Linh: Hey guys, welcome to my channel!
It's Linh Podetti here,
the founder of Outsourcing Angel.
Now today, I have a very special moment
that I want to share with you.
I'm actually at the park near my house,
and I'm about to do the vivid vision.
In this video, I want to share with you one of the amazing
technique
you could actually do to achieve any dreams in your life.
Now, the vivid vision is one technique from Cameron Harold,
who you could buy the book and learn more from.
Today I want to talk about the vivid vision that Cameron's
taught,
but as well as all the other things that I've learned
in the past that has actually helped me to achieve my dream.
It really did start with a vision and so enjoy.
Okay, so first of all, I have achieved everything
I've ever wanted to do about 10 years ago,
I remember being very heartbroken.
I was single, I had a bad relationship and it was the time
when I was discovering what's going on with my life.
I remember feeling the urge to go to this
place called Julong in Melbourne.
It was not too far from Melbourne,
but it felt like it was a new place.
It's about an hour and a half away.
I remember finding a park and I went up the hill and I sat
there.
I started to take a notebook out and I started to draw.
I drew a timeline.
This is where I am and this is where I want to be.
I put the years down, I remember maybe I don't know,
three or four years down the track.
I drew, I'm not a very good artist.
I was drawing stick figures.
I drew a stick figure of me with another stick figure
that is my future boyfriend and
I had talking bubbles that says,
"Oh my god, honey, you are so sweet to me,
and you trust me so much. I'm so grateful to have you."
In that moment, I was actually trying to visualise what life
would be like that day when I'm actually with my future
boyfriend,
who is not jealous, who supports me,
because that's really what I was craving for.
The past relationship was so bad that the guy
was so jealous and so possessive,
that's what I really dreamt.
I remember, I took that moment to really feel the moment,
as if it's happening right there and then.
That's one example of how I did the vivid vision that Cameron
taught,
but I didn't read the book at the time.
I was actually just felt feeling the urge to go into the future
place.
I'm pretty sure I have seen it around in
one or two personal development books or videos about
what's your vision kind of thing,
but I didn't really have a framework.
I just wanted to share that.
That's one example that I've actually been able to manifest
because my husband right now is the most trusting person
and does not care about me talking to any boys out there.
Now, another example that I was able to
manifest through visualising was,
I actually started to map out what my
future company was going to be like.
At the time, I was running a company
called Red and Black Solutions.
With that much business experience,
I was just imagining what kind of things that would sell.
I started to write that, we would start to have an Ebook
and then we teach people how to outsource.
Then we sell VA service virtual assistant services,
where we can help recruit for people.
Then even a big conference, where you can meet the outsource
providers,
and that was back in 2012.
Eight years later, I looked at it and I'm like,
"Oh, my god, we're actually doing that!"
It's actually taken a long time.
It's a vision I had back then, without much knowledge
or how I'm going to get there.
I just wished what I wanted at that time.
Somehow with that vision, we kind of start doing things
that hit the vision without even intending to.
That's the power of visioning, when you really know what you
want.
Somehow, even if you're not looking at it,
you end up going to that path.
That's another example.
Another example I did was when I was doing a call somewhere
and they said, map out what your future team would look like.
Back then I was still new and I had a two or three people team.
I started to draw out this team structure.
I had like the CEO, the operations manager,
and the marketing manager, and then another finance manager,
and there's all these managers and the team is quite big,
maybe a 20 people, team,
or whatever it was.
At the time you feel like oh my god, this is so out of reach,
or it's really delusional or how the hell?
You can't even comprehend, because with the mindset I had,
I don't know how I'm going to run a big team like that.
I just did it. It was a very refreshing feeling
when you're just getting to dream.
No one's judging you, you're just dreaming for yourself.
Guess what?
Right now, when I pull out that piece of paper with all that,
well not a piece of paper, it was an Excel spreadsheet that I
created.
I showed it to the team,
I said, "look at this, this is the team structure that
I designed back in 2012 and here it is!"
When I picked up the book from Cameron Herald,
because it was recommended to me by a friend named Eric Putman.
If you're watching this, it's Eric.
He sent me his company's vivid vision
from systemology with David Jennings.
He sent me the vivid vision and
he said, "you should read the book."
I was ready to read, because I've already manifested
all these visions in the past, without any proper structure.
Let's see what this book will actually bring.
In this video, I want to really share
what was missing in my other things,
was that I did bits and pieces that was part of the vivid
vision theory,
that Cameron teaches, but not the full thing.
It's probably why it was fragmented or maybe I could have
achieved things even faster, or more better,
if I was following the vivid vision book.
Okay, so how do you actually create a vivid vision.
