Our Business Vision puts us on top of our mountain and lets us bathe in the view.
How great does this look.
How great does this feel.
Look what climbing this mountain has enabled us to do along the way.
Look at how climbing this mountain has enabled us to live the lifestyle we want to live.
How great was the climb! Look at who we are celebrating with. Those who have joined us and the roles they have played to help us get here.
Now we are at the top of this mountain, look at the extraordinary view of all the other mountains we can see and now climb. All the other possibilities that are within our view and reach.
Sure, when we start our business journey with a dream view from the top of our mountain, we can find ourselves saying –
Woah this is pretty high! Really what was I thinking?
How on earth, am I going to get to here from way down there? That looks way too hard.
But the idea is to take in the view and remember those inspirational feelings at the top and keep them close. This is to motivate us on our journey from base camp – to camp 1, 2, 3… all the way to the top.
What I didn’t know about serious mountain climbing, is that to prepare for your full ascent, you firstly need to take up supplies to each camp, from base camp. So, you take up supplies to camp 1 and then go down again. You then take supplies up to camp 2 and then down again through camp 1 to base camp. You continue taking supplies to camp 3 etc and then go down again through camp 2 and 1.
This is to ensure you have the required supplies at each camp up the mountain, to help support you in your 1. Initial preparations (setting up the supplies). 2. To make your ascent to the top. And 3. To ensure you have supplies to support your descent.
And of course, by then you have also honed your fitness for the challenge.
You actually climb your mountain in several stages, before you go for the top!
So, as a business, if at times you feel disillusioned by your vision and say,
I can’t get there, because I have to be practical and do all of this first –
Then yes, you could be right. If those preparations are supporting your ascent to your Vision.
Your Vision is your overarching AIM for your business plan, from which, you develop long, medium and short-term goals, strategies and actions to support your business journey to your top. Step by step.
You have to plan. You have to strategically build the functional and emotional aspects of your business to support your ascent to your Vision.
And what is going to motivate you to put in the effort, is your view, your dream view from your top.
You are what your deep driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka – Upanisad IV.4.5
Your Vision will also help you to take up opportunities along the way. Opportunities that you may not have even recognised if you were not clear on your Vision.
You may be making preparations at base camp and one day explore a little farther afield. Who knows, you may happen upon a cable car, which you instantly recognise as a great opportunity to fast track you higher up your mountain.
By conceptualising your Vision – you’ll be able to recognise and quickly take up opportunities for your business when they present.
Without a Vision, great opportunities could be passing you by. You could be walking past your cable car daily.
So, start Visioning and invest your time in being business fit and making preparations for your ascent.
Through your directed and focussed work, your desire can be your destiny.
X Cath
Conscious Business
Integrate your truth
Define your Vision – step yourself through Chapter 4 – of my book Creating Brand Energy
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