Here we are right now in the middle of 2018, and how are you doing in accomplishing your goals for the entire year? With this in mind, it may be wise to check in and see how you’re doing, to see if you’re still on track towards accomplishing all that you want in 2018. One of the interesting things about beginning each new year is that it’s often the time for setting goals for the entire year.
But then sometimes the goals get forgotten, we don’t check in with ourselves during the year to see how we’re doing in accomplishing them, and then much or all of the year can go by without any great change happening. We’ve become locked into our pattern of doing things the same way that we’ve been doing them before, and it can oftentimes just be difficult to break the pattern.
So what are the goals that are still important for you to accomplish within 2018? Is there a lease, a building purchase or sale, or the refinancing of a building that you need to focus on? With interest rates reversing and now being on the upswing, the longer that you wait to get a new loan, the more expensive your monthly payments will likely be. It took decades for the pattern of falling interest rates to finally reverse itself, so now that we’re seeing rates getting higher again, it’s unlikely that this new pattern will reverse itself anytime soon.
In addition, what are the goals that you still want to accomplish within your business? Did you set goals for yourself in your business at the beginning of 2018, and if so, how are you doing at accomplishing them? With this in mind, do you now need to create an updated list of goals to accomplish between now and the end of 2018, while taking into consideration how this first half of the year has gone for you? If we don’t focus on achieving our goals and in doing the activities that will accomplish them, it becomes very easy for us to then get reactive instead of proactive, and then we can constantly feel busy, but we’re not busy doing the important activities that will have us accomplish our goals. So it’s very, very important for us to get clear on what activities we must focus on that will have us accomplish our goals for the year.
Keeping this in mind, a good idea could be to write down the most important activities for you to remain focused on doing during the rest of the year, in order for you to then achieve your goals for the year. Then look at the list for just 30 seconds or so every day. This will help you to stay focused on doing the activities that are truly important to you when so many other distractions are constantly coming at you every day.