First of all, I recommend buying the book,
because until I read the book,
I really now understand the full context behind everything.
Back then, I learnt to do some vision, and I did it.
Without much understanding behind everything,
it's just not as transformative.
You are doing it and wishing that something would work.
When you read a book, and understand
the reasons behind how it works,
and samples and how other people have succeeded,
you just really have a profound understanding.
I highly recommend getting the book from Cameron
and read it to really understand it yourself.
Now, second thing that you could do is that there is actually
a lot of samples online of other people's vivid vision,
so that you can actually see what other people write,
so that you can understand how to write it, right?
Sometimes you kind of feel stuck.
It's like, how does it look like what this vivid vision is.
The third step is that you actually have to go somewhere
different.
I'm not at home right now,
I'm not stuck in my office inside my house.
Cameron really suggest that you go somewhere else.
Just like my example, when I went to Julong,
I felt like I needed to drive somewhere,
go somewhere different and take myself away,
or you literally need to do that.
That's why I'm here.
I'm in a different place. It's close to my house,
but it has a beautiful view,
I'm on top of a hill and I could see the water down.
Can you imagine positioning yourself like that,
then your ideas and dreams will just flow out, versus,
imagine sitting in a in a small box,
I'm pretty sure your mind will also feel like it's in a box.
Take yourself somewhere else.
Okay, so with vivid vision, there are two ways.
You can do a personal vivid vision or a business vision.
I also remember, so this is prior to reading the vivid
vision.
10 years ago, I remember creating a mind map.
I had an app on my phone. I had a mind map.
A mind map is when you write one thing there
and branch out into other areas.
I had like Linh there, I wrote personal and I started to to put
some pictures of my dream guy and the relationship is loving.
I credit some key words, like branch out from the
relationship.
I had family, I had health, how much I was going to weigh.
Having a mind map is actually really easy to dump all your
thoughts in
and see how it branches out.
He also suggests in the book, actually.
When I read the book, I was like, Oh my god, I did that!
No wonder why I actually manifested it.
Vivid vision when I read the book,
it wasn't that it was completely new context to me,
it just gave me a deeper understanding.
I can vouch to you that it totally works,
because I'm actually telling you now,
based on the fact that I've already manifested my visions in
the past,
and I continue to manifest.
I usually do it through a vision board and stuff like that.
Now this is a more of a deeper, almost like a session
where you're doing your homework,
you're creating that vision and
putting it into a document.
Okay, so what are the key learnings from the book that I
didn't know before?
The first thing is that it is a document that you create,
that is not just a one pager, it's not a scribble.
It's not one of those pictures that are designed and it's just
a one page.
It's actually a proud document that you design
into a brochure of your future company.
When you're reading this, it looks as
if someone's reading about your company,
three years from now.
It's nicely formatted, nicely designed, which I didn't
realise, I didn't know.
When I look at it, I'm like, "wow, that's just beautiful."
You can see some of the examples on the website or Google online.
The next different thing is that it is not something you keep to
yourself
and hope that one day you're going to achieve it,
it's actually a live document that you share with your team.
Once I create everything and format and get one of my team
members to format it nicely,
it is actually something that I share with the team
to get them to get excited about the future of the business.
They're gonna feel more motivated,
they're gonna understand where I see the company,
where I want to take it to,
so then they will actually know how to help me get it,
but then they will also be inspired to be part
of the organisation to see it grow.
Then the other exciting thing and nerve wracking thing
is actually sharing with people outside of the company.
At first one, I read the fact that you share it with your
internal team,
i'm like, okay, I get that all right.
Get my team all excited about what the future holds.
Then the fact that we're going to share it with the customers,
sharing it with suppliers, sharing it with the public.
Having people be able to download and watch it.
That was actually quite shocking.
The one thing that Cameron says is don't worry
about people stealing your idea
that you want to take your company to this and that,
because idea is a diamond dozen, like they say.
People can have the idea, but it's how they execute it, is a
thing.
Execution takes a long time, takes a lot of passion.
Just because you're sharing your idea,
does not mean they're gonna go
and take it and just go run with it.
If they could, they probably wouldn't be taking your idea.
They could be doing their own idea. That was exciting.
Well, nerve wracking for me, I've never done that before.
I can't wait to create this document and share it with
everyone.
Okay, so what are the benefits of doing this
and actually sharing with everybody?
Well, first of all, the benefit for yourself is that
you can now see bigger pictures,
see a bigger dream for your business.
You're going to feel more motivated for yourself.
For your team, they will have clarity and which direction to
go,
they will stay with you longer,
they're going to feel more motivated
to work harder to achieve that vision.
For other people, so suppliers and customers,
they're going to go "you know what,
I want to be a part of that company
that is going to do amazing things".
