How to Set Better Goals
Written on November 9, 2009 by admin
Knowing where you are is the only way to make sure you get where you’re going.
You may or may not be where you expected to be in your business by this time. Typically, success takes most business owners longer and costs more money than anticipated. Sure, you knew that it takes three to four years to begin showing a profit. But somehow you expected it to be different for you.
This is a good time to take a look at where you are, where you want to be and how you’re going to get there.
Where Are You Now?
Begin goal planning with an honest self-evaluation of where your business is. Ask yourself the tough questions:
Read more at WomenEntrepreneur.com: http://www.womenentrepreneur.com/2009/11/how-to-set-better-goals.html
The best materials I have every encountered for goal achievement – which is different than goal setting comes from Douglas Vermeeren. He is the author of Guerrilla Achiever with Jay Levinson. Doug is considered the modern day version of Napoleon Hill, although many feel his work surpasses Hill’s in every way. Vermeeren has worked with more than 400 of the world’s top achievers. Not many success teachers can say that and many are just simply teaching everyone else’s stuff. You should do a little research to see where a lot of what is being taught today comes form it’s pretty interesting. In Guerrilla Achiever Doug Vermeeren points out how most of it came from the industrial era and specifically manufacturing for an assembly line. Much of what is taught in goal achievement today is a lie and counter productive.