The New Year has lots offer to those who are action-takers, who are ready to leap forward and have a breakthrough year. It’s crucial that you start the New Year with passion and a clean slate.
The old year is behind us .You may still bask in the success of last year, and maybe it’s still worth a few kudos. But this won’t last. Having set the bar, you’ll be expected to have a strong kick off to deliver a stunning first quarter. Otherwise, you’ll be climbing uphill all year.
Maybe last year wasn’t so hot. Maybe it started out great, lost steam and fizzled at the last hurdle. Or maybe you were right on target, but you lost an order in the last quarter that you had every right to expect would come through.
Whatever your degree of success, consider this quarter to be your time to move forward and be motivated about strating the year more profitably.
Here are some tips to help you start strong and continue the momentum:
1. Know your financial goals: Have concrete numbers of your daily and monthly targets. What are you planning to achieve in leads, sales, revenues, and profits?
2. Commitment: If you want to reach the moon, then aim for the stars.
Just think about some of the Olympic runners you’ve seen. Few of them will run hard all the way to the tape if they don’t have to.
If your standards are higher than those of your firm, then your results are also likely to be higher. Few people exceed their goals. Instead, they only put forth the effort they think they’ll need to hit them.
3. Be Different: Decide how you will be different this year. Is it your product, your service, your values or your business culture? One of the reasons that people fail to achieve their targets is because they expect to reach them by maintaining the status quo. It was Albert Einstein who said that you can’t solve a problem by using the system that created it.
Whether your results were brilliant or left a lot to be desired, if you’re going to do better this year than last, you’re going to have to find a better way to cover all your goals, i.e. Financial, Business, Strategy, Markets, Resources, etc..
4. Network: The next thing you’ll need to do is to reach out and make connections. This will require a game plan that enables you to deliberately and systematically build and strengthen the relationships with everyone that you consider to be part of your network.
5. Develop a Strategic Alliance Strategy: Are you partnering with other companies or consultants that will help you grow your access to new markets, technology and other resources? If you don’t, then this is the time to find some .
6. Implement your plans: Goals and strategies are nothing without commitment, a new way of thinking, deep relationships, and balance. If you get the most important things right, then the rest will follow.
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