My 2010 Goals

For the past couple of months I have been thinking a lot about how and where I want my business to be by the end of 2010.

Last week, I finally had my goals for the coming year firmed in my mind. I bought a new notebook and wrote them down.

2010 is going to be different for me. I have only one main goal for the new year and around 10 website specific goals.

The start of a new year is my favorite time for goal setting. New Year is good time to see how far I have come and set new goals for the new year. But the truth is – I have not always achieved all my goals. The past two years were the worst.

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2010 is going to be different (I just know it !!!!). This is the year when I want to make a big impact – not on a global scale or anything like that – a big impact just in my small world.

10 years from now when I talk about my business, I want to be able to say that 2010 was the turning point in my business.

‘How do I make this happen though ?’ What kind of goals do I have to set to make it a big year for me ?

Had I achieved all the goals that I set in my previous years, then the turning point of my business would have occurred long time ago. I had set some big goals but my achievement has not always be in line with my goals. So, I started thinking as to why I failed to achieve my goals in the past. If I could just avoid the reason for my failure then I can reach all my goals. After spending some more time thinking along these lines, my main obstacle became clear to me.

My main obstacle was lack of focus. I am passionate about my business – it has been my main source of income for the past 8 years. But still it has not grown to the point where I want it to be. The reason for this is that I have allowed myself to get distracted. I am much better at dealing with distractions now than I was two years ago. But I still have a long way to go.

By distractions I don’t mean starting a new project every second day – I don’t usually get distracted that way. My distractions are usually personal distractions. Since my business is at a level, where it earns a consistent reasonable income, I guess I have become a bit complacent over the years and hence have not tried hard enough to bring myself back to focus.

My only goal for 2010 is to avoid all kinds of distractions – I plan to achieve this by thinking positively, disreagard negative thoughts as they come and go, concentrate on the task at hand, finish one task at a time and move forward.

Distractions will always be there – I can’t put up a door and say ‘Don’t come in’. I have to deal with them better than I did in my previous years. In 2010, I will be frequently asking myself one question – ‘Does this take me closer to my goals or away from it’ ? As a distraction occurs, I will ask myself this question. I will be training myself to the point that this question becomes an automatic reflex to a distraction.

As long as I achieve all that I have on my goals list for 2010, I am positive that my business will grow leaps and bounds this coming year.

So that is my one big main goal for 2010. I will be sharing my journey, my ups and downs all on this blog.

Best,