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How Can You Meet Your Goals / New Year Resolutions
| Guest post by: Colette Morris |
Article Overview: How often have you failed to meet your objectives? Did you have it written down? Did you have it clearly thought through? Nine times out of ten we fail in our goal setting, resolutions or objectives because we do not have them clearly marked out.
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How Can You Meet Your Goals / New Year Resolutions
How often have you failed to meet your objectives? Did you have it written down? Did you have it clearly thought through? Nine times out of ten we fail in our goal setting, resolutions or objectives because we do not have them clearly marked out.
First you need to have a thoroughly thought through goal, it must be robust, meaningful and achievable. Something that you can repeat to yourself daily.
Use the SMART system (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time scale) each goal needs to meet the SMART system.
What is it that you want to get out of your home business/ your life/ on a personal level. Whether it is product volumes through the door to reach a particular income level, or whether it is to improve your current lifestyle, you have to be passionate about achieving this, you need to visualise it, feel it touch it see it in minute detail in your mind, make it your reality by dreaming or visualising it daily.
Make sure your goals are measurable, how will you know you have achieved them? Always put a timescale on your goals, that way you have an end in mind and can work towards the end date. I would focus on achieving one goal at a time. You will be guaranteed great results. Go get your pen and paper and write down your top 5 goals you wish to achieve for the coming year. Make sure you have written down what it is you wish to achieve in great detail, so that you will know when you have reached or achieved it.
Secondly you need to make a plan of action, in order that you know where you are going. You know this is the right thing to do, how many of us know what the right thing is but practically you don't follow through. Well get a pen and paper and write down you plan of action now for your goal you listed above.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. (unknown)
To many times most people fail to put together a plan, and then wonder why they have not got anywhere. Put together an achievable plan, work with your mentor or a business coach on this, send them your plan for feedback, make yourself accountable by sharing this with others. Break it down in measureable and achievable chunks, you can put some key milestones so that you know you are on form for hitting your goal.
It is important to ensure you monitor your activity weekly on your plan against your timescale of your goal. Monitoring and tweaking are key to ensure you obtain your objectives you set yourself in your goal or resolution. Are you on target, if so great, if not how far off target are you, is there anyway you can come around to get back on track, what other things can you do to ensure you are able to still go ahead and meet that goal. If you consistently monitor your action plan against your goal there is no reason that you should not achieve them.
To your success
Colette Morris aka workfmhomediva
Business Coach and Certified Affiliate Marketer
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New Year's Resolutions?
- It's getting close to the New Year.
Do any of our Young Entrepreneurs out there care to share their Resolutions...or goals...for the upcoming year?
And what plans do you have to make those goals become a reality?
Re: Set goals that motivate you!
- Sounds simple enough when you take it at face value, but what are goals? Are these short term or long term Goals, Are theses goal realistic, achievable? How to make them motivating Goals, What is motivation? Is motivation the same for all of us
Hmm so many questions, so few answers. must a an article in this somewhere
Btw (by the way) GT, nice Blog
How to valuate a business
- Hi Garth - here is how we did it at Northern Crown Capital when I was helping them raise venture capital for Toronto-based entrepreneurs. Assume the start date is 2003 so 2008 projections are 5 years out:
How Northern Crown Capital Valuates a Business
2008 Financial Projections
Earnings Before Tax
$5,865,000
Tax Rate
42%
Taxes
$2,463,300
Net Earnings
$3,401,700
Amount Seeking to Raise Today
$3,500,000
Discounted Value of Future Opportunity, 5 Years Out
2008 P/E Ratio
15
Value of Company in 2008
$51,025,500
Discount Rate Applied
30%
Year 2008
$51,025,500
Year 2007
$35,717,850
Year 2006
$25,002,495
Year 2005
$17,501,747
Year 2004
$12,251,223
Value of Company at Investment in 2003
$12,251,223
Less: Investment Amount
$3,500,000
Present Value
$8,751,223
Discount for Risk & Private Company
40%
Less: Discount for Risk & Private Company
$3,500,489
Private Company Value
$5,250,734
Present Value (What the Owner Keeps)
$5,250,734
60.00%
Financing (What the Investor Gets)
$3,500,000
40.00%
Total
$8,750,734
100.00%
I hope this helps!
Re: Alexa Ranking Goals
- Thanks GT! This is still the right post for Alexa Goals but everything else can go to Kevin's Mastermind post!
Cheers!
Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Happy New Year!
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