As this year comes to a close it is important to focus on your success planning for next year. This is a great time to pause and look back on what you and your business have accomplished.
Success Planning: It’s For Everyone
One of the keys to success, whether you are an entrepreneur, solo professional or self-employed business owner you must evaluate where you have been to know how to chart your course for the future. As it is said, failing to plan is planning to fail.
Success Planning: Getting Started
So take out that pencil or pen and start on your success planning for 2011.
- List your accomplishments both business and personal. And also add a sentence as to what these accomplishments meant to you. Your accomplishments are the foundation on which to build your future. If you don’t know where you have been it is harder to get where you want to go.
- Now that you have your foundation write down no more than 5 things you want to accomplish in 2011. You can go to 2012 and beyond if you like. This is extremely important to your success. These are your goals.
- Take those 5 items you want to accomplish and prioritize them. Number one will be the most important. And, next to each one write down how you are going to accomplish it and give yourself a time frame. For example, I will increase my number of sales calls to 10 per week by March 1, 2011.
When you do this, which may take you a few minutes to an hour you now have your business and personal plan for 2011. It’s that simple.
Success Planning; Putting The Odds For Success In Your Favor
Do you want to increase the odds of small business success and small business growth? Then do the three things above. It has been shown if you write things down you put the odds in your favor of having these things happen.
Whether you are in the thought stage of creating your own business, at the point of starting your own business or running a small business success planning is a critical element to your eventual success.
In business coaching and as a personal business coach I can assure you that when you engage in success planning, you are much more likely to have a favorable outcome. Coaching success is about having a plan. Why is success planning important?
There are many reasons, but the primary one is that you are creating your vision of the future that you want. Once you create your vision of the future that you desire it causes you to start living in the present on purpose.
When you are conducting your business and life on purpose things become specific and exciting. When you live in general terms you are much more likely to wander off course and your daily life may seem like a slog through the mud.
Once the future is finished in your mind, then what you need to do in the present becomes absolutely clear. In 2011 make your business and life meaningful and specific. Oh by the way, you will have more energy and you will use your time more wisely.
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