The Road To Success

The Road To Success

Along the road to your business success you will
find points on the map where it's a good idea to
try and set goals you can control. And, above all
else, make sure you DO your goals YOUR way.
Don't let someone else set your goals for you.
Your road map to achievement means you need
to set goals based on your needs and skills. Be smart and set your
destination goals just a touch further than you think feels safe, not right out
of reach. Set them just far enough to make you stretch to reach these goals.
Bravo, you're learning how to read that map and get to your destination.

Some of the other things you can do to set goals include: take some
downtime – about 10 – 15 minutes either first thing in the morning or just
before you go to bed and jot down the TO DO list for the next day. Write it
in your daily planner, just so you have it with you at all times. Can you slot
tasks into hours around pre-set appointments? List what is most important
first.
If you're an early bird or a night owl, figure out when you are the most
productive and with it. Deal with demanding business tasks during these
hours. Done a really tough task? Then make sure what follows that is easy
so you can take a mini-mental break. And speaking of breaks, you need to
also indicate time for friends and family. You need balance in your life to be
productive.

Time Management Is Essential

Time management is a skill you will need to learn to run
your business, and a skill that means you will need to
work smarter, nor harder. There's a difference between
having the busy-ness thing going on and not getting
much accomplished and being busy in a productive
manner. That means FOCUS, something you have read about already in this
e-book.
You'll find this interesting. It's the 80/20 rule that states 80% of unfocussed
effort generates 20% worth of results. That's not good! But look at it
another way, 20 percent of your staff will cause 80 percent of your
problems, but another 20 percent of your staff will provide 80 percent of
your production. It works both ways. Think: what would happen if you
changed your focus?
Put off things you need to do? Procrastination can undo even the most
seemingly dedicated business people. You need to make time for success
and that means not putting off things until tomorrow that you can
accomplish today.
Need to get in the right mood, wait for the right time? Goals that need to be
achieved to grow your business in a successful way wait for no man and
once you have them, you must strive to reach them. Goals give focus, and
what gives more pleasure than reaching your goals? Maybe it's the way you
work that needs to be looked at. Are your goals not clear, and you are
underestimating task difficulties? Do you underestimate the time needed to
carry out your tasks and have unclear standards for task completion? Are
you deep in your heart afraid of success or failure or a perfectionist?
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If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you need FOCUS.
That doesn't mean tunnel vision. It means honing in on what your work
patterns are and then learning to adjust your habits to get that focus you
need. It's a simple equation: where you focus your attention is where you
put your energy. And consider this, attention to something at hand is a
matter of choice – YOUR choice! You need to choose what you want your
attention to be focused on.
Find out how well you are doing by creating a focus test. Easy test, just look
back at your last week and ask yourself what you did to achieve your goals,
what you were focusing on. Be honest with the answer, and if the answer
does happen to be you didn't achieve your goals because you didn't have it
together, then shake your head, dust yourself off, learn from the experience
and move on.