A great many business owners dream big and have great aspirations when they initially start up their businesses, but as time goes on, many seem to lose sight of their goals, let alone think consciously about how they might achieve them and fewer still have an action plan which they follow in order to realise their goals. If your goals for your business are vague and unclear and you have no clear plan in place, how can you ever expect to achieve them?

Businesses without clear goals and planning are easy to spot; they often appear to be going round and round in circles, not progressing past the same point they were at last month, last year, even last decade. Sales may not have altered significantly in years, profits however may well be dwindling due to increasing costs eating in to them and their owners are often stressed out and plagued by confusion as to why their business is failing.

The saying goes, “what you focus on, you get,” so if you’re focusing on nothing, guess what you get… Nothing.

What’s important then is knowing what we need to do if we want more than nothing out of our businesses!

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein

Many of us are ‘experts’ in planning. Planning our holidays, planning family events; weddings etc, planning for important occasions such as Christmas.

But how often do we set aside un-interrupted time to ‘plan’ for the success of our business?

We suggest a single page action plan to move towards the ‘future’ you want.

First step is Reflect and evaluate your past before planning for the future:

We use a simple ‘Take Control of Your Future’ preparation pack completion of which will enable you to;

• Count your Victories…
• Identify your Wins…
• Identify your Challenges…
• Recognise the things that you are Grateful for…
• Pinpoint your key learnings…
• Assess the performance of your business…
• Review the ‘profit formula numbers’ in your business and identify what specifically you will do to improve them…
• A simply business analysis, a tool to help get really clear on what needs to be put into the plan…

If you would like  a copy of the workbook get in touch…