Tis the season! Of great food. Grand celebrations. Shopping. Dreaded office parties. Cherished time with loved ones. And, the fanfare of creating new years resolutions. I’ve shared my thoughts on resolutions before.
We make them to break them, most of the time.
This year, let’s focus on goals and activities. What are the goals that you’ve set for your business in 2014? (Please share in the comments). Remember, a goal is something like “I want to make XXX in sales each month.” The activities are the concrete actions that you will take to reach each goal.
Now, if you are anything like me, you might be a master over achiever. I love planning my business activities, but I also get excited and anxious about it at the same darn time. I learned that my anxiety was caused from taking a totally wrong approach. I would create a list of all of the new activities I would take on in the new year, to build my biz.
This go-round, I decided to focus on the key activities that I started in 2013. I determined whether they aligned with the goals I set for 2014. The ones that didn’t, I scrapped (and it’s okay because my business priorities are evolving). Then, I looked at the shortened list and thought about how I could do THOSE things better.
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My final list included ways to strengthen and improve what I already did, and a few new activities that were also a fit with my goals.
This changed my life.
Why? Because I don’t feel the overwhelming anxiety of starting over in 2014. Instead, I am really excited about making even MORE of a mark on the ish that I started in 2013. It’s just that simple folks.
What do you think about this approach to the New Year?
Before you go, I want to share a Buzzfeed post that a FB friend shared and that I related to as a sometimes, overworked, creative entrepreneur. Happy laughs.
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