If you want to be truly successful achieving your goals, you need to hold the right attitudes and exercise the right habits to keep you on track. There are a number of good traits that will help. Here are three that I believe are important.
Optimism
I’ve mentioned having a positive attitude in previous posts … when [...]
If you’ve been reading all my posts this month about planning for the New Year, you should have a pretty good list of goals you’ve set for yourself in 2010.
Now you need to prioritize. You need to decide which goals belong on the A-list and must be accomplished, and which will go on the C-list [...]
When creating your action plan for the New Year, you need to be precise about your goals. You need to
Set starting and deadline dates
Be specific about quantities
Assign responsibilities to individuals
You need to do all this for a couple of reasons. One, being precise will help you measure and monitor your progress. And, two, being [...]
Avoid this. Don’t do that. What kind of goals are those?
If you believe in the Law of Attraction, you know that those kinds of goals and statements attract what you don’t want.
Besides, how can you be motivated toward the negative? How often have you been excited to accomplish a goal that didn’t even sound good [...]
Sometimes, trying to think forward as you create your plan for 2010 is harder than thinking backwards. What do I mean by this? Well, you start off thinking of the end result you want to come away with by December 2010 and then work backwards on how you would go about achieving that goal.
So, take [...]
When creating your game plan for the new year and writing down your goals for 2010, you’ll want to keep these “Do this/Avoid That” guidelines.
Do
Avoid
Visualize your desired outcome
Going into your goal with a defeatist attitude
Write down your course of action in an easy step-by-step format that can be checked off with each accomplishment
Trying to memorize [...]
O.K. We’re already into the third week of my discussing different ways for you to create a plan for your business in 2010. But do you know why you should be doing this?
By writing down your plan for the new year, you are setting down your goals and intentions for your business next year. By [...]
I’ve written a bit about planning for your business in the year to come on both this blog and Turbo-Charge Your Marketing. I thought it would be helpful to provide you with a round up of my five best.
Success Is a State of Mind
Tips for a Better Business and Marketing Plan
The Importance of Having a [...]
“But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!”
Robert Burns (”To a Mouse”)
I’m really big on planning things in advance … especially in business. But, yes, sometimes things just don’t go according to plan. And [...]
In my last two posts, I talked about fine tuning your ideal client profile for next year using who you like to serve and who you want to serve as criteria. Today, I’m going to talk about one more way that where you are today can help you plan for next year: your current catalog [...]
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