New Year Tagged Articles

Living a Credit-Free Lifestyle

James Dicks examines the benefits of living a cash-only lifestyle.

Growing Your Business

The end of the year and the beginning of the year are critical times for the entrepreneur, and purchasing times for the customer. Taking advantage of the season can build the business relationship and earnings potential into the new year.

Is Your Business Ready for 2010?

Over the next few weeks, anything can change in your business. You’ll find that people often make decisions about what they will and won’t be doing in the new year. You will want to make sure that your business not only survives but thrives next year.

Happy New Year 2010!

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the first day of 2010!

Why A Dusty Old Push Bike Should Not Stop Your New Year's Resolution!

At the beginning of every New Year, millions of people around the world excitedly set out to achieve their 'New Year Resolutions'. You know what I mean, things like losing weight, getting fit and healthy, changing jobs, starting a business ... the list goes on.

A Proven Set of Principles to Guide You in the New Year

How many of us have set New Year’s resolutions or goals for our lives that all too quickly are forgotten or put aside until the next year? The following set of principles will help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions and much more.

New Year, New Plan

James Dicks examnes the importance of developing a strategy that can help your investments in 2010.

Happy New Year!

New years’ resolutions are both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes they actually help us make some valuable changes. More often than not though I see them as an obligatory annual event. If you don’t have them (and tell everyone all about them), something is wrong with you. How about making use of the other 364 days in the year? Improvement and change should be an on-going effort!

A New Year, A New Approach

As Email marketing is set to develop in 2008, can companies really afford to ignore it anymore? With e-marketing set to become the second largest form of online advertising in 2008, companies really must look at how it can become part of their overall marketing strategies. Like most forms of advertising and marketing, email should not be considered the universal panacea to all a business ills. Instead it can be an incredibly useful tool to breath life back into a traditional marketing plan without having to cost the earth.

Personal Financial Checkups

James Dicks examines the importance of conducting financial checkups to ensure that you stay on track financially.

Pioneering the Current Economic Situation

James Dicks examins the need for business to be innovastive in order to exit the current recession successfully and profitably.

Remembering the Best in the Worst of Times

James Dicks examines the lives of American show business icons, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon

Should you really care about market movement?

James Dicks looks at the movement of the stock market

Sign of the Times

James Dicks compares the Great Depression of the 1930s with the current state of the global eocnomic situation

Success and Failure Are Learning Experiences

James Dicks examines how failure, if treated correctly, can help lead to future success.

The Best Time to Start a Business

James Dicks examines the benefits of starting a business, even in periods of eocnomic downturn

The End is Near?

James Dicks discusses the importance of sifting through the news of the day to find what is important to your personal economic situaiton.

The FOREX and the Recession

James Dicks examines the benefits of investing in the FOREX market, even during times of economic weakness.

The Importance of Goal Setting in Trading

James Dicks examines the need to set solid goals before you invest your money in trading opportunities

The Need for Hopefulness

James Dicks examines the benefits that a positive attitude creates when creating personal goals and getting through tough times.

The next Real Estate Get Rich Quick Plan - Rentals

James Dicks discusses the next Real Estate trend - rental property

The Power of Entrepreneurship

James Dicks examines the joys and difficulties of becoming an entrepreneur.

The Value of Mentorship

James Dicks explores the value of mentorship.

Time for a “REAL" Change

James Dicks discusses the need to structure your personal financial life around cash and to begin saving money - even if it is just the change in your pocket at the end of the day.

Time Management Increases the Team Effort

James Dicks examines the importance of managing your time effectively for your sake and the sake of others

We All Need a Mentor

James Dicks examines the need and the importance of finding the right people to use as mentors in your personal and professional life

Your Most Valuable Business Asset

James Dicks explains the need to realize that a well-trained and loyal staff is a businesses largest and most important asset.

New Year Resolutions - Who Do You Want to Be?

As another year closes and a new one begins, people all over the world are setting themselves one or more New Year resolutions. Almost all of these resolutions are about what we want to do in the new year - lose weight, get fit, make money, give-up smoking, build a new home, find a new love, leave an old one etc.

The No-Time Networking Plan

Now that we're past the seasonal rush that seems to make our schedules so crazy from late November to New Year's Day, we should have plenty of time to act on our resolutions to "develop more meaningful relationships" in the new year, right? In our dreams. We're still as busy as ever.

Go Get Your Goals in 2008

It's a new year and 2008 is going to bring you what you want, I promise. How can I make that promise? Because I promise you are more likely to stick to your resolutions WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM YOUR FRIENDS.

