What do I need to do today to get me closer to my goals?



What can I do today to get me one step closer to achieving my goals and dreams? What you do today you will see results in six months. Consistency is the key to building momentum and momentum is magic for growing your business. I love to make a plan for this quarter and next quarter. So, if I know where I want to be at the end of six months – then I back track to find out what activity do I need to do daily to make that happen. If you are self-employed like me, you need to understand the numbers or your statistics. If you want to play the game you have got to know the rules. If I talk to one new person a day x 5 days a week – that’s 20 new people a month and 240 new people in year. If you talk to 3 new people a day x 5 days a week – that is 60 a month and 720 a year. My favorite is to make it my mission to connect with 5 people a day x 5 days a week = that’s 100 a month and 1200 a year. Now if you work on the 80/20 rule. 80% of business usually comes from 20 % of the people you meet. 

Now how do you keep track and follow up? That is also the vital part of building a business. Lots of ways of doing it but I still keep a paper binder with contact info for each person I meet. With each new contact I keep a diary of what and when we spoke. Now many people will call or contact once, it drops off after 2 or 3 calls. Amazingly the most business gets done after the 5 or 6 contacts. Once a client is established offering incentive to introduce us to their contacts.  A happy client will find you another happy client! Getting clients to do testimonials for you on social media is the best. If that client has a business – she promotes your business with a recommendation and you do one for her.

With a weekly plan sheet and a definite to do list helps us to achieve so much more. Collette Robichaud who had an organizing business says on your list you want to have 1 big job, 3 medium and 5 small items. What gets written down get done. Impossible really means I’m possible!

Make it a great day!

Dalene

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