New Year's Resolve

This time of year there’s a lot of attention paid to the self-improvement promises we’re making to ourselves for the new year. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, small business owners make resolutions for their businesses too. And most businesses are no better than individuals are at actually following through on their resolutions.

I, too, take stock of my business at the end of the year. But I don’t think of New Year’s Resolutions as a "to do" list. I prefer to think in terms of the assets that I’m building in my business.

At the end of 2006, my principle resolutions were in the area of developing additional programs and adding new dimensions to my audience. Like everyone else, I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted to. But I did make real progress in these areas.

While continuing to deliver my existing programs, I developed some new ones, including one on seizing the opportunities that matter and one on securing the right debt financing for your business. There’s another that I’ll be telling you about in the next few weeks.)  A tv producer attending one of my speeches on seizing opportunities invited me to be a guest expert on a smart MSNBC show for entrepreneurs called "Your Business" that aired on December 2nd. And also in the area of adding elements to my audience, I started working with a terrific organization, the Freelancers Union to bring powerful business strategies to solopreneurs, after all, they’re entrepreneurs too.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the most popular business resolution is to increase profitability. It’s something I look forward to helping all of you do in 2008.

Happy New Year!

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[Everything Counts]

Personal development is a lifelong pursuit because life is a work-in-progress. You never totally arrive; there is always some polishing to do, some knowledge to gain, and a love to deepen. Self-development ends only when we run out of time. You are and will always be the self in evolution.