Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Achieving Your Goals

Here's a question for you:

Where do you want to be at the end of next year, and how will you get there? If you don't hesitate with your answer, I'll bet you'll reach it. If you can’t directly answer the questions – next year likely won’t be any different than this year. So let's break down the components in setting crystal-clear goals.

Big-picture objective. What is the ultimate goal?

Smaller objectives. What "checkpoints" do you have along the way to measure yourself? Where do you want to be at the end of next month, or next quarter?

Specific tactics you must implement. What will you do to reach the main and smaller objectives? What must you change personally in order to have a chance? How will you reward yourself when you reach it?

Can you answer these questions?

If you're serious about having your best year ever, I suggest you take some time to sit down with the following questions. Think about your answers. Challenge yourself. Write them down.

Then go to work!

What are you going to do to improve your fitness and business knowledge this year?

How many inactive clients will you revive? What do you need to do to make that happen?

What will you do to ensure you're protecting your best clients and adding more value to those
relationships? Can you attract even more of their business? How will you do that?

How many new clients will you bring on this year? How do you plan to do that, specifically?

What will you do to improve your physical health this year?

How much more money will you make this year? How will that happen? What will you need to do, today, to take the first steps in that direction?

What will you need to do to increase that number by an additional 10%?

What are you going to do every day to keep your attitude at a high level?

How much time are you going to spend, daily, to improve your own training and business skills?
What will you do?

How many referrals will you get this year? How will you get them? From whom? What will you do to turn them into new clients?

In which areas will you improve your personal, family, and spiritual life?

How are you going to maximize the use of your time? Where will you cut out the time-wasters in each day?

What have you been putting off that you will take care of within the next two weeks?

Who can you help to feel important every day?

What challenge, wish, or desire—that you've never attempted before—will you finally achieve this year? How will you do that? Why?

Where are you going to write all of this down so you can review and revise your plans regularly?
What will it look like when you accomplish everything you've just been thinking about? How good will it feel?

Why couldn't you do all of this?

Any answer to that last one is not a reason, but rather a self-imposed limitation, excuse, or lack of desire or effort. The biggest deterrent to success looks us in the mirror every day. Winning at anything, especially building a business, involves executing the fundamentals over and over.

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