Business Vision – How to ACTUALLY Get What You Want; Drive to Daylight (No vision board required)

I’ve heard countless speakers talk about business vision and manifestation. Most of them share the concept the same way: Dream big and take massive action! While I can appreciate their excitement about the big vision, I think they often leave out a critical step. Here’s the deal: Vision boards are pretty. I mean, who doesn’t want to create a seven-figure business, or develop six-pack abs, or build a dream home with a dream car in the garage and a white picket fence in the front yard? Yes, please! Count me in for one of those. 

I get it. You have to picture what you want, draw a line in the sand, and— BOOM—take massive action. Visualize it, build it, and, straight up Field of Dreams-style, it will come.

Until it doesn’t come.

Until that business vision board you took such care to create ends up buried under a pile of unread personal development books. Until that picture you wanted gets blurred out by rejection, by “I can’t,” and by the reality of daily responsibility. Until that vision board gets put away for another day, another month, another year, another life. Sound familiar? 

The difference between the business vision of what you want and the reality of what you are working toward: 

You cannot sit idly by waiting for the business vision to manifest. You have to care more about the action than the outcome. You have to take really boring, mundane, and sometimes slow, seemingly insignificant action every day. Sure, your vision board matters if, and only if, you are taking the right action daily that will help you achieve it. And let’s be real, that part isn’t pretty. No one throws a “get gritty party” (but maybe I should. I don’t know. I’d totally bring cake). No one wants to glorify the grit. I see it all the time: push goals, vision parties, and manifestation meetings. Meditate. Visualize. Pump your arms. Dream big. “IT WILL HAPPEN!” It won’t.

Here’s to to make visualization work for you:

For visualization to work, you have to believe that you are capable of making that vision a reality. If it feels too out of reach, it will be out of reach. If your grand vision doesn’t feel attainable, we need to shift our focus to mile markers along the way to achieving that grand vision. I couldn’t bypass talking about mindset to kick off our time together, simply because if we don’t have the right mindset, action falls by the wayside. If action falls by the wayside, so does our vision. So, how do we actually keep moving forward? How do we continue to work toward our goals when they seem out of reach? We cannot only talk about the big vision, the someday, the not quite within reach. We have to get into the habit of talking about the mile markers that are right in front of us. I call this concept “Driving Toward Daylight.”

Driving Toward Daylight

As discussed at length in Chapter 5 of my book Direct Sales Done Right, we can examine the overarching ideas here:

Cast the big business vision. 

Make it clear and feel it with all of your senses so that the thought of not achieving it actually aches—straight up hurts. For example, when I visualized the home we bought five years ago, I didn’t just picture the big windows or the hardwood floors. I pictured the muddy shoes and popsicles in the freezer. I pictured the sounds of a crackling fire and the scent of homemade pumpkin bread on a Saturday afternoon. The picture was so clear in my mind that the thought of something taking it away actually pained me. 

Blur out the big vision. 

This is critical. Take your hand and blur out that big vision! I know, I know. Sounds strange, but blur that baby out. Our attention and focus doesn’t need to be on the end result. It needs to be on the action. Yes, our vision is still there; we are driving toward this, our daylight. But our eyes need to be on the smaller vision right in front of us!

Focus on your mile markers. 

Align your vision to action. Remember, setting smaller, achievable goals keeps your eyes focused on the action that leads to the desired outcome. These are the action steps that need to be taken daily. These mile markers tell you how much you have left to go as you close the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. In Chapter Six, we have an entire section dedicated to your mile markers called the Income Producing Activity Tracker.

Divorce yourself from the idea of perfect action. 

Imperfect action is much better than perfect inaction. Life happens! Detours and potholes are a certainty on this trip! If it doesn’t go as planned, revisit your mile markers.

Celebrate the small wins along the way! 

As we set smaller goals and begin to see results, we gain confidence and continue moving forward to the next mile marker, and the next, and the next (you get the picture)!

A personal note about casting the BIG BUSINESS VISION: 

Although I found other people’s big visions inspiring, I knew that I needed to create my own business vision. As I’ve mentioned, the big vision I set to achieve through direct sales was paying for groceries. It meant no more fighting over enough in the account. It meant I didn’t have to feel guilty about purchasing diapers before payday. It felt attainable to me and it excited me. As this vision became consistently achievable, I cast another vision of extending my maternity leave. Then I cast another and another. 

My point is this: Never let anyone tell you that your vision isn’t grand enough. If it excites you and motivates you, that’s what counts. After all, it’s your daylight that you are driving toward, isn’t it?

Rooting for you,

Katy