Build Your Foundation

My biggest issue has always been my lack of focus, so one of my New Year's resolutions is to step back in so many places, particularly my businesses, to assure I have the solid footing and grounding I need.

The New Year

Since we have a New Year to challenge us, it’s a good thing to keep our resolution to be bigger than our problems. Problems come with the territory called life, and we are fortunate in more ways than we realize. We need to move forward with optimism.

Make a Fresh Start this Fall- Become Your Own Boss

January may be the official start of the New Year, but for many people the September, back-to-school season still signifies a time for new beginnings and making a fresh start. With summer drawing to a close and children heading back to school, many people are reexamining their career choices and resuming their job searches. If you’re ready to make a change in your career and your life, now is an ideal time to explore your business ownership options. Regardless of whether you’d like to have more flexibility and control over your schedule, or you’re ready to change industries, becoming your own boss can be a rewarding new beginning and a fruitful fresh start.

How to Achieve the goals I have set?

Many people are guilty of setting goals and nothing happens. . To prove this point, think about all the New Year’s resolutions people make and do not keep, or should I say, not know how to keep. There are many parts to achieving one’s goals and they work together. The techniques are vital, simple and easy to do.

What Happened to Your New Year's Resolution?

Why focusing on being a better person is better than creating a list of resolutions you’ll never live up to.

Is the pathway clear?

My holiday wish for you is to stop hoping and start planning. The foggy future you imagine won't get you anywhere but stuck in the fog.

2010...Cautious Optimism, More Stuff, Fewer Players

To say that 2009 was not the best year for business would be putting it mildly. Profit squeeze was the name of the game and while 2010 doesn't promise significant relief there are areas that will experience exceptional growth for those ready to focus their time, efforts and talents to their long-term goals. We have taken the time to examine the markets and players in our areas of expertise -- PC/CE/communications to help you plan how you will prepare in coming out of the bad times.

Marketing Strategies: Seven Tips to Thrive This Holiday Season

Do you think holidays are something to survive? Learn how to create your joy this season! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive during the holidays.

Why Can't We Change

The challenges we face in setting goals for the coming year, why do our goals not work, what are the barriers?

Use Christmas to promote your business

It’s getting close to that time of year again – when everyone starts to talk about the ‘C’ word and looks forward to their two week break. Before you look forward too much to your break though, I want you to stop for a minute and just think about promoting over the Christmas period.

Shift Your Marketing Now For Success in the New Year

Prepare now for success in the new year. Shift your focus from tactical marketing to transformational marketing. Inject that new attitude into your PR campaign, your internet marketing, and into all of your promotional efforts...

You Can Be An O.S.C.A.R Winner!

It’s true – you don’t have to be a Hollywood starlet to be an OSCAR winner. Life coach Julie Phillips explains how you can become an OSCAR winner and what a big difference it will make to your life!

Do We All Need Work Schedules for Productivity?

Are you someone who makes to-do lists and your lists are still undone at the end of the day, week, or even month? Welcome to the “I can’t stay scheduled crowd.” You are in good company. Your mind is not like everyone else’s; so don’t try to be like everyone else. Maybe you do not need that schedule you are told you do need.

5 Ways to Get Your Business Organised For Christmas

If you’re unprepared and don’t get your act together early enough, you can find that you can lose golden opportunities to increase business because you’re so stressed out trying to keep up. You know what happens at this time of year? Everyone seems to want everything done by the third week in December.

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS REVISITED

The number one reason, and why most are unsuccessful in keeping their New Year's Resolutions, is because they do not know themselves well enough nor understand why they operate in the world in the way in which they do...so success in either eliminating a negative behaviour or acquiring a positive one is very elusive.

Leadership and Practicing Safe Stress

Keys to keeping stress levels low as we near the end of another year.

PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 4 – CLARITY/SO WHAT?

Already we have discussed eleven key clarity questions that you must have answered in order to effectively and successfully plan for a better new year. But there's a bonus question that may be the most important question. Here we give you that question along with the ultimate acid test to use against all of your answers. Planning for a successful future is absolutely essential to survive, to thrive and to grow in todays business world. Here's how to get it done and get it done right!

Improve Yourself, Improve Your Business

For your business to be better, you need to be better, and you don’t get better by doing nothing! To do this you may have to get right out of your comfort zone and join a coaching program, go along to seminars where you meet other like-minded people or those playing at a higher level of business than you.

