Where are you going with your vision?
That's a timely question to ask me, Harry,
because about 10 minutes before we came on,
I just got the final draft of my book.
So that is one significant place that I'm going to go,
is using that to get the word out about what it is that I do,
but also what I've experienced.
And secondly, hopefully having some impact on lives
through that and through maybe connections
that I'm able to make through that publication.
So that's a big vision, one.
Secondly, I want to take good care of myself.
I'm not a spring chicken anymore,
but I think I've still got a lot to offer.
I've got all this knowledge that I've
accumulated through the years, and I
want to keep myself in such condition
that I'm giving myself a decent chance
to do that for a long, long time just yet.
With the draft of that book, I'm hopeful to get that
into the hands and ears and eyes of a lot of people
that are out there who are looking for direction,
pathways, maybe a little bit of advice, some thoughts,
as to what their next directions are going to be.
I hope I'll have the opportunity to interact
with many of those folks that receive that.
So that's one vision, and that relates to my authorship
as well as my coaching practice.
The second thing is I want to keep myself in good condition.
I'm not as young as I used to be.
None of us are.
But I want to put myself into a position
that I'm able to be here for quite some more time
and continue to have connections with people
and talk to people and have relationships with them
through my coaching practice.
Thank you for sharing that.
If I were to ask you more about your coaching practice,
and I think you've already told us about that,
would you like to share something more about it?
It's built on two things.
I think, first of all, developing a connection
with someone.
How do we go about identifying connection?
I was talking with somebody earlier today,
and I think that's the most important element of what
comes next, and that's building relationship.
But the connection is born by what
we have in common.
So much of what we often focus on, I think,
is what are our differences in background, education,
where we're raised, faith or non-faith,
just kind of where life has taken us up to that point.
So where is our commonality?
Where does that intersection lie first?
Once we've established that, we can build a relationship
on top of it, I believe, focusing on many of the things
that we have in common, acknowledging
what makes us different, but also celebrating that,
because with what a variety of people bring to the table,
you're stronger with those divergent viewpoints.
So my coaching practice starts from that standpoint.
It feeds into curiosity after that.
I'm interested in people and what their backgrounds are.
Learning things that I'm not familiar with
makes me better as an individual.
And so it's building that curiosity,
satisfying my interest in that that comes next.
From there, we can dig into coaching.
What is it that you want, client?
How can I help and assist you to get there?
What are your tips for early entrepreneurs?
What are you interested in first?
Starting from the standpoint of, I
want to have my own business.
I want to have my own enterprise.
I want to be an entrepreneur.
Great.
What are you interested in?
What is your passion?
What do you offer that is different, unique, distinctive
of what somebody else has out there?
It may be a little bit of a reinvention of a product.
Sometimes what's old becomes new again and has appeal.
But starting from that standpoint,
the next step is, what is your vision for this enterprise?
What do you hope that it accomplishes?
What do you want it to do?
What is your plan next?
So we get into strategic planning
of how you go about doing that.
I don't know is what you get often.
That's where a coach or an advisor
can help out a person quite significantly in that area
with taking those steps.
You want to, of course, you've got to feed yourself, maybe
a family as well.
So it's got to be something that is going to eventually
be financially productive, however
you identify that as being.
And what I see is a lot of people now,
they're part of the gig economy.
I've got this.
I've got this other interest that's here.
I've got some investments.
So they're working several different things.
What one of the advantages is to that
is one enterprise dips for whatever reason,
just a little bit.
Maybe the other one can balance that off.
I would start there as an early entrepreneur.
Your passion, your interest, what you do well,
what you do differently than anyone else that's out there.
And then we're into the game.
And there's a lot more detail, obviously,
to dive into beyond that.
That was insightful information.
Thank you for sharing that, Kirk.
My next question for you is, let me see if I can find a good one
that will fit directly.
Why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?
They don't believe in it, I think, first of all.
They're timid.
They're shy for whatever reason.
And I get that, introverted by nature.
But change the philosophy or the approach to that.
If you're a leader and it's that fear that
is presenting an option to you, what
is the fear that is presenting an obstacle towards you
taking that step forward towards funding?
First of all, you've got an idea.
The idea does no good just sitting on the shelf.
There are people that need to hear your story.
This is what I do.
This is what I'm thinking about doing.
How does that align with where your pain point may be,
where your interest may lie, something that you haven't
seen before that's unique?
We deprive people a lot of times in making connection with them,
I believe, because we're timid.
They don't have time for me.
They don't want to hear from me.
And so it becomes approach in how you go about doing that.
Rather than go in and say, here's my business idea.
I want to pitch that.
We go back to building that connection
and that relationship.
How are things going in your enterprise now?
What are some of the obstacles that you're facing?
What would be a pain pill to take
to ease some of those challenges and obstacles
that you're not facing?
Then there's the opportunity to start
talking about what your vision as a business owner is
and how you may be able to provide some relief
to that individual you're speaking with.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
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Have an excellent time building out your vision
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