Who are you? What are you destined for?
If you were asked this question, could you answer it? Knowing ourselves and what we want takes more than a minute to think about. And it often changes depending on what the opportunity brings to us.
While lot of entrepreneurs and business owners can know their business’s goals. They are usually unable to dictate their personal vision statement.
Importance of an Entrepreneurs Personal Vision Statement
An entrepreneurs personal vision statement can help us figure out how things fit together when we don’t know how they do. When we don’t know why we do what we do, we feel like we can’t pay attention to everything around us. A vision statement can help you figure out why you’re doing something and give you a sense of what it’s all about.
You can think of this statement as some sort of a GPS, something that guides you from wandering in life. But why do we need a WRITTEN vision plan?
- 1. It clarifies your life’s decisions.
A business crisis is different than a life crisis. Having a personal vision statement allows you to identify your values, goals, and desires where money isn’t the end goal but rather how you live your life after you’ve made your career.
It gives you the motivation you need to move forward even as you face negative experiences in life. Make sure that your moral compass points in the right direction. And also, to help push you towards other possibilities you could do in life.
- 2. It defines your roadmap for your success.
We believe that if one fails to plan, they are planning to fail. A written personal vision statement of an entrepreneur, helps one focus on your goals and to avoid distractions, or to get stuck on reliving your mistakes.
It will help to pull you out of your frozen tracks and accept that mistakes are a part of life and a learning experience.
- 3. It helps you identify where you are at the moment.
A personal vision statement can help us figure out how things fit together when we don’t know how they do. When we don’t know why we do what we do, we feel like we can’t pay attention to everything around us. A vision statement can help you figure out why you’re doing something and give you a sense of what it’s all about.
Knowing this simple and obvious fact differentiates the wannabes and the real successful entrepreneurs.
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