Why do leaders hide from funding their vision?
Leaders hide from funding their vision.
It's an interesting question.
If I understand correctly, is they afraid to go do next step?
This is what you're referring?
It could be.
It could be either or.
So I guess it all depends on the leaders.
I'm in cyber security and every time somebody asks a question, people say it
depends, severely depend.
I myself trying not to hide from my vision and move it forward.
But in many cases, even the small things sometimes I see as a vision is fear.
If fear of failure or fear of in some cases that it's actually going to work
and what they're going to do, because then it means they're going to need to have
much more responsibility and change the world.
They kind of agree and understand it in daily life.
So from what I see is going to be these two things.
One, what if it's not going to work and people tell you, I told you so.
And second one, it is going to work.
And now you're going to have dramatic change in the life.
And usually people doesn't matter if the leaders are not leaders afraid to change.
Then how can leaders lean into funding their vision?
I love this question even more because I think it's making the assumption that
you're actually going to do and move forward with the vision.
So first of all, in my view, it's helped to kind of outline a rider vision.
Depend who you are, if you're an audio, video person, kinesthetic person,
you need to understand the field of vision.
So this could be, if you're a visual person, you maybe want to envision yourself,
pretend you're in the movie, pretend you're creating a story and see what will
happen when your vision will come to be true.
So you envision which house was the apartment, what is the business, who the
people, what do you do, it's going to help you to understand.
Would you feel comfortable?
Would you like this or actually write in the many details?
What do you mean by this vision?
So this is probably in my mind, step number two, there's many people like Joe
Dispensa and other people that are in the, in the industries at helping people
at Tony Robertson to actually do that as well.
And number two is, okay, now we have a vision, now we have a goal.
Let's divide this and the difference between goal and the kind of wish is in
the goal, you actually start putting time steps.
Okay.
I have a couple of years trying to do that.
You dividing the big, big idea and goals to separate small goals and trying to
understand the understanding what you can or cannot do.
And in most of these cases, if it's a big, big vision, you're not able to do it
by yourself.
It's meaning that you need to help people to do certain parts or you may need to
have people that you outsource.
Or you're going to have a need mentors.
They're going to help you to do stuff.
You have no idea what you need to do.
Or in many, many cases, people have this vision, but they don't understand
they're going to be stopped.
They don't know about them, not even know if they're going to know them.
So a mentor or somebody that didn't already will envision and help them to
understand when you get to this point, you're going to have problems that you
don't even know exist and how to overcome them.
Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely right.
It's called blind spots of an entrepreneur that we don't see because we don't see
him.
We have no idea they exist and we need to have a mentor or someone in our life
who can help us guide through those challenges before they come.
Yep.
Go ahead.
This is an interesting point and I would like to debate it possible because I
think if you take a car, the blind spot is a place we see right now, but it's
not a place where you can see it.
But in many cases, you don't know it's going to be raining in two kilometers
and you're going to have a different problem because they're going to be a
lot of water.
So blind spot is something you see.
You have a problem right now.
What do you happen in the future when you're going to reach to a particular
milestone destination checkpoint, you're going to have a new problem, new
blind spot, but you don't have it right now because you're not big enough.
You're not whatever enough right now.
So I think that's a big part of that.
Each stage will come with each challenges and will need to require each solution
for each challenge if that needs to be foreseen and great leaders learn from
other people's mistakes.
Stupid ones learn from their own mistakes.
So, yep.
So thank you.
Thank you for sharing that.
Evgeny, what tips do you have for leaders?
I think number one is surrounding you with people that are in a way different
than you.
I think it's important to have alignment and similarity, but not in everything
because we're talking a lot about vision.
You may surround you with people that are going to have a similar vision, but
maybe they're going to be different people.
And by having different people around you, they will be able to object to
you, as I mentioned, the blind spot or the stuff you don't think because they
see the parts differently.
And because you're becoming a leader and you're moving away or higher left,
right, whatever you want to call this from your current environment, it may
be mean you will need to change the surrounding or the people you're having
beer, coffee, run, whatever you do day by day.
So it's meaning you're going to have different people who are going to help
you to elevate.
And in many cases, you may not be able to find people that you can spend day by
day.
We mentioned mentors before, but we have places and mentorship places and
incubators where you can find people with similar visions.
Again, visions not mean they're going to be the same people, but you will be able
to spend more time and elevate yourself as a human being and them as well.
Second, I think it's quite important.
I always tell my kids this, that you're competing with your vision, but you
have to realize that you're competing with yourself.
Yes, you have a competition on different vendors and products, but as a human
being, as a leader, not as a product, not as a company, you compete with yourself
and you want to become a better version of yourself.
And this is mean speak better, physically better, have this holistic idea to who
you are, because one of the important part to do, you know, the expression to
show up first.
So if you're not showing up, if you cannot be present, if you always tired,
if you always have a headache, it's mean you're burning yourself out.
So you need to find a way to charge your batteries before they're very, very
low.
You need to find a way they're going to be holistic and good to make sure you're
supporting your engine, supporting your body, your brain to be there to show up
and to do the stuff you need to do.
It's a very, very wide topic.
And again, I wrote a book about soft skills, what I learned, and there's many,
many leaders and people that can help people there, but it's definitely
important to be holistically kind of aligned well.
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