I used my commute, sometimes I would pop a podcast either Entrepreneur on Fire, Entreleadership Podcast or even WDW Radio, since I'm such a geek and enjoy that podcast very much, and during those commutes, hearing great podcasters and great interviews, then my mind would start working like crazy. The audio became a white noise while I was immersed in my own thoughts on how to create my business, but specially I created the goal I wanted to reach for both projects, I have a very clear and defined vision of where I want to go, and from that I have been planning and designing the actions I'm going to take to reach that goal.
So get out there and think, plan, meditate, explore, try to find patterns and connect the dots. Create an amazing vision, shoot for the moon, if you miss you'll still be among the stars.
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