Elements Business Professionals Can Put into Place to Thrive in Any Economy

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Step #1: Create a Powerful Vision for Your Business

By Dr. Joe Rubino

Founder, CenterForPersonalReinvention.com

Creator, SelfEsteemSystem.com

Certainly, in an economic downturn such as the one we have been experiencing, many businesses have been hit hard. However, it is important to remember that there will always be entrepreneurs and businesses that thrive and take advantage of the prevailing economic challenges to increase their business profitability and have their best year ever.

In this and in subsequent issues, we will be discussing a number of things you can do to be among the winners during any financial climate. This article will begin with the first component of any successful endeavor – creating a vision for your business success. Subsequent articles will expound upon many of the other essential components of assuring entrepreneurial success.

Create a Vision for Business Success Characterized by Belief and High Self-Esteem

If our expectations are that we will struggle, suffer, and be at the affect of challenging times, we will unintentionally sabotage our success as our actions will be consistent with our fears. We will project these fears upon others with whom we interact. They may react to this negative energy in a number of ways. They may withdraw their support or adjust their actions and expectations to correspond with our pessimism by buying into it themselves. Perhaps they may see our negativity as inconsistent with their vision for success and decide to move away from that negativity. In any event, we will most likely create a self-fulfilling prophesy and then pride ourselves in predicting the dire forecast that came true.

Our visions are the key to generating the self-motivation so critical to moving our lives and businesses forward with velocity. In this article, we will focus primarily on crafting a powerful business vision…but know that the same principles apply to every other area of life as well. When we possess a compelling vision, we are inspired to do whatever it takes to see that it is manifest. When we possess a negative vision and fear that we will not be successful, abundant, happy, or surrounded by rich relationships, we will self-sabotage so that our vision aligns with this negative expectation. We get what we expect, good or bad.

Likewise, when we expect our future to have more of the same that we are currently experiencing in our lives or businesses, this will generate the apathy and resignation that ensures more of the same we have so far experienced. In short, our vision for our future is the most important indicator to determine what we attract and what we manifest since our goals and actions will typically align with this vision.

The good news is that you can train your thoughts and intentions to manifest what you want to have appear. Train your mind to become an ally in your quest for high self-esteem by creating a vision that honors your values, aligns with your passions and encompasses the qualities you are committed to fostering. This new and empowering vision will replace the current dim vision that is neither serving your magnificence nor fueling your self-esteem.

To illustrate this point, take an 8-ounce glass filled with coffee. This represents your negative expectation for your financial success - likely fueled by low self-esteem. It is murky, dark and does not transmit light. Now take a large pitcher of crystal clear water. This represents your new empowering vision. Pour the water from the pitcher into the glass. The water from the pitcher flows into the glass, causing the glass to overflow. The first few ounces have little obvious effect on the color of the liquid in the glass. However, as you add more pure water, the content of the glass gets lighter and lighter. By the time you have poured the entire pitcher out into the glass, you will notice all discolored liquid is gone and only pure, translucent water remains. The same holds true with regard to your mind. As you replace cynical, self-defeating thoughts that crush your self-esteem and create negative results in your life and business with a positive, empowering vision that feeds your magnificence, the power of the new thoughts eventually replace the old. This elevates your esteem and dilutes the thoughts that previously consumed your attention. The power in realizing this transformation comes from the magnitude of new positive energy that far surpasses the old negative force.

To mold your new business vision, close your eyes and imagine that a genie has just appeared before you. This genie has offered to grant your every wish, provided you have the courage to envision it, believe it will happen and pursue it. In order to create this vision, you need to temporarily suspend any self-defeating thoughts that you will only have in your business what you have always had or that your business will suffer along with the general economy. The past does not need to be a harbinger of the future. Keep in mind that we will be developing a specific plan of action to address the question, “What exactly will it take to manifest a vision of top success, accomplishment, and abundance?” So, create your dream business vision with the expectation that we will be designing a plan to bring each aspect of it into reality.

Let’s start by revisiting what values your vision will honor. These will form the fabric that will weave throughout your vision. Perhaps your vision will be a reflection of the values of creativity, contribution, adventure, innovation, and fun that you hold dear…or it can reflect whatever your most important values are.

