New Year……New You
Easy Does it!
I’ve been listening to the NAR conference MP3′s available on the John Hall Intranet and I’m getting frustrated! I hear so many great ideas that I would love to implement but you’ve heard the old saying, “When you are unraveling string, you find that everything in the universe is connected to everything else.” Business planning and implementing new strategies is exactly like that old saying. You don’t know where to start and then lose the ideas and the concept. So I started thinking (‘bout time, right?), it’s like using computers. I used to think that computers were a fad and I would be dead before I had to learn anything new, Boy was I WRONG! But, as a friend pointed out, I don’t know how a combustion engine works but I know how to drive and use a car. He was right and that became my new approach to technology. I’ve embraced the same approach to business planning and maybe you should check it out, it might work for you.
I’ve attached (pdf link) four areas of business planning, one for each quarter, you can handle four, right? Under each area, I have listed a few strategies, choose at least two, you can handle two new strategies a quarter, right? Then, go about implementing them for that quarter. The next quarter implement two or more new strategies. By the end of the year, you will have “layered” eight or more new strategies that become habits. Easy does it and the attached sheet will help you stay focused and what you focus on
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A friend of mine gave a “Good Riddance to 2009 Party” for New Year’s Eve and invited everyone to bring their old calendars and desk pads for a ceremonial, ritual burning. Great idea! Symbolically burn those old mind sets and embrace the New Year – We’ll prosper again in 2010!
We have Business Planning classes scheduled for John Hall agents in January, be sure to check the intranet calendar. If you’d like a little guidance or need peer support, please mark your calendar and plan on attending. (Class Flyer)
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