WHAT ARE YOUR BUSINESS NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS?

May the new year bring you prosperity, satisfying challenges, joy and health, friendship and community -- and the time to enjoy them all!

Wait! Read those items again! This ain't no greeting card!
Remember, these are the reasons we're in business for ourselves.
Are you getting all you want of these precious things? Few of us are.

To take this beyond the nice New Year sentiment stage, ask yourself a few questions. Or pick just the one question that really makes your bells chime.

1 ** How could you change the way you run your business so that it is a better vehicle for the flowering of your personal strengths and desires?

2 ** How could you get more of what you want from your business? (What DO you want from your business?)

3 ** In your business, what are the things you love to do the most? What are you best at? Where do you make the greatest contribution to the success of your business?

4 ** How could you arrange things so that you get to do more of what you do best and enjoy the most? And LESS of all the rest?

5 ** How could you shift the way you run your business so that you don't have to work so hard, and yet make as much money, or even more?

6 ** How can you find more of the kinds of customers you most love to work with? How could you refine what you sell, or how you sell it, so that these people would be even more enthusiastic customers of yours?

7 ** What new thing could you offer this year that would help pull it all together, boost your profitability, and increase your satisfaction?

8 ** As the economy picks up, what opportunities are waiting for you to grab hold of them? What is your window of opportunity?

If we as business owners don't ask ourselves these questions from time to time, our work becomes humdrum, filled with minutiae, more like a (…shudder…) job!

If you are in one of our Business Groups, you know that these are among the most important questions during our annual plan workshop.

If you're not a member, and you'd love the support of nine peers to get these questions answered satisfactorily for yourself, and to stay on target with them, then come visit one of our regular Business Group meetings.

A good way to start getting what you want from '04 would be to attend our Success in 2008 annual plan workshop.

TO FIND OUT MORE

THE BEST WAY TO TACKLE YOUR BUSINESS CHALLENGES is to join one of our business owner problem-solving groups. Each peer group has owners of ten successful businesses and meets once a month. We relieve the isolation of running your own business, and help you tackle your challenges to growth. For details, call me or go to www.businessgroup.biz and click "Business Owner Groups."

OR YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK…
My new book, How to Grow Your Business Without Driving Yourself Crazy™, tells everything I’ve learned over 20 years helping small business owners tackle their barriers to growth, profitability and ease of operation. Order it from Amazon or my web site.

I invite you to respond with your own toughest question or challenge. If I choose yours, you get a free problem-solving session with me.

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