When you are working to make big things happen in the world, it often feels like you need to do more and more. You always need to be doing something, and the work is never done...
When we feel busy it can be hard to step away from the endless projects and dream up what the next five or ten years will look like.
And when we dare to dream big, we quickly come to the realization that we cannot do it alone.
Big plans call for big partnerships.
But planning for big outcomes takes a long term focus, and it doesn’t always feel productive. Planning is time consuming, and it is easy to think we should be checking things off the list instead.
And when we are planning something that is so big we have no idea how we will ever make it happen, planning takes a certain level of faith to make it feel like a worthwhile endeavor.
If you can find that faith and that long term focus, you will see in time that your vision manifests in ways that you would have never imagined.
You don’t have to plan everything in advance. You don’t need a 100 page business plan.
The key is having a very clear outcome in mind and a plan to start.
Don’t overcomplicate it. Make sure that you have spent several hours outlining what all needs to be done to get headed in the right direction.
What are the potential roadblocks? What needs to be done that you don’t know how to do? Will you learn it or will you hire someone to help you?
Listen to podcasts and read lots of books along the way so you can glean advice from the brightest minds in your field. Talk about your plans with people you respect. Review your plan each week and make adjustments according to any new ideas, data, or feedback you receive.
Make it a point to keep track of the talented people you are meeting that seem to be headed in the same direction as you are… whose goals and interests might be aligned with the outcome you want to achieve.
Whatever it is that you want to accomplish, there are likely people out there who would like to help you make it happen.
So ALWAYS keep an eye out for ‘synchronicity’.
Synchronicity is a concept first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection." Wikipedia
In other words, synchronicities are ‘meaningful coincidences’.
It’s like they are cues from the Universe telling us what we should pay attention to and which rabbit holes to go down.
When people keep coming up in your mind or in conversation, or they randomly reach out to you after you have been thinking about them, take note of it.
If the plans you have been making are really something worth working on, the perfect partners will somehow be magically attracted to you.
It may not happen when you think it should, but if you keep the faith they will eventually show up.
You can speed up the process by researching and envisioning who those ‘perfect partners’ might be.
Who are they and what do they want?
And what are you going to say or show them when you get the opportunity to make that first impression?
That is why you plan. Showing someone an impressive plan is often enough to get them to partner with you, assuming the outcome aligns with their goals.
The time you spend planning, dreaming, imagining, strategizing, reviewing, thinking and re-thinking is the very necessary process of incubating and nurturing your idea.
And the clearer you get on the outcome, the more you attract the people and resources you need to make it happen.
HOME is a music business incubator and community that focuses on making those resources easily accessible while providing opportunities to strategize and grow alongside seasoned professionals.
If you have big plans and you are looking for people to partner with, we would love to help you build your team and bring your plans to fruition.