Vision vs Goals – Episode 610

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[00:01] Welcome to the Prosperity Podcast. Prosperity thinkers, we’re going to be talking a part of the new book that’s coming out. Kim’s new book, we’re all excited for it. We’re going to be talking about vision specifically because that is an essential piece. So set the stage about the book and then why is vision one of those core fundamental pieces? Well, I am so excited for this book. It really should have been maybe the first book that we wrote long ago. So Busting the Scarcity Mindset is your guide to becoming a prosperity thinker. And I love the word becoming because I’m always becoming a prosperity thinker, right? It’s something that we’re always working on. And it’s not that I live in scarcity land mentally, and yet I do, right?

[00:52] Every single one of us has days, sometimes hours. Maybe we skip a day or two, but we have times that we are in scarcity mindset about some element of our life. And so it’s so critical to have inspiration and activating ideas of specific things that we can do because it’s not that you are falling into the scarcity mindset for a moment. It’s what you do about it and how quickly you get out. And so I love the book for the good that it’s going to do. And it’s my first book that truly could benefit anybody in the world. You know, we occasionally get an email from somebody in another country desiring to work with us, but we can’t really help them with financial products. We can help them with this. We can help them with that busting of the scarcity mindset.

[01:40] And that is part of visioneering. So I love taking the word vision and making it a verb into visioneering. Combine the engineering word with vision. So I even like to say occasionally I’m a visioneer and I believe that vision or envisioning, if you wanted to utilize the word that way, is such a valuable skill. So a lot of people talk about goals and that’s valuable. Goal setting, I believe, needs to be very smart, right? Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and with a time frame. And in today’s world, I don’t think that goals are even reasonable beyond about the three to five year realm. I mean, we just have so much change going on in our world. Awesome. Set some goals in the three to five year realm, you know, the one year realm, whatever.

[02:32] Nevertheless, having a vision which is not as specific may or may not be measurable, may or may not be achievable, could or could not be realistic, and really doesn’t have a time frame. Like it’s literally the opposite of goals is so helpful because it’s our visions that pull us forward. It’s our visions that are inspiring. It’s our visions that get us to do the work to meet or beat the goal. And that’s a really important thing as well. I think it’s actually one of the reasons why I keep coming up with the books. And I am sort of hoping at some point to stop and just make the ones that I have even better and more thorough, especially because not everybody likes to read books. You know, we have Audible’s version and all that.

[03:27] The vision of continuing on is so important. And if you have a goal and you meet it, you’ve got to set another goal. And that’s great. You should do that. And that vision is always moving. It’s kind of like the horizon. Like it doesn’t matter how fast we run, we’re never going to get to the horizon. But the horizon, that mental construct, if you will, is out there and it inspires us and it pulls it forward. Dan Sullivan has written about this quite a bit in his Gap and Gain book that he did with Ben Hardy. And again, it’s that vision that is a little fuzzy. It’s out there and it really causes us to lift our head up and look out in the future. And then it drives so much positive possibility because enabling us to course correct, right?

[04:21] So the vision’s out there, but it might shift. It’s enabling us, as I said, to be inspired and keep going and pursuing and persevering. And I think it’s a most valuable skill that just doesn’t get talked about enough because I think it is kind of fuzzy. Nevertheless, it’s very important. So you mentioned that it’s fuzzy and the vision is different than the goals. What is it that you actively do to polish it so it’s not as fuzzy? That is a great question. I keep thinking about it. I keep rubbing off the edges to your word polish is so perfect to bring the clarity that gets rid of the fuzz and creates the specificity. So a vision is often very gray, right? But we need it brought into black and white in our lives.

[05:21] And so that takes shifting it, working with it, thinking about it, praying about it, listening to it, sharing it verbally, taking input on it and then aligning it. I love the word align, aligning it with our principles and our values. And those things shift in our life. And so the vision has to shift sometimes. I mean, 20 years, well, longer than that, 30 years ago, I could have never told you that we would be owning alpacas. And yet there was a vision of a lifestyle that was always there in my head in some form. And over time, that vision becomes more and more clear because you keep thinking about it, because you share it, because you think thoroughly about it. And sometimes back up from it and then go after it again.

[06:20] And you keep envisioning. And that’s what brings that fuzziness into clarity. So when did you first grasp this concept of visioning? And then when were you able to articulate it in a concise way? So those are two different things. I’m guessing that the first aspects of it were in my early childhood with those cows. So I showed in the 4-H fairs. So all through late elementary, junior high and high school, every summer, preparing for the fairs, the state and the county fairs. And my sister and I did very well in those fairs. We knew what we were doing. We had very good 4-H teachers. My parents were also very good. My grandpa was involved. And so when you’re dealing with an animal like that, it’s a two, three, four-year time frame.

[07:21] Now, for a child, a fifth grader, a tenth grader even, a three, four, five-year time frame is a long time, right? So that started that long-term thinking, which I think visionary is typically very long-term thinking. And then I don’t know when I would have first articulated it. Gosh, probably in my second stage of my profession. So after I went to college, and I was so grateful to be hired by the bank that I was going to be working at before I graduated from college. So I knew where I was going. And I spent three years at a bank, and I enjoyed that time extremely. It was very valuable. And then from there, I went into the financial planning slash mutual funds slash life insurance space. And both of those things necessitated long-term views, right?

