Writing YOUR Vision And Making It Clear

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Writing YOUR Vision And Making It Clear

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Continuing her “Knowing How” series on how to find work, Lil Miss P drops wisdom about…

“Writing YOUR Vision And Making It Clear”

There’s a Bible verse I remember a lot — “Write the vision and make it clear.” In other words, create a simple, clear plan of what you want to do ahead. The more that I have gone through various business and work related things, the more this verse has held true. Even if you are not a person of faith, having a good, solid plan of where you’re heading — like a roadmap — is helpful. I’ve seen this come in all forms. Sometimes it can be just a super short list, others make long and elaborate story pages describing their goals and plans. While it’s not intended to be a wish list per say, it is where you can put your biggest goals and dreams — after all, if you’re making a list or writing your vision, you’re already on your way to working towards accomplishing it. I say all the time to people that I mentor that all it takes are these small steps. Getting what you would like to accomplish down on paper can really help in making it happen. Not only that but it’ll help keep you steady and focused — one of the biggest reasons why people don’t accomplish goals and dreams is because they haven’t organized them, and it can make it all feel overwhelming. Avoid it by having a good, clean and clear vision written for yourself. For me, I do this each and every time I want to achieve something — be it a personal change, growing in my life in some way, getting in shape, and of course, accomplishing goals and plans in my work and in business. One of the first things I do when I have something I want to achieve is purchase a really great notebook for the sole purpose of not just writing my vision, but also, keeping tabs on how I’m progressing with it.

To start, I always pray, and then get right to it. I like to make a bulleted or numbered list and keep each item very simple, but focused. If it’s finding a new job, then I say what kind of job I hope it’ll be. If it’s setting a goal that I want to accomplish, like something that may be a little far reaching or take time, I put that on there too. One by one I’ll list my vision until the whole page is full. Then, I take the extra steps over the course of either the next few hours, days or weeks and break it down to what I believe I need to do to accomplish what’s in my vision. For example, if you’re working out what you want as your career, your list might look like this:

1. Get a job in the music industry.

– Start researching record labels

– Start researching A&R contacts at record labels (Google search, news/media search, etc.)

But, you can write your vision any way that feels most comfortable or useful for you. Regardless of what form you choose and how elaborate you make it, having that down on paper where you can see it will make you more focused than you may ever realize or believe. I keep my notebook with me at all times and continue to jot down notes and ideas. Some put their vision in the bathroom taped to the wall so they can see it every day. It doesn’t matter what you do or how you do it, as long as you lay out a clear cut plan. Why this is so important is that without knowing specifically what you want to accomplish, achieve, etc., it can become overwhelming or difficult to do because you aren’t able to focus. Over the past three or four years, I’ve accumulated at least a half dozen notebooks for my vision, and each of them is completely full from end to end with notes, contacts, ideas, results of research efforts and everything else I put into working to accomplish the goal. Believe it or not, as I look back, much of what I have wanted to achieve has been accomplished.

Whether you mentally note your vision, make a list, grab a notebook, throw it on a few sticky notes, etc., follow God’s advice on this. 98% of failure in business and in work stems more from people lacking focus, knowing what direction they want to head, which in turn makes it harder to take the steps to do it. Now that you’re ready to write your vision and make it clear, grab a pen and paper and get to it!

Writing YOUR Vision And Making It Clear

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