“Optimism is the foundation of courage” – Nicholas Murray Butler
Where does the time go? We’re at the halfway mark in 2017. How has 2017 been for you and your business? Are you on track to where you should or need to be toward your year-end goals? Set priorities for the second half of the year. Do your employees know where the company is and what steps to take to get to the next goal post? Keeping your employees informed helps them get to the next level where you should or need to be.
The question is, are you pleased with where you are going this year? Are you achieving what you set out to do? If not, you still have another 6 months until the end of the year to accomplish your goals. Having the performance and insight can fully prepare you to finish the back half of the year strong.
Something about the New Year and new beginnings inspires so many people to make promises to succeed beyond the previous year. By evaluating yourself and what you want to do to get better in yourself and your work most people stretch the time you have to accomplish everything by the end of the next 12 months. The clock strikes midnight and bam! This is your year: the year of opportunity. For many you realize that 6 months have gone by and hope that the next 6 months don’t sneak up so fast like the first 6 did.
What have you accomplish on your new year’s resolution list?
Strengthened Your Business in the Second Half of the Year
Most people either don’t have a New Year’s resolution list or just don’t abide by what is on it. In any case, if you made a vow that you will do better this year than last, has that worked out for you? By day three 10% of the population have abandoned their promises. By the end of the first 30 days of each year most people give up on the promises for the New Year. Where do you fit?
Break your specific tasks down into small pieces. This helps to complete each task in shorter time periods. You can plan out where you want to focus each of the next 6 months and then work accordingly.
How much of your tasks can you give to others? Your team can complete some of the tasks. Check on them from time-to-time without micro-managing to find out how much of the task was accomplished. If you complete tasks yourself or with a team, use a checklist as it will help you to know what you have left to accomplish. Hold yourself accountable.
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties”
– Harry Truman
Don’t think that because half the year is over that you can’t accomplish what you want. You have another 6 months to accomplish a lot of things. Think for a few minutes and write down all that you can do.
With the first half of 2017 officially gone, how are you going to accomplish what you expect to by the end of the year?
For some people six months is enough time to change course if necessary. Most likely you have so many things to work on that you think it will be impossible to complete them all by the end of the year. By focusing and concentrating on the positive of each task you will complete each impossible task that will be possible for you to complete. Duplicating last year’s results isn’t challenging enough for what you really want. Think about what you can do that is more effective and productive to actually surpass last year.
What will you create for yourself in the last six months of this year?
The next 6 months is a chance to step back, evaluate where you have been and where to go from here. Take action to get back on track if necessary. Make the second half of the year count! Be more positive toward achieving your year-end goal. Work on the easy tasks first and then work through the harder ones. One by one you will accomplish what you want.
Using a simple exercise: get out paper and a pen, and make two lists: those people that help and those that don’t.
What inspires you or what motivates you to move yourself forward to the next level of success? Give yourself a reward each time you complete a task, the incentive alone should make it worthwhile to get done what needs to be accomplished.
New Creative Ideas Will Need to Bubble to the Surface
“Don’t give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.” — Bear Bryant
Be open to creative thinking for grabbing the attention of new customers and clients. Your existing customers and clients want to see fresh novel products and services you present them with. Here is your opportunity to move in that direction. Once you start you need to create and product things every quarter to keep your customers and clients from leaving you and go to your competitor.
Ask your employees for ideas they have. Their ideas might be what grab the attention of your customers and clients
What can you do to make the latter part of 2017 even more successful for you?
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt