Even if you don’t believe that New Year’s resolutions work, having goals for 2017 might help you achieve them. Goals and resolutions are essentially the same thing. You want to get a fresh start on a new year, so set some goals and call them resolutions. We can’t expect goals to happen magically so Creative has included action items to help reach your goals. Here are some resolutions you can tailor to fit your own business goals, with suggested action items to help you achieve them.
1. Learn how to delegate and do more of it.
There are so many things to do when you’re running a business, it’s easy to delude ourselves that we need to do all of them. Then we wonder why we’re so tired and frazzled and have no time to do anything else! Let someone else do some of the tasks for a change. Delegation is the key to a healthy work-life balance.
2. Market you business better through social media and content
We suspect this should be on many business’ list this year. If you’ve seen a little success with social media and content marketing, it’s time to step it up.Write three blog posts a week on the company blog.
Increase Twitter activity to daily.
Add 50 new social media contacts per week.
3. Be more productive
You can tailor this one completely. Move to Google Docs and increase exponential productivity. Look at tools that help you share documents, monitor time spent on social sites and in general, operate more efficiently. Pick a few and resolve to fully implement them in 2017.
4. Make business planning a weekly event.
Planning is vital if you want a healthy, growing business.
Business planning lets you take stock of what worked and what didn’t work, and helps you set new directions or adjust old goals. So why do it just once a year or once a quarter? Set aside time each week to review, adjust, and look forward – or even better, make business planning a part of each day.
Not only will this help you avoid costly mistakes and stay on track, but you’ll feel more focused and relaxed.
5. Learn something new.
What you choose to learn may be directly related to your business or completely unrelated. Learning something new will add to your skills and add a new dimension of interest to your life – another important part of achieving a healthy work-life balance and increasing your business success. Learn How to Choose the Right Business Consultant, Trainer or Business Coach. Depending on how you choose to learn, you may meet new and interesting people, who may become customers, colleagues, or friends. How will you find the time to learn something new? By delegating, remember?
