Did You Achieve Your Goals This Year?

As the end of the year approaches us at full speed, now is the time to look back at the goals you set for yourself and your business. Look back and see if you have achieved your goals for this year. If you have, that is great, you are well ahead of your yearly plan and can start to think about how you want to further progress next year, improving both yourself and your business.

If you haven’t met your goals just yet, don’t worry. There is still another month to go and this is the time to push and reach your goals. The feeling of achievement at the end is well worthwhile. But if this is still not achievable don’t put yourself down, there is more time to achieve these goals. Think about what you can do next year to improve and meet the goals you set for yourself. Learn from this year and move onwards and upwards.

Are You Reaching Your Goals?

Previously on our blog, we helped you to set some goals for the upcoming year. Now, we are coming up to being halfway through the year, how are you doing with achieving your goals? Now is the time that you should look back at the goals you set at the start of the year and think of ways you can progress.

It is easy to get lost and forget about the goals you had set for yourself. Taking some time to look back on them, will help you to rejig your memory and get you set on achieving your goals for the year. It is never too late to start your goals, as long as you put your mind to it, you will be able to achieve anything you can think of.

When you look back at your goals, you will be able to make an action plan. Showing you the simple steps to take to achieve your goals for the current year.

Setting Goals For 2022

No matter who you are, it is important for us all to set goals for the upcoming year. As December is drawing to a close, now is the best time to start deciding on what you to achieve throughout 2022.

By having your goals predecided upon before the new year comes around helps to relieve the stress. It helps you feel prepared and get a head start on your goals for the next year.

Setting goals for the next year is important for everyone. Whether you own a business or not. Everyone needs to set goals for their lives. This will help everyone to progress. It can be anything simple from saving money, trying something new or just making yourself a better person. These goals will help you and will help you or your business to progress through the new year.

Is Networking Vital For Business Owners?

Business owners across the United Kingdom always speak highly about Networking and how this helps their business to grow. With business owners who attend networking groups always speak highly about them and encourage other business owners to join them. But, today we want to discuss whether this is truly a vital part for business owners.

Networking is without any doubt an amazing marketing tool for businesses. It is an excellent way to make connections with other business owners that may in turn help you to grow. But you do need to ensure that you find the right networking group for you and your business.

Depending on what your business is, attending business networking groups may not be a great way to be spending your time. A lot of the time at networking events you are just chatting to other business owners and not always gaining more work. So, you need to think carefully about where your work is coming from, who you are targeting, and what will work best for your business.

If you are targeting other business owners with your business, then yes, networking will work amazing for you. This will be an amazing way for you to gain more business and more connections with people who will benefit from your services. But, if you are selling products that are open to everyone, focusing on business owners may not be the best way to spend your time.

You need to think about your business and what works best for you. With most networking groups meeting up in the early hours of the morning, it may not be achievable for those with families. So, before you beat yourself down about not being able to attend networking groups, remember there are more ways to gain business that will suit your needs.

The Importance Of Making Connections In Business

Making connections is extremely important when running your own business and becoming successful in your life. It is important to make connections with your working colleagues, your customers, and your competitors.

Making a connection with your working colleagues is important to create a happy workplace. We all should know that a happy workplace is one that is effective in its role. No matter what your role is in the business, it is good to make connections and have people that you can rely on within the business.

Making connections with your customers is also vital for any business. Making these connections with your customers will help them to feel good about your business. It will help you to gain word of mouth advertising as your customers will happily talk about you when the connection is made. You will find that your business grows more rapidly when people are happy with the service and have a strong connection with you.

Making a connection with your competitors is also a good idea within business. Now, you don’t need to become the best of friends, but it is a good idea to have a mild connection with them and follow their work. This can help you to gain new ideas of what you could be doing to improve your business. Helping you to learn what similar customers like and how you can target them. It is not always about stealing their customers as you do want to maintain a good relationship but use some of their ideas to help grow your own business with new customers.

These are just a few reasons why making these connections are good in every sense for businesses. You will see your business rapidly begins to grow when business connections are made.

