Before you actually set up, decide what you want to achieve with your business. If you are already in business, review where you are going, are you clear about this?
Why not take some time out to think about and write down your goals for your business?
Write it down
Research shows that only 3% of people write down their goals, and on average these people earn 10 times those who don't have goals. Plus research shows that people with up to date written goals are as much as 3100% more successful than people who do not have up to date written goals.
And make sure your business goals don't conflict with things you want to do personally. When you are thinking about your goals, think about and write down your personal goals too. And if you are a multi owner business you will obviously need to discuss your responses with your colleagues, and agree on a shared set of goals for the business.
SMART goals
Make sure that the goals you write are SMART. What does this mean? It stands for:
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timed
Apply these five measures to each of your goals.
What does it mean to you in reality?
Once you have written down your goal as a SMART goal, think about what the effects would be if you didn't achieve itl. What is the pain that you and those you love will experience if you don't achieve your goal, ie ill health, poverty, unhappiness etc. (Why do this? Because recognising this pain is an enormous motivating force that will help you to work even harder to make sure you don't fail!)
Then decide what you will gain when you succeed - ie wealth, health, happiness, a prosperous retirement etc. What will you see, hear and feel? And what else will your success allow you to achieve/do? And finally write down the key things you will need in order to achieve your goal. For example, it could be new resources, contacts, skills, actions etc.
Repeat this process using a new sheet for every single goal you would like to achieve.
Prioritise
Next try and prioritise the goals you have written. Lay out all of your goals in front of you and decide which are the most important to you, which are less important and which (if any) are, on reflection, not important after all.
For each goal that is still important work out how you will achieve it, break it down in to smaller steps to make it easier to manage.
Plan in timescales to do each step, write them into your diary or planner. That way you make reaching your goals part of your daily activities.
Look at your where your time goes
Its worth having a look at how you spend your time at the moment, and comparing this to the way you would like your life to happen. Then you can fit your goals into this as well.
To do this, look at the personal goals you set out and list out the broad areas of your life that are important to you eg family, friends, business, health, fitness, money etc Make a note of the percentage of your waking time that you would like to spend in each of these areas in an ideal world (make sure that the column adds up to 100%) Estimate approximately the percentage of your waking time you think you are actually spending in each area at the moment, - just a rough and ready approximation here, don't waste time trying to get pinpoint accuracy the aim is just to get a broad feel Then calculate the gap between the two Looking at the gaps does it suggest that you need to make changes in order to achieve your goals? If it does, what changes are you going to make?
Next steps
Think carefully about everything you have just done and thought about. What are the implications for what you are doing in your business and your life - and what you should be doing?
Transfer the things you should be doing to an action planner. Keep this somewhere where you won't lose sight of it, so that you are reminded on a daily basis about what you want to achieve.
If you think it would help contact an advisor, mentor or coach to discuss what else you can do to achieve your goals. Sometimes it helps to go through the whole exercise with a third party, who can be more objective and help you to focus on the right things.
Review your action planner. Prioritise it. And start taking action!
And remember, however good your ideas and intentions are? they will come to absolutely nothing unless they are turned into action.
So focus on taking ACTION. And start taking it today.
This idea soon took off and created what we all know and love today as the car, or do we all love it?.
With increasing amounts of people trying to push us onto the "global warming" bandwagon is there really much of a future in the machine that has been blamed for the majority of the pollution in the air?, is battery power the correct way forward?.
Perhaps a different means of transportation is due for release.
Many companies have tried to make better of the car by introducing new ways of powering the engine such as the well known electric car motors that are run simply by the car battery and boldly claim to be the way forward which for all we know they are.
Or are they? Well many people who have tried battery powered cars complain of low top speed being produced and sluggish 0 - 60 times as well as the power supply only lasting the equivalent of a trip to the shop, so maybe not that then.
If you really want the reliability and the speed of an average fuel powered motor vehicle then an average car doesn't have to be the awnser, you could always buy a hybrid, if you are willing to still use a motor engine, but with your primary power source being an electric engine then their are lots of car companies that would be more than happy to help you with your choice.
Honda being the first to come to mind with their constant bragging that they make the cars that will make our future possible.
But is this really true as you do still have to take into consideration the fact that they do still run on two engines, one being the "way forward" and the other being to blame for the pollution that is "killing our planet".
So i guess the motor vehicle is out of the question, but it doesn't have to be as if you are happy to put up with the pollution of a standard engine, or the low speed of an electric engine then you may not have a problem.
But just as I go to end the choices for ways in which you can propel your car one more way rears its head, its been around for a while now but it just hasn't caught on... I'm talking of course about fuel cells, yet another way to make the future better, but we simply cant tell if it will help until it is properly looked into, yes im sure we have all seen the press releases of these cars and the specs that these things have... but they do need allot of money to be invested into them...
Money which is currently being poured into the pockets of car manufacturers that make battery powered vehicles... so perhaps we should put that one to the side until further information is available, which by the way may be coming your way soon as many companies seem to have seen the potential in it and put their name up to help, and once again Honda throws in a hand with a car already planned that will run on a fuel cell, but at this present date its only a concept.
But who ever said that the only definition of mode of transport is via a car or even a truck or a motor bike... many companies have shown us their visions of the future with the rapidly increasing amounts of alternatives like solar powered skate boards and weird scooter thingies that have a wheel beside either foot, you know the one and bikes that have devices on them that power up as your peddling then power the bike when your tired out.
In the words of Gary Jules "its a very very.... mad world", so I leave you with this question, what do you see as the way forward for mankind?.
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