Do You Challenge Yourself In Your Business?
January 28, 2010 by Admin
Filed under Business Basics, Direct Sales
Do you challenage yourself in your home business? If not, you really should!
I like to give myself monthly challenges as this helps to motivate me and helps to keep me on track with my business goals.
I will look over my previous months activities and then come up with a challenge for the following month.
For example:
If I had 4 party bookings in December, I will challenge myself to obtain 5 for January. If I had 7 new customers the previous month, I will challenge myself to obtain 9 in January.
If I spent 10 hours in December networking my business online, I will challenge myself to spend 15 hours in January.
I think it’s very important to keep stats on your month to month activities. Then use these stats to challenge yourself to ‘up’ those states the following month.
Giving yourself monthly challenges can help to motivate you to do even more for your business the following month. If I accomplish the personal challenge that I have given to myself, I like to reward myself with a little something for myself ie. manicure, pedicure, massage, etc. Not only will you end up ‘treating’ yourself with a little something…but you will end up with a business that is growing at a steady pace.
The more you work on your business…the more it grows and the more money you will make.
~Shelly~
This is actually great advice Shelly. I used to think that once my work was done (with setting up the website and putting up products to sell online), I could just sit back and wait for the orders to come in.
Not so! It’s actually hard work being in business for yourself. You have to be the marketing PR person, the social media expert, customer support, IT person… the list goes on and on.
There is never a dull moment when you own a business and it is true… you do get what you put into it. Thanks for reminding me that it’s plan my challenges for the month of February.