Diagnosing Our Immunity to Change

Why do we find it so hard to change? Think of all your New Year’s resolutions that remain unfulfilled or your gym membership that goes unused because you find it so hard to change your old ways.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS IN SEPTEMBER

Forget about New Years Resolutions in January, they don’t work! You’re wasting your time! September is the best time to set New Year’s Resolutions. Crazy idea, perhaps you disagree? Then answer this question; “why is it that most people who make them and seem quite serious about it, never really follow through and keep them?” A very good question don’t you think. I have addressed this issue before but on both occasions it was in January. Maybe now is a better time to take a different tact and initiate some thought, discussion and/or action around the idea.

4 Tips to a Happy New You for 2011

Ideas and tips to help you prepare for the New Year.

New Years Resolutions and The Wisdom Of A Teenager

It is that time of year again, time to make our New Years Resolutions. Time to identify all those things we beat ourselves up for all year long and make a plan on how to turn it all around. Only to find ourselves three weeks later, back in the same old rut feeling more guilty for failing again this year. This New Year I have been inspired by the wisdom of a teenager. While my New Years Resolution will bring great change into my life, I have a plan to carry it out with the least amount of effort, as only a teenager could inspire me to do!

How Making an Effort to Do Something Positive for Someone can have Surprising Results

How the simple act of learning a few words in another language can open up many opportunities to learn about another culture and to see the kindness and generosity most people give when they sense you are really interested. This is my story of what happened to me this week when I greeted a woman in Amharic.

Ten 2011 Workforce Predictions

We can all take a collective sigh of relief as 2010 comes to an end. We finally finish a difficult year and frankly a trying decade. As we enter the New Year, there is reason for optimism. The economy is rebounding and businesses and employees can expect good things to follow. My workforce predictions for 2011:

Business New Year's Commitments – For Leaders and Lawyers

With another year quickly coming to an end, I started thinking about New Year's Resolutions and what enlightened business owners and solo entrepreneurs can resolve to change and be more successful next year. The following are my top twelve tips in no particular order to help you and your business thrive in the New Year.

New Year, New Career- Make 2011 the Year You Become Your Own Boss

As a new calendar year approaches, it's natural to reflect on the past and ponder the future. However, rather than wondering what 2011 will bring- what your triumphs will be, what highlights and lowlights will become etched in your mind- take charge of your future by making business ownership your goal for 2011.

Intention: Is Your Life Magical?

At the beginning of the New Year we are bombarded with the concept of making resolutions and goal setting to try and make the things happen that we have decided we want.

Enjoy the Holiday Season... because Mayhem is Just Around the Corner

Want to increase your profits by thousands in the new year? This is your guide to fufilling your resolutions.

11 Leadership Resolutions for 2011

11 New Year's Resolutions for 2011 to help Leaders Keep your Main Thing, your Main Thing, discover What is your Joy, take a Ruthless New Year's Personal Inventory, and Get Perspective among other top 11 thought-provoking touchstones to take you from Now to Wow! in the New Year.

The Dawn of Something New

January 2011 is the start of something new. Change is in the air. Perhaps we need to think a little about what makes us contemplate change as well as our role in facilitating any change that is required.

Getting past the Gate Keeper

This time of the year many people are trying to get back into the swing of things after their Christmas break. It's about this time that many sales people begin their prospecting efforts in earnest and many people are back from leave. It is as good a time as any to prospect. So as it's the New Year, I thought we could take a fresh look at some old issues. One of the most common complaints I hear from sales people time and time again is ‘How do I get around the gate keeper?'

It’s That Time of Year

For an HR Professional, a new year often means lots of new laws, regulations, & legal changes. Betsey will share with you some things that you should be aware of as we enter 2011.

Will YOUR New Year Be REALLY New?

What is going to make a difference, so that you are really successful in the coming year and your business produces the results that you are committed to producing? What are you doing to set YOURSELF up to have a brilliantly successful decade? What does it take to invent a powerful plan for the year 2011 and actually implement it? How do you design a future that is enlivening and inspiring for you, and accomplish it?

Are You Where You Want To Be?

Is there something that you may want different, in any area of your life? To get to where you want to be, I think you will agree that you need to change your behaviors. Here are three easy to implement ideas to help you change behaviors in a way that will be long term and sustainable.

Marketing Insensitives for 2009

Approximately two years ago I first wrote about “Marketing Insensitives.” At the time, I had received a call from a telemarketer offering me some “marketing insensitives” to purchase a product. Yes, she really said this! She was not being clever; she just couldn’t pronounce “incentive.” But, Marketing Insensitives do exist! They are the unfortunate, not-thought-through, ridiculous, dumb things that businesses do that drive customers away. Here is another:

It’s the Holidays!

Prospects make appointments and conduct business before, during and after the holidays, just as they do at other times throughout the year.