[08:23] So in a bank, you’re dealing with 30-year mortgages as an example. In the life insurance space, of course, you’re dealing with age 100 at the time. Now it’s age 120. And I believe that those scenarios, and this is all pre-Internet, and starting to look at the thing called retirement planning, which again, we had computers that did this. It wasn’t available like it is today. I believe that’s probably when I first started to articulate the differences and the idea of vision. Plus, I was super into personal development at that stage. So of course I was being taught about goals left, right, and center. But I truly believe that sometimes goals can be limiting. And I am not interested in the limits.

[09:09] And so something in me wanted to have a realm that was higher and more long-term and more inspirational than goals. And to me, that’s what a vision is. Okay. I’m trying to extract because you’ve been able to concisely share and teach the audience over years. I’m going to say audience, community. We can use whatever word that is. But what’s been helpful is that there’s a lot of speakers out there, influencers, that they are articulating something, but they’ve only experienced it a short time. You’ve experienced it for a long time. Yeah. And you’ve been able to understand the difference between the vision and the goals and where all of these pieces come into play. You mentioned that you’ve written a bunch of books.

[10:13] And what I found interesting is that you say, and maybe in the future, I’ll just refine the books that I had. And you said that. And I thought, yeah, sure. No way that’s going to happen. That’s funny. I didn’t know we were doing comedy here because you’re going to write a bunch more. I just know it. So help us, one, to set the stage when our mind, you’re laughing. I’m laughing. We have a smile on our face so that we can get the environment. Okay. Okay. I’ll at least start to sprinkle some of that vision. So what’s Kim’s quick antidote? I’m saying put a little dash of vision in there. Let’s start to sprinkle that. That’s all I want for our listeners right now. Then they’ll read the book and they’ll get deeper.

[11:02] Just sprinkle that. Well, I first have to give my mom credit. She passed on a long time ago. Nevertheless, she was a kindergarten teacher my entire life. She taught two classes of kindergarten a day. I can’t even fathom doing that. And she explained things simply. Right? I mean, you have to. And my sister and I, it used to drive us nuts because we would say, Mom, I’m a senior in high school. Don’t explain it to me like I’m a kindergartener. Nevertheless, I’m going to just give her the credit. That’s where that skill comes from. So this is a very fun time in my life because I’m in my late 50s and I believe that 87 is the new 65, which I’ve said numerous times. My husband has done the math to prove that.

[11:56] I think retirement is frankly one of the most selfish acts that people can do. And I know that people do it and that’s fine. And, you know, there’s different definitions of retirement. It’s fine. You want to quit your corporate job and go do another job. Awesome. But serve. Right? We were put on Earth to serve. And so constantly I’m looking at and I’ll give four specific action items in this realm. Constantly, I am looking at how can I use the talents that God gave me to serve best? Because I know that will be the funnest thing for me to do, the most profitable thing for me to do, the way for me to help people, which is what I love to do, and the way to get even better results, right? A little bit better, a little bit better, a little bit better every single year.

[12:47] And so I read my Colby profile. So we’ve talked about it numerous times on the podcast. KOLBE.com. Best $55 you can spend. The Colby Next Generation, which is closer to my age, actually has a new book out as well. I’m blanking on the title right now. Way to go, Amy Bruski and David Colby for their next book. Kathy Colby actually has a documentary out as well. It’s on my social media stuff. If you want to find it that way, you can just go to Colby.com and you can get all of it. Constantly looking at my Colby. Also, the Clifton Strengths Finders, my five strengths. I look at those and I just am always trying to align where my skills are and my strengths and my Colby profile, which Colby is really more about how I get things done.

[13:37] The Strengths Finder is about what I do. There’s a couple other things in there. Tony D’Angelo told me about. He’s got a new thing. I’ve got it right here. Actually, Core Genius profile. I’ve heard other people talk about it. So that’s a thing. Print is a thing. You know, then, of course, there’s the discs and the other Myers-Briggs and all of that kind of thing is not the end all and be all. But it’s helpful. It’s all about self-knowledge and then figuring out how to use the learnings that you have from knowing yourself better to serve others, because that is a lifelong endeavor. And I have a vision of some intellectual property capability. Absolutely the book space, but also the workbook space, the game space, the app space, right?

[14:31] Like our Prosperity Parents community has an app, finally, on both Apple and Android. You have to be a part of the community to make use of the app. But it’s there. Our Simplify Savings part that’s inside Pledge. It has an app. So whatever it is that can help people get even better results, primarily in the monetary space, because that’s my bailiwick. But also just in life, because money affects our lives so much. What’s my favorite quote? Money isn’t everything, but it affects everything that matters. Who wants to retire from that? Not I. Hopefully no one in our community. It’s just not us. Very valuable. The vision. I look forward to reading the new book that comes out. As you mentioned in a previous podcast, and I’ll iterate, or I should say reiterate.

[15:29] There are going to be some special bonuses for people that preorder. And you can preorder this. And that way it will show up in your Kindle on your device right as soon as it’s ready. You don’t have to even think about it. So where’s the website people should go to preorder and get those special bonuses? So BustingScarcityMindset.com, the podcast community will remember. We asked them to vote. Was it Mindset, Singular, or Mindsets, plural? And we chose Singular, which goes against the grain. I love plural, but I went with the vote. And I agree with it. There’s no point in complicating it. So BustingScarcityMindset.com. And right now there’s just a wait list. So put yourself on the wait list.

[16:16] We’ll let you know when the bonuses and the preorder are ready. Perfect. I’m going to do it. I hope that you guys do it as well. Check it out. We’ll put a link to that inside of the show notes. Thanks for listening to this episode. And have it work for you. Visit ProsperityThinkers.com.