Building a Vision - Brandon Souba

Show Objectives:
In this episode we have Lois Weinblatt, an international Vision Coach, facilitator, speaker and founder of True North Visionaries, talking about building a vision not just for your business but for your life. Lois will share her knowledge in the areas of building a clear and inspiring vision that won't just get you to your next goal, but it will be your road map for the life of your business. If you are looking for motivation and inspiration this is the show for you!
  
Key Issues:

1. Why Vision
2. Why a motivational Vision can hurt more than help
3. The critical steps many leaders miss when clarifying their Vision
4. Why Visioning should NOT start with your future

What You Need to Know:
Lois Weinblatt is an international Vision Coach, facilitator, speaker and founder of True North Visionaries.  She helps leaders struggling with clarity stop wasting time and start making better decisions, faster.  For over 7 years she has guided Visionary leaders and organizations in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia through her proven process to clarify their next destination, chart the course and recalibrate along the way.

Why Vision?

• Intro - what does ‘Vision’ actually mean?
  • It doesn’t mean goals or dreams - it means your definition of success at a specific point in the future

• Why messages we get about hustling, grinding and taking massive action can lead us astray.
  • Taking action feels productive and exciting, but without a Vision, those actions might actually be getting you farther away from where you really want to go.
• How investing the time to clarify your Vision will save you so much time in the future.
  • The more successful you become, the more opportunities will come your way, and the more of those will actually be distractions disguised as opportunities. Your Vision will be an invaluable tool to filter out those distractions from real opportunities, and make better decisions, faster.
• How your Vision will help you become a prioritization ninja
  • When there are so many things you want to do, it can be overwhelming and counterproductive to focus on everything at once.  Your Vision will help you determine the right work to do at the right time - what to focus on now, and what to focus on later.

Why a motivational Vision can hurt more than help

• The difference between a fantasy and a Vision.
  • A fantasy is exciting.  A Vision is at the intersection of inspiring and doable.
• Why size matters.
  • If your Vision is so big that it feels lightyears away, it’s really overwhelming to think about how you’re actually going to get there, especially when the going gets tough.
• Why buzzword-filled Visions fall short
  • If your Vision sounds amazing but doesn’t actually help you make better decisions, faster on a daily basis, it’s not acting as the tool you need it to be.

The critical steps many leaders miss when clarifying their Vision

• Why your Vision cannot exist in a Vacuum 
  • If your Vision focuses purely on your business, how do you know it aligns with and supports all the other facets of your life (i.e. personal, finances, relationships, spirituality)?
• Why waiting to Vision until after you have a team is backwards
  • Clarifying your Vision before you bring anyone else into your business will be a critical recruitment, selection and retention tool.  
• Why writing your Vision down isn’t enough
  • You’ve got to share your Vision strategically in order to activate it.

Why Visioning should NOT start with your future

• Why ‘starting with the end in mind’ can backfire
  • If you jump straight to imagining your future, you may actually be picturing society’s definition of success instead of your own. 
• Why you don’t need a crystal ball to clarify your Vision
  • Uncertainty can hold us back from clarity, but by using a blend of extreme specificity and intentional vagueness, your Vision will evolve along with you and help you navigate the unknown
• How to begin clarifying your Vision
  • Before you can even begin to clarify where you really want to go, you’ve got to understand what led you to where you are now, and then gain a true lens on your current reality.

What you need to do:
Follow Lois on Social
Link to The Decision Makers' Matrix TM (free)
My proven decision-making tool to help you filter out daily distractions and stay laser-focused on doing the right work at the right time.

truenorthvisionaries.com/info 
 
Link to The Visionary Decision Maker private Facebook Group (free)
Connect with Visionary leaders around the world who are learning how to gain more clarity so they can level up their decision-making and align their daily choices with where they ultimately want to go.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TrueNorthVisionaries

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