The Secret To Building Customer Relationships

It's tempting to concentrate on making new sales or pursuing bigger accounts. But attention to your existing customers, no matter how small they are, is equally essential to keeping your business thriving. The secret to repeat business is following up in a way that has a positive effect on the customer.

New Years Resolution for 2009: Start Earning Money at Home

Most people enter the New Year with great plans. They are revved up, loaded with ambition and have plenty of time to transform their lives. Some of the common resolutions for 2009 including start earning money at home are:

Think Big, Start Small! – Take Your First Step Towards Achieving Your Goals Today

Do you have a goal you want to achieve but are feeling overwhelmed or stuck, and not sure how to proceed? If so, this article provides the basic steps you can take to break your goal down into easy, manageable steps, making goal achievement possible and easier.

The Power of Persistence

If you've set goals at the start of the New year, you should have your resources in place and a plan of action underway by the second quarter of the year. By this time, you should have gained some momentum on the tasks and projects necessary to achieve your goals. It's fitting at this point to recognize the importance and power of persistence. Read on.

Diary of A Nutty Entrepreneur

When you become your own boss, don't turn into a slave.

Why is the President Obama using YouTube?

The thing that I found interesting this weekend during my weekend surf through YouTube was a video by President Obama. The three-and-a-half minute video entitled “A New Year, A New Beginning.” was directed to the Iranian people. Barack Obama is trying bring the U.S. and Iran relations closer together by addressing the people directly. Obama used the internet extensively throughout his campaign and hopes that his message has the same effect with the Iranian people.

Business Planning - Acknowledge the Old Goals First

An article about business planning and how to acknowledge what might be getting in the way with helpful coaching questions to guide your business planning efforts.

Ten Ideas to Help You Keep Your Resolutions Or Goals

If you have some resolutions for the New Year or if you set some goals for yourself or your business for the next year, here are some ways to keep yourself on track and focused.

Are You Still In the Game

Random Thoughts on Life and Entrepreneurship

Are You Looking for A New Start in 2009?

Now that many of the resolutions you made in the initial frenzy of the New Year may have fallen away, it's the perfect time to really evaluate what you want this year to mean for you. What do you want to be, do and have in 2009?

Top 5 Tips for Chasing Rainbows

Simply put, our discussion was around chasing rainbows. In other words, should you go after those exciting opportunities you are thinking about? Is it worth exerting all that time and energy on something that could very well turn out to evaporate before your eyes? Business experts and books galore, will warn you about relinquishing control to such temptations, and rightfully so. Countless businesses have folded from a lack of focus and from gambling on a big idea. Yet as entrepreneurs this is usually what drives us! We are always looking for that next "big thing" that can drive our business to exponential growth. Unfortunately in its pursuit, we can find ourselves ignoring our core business and watching not only our "big ideas" disappear into thin air, but our regular income as well.

Will You Beat The Jobs Rush?

The new year job search has started in earnest. Record numbers of individuals were made redundant before the Christmas break and are now sending out their resumes. And they are not alone.

You always need to ask the Question

You can have all the tools, skills and marketing but you stil need to ask the question.

2009: Make It A Great Year

This is a process we do with our clients, at the beginning of every new year, to support them in having the year be more productive, more successful and more satisfying than it otherwise would be. The process is based on two fundamental principles which determine the success of an organization. The first principle is that nature abhors a vacuum and, by creating a vacuum in your company or firm, you create a space for the things you want to come into your experience. The second principle is the principle of alignment discussed in detail in the article entitled The X Factor: Alignment.

5 Steps To The Home Based Business Of Your Dreams

Have you every dreamed of running your own business? Some people think it's just that, a dream. Now is the time to make your dreams come true. The New Year will be starting soon and it's the perfect time to take the steps to make your dream become a reality.

Plan for Success

The new year is such an exciting time for businesses. Owners normally find themselves rejuvenated after the holidays and ready for an even BETTER new year. The desk gets cleared, the blank pages come out, the pen is poised and the first question that comes to mind is, “where do I start?”

Re-Organizational Chart

Most small businesses start with a good idea, an individual with a skill set who turns the idea into a revenue producing business, some investors or personal savings, and patience and perseverance. The founding father or mother wore many hats at the beginning and over time handed these hats to individuals who were hired to help as the business grew. Sometimes growth came so quickly that there was a rush to judgement as to how many and who to hire as well as their areas of responsibility. This was a good problem to have because sales were increasing and the dream of growth was coming true.

Make the Most of 2009

New Year’s Resolutions are easy to make and easy to break! Here are my twelve suggestions to make more time and enjoy life in 2009!

So Be You

Instead of blending in, try standing out from your competition. Get it - so be you!

