HPS 17: Learn to set your internal GPS, so success is ALWAYS the outcome.
Oct 27, 2020
How to clarify your VISION and why it's necessary for true success
On today’s episode of The Hairpreneur Show, host Ryan Weeden talks about the importance of writing down your goals, having a clear vision, and unlocking your keys to success with his own “Seven Levels of Why” exercise.
Episode Highlights:
- Ryan starts by mentioning that he just got off a difficult phone call, and says that he wants to dive into how to handle frustration in building your business.
- Vision is the first point to hit when starting to build your business.
- Vision helps you to find focus.
- A vision doesn’t have to be exact or point by point at first.
- The “what” is about how you see your ideal life and what you want to accomplish.
- Having a clear vision helps to establish your “why” - why do you want to be successful?
- Being clear on your “what” and “why” will help you fuel yourself as you go along your business journey.
- Ryan advises writing down what you want to have in 5 years, 10 years, etc. in a journal.
- He also advises listeners to create a vision board to help create a visual representation of where they want to go.
- Ryan directs listeners to visit his blog for his post about “Seven Levels of Why.”
- He utilizes this exercise himself every 3-6 months.
- Ryan walks listeners through his “Seven Levels of Why,” which involves articulating all of the different reasons why you want to be successful and gets progressively deeper as it goes on.
- He advises listeners to “smoke a joint” or drink some tea while they do this exercise to help center themselves.
3 Key Points:
- Having a clear vision is the first step in building a successful business.
- Writing your goals down in a journal and building a vision board can help create positive energy as you work toward making them a reality.
- Ryan says that his “Seven Levels of Why” have helped him to get to the core of why he wants to be successful and to articulate what’s actually important to him as he builds his business.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “It has to be about your customer.” - Ryan Weeden
- “Vision is going to answer two questions: what do we want and where are we going?” - Ryan Weeden
- “We have to have dreams that scare us.” - Ryan Weeden
Resources Mentioned:
- Ryan Weeden Instagram Twitter YouTube
- The Seven Levels of Why
