Additional Business Tip

Don’t Make Resolutions, Set Goals for Your Business in 2012

Follow These Nine Steps To Effective Goal Setting

Step 1: Find a quiet place
Focus and concentration are required, so schedule some time in your favorite “thinking” place.

Step 2: Understand the ground rules
Each goal should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound). You’ve heard it before, but this time do it. Vagary doesn’t make it.

Step 3: Define goals
Think about what must happen in the next 12 months in the seven main areas of life (personal, health and fitness, relationships, business and career, financial, fun, contribution) to make you feel that the year was a good one.

Step 4: Write down your goals
Record your goals in whatever format you prefer – i.e., a goals notebook, Word, Excel, the notepad on your phone, etc.

Step 5: Share your goals
Research shows that if you share your goals with people close to you, it provides extra motivation to achieve them.

Step 6: Review your goals
Review your goals regularly. Keep copies of them everywhere so you are constantly seeing them and reminding yourself.

Step 7: Take action
When you identify and write down your priorities every day, make sure to include tasks that will move you closer toward your goals. High achievers take action daily to reach goals.

Step 8: Track your accomplishments
When you achieve a goal, record it. It is very satisfying to mark a completed goal as “done.”

Step 9: Celebrate!
When a goal is achieved, reward yourself. You deserve it.

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Borrowed from Stacey Cerniuk, a successful entrepreneur in Vancouver, BC