Hello and welcome to Business 300.

My name is Philip Kulenshov and this is 300 seconds about business.

We're all a busy people, so I have five minutes or less to get my point across.

Countdown from 300. Here we go. Business owners are visionaries. They're dreamers, their goal setters.

They focus on the future with aspirations then and there. All that is good. It's necessary even.

It's important to not just have a dream, but gain clarity on your vision for the future. Not knowing where it is you're trying to go will keep you from going there.

Vague notions of ambition and aspiration that sound like it'd be great if aren't strong enough

to get you anywhere and definitely not strong enough to lead others with. Any leader must have

clarity in his vision for the future and must be able

to communicate it clearly. The guru influencer community has just the thing to help with that. It's called

a vision board. You get a collection of visuals that show your goals and aspirations to help you

clearly visualize the vision you're after. The idea is to be specific. Demonstrate it for your

senses. Elaborate in detail. What do you want?

Yes, I agree with clarity in the future vision. Whether or not you should make a vision board, I'll leave up to you.

But having clarity and specificity for your future vision is important.

But what happens too much of the time is that the visionary only lives in the there and then and never in the here and now.

He elaborates on his future dreams and makes intricate descriptions of what he wants his life,

his business, his relationships to be like.

He might even get into some of the planning as to how he's going to get there.

But that's where much of the work towards the future falls apart.

The how remains aspirational instead of practical. Even in the

how, the visionary's plans are only ambitious. Like a political hack, they answer the question in

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