Visualization, of all the keys to success, is the most important.  Thoughts are things.  If you are thinking of starting your own business you have to have that thought. 

You have to visualize what that business is.  If you are running your own business you have to have thoughts and visualize how you want it to run. 

Keys To Success:  Visualize What Can Be

Whether you are an individual, self-employed business owner, entrepreneur or solo professional the first step to success is that you have to visualize it.  You must create in your mind a vision of what the future will look like.

As Napoleon Hill said in Think And Grow Rich, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Without a positive vision of the future it’s difficult for the present to be very exciting.  You can become like a rudderless ship going from one day to the next without any firm direction or purpose. 

Keys To Success:  Believe In Your Vision

Now that you have created your vision you are now about to enter the hardest step for many.  In coaching success, I can assure you that nothing happens unless you absolutely believe that you can accomplish your vision. 

After all, it is belief that provides the steam for your vision to take you to the success you wish to achieve in the future.  As a personal business coach I have found that the clients with the clearest and best developed vision of the future they desire are the ones who dramatically increase the odds of their success. 

With a clear vision of what success will look like it is much easier to provide the enthusiasm that is necessary to sustain your belief.  To increase the odds whether it be for personal growth, small business success or small business growth you must have a strong belief in what you are doing. 

If your vision is hazy it is hard to remain excited.  If you aren’t excited it is hard to keep your belief on the level necessary to achieve the outcome you desire. 

And here’s one more thing about belief.  For most, they will need others to help them accomplish their vision.  It’s hard to lead yourself and others to a successful outcome if your belief and enthusiasm aren’t strong. 

Once again, one of the keys to success is to have a well developed vision of the future.  It helps keep belief and enthusiasm high. 

Keys To Success:  Achieving the Vision

A strong belief and enthusiasm are the fuel that will be necessary for you to achieve your vision.  Generally, nothing significant happens without a clear vision supported by belief and enthusiasm.  If your vision is to start your own business or be running a small business successfully, you must have a clear vision.

Once you start on your path to success remember that your original vision will have some alterations along the way.  These alterations are very important. 

They are important because they will challenge you to create a variation on how you are going to attain your vision of the future.  Your mind is a muscle and as you continue to refine and enhance your vision of the future this will become easier. 

At first, this is difficult.  If you don’t refine and expand your vision of the future then you will become stuck or possibly overwhelmed.  Welcome challenges.  They are the obstacles required to strengthen your belief and to make the changes necessary to achieving your vision of success.  

Keys To Success:  Think it. Believe it.  Achieve it.

Visualize the future.  Believe that you can accomplish it.  And set out to achieve it.  And, when you come upon obstacles just go back to these three points.  Refine your vision as you need to.  That will restore your belief.  And with your belief is restored and strengthened you will ready to achieve again on the road to your success.

Keep visualizing the process. Know the process. Repeat the process.  Those are the keys to success.