TIP #2 – Time To Start Thinking About 2024

It’s hard to believe 2023 is almost finished. It has flown by and it’s time to start wrapping up the year.  I hope it has been a good and successful year for you. 

This is also a great time to start thinking about next year – 2024. For me.  I have always spent some time at the end of the year (usually the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day) to reflect and try to map out some goals for the next year. Some call this developing New Year Resolutions.

I’ve developed New Year Goals my entire career, started when I was with IBM at the beginning of my career, , , notice the THINK pad image. I can tell you for certain that much of what I accomplished was because I gave it some thought and wrote it down to achieve.

Anyone can tell you that you are much more likely to achieve something when you write it down. Why is this the case? I believe there are several reasons:

1. You give it thought
2. It’s a commitment to yourself
3. Helps remind you when you see it
4. Helps you focus on things you want to achieve

I’ve always created two lists, , , one that is business focused and the second is for personal things. And once again, I will tell you that doing this has helped me achieve many things I wanted to achieve in my life because of the commitment I made to myself.

That’s really the important thing, , , making a commitment to yourself! 

I can look back at the New Year Goals I wrote down over the years because I kept them all in a file folder. It is easy to see many of the things I wrote down were accomplished. Would these things have been achieved anyway without writing them down? Possibly, but I’m confident many would not have been.

So, take an hour of your time between now and the end of the year and write down the key things you want to accomplish next year, both in your business and personally. Planning creates definition which leads to focus and results in achievement! You might be pleasantly surprised at the results.

PLANNING –> DEFINITION –> FOCUS –> ACHIEVEMENT