Stepping into your future is easy when you have a simple business plan. You may be discouraged right now. You may not know how you’re going to pay the bills. You may be thinking of closing the doors to your business. I know how you feel. I understand, since I’ve been there too. These thoughts are very real. The situations may be true.
Business Plan
The five-step process in your Personal Business Plan will show you how to shake off these negative feelings and move into your future. The five-step personal business plan process is:
1. Create Your Business Vision
2. Clarify Your Business Mission
3. Construct Business Success Factors
4. Compose Business Results
5. Compete Business Success Plans
How to Brainstorm Your Business Vision
Your ideal life becomes your real life when your business vision allows you to live how you want. Smell the lei around your neck as you walk off the airplane when take your family to Hawaii . Imagine the sand between your toes on your next beach vacation. Hear the sound of your grandchildren playing around you at your new beach house. Feel the excitement of earning your first million dollars. You’re no longer chasing success; you’ve attained it.
Powerful Business Planning Ah-Hah: Spend time dreaming and imagining what you want
Make Your Vision Clear
Start writing down what you want to do:
· What business are you in?
· In what market? Be specific here.
· What is the name of your business?
· When do you want to do this business? Or change the direction of your business?
So buy a journal or grab something you already have around your office or house. Make it fun by writing “Success Journal” on the front of it. Grab your success journal, sit in a comfy place and complete the following exercise.
Create a journal entry that says “Business Vision”
Answer the following question
· What do you imagine your future to be on a personal basis?
· What do you imagine your business to be – answer the four questions above
· Don’t read any further until you’ve written 2–5 sentences on what your life will be like as a direct result of your business.
· If you need to doodle or draw a picture of your future, do so. If you need to walk around the block and let your thoughts float to the surface, do so.
Powerful Business Planning Ah-Hah: Writing Your Vision Helps Make It Happen
Next I’ll be sharing on how to accelerate your success in writing your vision.