Turn On The Switch To Your Hidden Energy

Although many people acknowledge that we are born with an incredible, God-given power to do, have, or become whatever we want, no one has explained what it is or how to turn it on. We wonder, "Where is the switch to my hidden energy?" Your Core Desire is the switch. Having your heart fixed on your Core Desires is how your latent talents, gifts, and abilities are unleashed. Once you have a genuine, clear, and accurately defined Core Desire, you will expend all the necessary effort, for as long as it takes, to overcome any obstacle in your way in order to achieve it.

Leadership Excellence Isn't Achieved Without Failure

Making a resolution and being committed to it doesn't mean you won't fail. Inherent in moving toward a bigger dream is failure. The question is how committed are you to your resolution of developing your leadership skills, having a better job, working toward a promotion, becoming an entrepreneur, taking better care of your health and having more love?

Overwhelmed By Your Goals? Discover 3 Questions to Maintain Momentum

The new year kicks off with high expectations and motivation. But by early February, momentum slows. A sense of overwhelm is often the source of friction that slows the progress of achieving our goals.

How to Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever

A new year, a fresh start. For some businesses they will make the leap into a new year with planning and insight. For others the new year brings stress and the unknown. How do you make the New Year a fresh start for your business. Find out in this article.

Smart Goal Setting – 5 Tips to Success

Intrepid Entrepreneur and expert home stager, Staging Diva, offers five timely tips for setting and reaching your goals.

Buying Existing business vs Start Ups

As we begin the New Year, more people are looking to get into a business for themselves. I think it’s very important to understand the major differences between buying an existing business or starting from scratch. There are pro's and con's on both sides, and I want to emphasize on major differences to buyers and break down the process in hopes that buyers and sellers can make an educated decisions.

Top 3 2009 Sales Resolutions

It’s a new year, with a fresh sales quota and a new set of sales resolutions. I’m always looking for ways to improve and January consistently finds me evaluating my performance from the previous year then setting goals for the coming one.

What Are You Waiting For?

There is no time like today to get started with a plan. Taking action is the only way to get you to your goal.

Franchising - Current Economy Offers Great Incentives

As we approach the new year, many prospective franchisors wonder whether developing a franchise operation is a wise decision with the U.S. mired in a recession. Conversely, prospective franchisees wonder whether purchasing a franchise makes senses given the current economic climate. The quick answer to both...

Resolutions

Why people fail to stick with New Year's Resolutions.

Out With the Old and In With the New To Increase Sales

The beginning of a New Year is a great time for change especially if your sales are stuck in a rut. Maybe the down economy has affected your ability to increase sales? Possibly, the Internet is playing havoc on sales revenue? Now is the best time to throw out the old traditional sales based marketing and embrace education based marketing.

Stop Making Resolutions, Start Making Plans

The start of a new year, especially after the one we've just experienced, is a great time to think about the things you can do to make this a better year. The key to sucess is developing the plans and then taking action. It all starts with your mindset.

A Goal Plan Thats Designed to Ensure Success

Rebecca Matter, AWAI's Vice President of Marketing, talks about how important it is that you set goals instead of make New Year's resolutions.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (Don't Do It)

DON'T DO IT! At least don't do it now. Why do what, for the most part is expected as a part of the New Year's paranoia. What is this obsession anyway with making resolutions as a part of welcoming in the New Year?

Before You Consider Redundancies

This is an article considering a few alternative options that organisations may wish to take before going down the redundancy route.

Selling in the Recession

It's been advertised. It's all the media wants to talk about. It's had an impact on the company you run or work for. Your customers and clients have been affected. Your home and investments have lost value. The recession is here, in full force, and there isn't a single sign that it's going to improve soon. So what must you do to not only survive this down-turn, but thrive in it as well? Here are my top 10:

Is it Really Going to be a Happy New Year?

By all accounts, 2009 is going to be an "interesting" year for employers and employees alike.The question on everybody's mind should be:“Will my business flourish or flounder in 2009?”

Affirm Your Financial Destiny for 2009

It is often at the end of the year that we consider what our ‘New Year’s Resolution’ will be. But in these times of economic uncertainty, the trend is to re-examine one’s financial situation.

Accentuate the Positive: Motivate Yourself with an Attitude of Gratitude

So often when we think about our lives, most of us tend to look either back at the past and its accomplishments and failures or we look forward to what we will start doing or stop doing in the future. Although it is not necessarily a bad habit to review goals met or not met and formulate goals to work toward and attain, I want to suggest that you also take the time to look at the present moment and concentrate on all the things in your life, right now, for which you are grateful.

7 Secrets to Co-creative Success

Did you make a New Year’s resolution in January to make this your best year ever? Now, that the year is almost gone, you’re probably questioning what’s going wrong and why your dreams are not beginning to manifest!

