Six Strategies for getting BREAKTHROUGHS in YOUR Business

 Here is the continuation of yesterday's article by Gary Lockwood, enjoy.

Take meaningful TACTICAL ACTION: 

These processes ensure that your actions and decisions are aligned with your values and vision. You will set critical milestones, success yardsticks and key tracking indicators so you will achieve your goals faster and easier. 

To be goal directed, you need goals. Set aside a couple of hours this week to contemplate your 3 or 4 or 5 major business goals for the remainder of the year. Don't get hung up on the small stuff. Look beyond today and this week and this month. Picture yourself on December 31 reflecting on the significant accomplishments of the year. What will have had to happen to make you happy with your progress, professionally and personally?

Don't forget to include your personal goals in here. They may be family related and growth related (preferably both). When your monthly goals are in sync with your long-term goals, and your daily activities are leading toward your monthly goals, you achieve "Goal Congruence".

Enjoy an unparalleled QUALITY OF LIFE: 

In our high-demand, knowledge-based economy, issues such as free time, happiness, satisfaction and peace of mind are not just nice-to-have. These things are crucial to your ability to operate an enterprise at peak effectiveness. 

The emergence of creativity, ideas, and information as our most valuable resources, and the pervasiveness of the global, 24-hour business world have changed our concept of "time equals money". Now, it's "results equals money". And we all know that more time at the office does not mean more results. In fact, it often means fewer results and more mistakes.

What's the answer? The solution is to take time away from your business. Free time makes you sharper. Free time provides the rejuvenation you need to restore your confidence and sense of wellbeing. You come back from time off with a new perspective, a higher energy level, increased creativity, and often, a breakthrough idea. Take one vacation a year, get one break-through. Take two vacations, get two breakthroughs. Take three, get three.

Getting and keeping a superlative quality of life is best done systematically, not just when convenient. By consciously attending to the balance in your life, you can create a rich quality of life most people only dream of ever having. 

To be continued.