Over the next few weeks, anything can change in your business. You’ll find that people often make decisions about what they will and won’t be doing in the new year. You will want to make sure that your business not only survives but thrives next year.

It’s imperative that you put time aside and take the necessary action to ensure your clients and referral sources continue doing business with you. And if you have competent staff, ensuring that they continue to stay with you.

When my son Trent was 11, I attended a presentation on “Raising Boys.” I already felt competent having a daughter and wanted more insight to the world of boys, which is much more simpler than raising girls!

Boys from the age of 6 -14 really need ‘time’ with their dads. That is the most influential period in their lives when they bond with him. And the type of time they need is not all thrown into a ‘once a week’ or ‘month’ block or some exotic holiday once a year.They need to spend time with their sons on a regular basis. Otherwise how can you build a strong and stable relationship? Commonsense, isn’t it?

For the single mums reading this, don’t despair. If you are estranged from your partner and bringing up your son alone, having a positive male role model in his life, i.e. uncle, brother, grandfather, teacher, tennis coach, etc. will work as well.

Do you have any favourite TV shows? I do and one of them is “The Biggest Loser”.  Any show that highlights health and fitness to the nation and how important it is to your well-being, has got to be a good thing.

Sure it’s an ‘unreal’ environment, the exercise regime is excessive and you’ve got to question some of the activities and challenges, however overall it’s very interesting. In an episode this year, one of the team members had to choose the main food supply for the week for his team.  The choices were between cabbages and unmarked tinned food.

Sometimes there comes a point in business when you need to decide to get serious about your business and pull out all stops to ‘make it happen’ or struggle along ‘hoping something will happen’.

Over the years I’ve coached many business owners. Some  had excelled with their results and there were others who had the same information but just couldn’t or wouldn’t follow through to achieve the results they were looking for.

For business to be better it all comes down to you and taking responsibility.

Follow these simple and easy to implement ideas consistently and you’ll feel better and achieve more.

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Do you know how it feels when you’re running so fast in your business, that you can’t keep up? That no matter what you seem to do, you just can’t get the most important tasks done? Every time you go to work on your business some disaster or distraction grabs your attention and your time?  The importance of planning your time to focus on what’s really important cannot be expressed enough.

Dennis and his business partner Graham own a health retreat. They never seemed to have any time to market their business because they were ‘too busy’ dealing with the unexpected every day.  They wanted to spend time on ‘marketing’ but never got around to it.