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Step Into Your Future:
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Teleseminar Series

The Proven Roadmap For Business Owners to Create Focus in Their Day-To-Day Planning…

Join Rosemary Regier in a vision-changing teleseminar.

First Step To Creating a Powerful Business Success Plan!

               February 10th, 2010
                at 9:30 pm EDT/6:30 pm PDT

                Call 1-218-862-7200 / 684904

Master Business Strategist Reveals Powerful Planning Methods that will make planning your business so clear that will want to run around the block with excitement when you see how to focus on key actions needed to grow your business.

The Teleseminar will provide:

3 Day Vision Plan

10 Techniques to accelerate Vision Creation

10 Ways to use your Business Mission

Mark this on your calendars.

I just drove from Orlando down to Sebring. I’m attending a business conference this weekend but I flew in early to visit my aunt who is in a nursing home. The first sign to Sebring said 52 miles, after 5 to 10 minutes, the next road sign said 50. I was a bit puzzled but since I got to the hotel at 2am, I thought I was just sleepy and maybe didn’t read the first sign correctly. Then 5 minutes later, the sign said 52 miles. I started laughing. Isn’t life just like that? The sign was telling me I was going backwards, I was losing ground. But I knew I wasn’t lost; I had my GPS with me. The signs on where we are going in life, in our business are so confusing. We get confused by the multiple and misleading input.

So we wonder:

    * Is your perception about where you are going correct?
    * Should I trust others?
    * Am I interpreting the economic conditions correctly?
    * Is my business headed the right direction?

What happens when others tell you that you aren’t making progress? It is confusing! Over the next three blog posts, I’m going to share with you the three things that help you get clear about where you are going and keep you going in spite of the confusion around us.

Remember our definition of a business vision?

A business vision describes your dream. It creates a path to living your ideal life. Your business vision incorporates the proven elements of financial goals, the relationship you want with your customer, and the business that you’re in to make your future clear to you. These three elements that create your business success strategy

You refine your business vision by completing this proven three-step process. So I look forward to sharing with you key information about your business vision in the next three posts.

Today I talk about Financial Goals.

A business vision states your revenue targets. Businesses are profit-driven enterprises. Your stakeholders

or spouse expect you to make money. You want to make money.

You can get clear about your financial and revenue goals but including the following elements into your business vision:

• Revenue targets must be specific. Your business vision is clear when you state your revenue expectations. Example: A small business professional wants revenue billings to grow to $500,000 per year over the next two years.

• Revenue targets must be time-bounded. Your business vision is clear when you document when you’ll achieve

it. There must be a specific time period. Example: A certified public accountant (CPA) wants to increase payroll revenues to 50% of her revenue stream in two years.

• Revenue targets can be stated in growth terms. Your business vision is clear when define your success by how fast you grow. Example: A small business owner will grow her business by 25% each year for the next five years.

Do you need all three of these things in your vision? No, using all three will turn your vision into an academic thesis. Brevity is best. Action is better than documentation. But spend time thinking through a potential response to each item. Then choose at least one that you want to include in your business vision.

What would I like you to do?

1-       Pour out what you want to do into your success journal. Earlier articles shared how to brainstorm on how to create information that can be used to form or redirect your business dream. If you haven’t started a journal yet, start today.

2-       Set-up a time to complete this exercise or update your revenue goals For me, its next Tuesday. I’m back in town on Monday and fly out again on Wednesday.

3-       Don’t worry—your business vision doesn’t need to be shared with those outside of your business. This is your private commitment to yourself.

You might be getting tense right now. Your mind might start arguing with you that doubling your business can’t be done. You may feel stressed by remembering your failed businesses of the past.

So why write down your vision? It documents in black and white what you want. There’s freedom in seeing your goal on paper. It will bring you passion to see your revenue targets achieved so that you can live the dream life you outlined in your success journal.

When you have a written business dream or plan, you’ll step into your future. The last powerful tip asked you to write down ways that your want your business to help you financially, spiritually and emotionally. Well, sometimes you can’t have them all at once, but if you are clear about what you want, you will step into your business dream.

For me, its Saturday night and I’m at the airport writing this post before I catch a red eye from San Francisco to Washington DC . Ok, I’m losing a bit a sleep so my job isn’t helping me emotionally at this very moment. But I was thinking as I was driving to the airport about the blessings of this job. I’m so pleased to be able to work with my clients, I’m so excited that I’m able to teach and share with them. Again, I’m losing a bit of sleep but my job is a dream job. 
 
How

Here are 5 steps that help you in developing your dream of the future that God has for you.

1. Focus on What, not How: This seems a bit odd. But it is true. You need to dream. You need to stop listening to others who have seen you fail. You need to stop the negative chatter in your head. God wants you to fulfill that which he called you to do. You just need to praise his that he is choosing to use you, as you are, to accomplish his will and purpose. The HOW is up to him. I just thank God and praise him that he is working all things out for my good. We don’t need to remind God of all the things that we think we need as our next step. You need to pray that your eyes are opened to see the next step and that you have courage to step into it.

2. You need BHAG’s: These are defined as Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals. This is a catalyst. Why just hope for things you can accomplish in your own strength. Let’s hope for influence. Let’s pray for impact. Let’s perceive the miracles that God wants you to do through your businesses.

3. Brainstorm your key values or interests: List how you will act in your ideal business e.g. customer service, integrity, innovative, flexible or not flexible e.g. if focused on safety or compliance. This captures your core beliefs. I was talking today at lunch with a women. She got so focused on how of a new business opportunity. Her webmaster created the marketing for the new business. It took this business woman two years to realize that her core interest of speaking wasn’t present on the website. Don’t get so focused on the new business and what others believe it should be and lose what you value the most about yourself.

4. Create a Vision/Picture board. You think in pictures, not words. Many business people create a collage of things they want their business to be and more importantly who they want to be.

5. Rehearse/Vivid dreaming: Wake up in the morning thinking of what God has for you because of the interests, skills, and talents God has placed in you. Think of what you want to be. Think of where you will be. Is this with your grandchildren because your business has provided you the financial resources? Is this next to a golf community since your business is profitable? Wake up and think about what you want as your dreams. It isn’t selfish. It will clarify what you want your future to be.

Invite God into your thoughts, dreams and let me know how he answers you. I would love to hear from you.