5 Steps to Making Your 2021 Business Action Plan
Okay! We’ve hit February — the year is well and truly off and running. The kids are back at school and hopefully some semblance of routine has returned. Now it’s time to sink our teeth into our business goals for the year.
I’m going to assume you’ve got the “action list” of things you want to achieve, but you might not have yet had time to map out which ones to pursue first and how you’re going to make them happen. So let’s dive into making your 2021 Action Plan.
5 Steps to Making Your 2021 Action Plan
Pick an item from your Action List and transfer it to a new page.
Write down on that piece of paper the Action Item you've chosen and stick it right in the middle and put a big circle around it. Then write all the way around that word all of the things that you can think of that you would need to do, or that would need to happen, to get you from where you are now to being able to achieve whatever that thing is that you've selected. (This can be everything from the practical “I need to hire an admin assistant” or “I’d need to take out a loan” to “I need to talk to my partner about the extra work hours this would require on my part”.)
Once you have that brainstorm all around and you have all of those things listed out, I encourage you to go through and put numbers on them, because some of these things will need to happen before others. What's the first thing that needs to happen? What's the easiest thing that you can find on your list to tick off?
Once everything is numbered, grab another piece of paper, write number one at the top, two, three, four, and all the way down, and put these items into order.
Once you've listed everything out, take the top five things. Have a think about how much time you think it would take you to do whatever it is on the list, and then put a date next to it. Not only do I want you to put the dates next to the top five things you want to do, but I then want you to take your calendar and add reminders in there for each of the necessary steps.
And then repeat this process for any other key goals that require a detailed Action Plan!
Remember we’re going for progress here, rather than perfection.
If you're going to wait until you have the perfect house or the perfect dog or the perfect family, or the perfect anything... then you will never get started.
Let's just do it. Let's get some progress. Let's get some momentum and let's get you stepping towards building the lifestyle that you love!
If you’d like support, advice, and an accountability partner to help you make this happen, I have just the thing.
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