Are You Prepared for the New Year?
Hi Brian here again, phew 2018 is nearly over!! What an eventful year it has been, both with my business and personal life. How focused are you on rocking YOUR business, read on to find out more.
What has been happening?
Had the trip to see the respiratory specialist at the hospital, all was clear, no infection – all cleared up. A clean bill of health. Whoooohaaaa.
Got away from it all.
After this year there was only one thing to do. Headed out for a long needed getaway, first chance to have a break all of this year.
Rock your business in 2019
In the last blog post, I was looking at how to prepare for the new year. I have produced a more detailed approach to get your year off to a good start. These will be published as a series of blogs over the next few weeks, keep an eye out for the emails (only if you have signed up of course). Here is the first part of the detailed plan to make 2019 rock for you.
Why Business Planning Is The Secret To Success For The Coming Year
Do you set aside time regularly to plan what you want to do in your business? If it’s not something you currently do, I strongly encourage you to embrace it for the remainder of this year as well as the one coming up. Setting aside time at the end of the year, to plan out what I want to do and more importantly what growth I want to achieve in the coming year has been crucial to my own success. Over the rest of this series, I want to share some of what I’ve learned and what I’ve found helpful with you.
How to get started
Let’s start off by taking a look at why business planning is “the secret” to success. There are a few different factors that come into play here. The first is efficiency. When you go in with a clear plan, you can focus on what’s most important. Instead of spending time trying to figure out what you should be working on, what pieces of the puzzle are missing from your product funnel, or what you need to do to break through to the next income level, you know exactly what needs to come next.
As we’ll explore in a future blog post, with a clear goal in mind and a plan for the year, it becomes easy to walk backwards to create effective and efficient daily to-do lists. Work on what needs to get done each day and you will reach your goals.
You will need a goal
Next, setting a big goal for yourself helps you think outside of the box. If you don’t believe me, try it. Decide on a big income goal for the coming month. Write it down. Keep it in front of you. Then get to work and start to notice what happens next. You start to think of things that didn’t occur to you before. Also, you come up with creative ways to get more traffic. You decide to run a fun promo that adds dollars to your bank account. The same happens when an important deadline comes up unexpectedly. Think back on that time in university when the exams rolled around, or the last time your in-laws told you they would stop by later in the day. You got very creative about studying and cleaning respectively.
You are not done yet
Last but not least, let’s talk about the subconscious. So far we’ve been focused on what we are actively doing to make progress by making a plan, setting goals and following through. There’s another dimension to all this and that’s what’s going on in our subconscious mind. While we are busy plowing through our to-do list, cooking dinner for the family, and even sleeping, our subconscious mind is working towards those goals as well.
In short, planning and setting goals is important because it helps you grow faster. That means you end up with more money for yourself and your loved ones while spending less time slaving away at your desk.
To Be Continued……….
Brian
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