Where Do You Want To Be In 5 Years?

You are probably wondering why I’m asking someone I don’t know where they want to be in 5 years. Well, it’s simple. This simple question will get you thinking. It will help you to create a life plan for the next 5 years.

But why 5 years, why not a year or 10 years. Well, 5 years is the ideal point. It is not too close that you feel pressured to reach your goals fast. But not too far in the future that you forget about your plan and go off track. 5 years gives you the best amount of time to create a plan and work towards it. Helping you to reach these goals in an ideal time frame.

Having a goal for where you wish to be in 5 years will help you to drive your business forward. It will help you to discover your passion and the true meaning of you. Helping you to progress in the ways you want to and not how you are told you have to.

Why Should We All Take Time Away?

Taking time away from our working lives is extremely important. We have spoken about taking a break, but today we are on about proper time away. It is extremely difficult for people who love their career, are self-employed or are made to feel like they need to be at work all the time to take any time away. This includes their dedicated holiday. But, we can’t stress enough how important it is to take time away from your career.

Without you even realising it, your working career no matter how much you love it, can affect your mental health. Taking dedicated time away will help you to keep your mental health stable.

With self-employed workers, it is even harder to take time away. With the time you spend working on your own business correlating to the amount of money you earn. But again taking time away can help you. It can help you discover new ways to improve your business. It gives you time dedicated to yourself and your family to regain your energy and spirit.

I Need A Break – Will This Damage My Dream?

There is a huge misunderstanding in the world, that simply taking a break is going to damage what you are dreaming of doing. But this is not the case at all. Taking a simple break from your day-to-day life can help you in amazing ways. You should not be looked down on for having a break and focusing upon yourself. Now, I am going to share with you some of the main reasons why breaks will do you the world of good!

Time To Focus On You! 

Taking breaks from your normal life and work-life gives you the opportunity to focus on yourself. Giving you the time to find your true happiness with what you want to do in life. Giving yourself time to focus on your own self is important for self-growth.

You May Find A New Passion

Taking a break is an excellent time for you to possibly find a new passion. With you having a break from your normal work life, you may find a new passion. Discovering a new passion may boost your spirit in pursuing a new career path, in the long run boosting your mentality to reach your dream.

Extra Time For Research

Everyday life can get away with you, with you completely forgetting about the dream you are chasing. Taking regular breaks can help you to in fact get back on track. With you having extra time to conduct a range of in-depth research that will enable you to reach your dream life.

So, if you need to take a break, please don’t worry. Needing a break is completely normal. Taking a break can in fact boost your mentality for chasing your dream life. It will never damage your dream, only ever offer you new alternatives to the life you dream of having.

Why Is Motivation Important?

Motivation, whether this is from others or ourself, it is extremely important for self and business growth. Having motivation to do something compels us to complete the task. Giving us a reason to do what we are wanting to do. Motivation from others can be anything from positive feedback to a generic ‘you can do it’. All of these will help you to achieve your dream and what you are setting out to do. Self-motivation is just as, if not more, important than motivation from others. You need to feel as if you can do this yourself. Motivating yourself will help you not only to complete the task you have set, but it will help your mental health. With you feel accomplished when you have achieved the goal set.

Motivation helps us all in different ways. With the most being the encouragement it gives us to achieve our dreams. It is the most successful way of achieving your goals.

Why Will Setting Targets Help You To Achieve Your Dream Career?

Setting targets is one thing you can do to help achieve your dream career. Seeing how far away your dream career is in the future can be off-putting. Making it possible for you to lose motivation to work towards this dream career. However, if you were to set targets, you will find that you are more motivated to work towards your dream career. With small targets helping you to realise that each small accomplishment is a step in the right direction. The targets which you set yourself are completely up to you, some of our favourites include posting on social media x amount of times, growing your interactions with others, selling x amount of products in x amount of time or learning a new skill to help your business to grow. Each time you complete any of these targets you will feel more accomplished and more motivated. Being able to cross off each target will help you to visualise the progress you are making.