10 Tips to Achieve Your Goals

By Amanda BouchNo Comments
The start of a New Year is a time for new beginnings and traditionally a time to make a commitment to achieve a goal.  How many people do you know who set goals and talk about big plans, but then they quietly let them slip? Do you find the New Year stimulates new thinking and you are excited by your goal, but when you get back to work and the day-to-day challenges, you find no time to pursue the goal? Have you set yourself goals for this year?  How are you progressing?  This year make your goals commitments you will achieve by following these 10 tips. Decide on something you really want, not something other people say you should do.  Give this serious thought. Spend time visualising what it will be like when you have achieved your goal – does this excite you? If not, this is not the goal to strive for. Test your motivation to achieve this goal. On a scale of...
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How resilient are you as an entrepreneur?

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Entrepreneurs need to be able to bounce back from whatever life throws at them, pick up the pieces and stay focused on their goals.  This isn't easy for most of us, we worry too much about mistakes and this can lead to lost sleep and 'tetchiness' the next day ... There are some simple things you can do to help build your resilience: 1. Act fast to stop the 'bad news' hitting you hard When an event happens, such as being rejected for that hoped-for contract, you have a moment in which you can decide how you will take the event.  If you tell yourself "Oh no, another rejection, I'm a failure at this." The event will hit your mood and confidence, knocking you back and put you in a state where you feel ineffective and unable to deal with things.  In that moment you need to see the event in a different perspective.  Maybe take another viewpoint, such as looking back...
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