End of Year Thoughts From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach: Looking to Success in 2009 and Beyond

As we enter the month of December each year, we often wonder where the year has gone, how quickly it has passed and what we did or did not accomplish. He end of each year finds us thinking about holidays, gifts, parties and friends, as well as the closing out of another business year. The end of the year is a time to look back on the previous year and look forward to the next. And while reflecting on the past year, Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach would like to suggest that you take time to remember and to give thanks for the great things that happened in your business. And to build on all of the positive things that you accomplished this past year and carry that positive momentum into next year.

Top Customer Sales Questions to Increase Profits in 2009

Some salespeople and managers think they’ll keep clients happy by not ruffling their feathers with uncomfortable questions — but customers can’t solve problems they don’t acknowledge. Here’s how to show clients the bigger picture by asking them the right kind of probing questions, leading them to a happy new year of booming business.

Half Full or Half Empty?

Despite the economic turmoil opportunities exist. The challenge is to find those opportunities for your business. No matter what's happening around you, there are still things you can do to improve your results.

Increase Your Sales in This New Year

Keep pushing and taking massive action in order to increase your sales and in turn, increase your success this year and next!

WHY CHANGE DOESN'T HAPPEN

While so many people seek to become more effective, more successful and more fulfilled, so few actually take the steps to implement the necessary change? Why? In this article Jonathan Payne explores on of the primary reasons for change not happening.

Small Business Tips To Ensure Your Business Survives Christmas

In Australia many small businesses go through a very quiet period from about mid December until the end of January. It is when people go on holidays, focus on Christmas parties and generally do anything except think of work. Many small businesses close down after Christmas because they failed to adequately plan in terms of cash-flow or how to maximise the use of their time. Instead of planning and taking action, they sat and worried about lack of customers.

The Other New Years Resolution

"This year I will start my own business!" I call it "The American Dream Resolution," and like most New Year's resolutions it is a proclamation of intent that is often made, but seldom carried out (at least in an effective manner).

Small Business Tips: Mid Year Business Review

I love the end of the financial year and that is not because I spent so many years at the Treasury Department! In January we set New Year’s resolutions but we often set them without clear indicators of success. If this is you, consider that money is one very tangible indicator of success - it is by no means the only indicator, but it is an easy one to measure. Where you are financially is a direct result of where you are emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Goal Setting: Specific vs. General

It's a new year and I look at it as a clean slate in which to create. Create anything I want. It doesn't matter what goals I didn't get or did get last year. I get to dream and plan for this year with no baggage from the past. I will take the lessons learned and make some new success habits. But it is just so darn exciting to be sitting with a fresh canvas upon which I get to create!

Smart Women Rarely Hallucinate

Since the beginning of the New Year I’ve been writing about taking risks, realizing your dreams and goals, and taking inspired action on your big idea. I’ve been expressing the idea that you need to create the space in your life to explore and discover what’s next in your life’s journey.

Three Ways to Reduce Stress and Enlighten Up

When all is said and done, everyone wants the same thing: to be happy. The demands of work and life often make it difficult to reach that ultimate goal. Here are three simple but powerful ways to reduce the stress in your life and enlighten up.

Don't Drop Those Weights Just Yet

Here are a few pointers so you can actually keep the goals you set.

Learn Your Way to Success

What I've noticed about very successful business owners, they are always learning and growing. The majority do not achieve their high levels of success on their own. The coach I'm currently working with is in two high-end coaching programs that she invests thousands of dollars a year to belong to. Earning a million dollars a year and growing; something is definitely working for her. For your business to be better you need to be better and you don't get better by doing nothing! You are the average of the five PEOPLE you hang around the most. Surround yourself with people whom you want to be like.

Where there is vision

Do you have a vision for your business? Do you know why you are in business? Where you plan to take it? How long you want to be in business for?

One Small Step At A Time

Take small steps, but take them every single day. Take the smallest, safest, easiest step you can, but keep moving in the direction you want to go. If you like the results simply do it again tomorrow, and the day after that, and again the day after that. To achieve great things, keep walking, one step at a time, in the direction of your goal.

Look After Your Clients and They Will Look After You

Why are you in business? Hopefully you enjoy what you do, however is it because you want to make money so that you can have, be and do more in your life? Who pays you? Your clients do and never forget that. Unfortunately many business owners do. They take your money and then vanish off the face of the earth. And if you do hear from them you know they are only trying to sell something or business is not going well. The silly thing is, if you look after the hand that feeds you, they will look after you. Keep in regular contact with your clients, particularly the top 20% (both current and past) who have provided you with the most income. Still keep in touch with the others via newsletters etc. However the top 20% of very special clients need extra attention.

