New Years Resolutions

i just finished the "2008 Marketing Plan" and "Projected 2008 Sales Goals" for my company and it got me thinking about New Years resolutions.

i have always thought of the whole idea as being asinine but i am slowly starting to change my mind. i think that the biggest problem i have with the whole thing is that people set goals for the New Year but have no plan on how to achieve their new goals... they have no strategy.

This year, i would implore you to treat your life like a business. No business goes into a new season of growth without a plan, any business that fails to set goals and create a plan to actually achieve their goals WILL fail. Over 98% of new business fail within the first year of their life, why, because they don't have a target and they don't have a realistic strategy for hitting their target.

Don't live your life this way. Treat your life like a business, write down a set "sales goals" (i.e things that you personally want to accomplish, become, create etc.) and from that create a"marketing plan" (i.e an exact and strategic plan on how you are going to hit your "sales goals").

So many great business practices should be brought into our personal lives, these are just a couple of them.

Anyway, if your have written goals and you have a plan on how you are going to accomplish them the odds are actually in your favor!

You can be, create and accomplish all that you want to in life if you simply stop walking through it acting like you are blind and ignorant. - Josh Lanier