Taking Stock of You
Here it is the end of December and I am in the organizing mode again… happens every year to me.
Through the busy-ness of the year there are some things that keep getting left on your to-do list and they build up. You get to a point where you HAVE to deal with them so they are no longer a distraction. Time on Task surpassed my expectations this year, my first full year in business and now I find that I will use my time over the next couple weeks to take stock of ME!
It might be an out of date expression – taking stock, but I am definitely one of those Year-end, gotta get everything in order – types of people.
My plans are to:
- Look over my business plan – which is about a year and half old now and make changes and updates. I know I have moved into a couple different areas than when I wrote this plan, plus I will look back at what I projected for the first two years and see how I did. Hard to move forward unless you know where you have been.
- Brainstorm some new ideas for business and changes that I want to make, in a week I will be launching an eBook I wrote – Talking on Twitter – meant to help people learn to use Twitter themselves. I have another book in my head waiting to get out on paper as well as several other ideas that need to be written down and logistics worked out. New plans!
- I clean out my filing cabinet, shredding what is no longer needed and filing away my taxes and other files that must be kept for a certain amount of time.
- and this year, I plan to torture my husband (hehe) and work through a plan together for the future. I bought a book earlier this year from Dr. Ron Arndt, a Dental Management Coach who has a Couples Planning Kit. As a couple, we rarely sit down and talk about finances and plans for the future – personally, for business and for the family. This year we are going to do just that using Dr. Arndt’s book as a guide. I have already peeked through it and it covers almost anything you would think of to plan for your lives together.
Well, those are my plans… what have I missed? What areas of your life do you find yourself taking stock of at this time of year? Leave a comment here so others can get ideas from you!
All my Best to my readers for a Happy and Prosperous Year in 2010!
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Kathy – I am very much like you; I too am taking stock of myself. It happens this week each year. New plans, new motivations for being a better person all the way around. I like to try to create new habits – mostly for organizing myself and my life.
I too have purchased Dr. Ron Arndt’s book and will be torturing my husband with it, (maybe we should introduce our husbands to each other and they could commiserate!)
Recently, I finished the book, “Eat That Frog” and I now have a project list going that has each step needed to complete the project. My day is becoming more organized and I don’t feel as stressed as I used to. Of course, I always do the client work first – but then, I eat my biggest, ugliest frog. It feels really good.