Have you set your annual goals for 2017? If you have, I applaud you for doing so because it encourages me to do the same thing with my personal goals. I do routinely set long and short-term business goals. But, I have not taken the step of doing the same thing on the personal side. I also need to devise a method for holding myself accountable for the plans that I have made. The notion of publishing them as an accountability method seems like a pretty good idea. Since I retired from my car...

By: James Clear We all have goals and dreams, but it can be difficult to stick with them. Each week, I hear from people who say things like, “I start with good intentions, but I can’t seem to maintain my consistency for a long period of time.” Or, they will say, “I struggle with mental endurance. I get started but I can’t seem to follow through and stay focused for very long.” Don’t worry. I’m just as guilty of this as anyone else. For example, I’ll start one project, work o...

By: Lance Brown, Published June 8, 2014 Seven in 10 of today’s micro small businesses (those with fewer than 10 employees) say time and cost restraints prohibit them from improving their online presence, according to a new study from Huzzah Media. In today’s mobile world, it is critical that Main Street businesses engage with their customers on a more frequent basis since many of their big box counterparts are already doing so.  But small business owners are struggling to take the n...

By: William Buist, Business Clarity, Strategy, Implementation and Collaboration Specialist, Founder of the xTEN Club, May 27, 2014 ~ Study the journey of the businesses that have been close to Bankruptcy, close to extinction, and you see some strong common features.Firstly, the journey back to health only starts when they simplify. As often as not the issue is that the business has become over complicated. Too many similar products, too many acquisitions of similar companies not yet fully merge...

It's Friday -- Accomplish Just One Thing Today... Are you generally proud of what you have accomplished at the end of the workday? Have you ever written down what you do every day? And what about Friday, do you just start planning for the weekend at the beach and figure that Mondays are better days for getting stuff done? This is important to ponder because an individual is defined by her actions and an organization is a sum of the actions that its employees take. I have been thinking ...