Do You Have a Vision for Your Own Business?

I had the privilege of speaking with some amazing Spiritualpreneurs on a teleclass I held the other night, and one of the them was Bill White, the Synchronicity Expert.

I asked him to share about being a Spiritualpreneur and how that has helped him to recession-proof his business, along with what tip he could offer to you for your own business.

Here’s what he had to say:

I came from a background in advertising, and as a result I was used to working 70 – 100 hours a week year round.  So when I decided to go into business for myself, one of the biggest things that I was doing was running from my career – because I was just exhausted!

In advertising, we had such an emphasis on persuasion – trying to hammer, hammer, hammer a sales decision into the mind of a client – and I carried some of that with me originally in my business.

But when I started to realize that serving the customer was not about persuasion, and I started to shift that emphasis, that’s where I really began to see my own business grow.

I was doing a lot of the blueprinting process of:

• What do I want to do?
• And how do I want to do it?

But I started applying that also not just to ideal clients but to vendors and partners as well. So I would write job descriptions of the partners or the vendors that I needed, and start setting my intention on that.

That’s really when I started to see my business grow, because I started to draw to me the people who I could serve and be served by the best, and it became a fair energy exchange.

One thing that I would suggest for a tip that really helped me a lot:

When I first built my business, I went from working 70-100 hours in advertising to being a coach 70+ hours a week, so I really went from one frying pan to the other!

I met a billionaire about 2 years into my business, and he said, “You know, you need to step back and figure out how much you want to work, and how much you want to make, and then build the vision of your company around that.”

And when I did that I realized, “Hey, I don’t really want to work 70 hours a week!”

So I started thinking from a standpoint of, “This is how many hours I want to work but this is the kind of results I want to see.”

And all the details of my business went from working myself to death to taking a more executive approach to things.

A lot of people come out of being in the work environment, and if you’re not in a senior position in your work environment, you’re probably a busy person and you work a lot.

So, when you make the transition to entrepreneur, a lot of times we make ourselves busy because that’s what we feel like we need to be doing.

But if look at a captain of a ship, you see that the movement on the wheel of a ship is not very frantic and wiggling around. It’s more smooth and calculated – and that’s what it takes to effectively run a company.

Wow – Bill really has some amazing insight into this process as someone that has gone through it!  Isn’t that a great way to look at things?

Think about the vision that you really want – start there and work backwards.  As a Spiritualpreneur, it’s very important for you to create your business the way you want to create it!

If you want to listen to a recording of the entire call and what the rest of these serving folks had to say, you can find it right here at:  www.coachingfromspirit.com/SPBlog.

Ken Foster from Shared Vision Network joined me on the call, along with Bill White (the Synchronicity Expert), Debbi Chambers (author of Manifest Success), and Chuck Abbott (Top Marketing Trainer).