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Vision Challenge – Day 9 – Where do you give the most help and advice?

Vision Challenge – Day 9 – Where do you give the most help and advice?

Vision Challenge – Day 9 – Where do you give the most help and advice?

Day 9 Goal


Your goal this week is to answer two questions:

(1) What are you constantly giving advice to others about or helping others do? and

(2) What kinds of questions or requests do you get the most from people inside and outside of work?

How to Make it Happen


Even if you haven’t been completely strategic thus far with your personal brand, you already have some kind of professional reputation. Today’s goal will help you figure out what that is and how you can use it in your business, whether the two are related or not.

Your personal brand is the starting point for building customer relationships. If people trust that you can help them and add value to their lives, they’ll want to hire you and patron your business.

The universe has an undefeated way of letting you know where you already add value to the lives of others, even if your business isn’t off the ground yet.

If you take a look at the kinds of questions you’re already getting from all over (family, friends, co-workers, etc.), you’ll see where you’ve developed a reputation for effectively helping people.

Take a look at your DMs, text messages, emails, and past conversations, and look for patterns of where people are reaching out to you for advice and help. These requests may not be related to your business idea, and that is okay.

If, for example, people often ask for your help with proofreading, this demonstrates your attention to detail. Even if your actual business is a bake shop, you can play on your attention-to-detail strengths in your messaging and marketing for your business.

Your specific strengths will be what set you apart from your competitors and what help you best service your customers.

One note: if you do not currently get requests for advice or assistance, all is not lost. Flip this exercise on its head and ask yourself what kinds of advice you want to give others and what kinds of questions/requests you want to get from other people.

In this kind of scenario, the likely truth is that, while you have some amount of knowledge, you aren’t sharing it with other people so that they know they can come to you for help. Once you identify how you want to be known, you can create a plan to position yourself in that way.

After you’ve had a chance to answer the two questions, share your answers with me!

You can share them with me on social media by tagging me @shontaviajesq on all platforms and using the #VisionChallenge hashtag so that I can see them. Or, you can comment directly below.

If nothing else, take a picture of your completed workbook page(s) so that I know you’re doing the homework! 

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