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SUPPORT Don’t leave your business success to chance this year!

How was 2018 for you? Like most business professionals I’m sure you have a good sense of how it went even if you weren’t

closely monitoring progress against well-defined goals (well done if you were – you’re in the minority!).

Business goals are a bit like New Year’s Resolutions – easy to set, hard to stick to. The majority will be abandoned by Easter.

So how can you make sure that this year your goals are achieved month after month right up till 31st December? Here are our three golden
rules for setting goals.

#1 Write down exactly what you want to achieve.

Writing something down is proven to dramatically increase your chances of achieving it. Then pin it up in your office or somewhere you will
see it daily. If you’re a visual type of person, draw out your goals, create a mind map or do a vision board that you look at regularly.

#2 Visualise what success looks like.

Spend some time visualising how achieving your 2019 goals will look, feel and play

out. Think it through in full technicolour imagination. How is this making you feel?
You should be excited. If not, ask yourself why. Is it that the goal is not that important

or is it too vague? It’s worth the time investment to understand at a deeper level

what achieving your goals means to you and your business. What are the
consequences of not achieving your goals? It’s important to have a strong emotional

response to why you’ve set those goals as it’s that that will put the fire in your belly

to achieve them.
#3 Be specific

Is your goal specific enough? You need it to catapult you into action and if it’s too vague that won’t happen. Your head,
heart and gut all need to be in agreement! A good test for its specific enough is if there are tangible measures to show it’s

been achieved.