Monthly Archives: November 2014

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7 Steps to Your Best Year Ever

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Last week we discussed how to set achievable goals.  Let’s make this coming year the best year you have ever had.

Plan for the Best Year Ever

  1. Consider where in business you are going to end this year and the last quarter.
  2. Evaluate where you are in your life.
  3. Honestly evaluate your business goals and where you want to be in the next year.
  4. Create your new goals.
  5. Establish measurable targets for the year, quarter, month, and weekly.
  6. Consult wise counsel.
  7. Get going.  Start right now.  Not tomorrow.

The next several weeks in December will become extremely busy with family, Christmas celebrations, and shopping for Christmas day.  Right now is the best time of year to prepare for the best year ever.

Question of the week:  What are you doing to make 2015 your best year ever?

Quote of the week:  “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

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The Secret to Achieving Your Goals

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It’s all most time.   No it’s not that Christmas and the other holidays are almost here, we all love that. It’s time to slow down, reflect on the last year, and set new goals. Most of us that are in sales or are entrepreneurs do this naturally.

It’s easy to get distracted, discouraged, or derailed so we don’t achieve the goals we’ve set for the New Year.

What would happen in your life if you achieved the goals that you set for 2015?  Do you want more time, more money so you can send your kids to college debt free, get in better shape,  or a paid for house to enjoy?

How to Achieve Your Goals 

  1. Write them down
  2. Set a time for completion
  3. Make the goal specific
  4. Make sure the goal can be measured
  5. Don’t have too many goals
  6. Stretch out of your comfort zone
  7. Identify what needs to be done

Set your goals for 2015 and make a difference.

Question of the week:  What are your goals for 2015?

Quote of the week:  “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau

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Do you want to be Wealthy?

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If you want to be wealthy and pass on wealth to the next generation, that is a noble goal.  Building wealth and passing it on is a biblical concept.  Tom Corley has studied the rich and has found that they do several things differently.

  1. Eat better.  70 % of people that are wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day.  97% of poor eat more than 300 junk food calories per day.
  2. Gamble less.  This includes state lotto tickets.  23% of wealthy gamble.  52% of poor gamble.
  3. Focus on one goal.  80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some since goal.  12% of the poor do this.
  4. Exercise more.  76% of wealthy exercise 4 days a week.  23% of poor do this.
  5. Listen and read to more books.  63% of wealthy listen to audio books during their morning commute to work.  5% of poor do this.
  6. Keep a do-to-list 81% of wealthy maintain a do-to-list.  19% of the poor do.
  7. Require their children to read non-fiction. 63% of wealthy parents require children to read 2 or more books a month.  3% of the poor require this.
  8. 70% of wealthy parents require the children to volunteer 10 hrs or more per month.  3% of parents that are poor do this.
  9. 67% of wealthy write down their goals.  17% for the poor.
  10. 88% of wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day for education or career reasons.  2% of the poor do.
  11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% for poor.
  12. 67% of wealthy watch 1hr or less of TV every day vs. 23% of poor.
  13. 6% of wealthy watch reality TV vs. 78% for the poor.
  14. Early to rise.  44% of wealthy wake up 3 hrs before work.  3% for the poor.
  15. 74% of wealthy teach good daily success habits to their children vs. 1% for the poor.
  16. 84% of wealthy believe good habits create opportunity luck vs. 4% for the poor.
  17. 86% of wealthy believe in life-long educational self-improvement vs 5% for poor.
  18. 86% of wealthy love to read vs. 26% for poor.

If you want to be wealthy, do what rich people do.

Question:  How would it change your life now if you if you make a few changes?

Quote of the Week:   “All wealth is the product of labor” – John Locke

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Retirement is a Dirty Word

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Do you ever think that retirement is right for you?  Setting around, playing golf, fishing, and traveling may seem appealing for a time but will get boring fast.  Those that do nothing only last for an average of four years.  Playing golf or fishing is only fun for a time and then becomes boring.

The Buy OFF

For many in the past retirement was the way those in leadership kept people loyal.  Augustus Caesar paid his officers well in retirement to keep them loyal.  In the industrial age, the carrot of retirement was used as an inducement to work in soul-killing jobs.

Today the use of retirement as a carrot is changing but is still used.  Retirement is often used to move someone out of the picture and replace that person.  In my parent’s generation, it was a way to keep the ball rolling.

Killing Your Heart

Retirement can be a terrible way to treat people.   To move them out once they are a certain age.  It assumes that after a certain age a person has no value. You are told to suck it up today because in retirement it will be all green pastures and lush.  It’s going to be wonderful in a few decades.

Cost of the Trade-Off

  1. It encourages taking jobs that aren’t fulfilling.
  2. It brings with it, reduced mental function, heart attack, and stroke.
  3. It assumes that most have lived past their prime, and don’t have anything to contribute to society.
  4. It deprives the community of the contributions that many have to offer.