Check Your Navigation...Where Are YOU Headed?

Remember those college road trips to nowhere? You remember...the ones where you decide on a Friday afternoon that you need a road trip but no one knows where to go? Just you and your best pals cruising the open highway...destination unknown.

As a contrast, captains of cruise ships have set directions to navigate on the open seas to a certain, scheduled destination. Without the navigational directions, their passengers would never reach their destination.

In your business, your vision is your destination and your goals are your navigational directions. Without them, you're on the road to nowhere. Knowing where your business is headed is almost as important as how you get there.

Here are some tips on how to develop your vision:

1. Create an outcome. I know this sounds odd, starting from the end of the story rather than the beginning. Start looking at what you would like your business to achieve as if you were looking back at it already having done it. Be limitless. Write down what it is that you have accomplished in your vision, describe what it looks like.

2. Look at what you’ve written. Does it accurately describe what you want? If it doesn’t, go back to step one until you have it right.

3. List three values and think about what they mean for your business.

4. Review what you have written concerning your vision and the three values and create a statement about what your business is.

5. Now write to your mission statement. This is what do you want to do in terms of your vision. Your vision is where you see yourself and your mission is who you are. Your goals are how you get there.

Next week I'll go further into developing your goals for your business. In the meantime, send me a postcard from your destination!

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Jennifer Wong is a successful solo entreprenuer who began her business over 10 years ago, pioneering the way for many successful internet entrepreneurs. She offers home-based business coaching and mentorship programs and a biweekly ezine from her website, www.thehomebizbuzz.com.