{"id":2053,"date":"2013-08-05T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2016-05-03T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:13:54","slug":"crafting-your-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/08\/05\/crafting-your-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Your Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of your Vision Statement as a picture of your company at some point in the future &#8211; maybe 2, 3 or 5 years.\u00a0 A vision is a way to articulate your dreams and hopes for your business while quantifying the expected results with a realistic &#8220;on or before date&#8221;.\u00a0 It reminds us of what we are building.\u00a0 To create a vision takes some time and serious thought. This statement will not tell you how you will get there but it will set the direction for your business strategy or plan.\u00a0 Often knowing your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/what-is-your-mission\/\">Mission<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2055\">Core Values<\/a> will be very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Let your imagination go and dream big &#8211; you want to capture your passion. Unlike the Mission Statement, the Vision statement will have a huge influence on decision making and is not instructional for your clients or customers.\u00a0 Since a Vision is off in the future, having a date when it will be achieved will by more dynamic than just &#8220;three years from now&#8221; as now is an ever changing destination.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a Vision Crafting Tool you may find helpful in Crafting Your Vision. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Business_Visioning.pdf\">Business_Visioning <\/a>\u00a0 &lt;&#8211;click to download a pdf tool and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of your Vision Statement as a picture of your company at some point in the future &#8211; maybe 2, 3 or 5 years.\u00a0 A vision is a way to articulate your dreams and hopes for your business while quantifying the expected results with a realistic &#8220;on or before date&#8221;.\u00a0 It reminds us of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-culture","category-business-planning","category-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}