What Is Your Vision?

If you want to start a business, whether it's a traditional brick-and-mortar company or an e-Commerce website, you probably have some sort of vision or dream. If your business is going to have any meaning beyond the hard work and effort it takes to produce it, you must have a vision. Without a clear picture of where you want your business to go, how can you ever expect to to begin to live your dream? See how they go hand-in-hand? In the book The E Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber writes ..."I believe great people to be those who know how they got where they are, and what they need to do to get where they're going."

So, before you start your business or head back to your desk or office, here are some questions you should ask yourself:

• What do you want your life to look, or be, like?
• What would you like your life to be like on a daily basis?
• What would you like to tell others about your life?
• How would you like to be, or act, around your family, friends, business associates, customers, employees and community?
• What would you like people to think about, or remember you by?
• Looking ahead, what would you like to be doing in two years? Five years? Ten years? And in the last years of your life?
• Make a list of what you would specifically like to learn during your life - physically, financially, spiritually, technically, and intellectually? What would you like to learn about business and technology?
• Estimate how much money you will need to accomplish those things you want to in your life? When will you need it?

Once you have answered all the questions above you are well on your way to creating your Business Plan and vision. Your vision will help to provide you, and your associates, with purpose and energy to drive your business and for the energy it takes, on a day-to-day basis to move forward successfully!

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