With the changing of the calendar year, we all start reflecting on what we’ve accomplished over the past 12 months, and what we intend to accomplish in the next 12 months.
This is a pivotal time of honesty in the life of an entrepreneur.
In an effort to help you with your New Year’s planning, we are re-publishing our list of business planning tips.
Here are five tips to help get your business planning process started:
- Review past goals – look at the goals that you set for last year. Did you achieve them all? If so, maybe they weren’t challenging enough? If not, what were the reasons?
- Review your calendar – look through your calendar to see what events and milestones took place. It’s easy to forget what you did 12 months ago, so looking at your calendar or planner may help to remind you of important occasions.
- Start a new calendar – start your new year calendar. Put important dates, reminders, and events in place. This will help remind you of commitments and allow for better time management and planning.
- Set priorities – determining your priorities for the next year will help you set better boundaries and stay on target. Keep in mind these can be short-term priorities; they do not have to set the tone for the rest of your life.
- Think big – start with large, long-term goals, and then break them down into smaller attainable pieces. For example, if your goal is to visit every state in the US, then you may choose just one or two new destinations for this year.
Hopefully these tips help you plan for a productive and successful New Year!
Here are links to some other posts that may help you with goal setting.
5 Tips for Accomplishing Goals
Please feel free to share your thoughts, planning routines, and strategies!
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2014 is the year I’ve resolved to making more to-do lists. More importantly, revisiting previous days to-do lists and making sure I add the items that went unfinished to the most recent to-do list.
Thanks for sharing! I find online to-do-lists help keep me organized and allow me to prioritize better than paper notes.
I like your tip to review your business’s past goals before setting new ones. Determining what goals were successful in the past can help you better plan your strategy for the coming year. You can adjust your goals and priorities based on the successes or failures of the past year to better determine your business’s course of action. Thanks for the article!
Thanks Hazel! Glad you liked it.