The importance of looking forward in your business

You have a dream. A vision. A wish. An idea. A belief. A spark. Call it what you want to, but it is there.

This is where it all starts and that is what is so romantic about building your own business.  Now it is important to take this seed of inspiration and work out what you need to do to make it grow.

There are so many quotes on exactly this topic I could write my whole post with quotes, tempting but I better not!  You could call this making a plan. A business plan, a marketing plan. Or a strategy.  Or a roadmap.  But that might put you off or build a barrier that you can’t get past so what I would love you to do is just think about your business in the future.

What does it look like?

What do you need to do now to start your business?  As in literally, today, what could you do that would take you one step closer to your business becoming real and not just a wish?

Then, what would you have to do in one month to make sure your business continued to grow & be nurtured? And the month after that? And so on.

If writing a big old plan just sounds like a bloody nightmare for you, and honestly something you are just not going to do,  just start to map out the steps you could take so that in 12 months time it will be looking like the vision you have in your head. Just start by writing down 12 steps you could take in the next 12 months.

Or, if that doesn’t work for you, think about where you are now, and ask yourself if you want to be in exactly the same plan in a year – because that is where you will be if you don’t look forward in your business.

There is this wonderful shift that you will find starts to happen when you at the very least take these small steps and it’s called momentum.  I’m writing about this now because, despite what I do for other people, I have to be honest with you sometimes I struggle to right my own plans. And sometimes this stops me in my tracks, yep, ridiculous I know! But when I get like this I find if I just do one thing after another that gradually the shift occurs and the momentum builds and I am back on track to growing my own business again.

This post might just be one of those little steps.  And I’m very pleased to be back with you again, and looking forward to a bright future…

Kate 🙂