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If you are serious about your business you more than likely put together a game plan at the beginning of the year. So as of today with 6 months gone, where to you stand. Are you on track to accomplish what you planned to accomplish this year or do you need to make some adjustments?
If you don't have a clear idea of where you want to go and how to get there you won't make it. It's sort of like taking a road trip. Forget about GPS for a minute, that's the lazy way to get from point A to point B. Lets talk about the old fashioned way of doing it. First you decide where you want to go and then you grab your atlas and plan your route. Now you may have a plan but that does not mean your trip will go perfectly. You may run into closed roads and detours so you have to adjust. You break out the atlas an look for an updated route.
It's the same thing with your yearly business "map". External things you cannot control can affect your business and you will need to make adjustments. Economic factors, even other businesses can affect yours. So take the time now to evaluate and adjust your plan for the last half of the year. You will have a much better chance of reaching your business goals by having a current plan of action to use as a guide.
As my New Year begins in November, I am a bit ahead of the halfway mark.... My PLAN is always with me, and as I grow and change, so does my PLAN. The fact that there have been some financial/physical changes in the World, such as the falling real estate market, and the bad weather and floodings that have occured in the very same areas that I wanted to build stuff on, really hasn't disturbed me, or my PLAN. I certainly see things a lot more clearly as my own businesses adjust and make changes, that will augment my PLAN, as time goes on. Things will never settle down. There are many, many unsettling forces and features in and on this Planet, that will often shift and change, and move you and your Life to places where you never intended to go, but that can be a Good Thing! :) My PLAN, is a part of me, in fact, it's a HUGE part of me, and there are very few moments, when the PLAN is is not in my direct thoughts and calculations. For most people, it seems a bit weird that I see my Life PLAN, as a Living Entity, but it works for me... It's not sterile or "set in stone". It's Rhythmic, Passionate and Timely... Sort of like a GPS, with a music mode! :) Oddly, when I sit down to write Mission Statements for other folks, they always seem to think that they are "Awesome.." and I have heard stuff like, "I never would have thought of that..." Sometimes, these comments confuse me a bit because, I just simply re-compose a these writings from my ever- present thoughts about my own PLAN, and I sometimes think that most business-folk think in this manner about their own efforts and adventures... Yes, Cheryl, I believe the PLAN is the most important element of your own business and Life itself... After all, how many times do you hear folks complain about stuff that happens to them, by saying " I didn't PLAN on that happening... " Some folks will just never 'Get It.."