WE'RE IN THE SEVENTH

annleo
Jul 21, 2014
2 min read

By Carolyn Batschelet, Director of Business Development - annLeo, Inc.

July is a good time to reassess your goals and check your progress. Is this where you expected to be when you put your goals on paper last January? Have some things fallen through the cracks along the way?

If you've gotten off track don't worry - there is still time to correct your path. Maybe you need time for a seventh inning stretch - time to renew and reassess your plans and then get back in the game. Adjust your plan if you need to. Here are some tips adapted from Floyd Wickman to help you choose the right bat, believe for and visualize success and then go hit it out of the park for 2014:

1. Create a LASER FOCUS on your goal. Something that will motivate YOU. Excite YOU. Move YOU to take the action every day to get where you want to go. Too often we have our ‘goals’ handed to us by a boss, a friend, a family member — even an ‘expectation’ from others. That’s not going to do the trick. Make it something YOU can get fired up about and then create a laser beam focus on it. 2. Create a FOOL-PROOF plan to achieve your goal. “Ah, but planning is a lot of WORK.” I know. But a well crafted plan complete with systems in place, daily activities and actionable items coupled with your laser focus is the ‘work’ that will get you where you want to go this year. Luck won’t do it. Wishing won’t make it so. Make the plan – then follow it DAILY. 3. Have an UNSHAKABLE BELIEF that you can achieve your goal. Our minds truly can be our greatest asset or biggest anchor. Give yourself the best gift (and the best shot at success) you can have by fueling your mind and your spirit with the unshakable belief and unwavering conviction that you WILL achieve your goal. Your mind will immediately go to work to help you do just that! 4. Have a SUPPORT TEAM in place to help you achieve your goal. That whole ‘no man is an island thing’? TRUE. Listen you can’t be all things to all people effectively all the time. No one can. The smartest, most successful people I know capitalize on their strengths, delegate the work they can and stay focused on the goal-achieving activities. You need to do the same to make this year your very best. The great thing is – we’re right here to help be part of that support for you! Don’t leave this year’s goals to chance friends. Put these four elements in place in YOUR business and life starting today and you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish. So, stretch if you need to for this seventh inning then get to it my friend - the skies the limit!!