Happy New Year! I hope you are excited as I am about the wealth of opportunities that 2014 brings. For many people, this is a time to set goals for the coming year. Yet how do you ensure that you can actually achieve your goals? Here are a couple of tips.
1) Make your goals meaningful
Change is hard, and it’s easy to get distracted from our goals. For your goal to keep your attention and motivate you to follow through, it should be something that inspires you. It’s much easier for a business a goal if it’s something that excites the staff.
2) Make your goals concrete and specific
A goal like “lose weight” or “make more money” or “get up earlier” is not nearly as powerful as “lose 7 pounds by May 1” or “increase net profits by $125,000 in the next twelve months.” Having concrete and specific goals makes it easier to measure how you’re doing and celebrate your wins. It also helps with this next tip:
3) Develop a plan of action to achieve your goals
As important as it is to visualize our goals, I’ve never heard of anyone achieving an important goal by just thinking about it. What makes your goal attainable is an action plan. And, the more you can break your goal down into small, “bite-sized” steps, the easier it becomes to achieve it. The most important question is, “What is the first step that I can take today?”
I hope that with the official start of this new year, you have given serious consideration to the goals you want to achieve for your business. Without having a clear goal for your business, every action you take is without aim, and ultimately without much result.
If your goals involve growing your business in 2014, let me know how I can support you in that endeavor. I love working with businesses that have clear and specific goals!
To your success!
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