As we look in the mirror and pick the confetti off our hair, the realizations comes that it is time to get back to work. The New Year brings great hope but also great trepidation as we ask ourselves if we should be taking our business in a new direction. For these reasons it is an overwhelming period.
The end of the year is a crazy time. If you are in the retail business you are either very busy, or worried that you are not busy enough. If you are a professional, you find that most clients postpone big decisions until the beginning of the year, while a few are frantically pushing you as they take care of matters that have a yearly deadline. The period between Christmas and the New Year can be a little bit of a no-man’s-land.
The end of the holidays forces us to take a good look at or business and decide the direction for the future; it can be very scary. Where and how do we begin the rest of our lives? We ask ourselves a bit melodramatically. Well, the best approach is to take it one step at a time.
One good place to start is to pull out your plan or any notes you may have written last year. Take a look at your goals, and how many of them you actually completed. Those who did not get checked off your list, analyze why they did not get accomplished. Were they too ambitious? Did you lose interest in the project? If you believe that those goals (or at least some of them) are still worthwhile pursuing, think about how they can become more manageable. How can that ambitious goal be brought down to size a little bit so that it becomes a reality this year. And that objective in which you lost interest, how can you make it more interesting to yourself and to your clients?
I hope that these simple steps get you on the right frame of mind, and move you in that new direction that you are contemplating.
My best wishes for the New Year
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