5 ways to make next year your best year yet

John Jantsch has a great perspective on the planning that usually happens at this time of year and how to make it meaningful…

“About this time of year, some people get in planning mode for the new year. Often times this planning involves dragging out white boards and reviewing last year’s plan to evaluate progress.

My take it that kind of planning, trying to figure what to do next, only leads to mediocrity. It helps you get a little better, maybe, but it’s usually all down there in the ground level, tactical stuff.

Look, you know what you need to do, why not just stop the planning and jump off the ledge with some audacious goals – the kind that force you to get really, really uncomfortable, the kind that start at about 50,000 feet and manifest as chaos. The kind that change your perspective, your breathing, and your entire organizational vibe.” Source: 5 Ways to Make Next Year Your Best Yet | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

Here are his 5 ways:

• Embrace one big change at a time
• Make meaning important in your business
• Do remarkable or quit being boring
• Get what you’re worth
• Fuse online with off

If you want the meat, you’ll have to go to the source…

Before I go, I’d also like to recommend this book which has been helpful to me in the past. I better go dig it out!