Enlightened Vision - Think Big, But Start Small by Marcia Martin

Having created and built several international organizations from inception to sustainability, I have learned the developmental steps required to bring an exciting vision to a successful reality.

It all starts, of course, with that Vision, even if the end product is unknown. I helped to create and build the most prominent personal development educational company in the world, an organization that ended up being based in hundreds of City Centers with millions of graduates worldwide.

In the beginning, the Vision was to have only four City Centers - one in San Francisco, one in Los Angeles, one in Honolulu, and one in Aspen. But after 10 years, we had not only established the company in hundreds of US City Centers that trained thousands of people every month, but we had also started the same project in Europe, South America, and Canada.

Our starting vision seemed huge at the time, but as we grew, it became apparent that we had no idea of the possibilities we might attain.

One of the keys to growing an organization - or in growing any great dream, is to realize that it starts with one tiny step at a time. Just as a forest is established - one seed starts it out. That one seed grows one tree, produces more seeds, grows more trees, and eventually becomes a grand forest.

It's important to understand that you learn as you grow - what works and what doesn't work, so you keep course-correcting and tweaking along the way. If you tried to do it all at once, you would miss the organic correction process that is vital to success!

With each City Center company base we built, we found better ways to utilize our time, money, people, and systems.

I liken this to driving at night. On the night road, we can only see thirty feet in front of us, as far as the lights extend. Yet we can drive from Los Angeles across the country to New York with only those few feet in front of us to guide the route to the destination!

For my clients who want to create a coaching company, I advise them to start with ONE client. Obtain a contract with one client, and deliver with excellence. When you do that, that client will tell others, and your business will naturally grow. You don't have to figure out how to obtain hundreds of clients initially. Just one. A natural process will unfold. And as you grow, you will see what works and doesn't. You will be able to correct along the way, increasing your effectiveness and the value of your product, which will increase your sales and profits.

Think about how a human being develops. In the mother's womb, in the beginning, there is only ONE cell, which has everything it needs to develop into a complex organism. That one cell divides, and those cells divide, and pretty soon, the cells become distinctive to the appropriate needs. A nose forms, a foot forms, a heart forms - all distinct from the other cells, and each appropriate to its own specific purpose.

That's how it works for an organization too. In the beginning, it's not necessary to have a variety of departments and department heads and complex procedures and systems. Start simple. Start with one. You only need to see 30 feet in front of you. And that way, you will see what you actually require instead of what you think you require. You will correct and create as you go, appropriate to the needs as they evolve.

Once you get one Center working, then you can duplicate. If you start with them all at once, you may miss the things you need to learn about having them be effective.

If you can serve one client well, then you can serve thousands well. But if you start with thousands and don't realize what works, you will have thousands of disappointed clients.

Being a "Visionary" doesn't mean you know the end in view. To me, it means that you start with the end in mind and then create each step of the way. You may have a glimpse or an idea of what the future might look like, but you don't need to know the specifics. As you move ahead, just be aware of what is in the space in the next 30 feet.

Create, correct, create, correct. Create as you go. Correct as you go. That is part of the process and natural law of the Universe. The Universe will give you answers along the way.

At one point in my life, I had a Fashion Jewelry company. I was partnered with the acclaimed designer, Laurel Burch. The company started with Laurel designing one pair of earrings and selling them on a table in Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco. Generally, people bought one pair of earrings at a time; one day, a woman who owned a Boutique Store asked if we could make ten earrings of the same design she loved. And so we did, and she purchased all ten.

Within a short amount of time, we had several Boutique Store owners ordering dozens of different designs. Very rapidly, we had hundreds of store owner clients, museums, and department stores ordering thousands of each design. Soon we expanded to necklaces, bags, and belts, and within two years, we had 3,500 wholesale clients and over $5 million of annual sales.

Along the way, we learned the best way to promote, the best customer service practices, the best inventory management, the best distribution systems, and which were the best-selling designs, so we could increase our profit margin.

I have long been called a "Visionary". I have a unique intuitive instinct, and since I have practiced meditation since I was 12, my capacity to dream and see my dreams in detail is exceptional.

But that is only half the story. I also know that I need to start where I am and make it work well at the initial stage, and then I will be able to duplicate and leverage that result. I trust that The Universe will provide lessons along the way, allowing me to be more effective. I know where I am going - towards the Big Vision. But I also know how to make it work well in the most simple and present state - one client at a time.

Doing that will allow me to learn along the way and for things to emerge organically that I hadn't even considered. With this trust, I am guided as I continue to grow and expand.

Whatever you want to create - by all means, nurture the Vision of the end, but don't try to create that in the beginning. Instead, create one of what you want - one client, one product, one workshop, one sale, and go from there.

Time and Light have their own participation in the creation process. Learn to flow with that and to utilize that power. Think Big - Start Small.

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Successful entrepreneur, global speaker, corporate executive coach & trainer, transformational thought leader, and changemaker extraordinaire, Marcia Martin’s reputation is legendary. Having personally trained over 350,000 people globally in communication and leadership skills, and coached and trained thousands of corporate teams to perform at championship level, she is renowned for her achievement mastery.

Marcia’s Talk This Way programs are the pathway to successful living, and teach participants to harness their personal power, excell at the art of influential communication, understand the secrets of successful relationships, become charismatic public speakers, achieve effortless sales prowess, and lead with inspiration and enlightenment.

Her clients include Hard Rock Hotels International, Warner Bros., Evian Water, Inter-Continental Hotels, Dannon Yogurt, Capital One, McCain Foods, Hyatt Hotels, American Cancer Society, and Chase Bank, among others. She has consulted, trained or coached some of the most acclaimed thought leaders and authors of our time including Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins, Lynne Twist, T. Harv Ecker, and Robert T. Kiyosaki.

Her entrepreneurial achievements are astonishing! Marcia was an award-winning General Manager of the Shiretown Inn, a 100-room lifestyle hotel with a 4-star restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard: she successfully operated Tsuru, Inc., an international wholesale manufacturing and retail fashion jewelry company manufacturing and distributing Laurel Burch designs with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and New York; she filled auditoriums with 5,000 to 20,000 in attendance on a regular basis and developed numerous marketing and sales campaigns that resulted in millions of dollars of annual sales as Division Head for Erhard Seminars Training; she created sustainable associate organizations and guided entrepreneurs to create millions of annual income as a Founder of the Transformational Leadership Council, and the Network for Transformational Leaders; and she founded and operated as Senior Vice President, Landmark Forum, the largest personal development educational training company in the world, taking it from inception to millions of graduates worldwide.

Marcia was personally mentored in the art and technology of communication, business, and human development by renowned futurist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller, business management guru Peter Drucker, innovation academic thinker Werner Erhard, esteemed organizational consultant Warren Bennis, and Oscar-winning film producer Jerry Weintraub.

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