The Wrap Up of 2009
This is it. The end of another year.
For some of you the next few days will either be frantic or quiet, depending on the business you are in.
I hope those of you who are quiet are spending your time reflecting on the past year and then wisely planning what you want to achieve for the new one. For the rest of you no doubt, January will be the time when future plans will be made.
Regardless of when you do it, planning is a very important process if you know what you want to achieve and take the action to get what you want. If there is no planning or goal setting, you will continue to meander along and take what life dishes out to you. You’ll be reactive, not proactive.
When you know where you are going, you can work out the steps to get there.
Write down the answers to these questions:
· What have you achieved this year?
· What do you want to achieve by
the end of 2010?
· What skills, courses, people do you
need to help you reach your goals
for next year?
· List the specific ACTIONS you need
to take.
· Plan in your diary when you will carry them out.
. Do it!
You can have all the great intentions in the world yet if you don’t commit specifically when you are going to act, your goals may end up being wishful thinking and never eventuate. By the way, these same principles apply to your personal life. Sit down with your partner, family or whoever you feel should be involved in this process and set your goals together.
Christmas is an interesting time of year. You could be shining in your successes and can’t wait to tackle the coming year after a well-earned holiday. Or it may be a sad time, reflecting on the year gone by all too fast. Having good intentions to make 2009 the year when you were definitely going to lose weight, get fit, spend more time with your family, improve your business etc. and yet it didn’t turn out that way. You could be burnt out by working too much, keeping too busy and not looking after yourself.
Goals were set, only to be broken because life got in the way. It was much easier floating along with the crowd. Unfortunately if you float along, you could end up anywhere. And more often than not, the crowd is heading in the wrong direction.
Take time to think and plan so that this time next year you can happily trot off on your Christmas break knowing that you have succeeded in achieving the goals you set for yourself. You have taken control of your business instead of your business taking control of you. Improving your business productivity will be essential. The sense of satisfaction attained by setting goals and achieving them will boost your confidence and motivate you to strive even harder for what you want.
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Lorraine Pirihi, The Productivity Queen, is Australia’s leading Productivity Specialist and creator of “The Productivity and Profit System TM” the complete one-on-one training program for solopreneurs and small businesses that shows business owners exactly how to work less and earn more! To receive your F.R.E.E. CD & Report “3 Steps to Dramatically Reducing Your Workload and Stress While Maximising Your Profit$! ($77 value) go to www.productivityqueen.com.
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