To kick things off, it’s time for some unbounded envisioning. What I mean by that is for you to envision your life and all the trappings of what you want it to be like earning income doing work you love. Envisioning can be a fun and lively experience if you set all barriers to the side and let your imagination fly.

When envisioning, it’s very important that you draw on all of your emotions and senses. I’ve provided some prompts to get you going, and templates from my Compass Playbook you can download and use.

The Passion Course is a creative course in that YOU are creating the course as you go through it. The life you want to live, the work you’re passionate about, and the income and lifestyle you want to experience are all driven and created by YOU.

Here are some prompts to get you going, but it’s really up to you to create your envisioning experience.

If any of the prompts use techniques unfamiliar to you, such as mind mapping, Google it!

There are many more prompts in Compass Playbook as well as throughout the PappyClub Journal content.

Prompts to help you conduct an inquiry:

From the perspective of you as a five-year-old, describe your passion-led business and why you enjoy it so much.
Make a list of the selfish pleasures you’ll enjoy as a result of doing your passion-led work.
List the emotions you want to experience doing work you love.
List all that you appreciate about your life as it is now (writing in an appreciation journal daily creates a really high vibe that attracts what you want)
List the things you want to be, do or have right now.
Pick one aspiration from the prior prompt and write it in the center of a circle. Mind map the aspects your aspiration generates.
List free and easily accessible things you can do, research or learn to get closer to your passion-led business.
Storyboard what you’re life will look like when you are doing work you love

A powerful visioning technique

There are so many wonderful teachers who have shared techniques on manifesting, visioning and using the power of your mind to create the reality you desire.

I’ve attended retreats and been a fan of Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work in tying how the mind works to creating the life you want. Here is a powerful visioning technique from Joe that will help you mine the details of your ideal passion-led business world.

Regardless, use the visioning technique that works best for you. There are many other powerful tutorials and videos on this very subject. I encourage you to explore and search for other techniques if this doesn’t appeal to you.

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Compass Playbook templates

In 2011, I published Compass Playbook, which served readers as a creative guide to solve problems and forward their dreams. In it there are a variety of plays—creative exercise types—or you to write, storyboard, mind map, draw, do an activity or visualize any variety of different situations related to what you want.

The value of Compass Playbook is in the reader’s creations—I simply provide the guidance and templates. The book was a culmination of many different approaches, from appreciative inquiry to creative problem solving to the law of attraction.

You don’t necessarily need a template for an activity or to visualize, and frankly you can use your journal or a sketchbook or just grab some paper from your printer’s paper tray and go for it. But just in case you want a little help, here are five templates from Compass Playbook you can download and use.

Download PDF templates of Compass Playbook plays

If you take money out of the equation, what passion work would you do because you love it so much?

What’s your end game?

Hang tight, because you’re not done envisioning your business just yet. It may seem easier to envision what you want your business to be in the beginning. However, if you really want to sustain the energy and focus of what you’re building for yourself, you need to define your end game.

What is success for you?

Your end game should clarify and align with your purpose and your passion—which coincidentally are very closely connected. It is also a way to keep yourself inspired, open and in action as you encounter any hiccups, challenges or, honestly, laziness.

The benefits of defining your end game include:

You get much more clarity around the purpose behind what you’re doing with your passion-led business
You decide if your business strategy is to grow to X size or X revenue, eventually sell the business or remain small and simple as a solopreneur business
You get a clearer direction for building a brand that aligns with your end game and purpose

Here is an over-simplified 3-step process to narrow your end game. Note that your end game can always change as you evolve your business. You may start out small with a minimalist approach and realize that you’re impacting lives in ways you never saw coming and you have the opportunity to reach more people around the world with your business offerings.

Step one: which type of end game for the business?

Do you want a simple business with no employees and run a nice service or product business you can easily manage yourself and scale with automations and third-party services? Where you are the brand?
Do you want to grow your business to scale through people, expansion and partnerships to work less and eventually sell your business? Where a mascot or product is more likely the brand and not you?

Step two: what is success to you?

Is your business about creating more money, time, freedom or preparing for retirement?
Is your business about creating excitement and joy in your life forever?

Step three: what is your end dream?

Can you name where you’re going? Can you name your dream?
What do you want the world to look like or be like as a result of the work you do in your passion-led business?
Can you place yourself in that future state and feel what it will feel like?

“Make sure that your end goal is something you’re excited about so you don’t want to retire because retirement is for those that hate what they do.”

— Simon Squibb

Simon Squibb is an inspiring resource and I reference his content often. His commitment to helping people make their dreams come true is admirable. Check him out here.