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Business plan review after one week.

Sunday, January 10, 2016.

I just sat down and re-read my business plan. I think I'll print it out and put it in my spiral to keep with me, as it's hard to remember all of them off the top of my head.

So far I'm doing pretty good. I've kept my spiral with me for notes, I tracked my outfits on my calendar. I haven't started reading a goal related book, because I'm in the middle of a 5 book novel series. I also haven't scanned any business cards in the past week. I will have to figure out how to get that done. Possibly by breaking it up; setting a smaller goal to scan 10 or 25 per day. I'm about 50/50 on the breaks, unless you count running to the scanner as a break. I'm trying and that's what matters. I feel more organized already and I'm sure I'll be adding new things to my plan as the year progresses.

I think what I need the most work on is time blocking. I have great intentions, however I get caught up in doing too many things at once. This week my main focus is going to be on getting one thing done at a time, as much as is possible. Here's a great example of this. I got on the computer to write this and then remembered I needed to issue a policy, so I stopped typing and pulled up my work desktop. I realized I needed to pull up more information from the customer, so I moved to my second monitor and that was where this page was at, so here I am typing again and I still need to get the information and issue the policy.................................. The policy is now issued and I'm back to this. As I said, I'm trying.

The most important thing is keeping these goals in front of me until they become habits. How are you doing with your goals so far?

MW
Copyright 2016



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