How to Make Your Vision Come to Fruition
- Nicole & Julie
- Oct 30
- 2 min read
by Nicole Jankiewicz & Julie Robbins | June 10, 2025
Going From Vision to Action
In our last blog: #1 Step To Being Successful - First Know What It Looks Like, we talked about defining success and the importance of having a clear vision.
Defining the different stages of your vision will ensure you are moving in the right direction....like an epic compass.
Now, let's take your definition of success and the vision you have for yourself and your company, and put it into a solid plan of action!
Once you have a clear picture of your one-year vision with measurable goals , let's break it down into more granular quarterly goals - what we call Rocks.
These are specific, measurable, and timely priorities that you can achieve in 90 days. They should also directly correlate to your one year measurable.
Example Rocks:
Close $25k in new business (if a one-year goal is to close $100k in new business)
Create an outline for an online program (if a one-year goal is to create an online program)
Hire a virtual assistant (if a one-year goal is to have 2 new employees)
These quarterly Rocks should have a due date, be broken down into simple steps, and directly support your one-year vision.
Two key components to make these goals rock-solid. (pun intended...heehee)
Identify your obstacles before they happen.
What could prevent you from achieving your Goals?
One of the top reasons that people don’t reach their goals is that they don’t look at what the possible obstacles to achieving those goals are. They often wait till the problem arises to deal with it or they ignore it completely.
The best way to ensure that you achieve your Goals is to identify what might get in the way and then create a strategy to overcome it.
Bonus - In addition to identifying the issue, obstacle or challenge, it can also be useful to understand the “why”. Sometimes the reason can give great insight.
Example: Goal: to hire an office manager. Issue: Don’t have the budget. Why: We don't have the budget because we have allocated our spending inefficiently because we don't have an office manager. Solution: Look at budget and decide how to reallocate funds in order to hire an office manager. If you determine that is not possible in the short-term, then the "interim goal" becomes working towards increasing revenue in order to hire office manager.
Track your progress.
Don't just build it and walk away. Goal setting is only half the battle. It takes tending, nurturing and consistent care.
We find having a consistent Weekly Check-in. - a short, focused meeting with yourself (or your team) to be invaluable.
This is where we:
Track progress
Assign next steps
Check in on how we’re feeling, what's working and what's not
Keep our compass pointed toward due north
*Much more to come on this! ;-)
The Bottom Line
Big picture visioning and goal setting is important....but it doesn't stop there. Your have connect the dots from your vision to your day to day operations.
Break it down.
Plan all the steps.
Identify the obstacles.
Solve them before they happen.
Track it.
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