Party Networking or “Are You George?”

I love advertising my business through networking with other upbeat business people. There are many networking groups in every city—trade organizations, Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, national associations, etc. But you don’t have to restrict yourself to business organizations..

Wrapping it Up!

As we wind down to the end of year, what will you be most thankful for? Those New Year’s resolutions and plans for the New Year are right around the corner.

What I Learned From Scot Herrick About Communicating ‘Bad News’

Why is it difficult to communicate ‘bad news’? And when I say ‘bad news’ I mean in the context of ‘things not going to plan’.

The positive message of franchising in a slow economy

Don't be negative about franchising when the economy is slow. Be positive about franchising. In the UK over 90% of franchisees trade profitably and GDP has risen by a factor of ten over the past twenty years.

10 Steps to Getting Your Business in Shape for the New Year

Did you make a new years resolution that involves getting into shape? This is probably one of the most common areas in which people set their goals. Plans are often put together that will help them lose weight or stop smoking. As a business owner, you may also be thinking about getting your business in shape for the New Year?

Concrete Resolutions

January is usually the month when people make resolutions for the new year they are about to embark on. We review and take account of what was done the previous year and what was not done; what we did accomplish or not accomplish.

What I learnt From One Of The UK’s Best Selling Business Authors

A few months ago, I embarked on a new project, The Great Successful People Package to interview numerous top successful individuals, in order to pick their brains on what made them a success and what important points they had learnt over the years. I did this with the goal of sharing their advice and proven ideas with others. I have choosen from hundreds of ideas, this one because it was simple and it worked for me!

Career Tune-up: Maintaining your Professional Path

As 2008 begins, it’s the perfect opportunity for a Career Tune-up. The New Year provides a natural time to evaluate how your career progressed over the past year and to determine what you want for the year ahead. Investing time in assessment and planning will enable you to have a greater impact on your professional development. The Past Year When you review your career milestones of the past year, you’ll want to take a candid look at what worked and what didn’t work for you, your clients and your organization. Defining this will help you to make decisions about next year.

The Easy Part

Have you ever noticed that the easy part to making changes in your life is the decision? Deciding to do something is the easy part. Putting that decision to action is a little tougher...

Uncertainty the Unknown As the Doorway To Possibilities

Does uncertainty stir your excitement and positive anticipation or fill you with a sense of dread and foreboding? Learn how to think about uncertainty in a new way.

LOOK BEHIND BEFORE YOU LOOK AHEAD

Now is a great time to look back on the past year and gain some perspective on where you’ve come over the last twelve months and what you’ve accomplished. It is also the time to create a realistic personal vision for 2008. A personal vision is more predictive of success and satisfaction than socio-economic background, intelligence or educational level.

Making Resolutions about Goals

Yes, it’s that time of the year again. It’s the time when we make resolutions and set goals for ourselves for the New Year. This short article contains some helpful hints on how to set goals for the coming year, or the coming day.

How To Set Your Business Goals for the Year Ahead

As you begin a new year with a clean slate to design and plan your life and business, do you struggle to get started? Creating a plan for the year ahead doesn’t have to be a challenge when you follow this simple, 20-minute process.

My top 10 marketing resolutions for 2008

Helen Dowling from Exceptional Thinking gives you her top 10 marketing resolutions for 2008!

Don't Set New Year's Resolutions - Take Action in The New Year

It's that time of year again when we start talking and thinking about New Year's Resolutions even though they're old hat and we instinctively know they don't work. Because your friends, family and colleagues may chat about what Resolutions they're going to make, do you find yourself wondering whether to make any? We know that within a few days or weeks, the Resolutions will be forgotten, nothing will have changed and yet for some reason most people still worry about them. So why do we still bother with New Year's Resolutions? First, they're a custom and a New Year ushers in a new start, so what better time than now? There's even a small chance that we may stick to our Resolutions this year, so we have a go. The main reason some people think about New Year's Resolutions is because they want to change things in their life.

Make 2008 your best year ever

Powerful tips to make 2008 your best year ever

End this year on a high

End this year powerfully and start the New Year on a high.

15 Sales Tips To Start Selling Smarter In 2008

These 15 sales tips provide an excellent jumpstart to 2008 enabling you gain an advantage over your competition.

12 Tips of Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching so in preparation, Helen Dowling from Exceptional Thinking has put together her 12 tips of Christmas.

