Business Consultant Gives Secrets To Achieving Your Goals

Set A Goal, Write It Down, Get It Done!

This is the time of year, when most of us start to make our New Year’s resolutions. If you’re a business owner, it’s also a great time to review what went right in your business this year and then decide on what results you want to see in the next year. Barry Sharp, a business consultant with Barry Sharp Business Consulting (www.barrysharp.com) asks you to ask yourself a simple question: “How many of those resolutions that you made last year actually happened?” If all of them were successful, save yourself some time as you don’t need to read any more of this article!

Anthony Robbins, the famous motivational speaker declares “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Brian Tracy, author and accomplished speaker, states ”People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”

From personal observation of many businesses, Barry has determined that “A goal that is not written down is just a dream”. All of the evidence suggests that writing down your goals is the first step towards achieving them.

To be most effective, goals should be hard to achieve. There is a famous Les Moon quote "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars." Barry says that if you only shoot for the moon, you’re not aiming high enough. His revised version reads “Shoot for the stars; even if you don’t get that far, you’ll get past the moon.” He is not alone. For a more historic perspective on goal setting, we can go back 2500 years to the Chinese philosopher Confucius, who said “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Brian Scudamore, CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (www.1800gotjunk.com), is shooting for the stars with his goal of $1 billion in sales within the next six years. Just six years ago, his business had only one million dollars in sales. This year, his sales topped $75 million. Are Brian’s goals really high? Are they written down? You bet they are. He has daily targets for the current year and he even has a very detailed two page summary of his business vision for 2009 titled “The Painted Picture of 2009”. This detailed plan shows an annual world wide sales goal of $420 million to be achieved through 623 Franchise Partners.

This year, don’t just make your New Year’s resolutions, make your resolutions happen!
Contact Barry Sharp for more insights into goal setting. Call him at (604) 889-4199 or Email: barry@barrysharp.com. More information can be found at http://www.barrysharp.com

Remember, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

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