Businesses Need to Progress Not Just Change
Change in your business is inevitable.
If you do nothing, your business will still change. If you make
adjustments to your daily routines, your business will change. The
real question is, will your business progress? Will it actually get
better? Are the changes you make improving your chances for success
in the upcoming year? The last few weeks of the year is a busy time,
it is often difficult to devote the few hours you need to create a
plan for the New Year. Yet, it is important for you to make the time
and think about your business and make a plan on how to improve. Once
it is created, it is critical to take action on the plan.
The first part of building a plan is an
easy one. You need to think. As business owners, we spend countless
hours thinking about our operations, what we could do better, what we
should change, what we want our business to become. It is now time to
think on your past year and then think of goals you want to set to
improve your business in the upcoming year. The goals can be broad,
such as increase sales, create an online presence, or engage in
social media.
These goals will be the foundation on
which you can build your plan. The goals should be broken out into 3
to 5 action items that are put in writing. Each action item should be
separated into two categories, a one-time action or a daily success
ritual, things that that you do every day to improve your business,
health, relationships or anything else that you want to focus on in
2015. An example of a one-time action could be setting up a business
Facebook page, and an example of a daily success ritual could be
posting to the new business Facebook page every day.
The most important daily success ritual
will be to read your plan at least once a day. This is an important
step to create the thoughts that will help modify the behavior. Even
on the weekend or on days off, you must take a few minutes to read
your goals. If it takes more than a few minutes, you might want to
reevaluate the real limits that each of us face while running a
business. Think big, dream big, but don’t set yourself up for
failure by dreaming the impossible.
The daily success rituals become the
plan in action. Done daily it will take about a month before it start
to be routine and after three months they should be ingrained habits
that are entered in to your daily activities and used to grow and
improve your business.
Think. Plan. Progress. Focusing on your
daily success rituals will help you move away from inevitable change
and move toward true progress.
President & CEO of Michigan Insurance Group
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