New Year Resolutions

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As always with a New Year we all tend to make resolutions but according to a news item I heard this morning on the Andrew Marr Show by sometime in March everyone of them has failed to be kept. So, the question is, I suppose, is there any point to making them in the first place. Well, not if the same research is to be believed. Apparently most of end only feeling guilty and focus on the negative aspects. Why is that we put ourselves through the experience of failure then?

For anyone running their own business I guess its not New Year resolutions we should be focusing on, but strategies for making our business more successful, whether that is in terms of market share, turnover, profitability, customer service or any other aspect that is important to us.

In doing so we are not certain of 100% success, but our chances of success are more than that of keeping any New Year resolution we make. So don't depress yourself by committing yourself to almost certain failure. Instead, get your creative juices flowing and think about how you might grow you business in the year ahead. Once thing is for certain, if you don't plan ahead your business is bound to fail.