Entering 2008 Thriving not Just Enduring

Dear Jane, What do you mean by “endurance” and what’s wrong with it? I always thought enduring was a good thing. As we approach a new year, determined to make and keep our New Year’s resolutions (this time), I want to encourage you to resolve to thrive, not just endure. When I’m interviewed on radio or TV, I am always asked what the distinction is. I use an analogy taught to me by one of my mentors, Brandon St. John, some 25 years ago. When I saw it used in Al Gore’s, “An Inconvenient Truth,” I was both surprised and pleased.

Planning for the New Year

It’s nearly the New Year again and time for a review of your business and a bit of planning for the New Year. Helen Dowling from Exceptional Thinking gives her top tips for making this work in your business.

What Do I Want?

It happens before we know it. One day we're outside relaxing by the pool thinking of little else except whether to put on more sunscreen; then suddenly we're wrapping ourselves up in winter coats and heavy blankets trying to shake off the cold. We start saying things like, "This year has gone by so fast!" Or, "Where did the time go?" Or, "Can you believe it's already December?" Yes folks, there's no escaping it...

The Key to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Dear Jane, I want to make some New Year’s resolutions but I don’t want to set myself up for failure, which I’ve done in the past. How can I make sure that I succeed this time? Most of us use New Year’s resolutions as a way to try to boost our self-esteem. We think that if we lose weight, exercise, or pay off our credit card debt, we’ll feel better about ourselves. This seems logical but it’s actually backwards thinking. Why?

Tips on Creating New Resolutions and Personal Goals

Tips on how to make your New Year Resolutions Work and align them with your personal goals

Practice the art of restraint

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, along with holiday celebrations and the new year. This typically means stressful situations and possible heated family moments. Every day we are faced with similar situations that could easily bring out the worst in us. Learn ways to cope with stressful situations.

Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work!

Every New Year’s Eve millions of people all over the globe make resolutions for the coming year. Every year they look back disappointed that yet another year has come and gone and their goals haven’t been achieved again. They feel like losers and they lie to themselves again by solemnly pledging to shape up, be stronger and do better next year.

Autumn is Approaching - Take Rest!

What are your priorities? What are your values? Are you living according to them or do you have a bunch of extra unnecessary things you are carrying along with you? Take Rest - A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. - Ovid

New Year - New Beginnings

As the countdown begins for the close of 2007, it is a great time to start creating your vision for 2008.

Why You Should Launch Next Year’s PR Campaign this November

You want the fourth quarter to end on a strong note, which is why it’s so important to launch a media relations campaign for the holidays, but even if your end of year plans are set and you’re looking to launch in a big way for the upcoming year, you need to start your PR and marketing no later than November. If by launching an effective public relations campaign you can illustrate how your business has positively affected the life of others, people who see read or hear your story will want to know if you can do the same for them. And your phone will start ringing.

2008: Choose a Theme, Not a Resolution

When I began to write this article, I decided to go back to basics and check out the dictionary definition of “resolutions.” I got “A thing resolved on, an intention”. To me, the word “intention” is preferable to “resolution.” Somehow intention resonates with the idea of “definitely going to do,” whereas “resolution” has more of an air of doing something because it is good for you, and that’s not always the most inspiring. So, I decided to focus on New Year Intentions. I think for intentions to work, they need to have the following three elements.

Five Keys to Setting Attractive Sustainable Goals

We’ve all been there. How many of you have set up new year’s resolutions only to discover that you have slipped after the first week or been to a workshop and sworn that this time you are really going to achieve those dreams you have had at the back of your mind? The following article gives you five keys on setting goals that will keep you motivated.

Today may be the most important day of 2012

Today is November 15th. I don’t know if that’s significant on your calendar but it is on mine. For many years now I’ve made it my plan to have my goals completed for the upcoming year by November 15th.

Now is the Time

I love the hopeful feeling of having a new calendar and fresh plans laid out in front of me. But of course the New Year doesn’t wait long before euphoria subsides and it begins testing your resolve, persistence and plans. Whether your goals for 2012 were written in indelible ink or simply mumbled to yourself during your commute, the universe somehow seems to know about them and begins delivering the challenges. At some primal level, we know that our plans will only take wing if we get both hands on the steering wheel and are not shy about turning it in a direction we want to go. So, if starting a business is on your list of resolutions, I have some thoughts to share with you.

Stop Making Decisions – just do what’s important!

I read in a interview this week where Dr. Mehmet Oz said: “I recently learned that the more decisions we make in a day, the more likely we are to make bad decisions – because deciding wears us down.

January is Get Organized Month!

This year, take back your home, your life and your space! Get organized with our simple tips.

Recovery

In the New Year you can start over. Make this your year to meet and exceed your goals. Make the time now to make changes with our simple tricks and tips.

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