I was watching a DVD of Andy Stanley talking about vision. He was talking about how vital it is to make a vision stick. Today I'm writing about some of his ideas about vision - I've heard some of this from other speakers over the years but this guy grabbed my attention because of his enthusiasm. First of all, do you have a vision in your mind about what you want your business to look like 3 to 5 years from now? Think about that for a minute. Do you have a clear vision? What Mr. Stanley said was if a person doesn't have a clear vision there will be no focus, and where there is no focus there is being busy. Being busy doesn't grow a business the way being focused on a clear vision grows a business.
Plans and strategies always have the potential to change but just because you might need a new plan doesn't mean you change your vision. Once you decide what you want your future and your business to look like, you do not change your vision. Create a new plan.
I'll give you my example. I heard at some meetings that if a person would find and help two people a year build to being a Shaklee sales leader they could have a very unusual financial future. I bought into that idea somewhere in my first 6 months. That was my vision. Two a year. I knew I would have to sponsor lots of people to find those who were serious and would do what they said they wanted to do. To make a long story short, we developed 2 a year for 8 straight years. That foundation helped us develop that very unusual future.
I can't tell you how many people quit because there were many. I can't tell you how discouraged I felt at times when we would have setbacks and had many obstacles to overcome. I read something early in my career that if a person isn't willing to risk failing they would never become successful. In other words failing is on that road that leads to success. Having failures is all a part of the process. That's just how it is.
Enthusiastically,
Gary Burke
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