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Business Courage
National Mirror www.nationalmirroronline.net
Monday, November 30, 2015
ThebuddingEntrepreneurs BUSINESS
Set goals and improve on result
With Mamora Victor Mamora is a system thinker and advisor whose belief and activator leadership strengths are directed towards improving workers perspective for city and enterprise development.
e-mail: olusegunmamora@gmail.com
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know the year is rounding off and sometimes it can look like the year was so fast and too short that you did not achieve many of your personal and business objectives. It may seem like an examination without enough time to answer all the questions. I believe today is as good as any other day of the year. You will have reasons to be optimistic again. This is your day of good news. Your expectations will not be cut short. You need to believe that it is possible to fulfill your dream and achieve your objective although few weeks to end this year. If someone tells you that a prisoner would one day become a president, will you believe such a person? Your response will probably be that it is not possible. Well, that was exactly the story of Nelson Mandela. He was in the forefront of the liberation struggle for the black people of South Africa but was jailed by the apartheid government. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after he was convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state. He spent 27 years in jail and was released after international campaign lobbied for his release. All these delay year in year out and terrible experiences could not destroy Mandela’s dreams and vision. He made up his mind that come what may, he will not give up. In the process of time, things fell into place for him. Dear friend, your startup or business will not be ruined. Your dream will live and there will be improvement for you. You will enjoy grace and your struggle will give way to divine help. I urge you to be persistent and hold fast to your dreams knowing that nothing is impossible for you to accomplish. Every accomplishment in physical life is first accomplished in the mind and begins with clear focus. So what will be your centre of attention in 2016? What are the goals you want to score? What is your aspiration? In English Premier League, when a team travels to play away game it is for the purpose of winning and it means the team must score goals. That is how a winning team thinks both at away and home matches. I believe you and I want to win in
2016 and be on top of our business and career games. This means we must be goal conscious. There is need to set goals and believe for God’s help as we pursue it. If your business and life will improve significantly then there is need to be clear about the result you want to see at the end of that year. That is what goal setting is about. When you set goals it keeps you focus and better your approach to life and business. Goal setting guide your spending and friendship decisions. When your goal is great not everybody can have your attention. So how do you set goals that put your person and business
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If your business and life will improve significantly then there is need to be clear about the result you want to see at the end of that year. That is what goal setting is about
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The first thing is be clear about purpose. Purpose is the “Why”. Purpose is the intention for anything. Your business purpose could be to help people access good and healthy food. For an-
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other person, her personal purpose could be to help raise role model in the society. Yet for another the purpose could be to care for children. What is the intention that is drives you to start a business? There is need for clarity of intention or purpose. “Every purpose is established by counsel...”-
Motivational Business Quotes
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he NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph E. Levine A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter F. Drucker
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi BC
The second thing is set goals around the purpose. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”- Paul Benjamin Where purpose is known then setting goals around it makes the work easier. If your purpose is to help raise children to become productive individual then setting goals such as starting nursery and primary schools, Play groups, Daycare centers, Parenting Media platforms, Child counseling firm are all towards one intention and it is raising productive child in the society. To set goals do it A.B.C way and I will quickly summaries this acronym bellow. Achievable: It should be what you can accomplish. There is no point setting goals beyond your control such as stopping rain from falling but you can set a goal to shield yourself from effect of rainfall by building a shelter with roof. Goals such as doubling your income, starting a new business, learning new skills, inventing a new technology are achievable. Believable: “If you cans believe, all things are possible to him that believes.”-Jesus Christ. The distance between your goal in the mind and the reality of it is your believe. Your goal must be believable to you and your team members. It means you should communicate it to yourself through meditation and to your team members by explanation. Concrete: A goal should be definite or specific. If your goal is to lose weight then what specific measurement? It could be to lose 5 pounds in 5 months. If your goal is to improve your business profit then it could be by 10 percent every quarter of the year 2016. One of the greatest benefits of goal setting is that it helps you to capture time. However a powerful is a footballer shooting ability, without the goal post, he cannot score goals. Dear friend, without goals life is full of frustrations. Set goals and as you achieve each express gratitude and you will see improvement and enjoy fulfillment therein. BC