In order to accomplish your visions, there are 3 areas you will likely need to invest in:
Part of why visions seem daunting is they require us to grow as people. They require skills we don’t currently have. Unless we recognize that we need to acquire new skills, and undertake a systematic process to develop those skills, we likely won’t make progress.
Take a vision of having a $10M revenue, bootstrapped business. Going from $0-1M is mostly about developing a compelling offering, and doing the sales and marketing work necessary to generate initial revenue. The skills you need revolve around the delivery of the product or service you’re offering, a willingness to be told no hundreds of times, and the hustle to try (mostly organic, non-scalable) marketing channels.
Going from $1-5M is about delivery. Developing repeatable systems and processes to deliver a consistent experience at scale. The skills you need change - you have people better than you are at marketing and sales (hopefully), and you need to keep them motivated and know how to manage them well. You need to be thinking about system design and operations.
$5-10M is about scaling. Standing up tighter financial controls, implementing a more robust HR function, finding and grooming a leadership team. The skills you need change again.
Ambitious visions also likely require different relationships. You need to find mentors who are a couple steps ahead of you. Experts who know how to navigate the journey and avoid the pitfalls. New sources of talent, capital, and advice.
Even personal goals require new relationships. You’ll often want to find a trainer or coach. If you’re seeking to develop an aspect of your character you’ll want people who model it already.
And of course, along the way, you want people in your life who are excited about the journey you’re on, and while perhaps willing to challenge you at times, are generally cheering you on. They don’t have to have answers. But they can be useful sources of accountability.
To pursue 10X opportunities often requires rewiring your beliefs about yourself and what’s possible. There’s a good chance during week two that you uncovered some framing stories that will be limiting as you pursue your vision. You’ll need to do the work of replacing outdated narratives with ones that will better serve you.
Similarly, your beliefs will need to change as you move along the process of accomplishing your vision. Very often the rules and principles that drive behavior when one is a beginner need to be replaced with different ones as you become more proficient. A founder-led sale is almost imperative in the early days, but likely an impediment when you are trying to scale. A beginning skier needs to know how to snowplow. An intermediate or expert skier never uses it.