Setting your Business Goals for 2015

This is a time of year when everyone talks about making New Year's resolutions.   Typically we want to improve something about our personal lives, but those of us who are in business, often vow to do something to improve our business.

What we're really mean by this is to try harder to do the thing we know we should do.  Even those of us in business make vows to ourselves to make changes that we already know needs to be done to improve the business.

But maybe we should be setting goals instead of making resolutions.

Setting goals is important, because this is how you convert your BRILLIANT IDEAS into specific measurable targets.

Step one is to decide what you want to achieve … what the end results will be.

Step two: draw a line in the sand and PUBLICLY say "This is when I will do it."

Step three:  set measurable goals … be as specific as possible.

Step four: analyze the results.   Don't wait 'till a year later to decide if you reached your goals.  Analyze how you're proceeding on a regular basis.

Take a minute right now to think about your brilliant ideas and which ones you want to turn into goals for 2015.