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Hooray! The New Year is here! Are you ready to make this your best year ever?

Yeah, yeah, I know. We’re in an economic down turn, yada, yada, yada.

Well. When the news says there is 9% unemployment, do you know what I hear? I hear that there is 91% employment!

I like to follow the Monty Python view and “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life”! (I received the Criterion Collection version of The Life of Brian for Christmas, so that song is fresh in my mind.)

Historically speaking, many fortunes are made during economic downturns. So, I say, why can’t one of those fortunes be mine?

Therefore, on this first day of the New Year, I challenge everyone to resolve to make the best of the situation they are in and make lemonade if they’ve been handed some lemons!

If you’ve been reading my posts last month, and doing the exercises I suggested, you should be in pretty good shape to make this a stellar year for your business. So focus on the positive, take decisive action and don’t belabor the bumps on the road to success.

So, now you’ve taken a look at what you want to accomplish in 2009 and you have an idea of how you want to accomplish it. You’ve done an internal check to make sure you have the mindset to support you and you’ve evaluated your website to make sure it supports your goals as well. So how do you you pull all this information into a cohesive plan to make 2009 a success? Just follow these simple steps.

1. Create your mission statement.
Answer these three questions as succinctly as you can:

• What solution or solutions do you provide?
• Who do you provide them to?
• What problem does this solution solve?

Now complete this sentence:
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