What’s next in 2013?

Every year in December I like to evaluate my business and life.  Where am I at, where have I come and where am I going?  It is a process that I absolutely love because it allows me to recount my challenges, learnings, and success.  This has been such a powerful exercise for me that I developed the Business Achievement Self Study for my clients.  You can check out the self study but the point of this blog is to highlight the process by which we all develop and grow.

Without understanding where you have been, it is difficult to understand why you are where you are now.  Or as Tony Horton says in P90X, “If you don’t know what you did, how can you know what to do”.  The power of this perspective goes beyond it’s simplicity.  It is truly about modifying your mindset.  It is about setting yourself up for success at your very core!

Where have you been?

Have you ever done a mindless task to get to the end of it and feel no amount of gratification or fulfillment?  You know, something like go through your email or attend a weekly meeting (where nothing was accomplished) or even just drive into work?  You went through the motions and maybe even paid attention for a moment or two but ultimately was on autopilot.

Now compare that to accomplishing something big and grueling like completing your taxes or creating a big program or putting together a conference where by the end of it you not only were somewhat exhausted but you felt absolutely accomplished!

Isn’t that what we all strive for?  To have a sense of accomplishment?  To feel like what we did mattered, made a difference, reached a goal?!

Well the truth of it is that it doesn’t matter if we are on autopilot or working through a big challenging or exciting process, what we do does matter.  What we do either moves us toward our goal or leaves us stagnate or even worse moves us away from our goal.

Where are you at?

So where are you now?  After looking at your past efforts where are you at and why?  How did that action that you took 3 months ago ultimately contribute to where you are now?