Six gifts and one more to go. When you put all those gifts to work for you—and several for others—you’ll have a rich, happy, successful, fun, wonderful new year.
There’s only one gift left, and it is certainly one of the best. You know, save the best for last.
The Gift of Intention.
One of the reasons why I think small business owners (you) don’t like to plan is because it’s not inspiring. Choosing your business goal for 2013 is a process of deciding what you should do, what you believe others believe you should do. You save face, but it doesn’t get you in action because there’s no juice in it.
Do you need a goal? Yes! But you require something before your goal, and that’s recognition of what your Intentions are for the year.
Intentions stir up what you want to do. And wanting to do something is far more motivating than “should doing” something.
Recognizing your Intentions for 2013 enables you to see what you really want to accomplish. For example, our big intention for 2013 is to create success for 100 small business owners. That’s a ton more inspiring and makes me far more purposeful than just having a goal of quadrupling our revenue.
And that’s just one of our Intentions. We have several others. By recognizing what they are we can adjust our goal as required to continue to move towards our far more motivating Intentions. Not that the goal isn’t important. Rather that the goal is driven by something much deeper than money. It’s driven by our true reason to be in business in the first place.
Before you get up for another cup of coffee or investigate the other emails in your box, take 5 minutes to ask yourself what your Intentions are for 2013.
With this knowledge you’ll find your rudder to guide your actions straight towards what you want in 2013.
Go forth and do great things,
Martha Hanlon and Chris Williams
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