Next, ask yourself, “What qualities can you enhance and further develop to support your business success?” These qualities will speak to who you are being as you construct a solid foundation for your financial and business success. Perhaps you will work on your listening skills, enhancing your charisma and personal effectiveness, or develop the art of making powerful requests of others.

Lastly, make a list of your passions. These are those things you love to do and would gladly look forward to doing every day for the next 50 years. Your passions make life and business worthwhile so you’ll want to include them as a major part of what you are all about as you go about your day at work and play.

Think of the business vision you will create as a movie script you will watch play out before you on the silver screen as you take your seat in the theater featuring the story of your business. Write your vision in the first person and present tense as if you are describing a scene from the movie as it happens. Create a vivid mental image with as much detail as possible to bring your vision to life. Utilize all your senses in describing it -- sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. See your vision as an already accomplished reality in the present, not merely as something you want or hope to have happen. If you construct your vision as something you hope to have, the wanting, desiring and not having of it will manifest instead of the realization of the vision itself.

Include within your vision the answers to the following questions:

· Who will you be? What qualities and values will you embody that will most support your entrepreneurial success and personal effectiveness? How will you come across to others? What will your self-image be and what effect will that have on your business?

· What will you do with your life when you possess these qualities and values and how will they show up in your business? How will you spend a typical day at work? And at play? (After all, don’t forget to have fun!)

· What will you have as a result of being these qualities and doing the actions consistent with them? Where will you live and with whom? With what physical possessions will you surround yourself? What other things such as great friends, abundance, personal freedom, peace of mind, etc. will you have? What goals will you accomplish? What will your business be known for?

· Who will you assist or support with these accomplishments? Are there any special people, organizations or causes that will be an important part of your life and your business success?

· What will your relationships be like? Picture yourself interacting with colleagues, friends, family, co-workers and all you meet in a way that reflects your high self-esteem and rich relationships.

Visions supply the creative energy that speeds the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly. They nourish our ambitions, help clarify our intentions and elevate our self-esteem to the extent that we have the courage to create them, speak them so as to inspire others and believe in their ultimate realization. They serve as the blueprint for the magnificent castle we will build with the granite blocks of our actions and the mortar of our interpretations.

It’s now your turn to create your very own empowering vision. Please do not pass up this opportunity to take advantage of the magic that it can unleash in transforming your life and self-image.

The ultimate value of a vision is that it serves as a motivating place to come from, rather than a place to get to. Visions are also dynamic. As you achieve certain aspects of your vision, it will evolve to include new and previously unforeseen elements. Some aspects of your current vision will also change in time to no longer be part of your evolving vision. For these reasons, visions are always in need of periodic review and reevaluation. They serve to inspire and motivate you and others, not to restrict your options and vitality.

Once you have created your written vision, commit to reading it twice daily without fail, in the morning upon rising and in the evening right before bedtime. As the vision becomes an intention and expectation, your belief in its ultimate realization will support its manifestation into the world.

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Dr. Joe Rubino, CEO of Http://www.CenterForPersonalReinvention.com, is an internationally acclaimed expert on elevating self-esteem, a life-changing personal development and success coach on how to restore self-esteem, achieve business success, maximize joy and fulfillment in life and productivity. He is known for his groundbreaking work in personal and leadership development, building effective teams, enhancing listening and communication skills, life and business coaching and optimal life planning.

His 11 best selling books and audio programs are available in 19 languages and in 48 countries and include:

• The Self-Esteem Book: The Ultimate Guide to Boost the Most Underrated Ingredient for Success and Happiness in Life. http://www.SelfEsteemSystem.com

• The Success Code, Books I & II

• The Magic Lantern: A Fable about Leadership, Personal Excellence, and Empowerment

• The Legend of the Light-Bearers: A Fable about Personal Reinvention and Global Transformation

Dr. Joe offers powerful personal and group coaching to support business success and life fulfillment. To contact him, call 888-821-3135 or email DrJoe@CenterForPersonalReinvention.com.

Learn more about his life-changing work in championing people to restore their self-esteem at http://www.SelfEsteemSystem.com and receive FREE the insightful audio program “7 Steps to Soaring Self-Esteem” and a 1 year subscription to “The Success Achievers’ Club”…a $129 Value!