You ever started something and didn’t fully know what you were doing?

Truth is, for most of us—that’s exactly how the journey starts.

We figure it out along the way.

We move with intention.

We take it one objective at a time.

When I started my magazine Rep Da King Mag, I was hesitant to call myself “Editor-in-Chief.”

Why? Because I wasn’t the top student in my class when it came to language arts or reading books back then.

But I knew how to build a team.

I knew how to bring writers and graphic designers together around a purpose.

And I knew I could find somebody to print it.

At the time, I was running Z180 Radio, which was basically a glorified podcast network. We had about seven shows, with something airing every single day, and it was doing well.

I’d always been a fan of The Source magazine, but I loved the size and simplicity of JET. So I combined those inspirations into my own vision.

And here’s the key:

I saw it working from the beginning.

I already had relationships with artists. So I paired them with writers for interviews. I brought the content to my graphic design team, one handled the covers and a few key layouts, the other handled the rest. The system worked.

But even before the first copy was printed, I could see it.

I visualized people getting the magazine in their mailboxes.

I imagined the response.

I expected results.

So when the subscriptions started rolling in?

I was ecstatic, but I wasn’t surprised.

That’s the power of intention.

When you set your mind to something and expect it to work, anything less feels foreign. But too often, we spend more time thinking about what could go wrong than what could go right.

We’ve got to flip that.

We’ve got to see it exactly how we want it to happen, then work toward that every single day. Will we have it all figured out?

Never.

But as we walk the path, things will be revealed to us, tools, people, strategies, ideas. And if we act on them with purpose, the vision we carry in our head will become real.

So whatever you’re building, dreaming, or working toward:

See it working.

And then move like it’s already happening.

God bless the entrepreneurnex®️