Nick krest - Valuable Tips for Setting Business Goals You Can Successfully Reach As each new year, whether actual or financial, arrives, most think about creating new goals. Which hopefully bring additional sales, higher profits, a happier, healthier life. Who can blame them? Everyone wants a better life, a more successful business. Yet many pick up where they left off. Developing new goals based upon old, no longer viable ideas, tactics and strategies. The question is - why do that when there are smarter, proven approaches available. Unfortunately statistics show most will either fail to keep their new resolutions, ignore or forget them. Maybe never reach them because they've set them up in ways which cause failure instead of success. Based on this concept, Wikipedia states - "An implementation intention is a self-regulatory strategy in the form of an if-then-plan ("If situation X arises, then I will perform response Y") that can lead to better goal attainment. It is subordinate to intentions as it specifies the when, where and how of a goal-directed behavior. While this strategy has been around over a decade, and well known, it's easily bypassed. However, his research shows if you state the when, where and how of each goal, or resolution, you have a far better chance of attaining them than not. That said, unless you create a better plan, you'll end up with the same, or similar, results this year. 5 Tips to Assure Reaching Your Goals or Keeping Your Personal or Business Resolutions: 1. Don't gloss over old, unattained goals and resolutions hoping they'll magically turn to gold now. Unless you've done research to prove they can, or plan using a different approach to reaching them, dump them like a hot potato and start anew. 2. Set a few - 3-4 - better objectives rather than dozens. This has been said thousands of ways by tons of highly successful people. And it's proven true. It is far easier to attain solid success with fewer goals, than spread yourself thinly over many. Plus, once you have written down, and fleshed out your choices, you may discover several related items also end up fulfilled. If these are achieved, quickly, you can easily add others.
3. Steer clear of the same old stuff. In the past decade tons of new marketing methods have been developed, means for expanding your business, creating new products or services generated, innovative resources made available. Get current. Choose a new strategy. And use it. 4. Challenge yourself by learning something new to help you succeed. Though you may have a college or business degree, a unique certification, it might be decades old. While still useful, your business would be better served learning a new skill. Today's socially oriented world is changing the way we do business. Presenting us with software and must-use applications, the need for a blog. Social media marketing has become the top way to brand your biz, gain greater visibility. All of which have a learning curve. However if you learn it first, then eventually outsource it, you'll not only know how to do it, but are capable of overseeing, and/or questioning, someone you hire to take it on.
5. Rely on your strengths when creating goals. The old, well-used phrase "Play to your strengths" absolutely applies here. Create goals which employ your strengths instead of relying on those which could be considered weaknesses. Not an article writer, graphics artist or blogger? Find and hire someone who is. In the future you may decide to develop those weaknesses into strengths. Until then don't waste time, you don't have, trying to revamp your weaknesses. Instead, improve on your strengths. Unless you challenge yourself to make changes, "you'll always get what you've always got". Ending up recreating another business year based on exactly what you did last. Making no real progress. To sum it up: Promise yourself to change things that don't, or didn't, work. Challenge yourself to try something new. Play to your strengths. Focus on better, but fewer, attainable goals. Choose your goals wisely. Don't give up - stay determined. Share your goals with trustworthy people who will encourage you.