Three years from now, if you're saying that you're going to be
some star
on TV and doing this and that,
who wouldn't want to be part of that, because they want to know
who you are,
and go "I was there when she was dreaming
about it and she's there now."
People are actually going to be
wanting to be part of your journey.
The other interesting thing was, even being able to
bring the vision to the bank.
If you're needing to borrow money,
you could actually share with them,
where you want to take the company to
and if people they like your idea,
and it makes sense, they could actually fund you,
based on the vision that you're taking the company to,
as well as the media.
Being able to pitch your story that this company,
this is where it's now, but in three years time they
plan to do this and that and that.
It's even more exciting for the media to pick up that story.
Anyway, these are the things I'm sharing from the book,
I haven't done it yet.
I'm excited to do it, because I can already see how it's going
to happen.
Now the next tip from the book is that it's a live document,
and it means we have to review it all the time.
With my stuff that I did in the past, I created it and put it
away.
Somehow I manifested it, but it took a while,
I didn't even remember that I haven't created it.
This is almost like a business plan.
It is almost like this futuristic business plan.
Every few months, you actually review it with your team,
see where you're at and it's not just a dream.
When you have those visions and dreams,
you actually have to re engineer backwards.
If you said you want it to grow the business to x amount of
money,
and you're going to be in these locations.
Okay, so how do you actually get to that location?
You reverse back, so that you could actually
almost get to an actionable plan
for the next three months, six months to a year.
It's not really just about dreaming, and then dump it away
and hoping that somehow the universe will give you what you
want.
What the Cameron is really teaching is that
let's have more control over this.
You have the dream and now you're going to reverse backward
and take actions that are going to lead to the right
opportunity,
so that you can actually achieve your vision.
Alright, so let's go with a personal vivid vision first.
I'm going to share with you exactly
what are the things you need to look out for,
or actually start thinking about when you're writing out your
vivid vision.
The five F's, fitness, faith, finance, family, and friends.
So with fitness, how is your appearance different, than it is
today?
Physically, what shape are you in?
What is it like in your medicine cabinet?
How healthy are you?
Faith. What does your spiritual life look like in three years
time?
Finance. What do you see in your bank?
What do you see in the way you spend your money?
Family, what does your relationship with your spouse
look like?
Have you grown closer?
Do you have more shared interests?
If you're a parent, where do you see your relationship
with your children in three years time?
If you don't have children, how many children do you want to
have?
Are they female, male?
Friends, what kind of friends do you want to have?
What are their personalities like?
Where do they live?
Do you see yourself growing your network in the future life
or simply growing closer to your friends?
What are their family values?
What sort of activities will you do with them?
As you can see, those are some of the example questions that
you could have
for your personal vivid vision.
What are the areas that are important to you, whether it's
career, finance, family, fitness?
You just start to really dream that aloud and think about,
how you feel, what it looks like?
If you were right there witnessing that moment, that
day,
what does it look like around in your life?
Okay, so what do we do with your business?
Let's go through some of the questions, that you could take
yourself
through to answer some questions to help you come up with your
vivid vision.
Your overall vision, close your eyes and imagine three years
from now.
It's 31st of August 2023.
In the context of your business, what do you see? Success?
What is your annual sales figures? What's your profit for
the year?
Where are you operating at? How many staff do you have?
How do you feel? What is your people, culture and spirit like?
What's the brand and image? What do you stand for?
Leadership, what is your role as a leader there?
What is your communication like to your team?
What is your customer service like?
What is your systems and processes like?
What is your core capabilities? Why are you unique?
What's your products and services that you offer?
Now another way to look at it is go through a series of questions
like this.
What do you see? What do you hear?
What are clients saying about you?
What does the media write about us?
What kind of comments are your employees making at the
watercooler?
What is the buzz about you in your community?
What is your marketing like?
Are you marketing your goods and services globally now?
Are you launching new online and TV ads?
How is the company running day to day?
Is it organised and running like a clock?
What kind of stuff do you do every day?
Are you focused on strategies, team building, customer
relationships?
What do the company's financials reveal?
How are you funded now?
How are your core values being realised among your teams?
Those are some of the questions that could prompt some answers
for you,
helping you to start to think, because sometimes when you're
like,
just write something you don't know what to write.
I hope that those questions can help you to come up with
some really cool ideas and insights into your future.
Alright guys, so I hope this video has been useful,
I'm actually going to have to get started on my own vivid
vision.
I'm shooting this video, just before writing my actual vivid
vision.
I'm going to get straight into work now and I'm going to start
writing away.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
let me know in the comments below.
If you do end up reading the book,
come back to the comments and let me know what you think of
it.
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