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Best-Laid Plans Going Awry For You?

Robert Burns stated it well in “To a Mouse” when he made this statement “The bestlaid plans of mice and men go oft awry.” No matter how carefully you plan a project something still may go wrong.

How do I determine what plans are going to most effectively carry out the objectives and strategies of our overall business plan?

Which elements will make my plan successful?

How will I get beyond the obstacles along the way?

Meeting Objectives
In order for the objectives you have determined in your business plan to be carried out you must come up with the specific plans to accomplish those objectives. Each of those objectives stemmed from a strategy. The objectives broke down the strategy into smaller and more specific parts. The plans go another step into clarifying how and by when the objectives will be met. Your plan is really a project made up of many action steps.

Prioritizing Plans
How do you decide which plan deserves top priority? It is important to consider which plan is going to contribute the most to the growth of your business.

Where would the effort show the most results? Are you considering what is most important to your business not just on what seems to be most urgent? Steven Covey in First Things First writes about the trap of looking at just the shortterm needs and never getting to the more important steps that will truly grow your business.

Keep the previous parts of your business plan in mind. It is important to integrate the plans with the objectives and strategies. Keep focused and avoid getting off the trail if you want to get to the other side of the forest!

Selecting a Plan
In looking at a plan consider the financial obligations that are involved. Is there adequate financial support available to take the plan to completion? Also to consider is determining the plan with the highest return on your investment of time and money. Part of the consideration for the cost of implementing a plan is how long it will take to complete. You’ll need to estimate the time required as well as the cost of the project.

Determining Planning Steps
Once you have decided on a clear plan for your efforts it is time to determine what is the very first step. Even the very first step must be broken down into increments. List these small increments so that you are very clear what the project will entail.

Sometimes it is helpful to try a different approach for planning other than just listing items on a word document or piece of paper. Using a large piece of paper you can start writing down all the items that must be considered. These can be scattered over the paper with lines connecting those items that are relevant and in certain categories.

Colorcoding the various categories can make your direction more obvious. This is called mind mapping and can be a way to access all parts of the brain and let you be more creative with your planning.

I used this method in planning this article. I had categories of: Determining the Plan Actions To Take Obstacles Delegation and Measurement. Going out from these were the various segments of those categories. I found that my thoughts flowed more easily than if I were making an outline. That can get pretty boring and keep you stuck in a box with your thinking.

Obstacles To Success
Over promising was the first obstacle that came to mind for me. I hear this often from clients. In an effort to show our enthusiasm we can be a bit too enthusiastic about our concept of time and money. It’s critical to think rationally for the long haul of a project not just in terms of how the initial sprint will go.

Another obstacle may be our reaction when we feel we have used “poor judgment” or “made a mistake” along the way on a project. This can be a real energy sapper.

As Richard Carlson shared in his book Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff About Money it’s important to laugh at your mistakes. When you focus on the mistake and make a really big deal of it you are much more likely to repeat the mistake. Our mental energy is a powerful tool for our success or failure. If our energy is abundant we are more creative and will see more solutions and opportunities. We actually build on our strengths.

Other obstacles can be family concerns physical tiredness and health challenges. Be aware of these and do what you can to resolve them so that you will not be distracted from the completion of your plans.

Delegation
A huge obstacle to completion of goals is trying to do it all yourself! We can get so possessive of a project that we feel that we want to be in control of every aspect to make sure it is completed well. Most of the time if you can complete a goal all by yourself it is probably not a big enough goal. Being open to seeing how others can support you is a huge piece of the success for so many people in our world who are making a difference.

Measurement
How do we measure our success?

Have we completed the project that supported our strategy and objectives?
Were our estimates of time and money accurate?

If the answer to either of these questions is negative it’s time to evaluate what could be done differently the next time. Looking clearly at the statistics makes this process so much simpler.

Acknowledgement
What most of us forget to do is to acknowledge WHAT WENT WELL!

We can focus so much on everything that needs improvement that we forget to look at what was very successful. By this focus we can also learn what we want to continue doing in future projects. And what specifically caused the success?

Really look over the notes and achievements and discuss these with everyone involved in the project.

With this knowledge in mind of what to keep and what to change you’ll be ready to take on your next plan to get even closer to the business success you deserve!

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Exuberant Productivity Coach Suzanne Holman MAEd works with financial service professionals realtors and selfemployed professionals determined to make every hour they work truly productive so they have quality time and abundant energy for fun and family! For a FREE Exuberance Assessment and tips for increasing your productivity and having a more satisfying life visitExuberant Productivity.com

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Benefits Of Network Marketing

Many people realize that network marketing is a powerful business tool to use today. There are so many opportunities and so many different types of industries that just being a sole person in the business world that will have you quickly lost. Before you know it you might become overwhelmed and feel lost.

There are many benefits of network marketing. One of the major benefits is that you will not be running a company all by yourself. It is very difficult to run and operate a company while trying to also find customers and clients. If you go into network marketing it is like you have minipartners in your business. You are no longer alone.

Each time that you network with someone it becomes a positive circle. For example you meet and network with John Smith. John Smith has five really cool friends in your niche market. John lets his five friends know about your products and services. Then each of these friends lets another friend know. In essence even though he does not work for you or have an invested interest in your company John Smith has become a minipartner in your business.

Network marketing enables you to find terrific deals and tons of information in your niche area. Let’s look further at the example with John Smith. More than likely John Smith is going to have something that you can market as well. If nothing else he will have lots of information that he has learned about your particular niche. Sharing your ideas and talking with one another will help you expand and mold your current business.

It is cost effective to network market. For one it is virtually free advertising. Remember all of those friends that John Smith told about your company products and services? He was giving advertisement for your company without you spending a single dime!

Remember all of those networked friends that John talked to who are now talking to their friends? That is even more advertising without spending any money.

Network marketing allows you to reach more potential customers and clients for your niche market products and services. Just like when you met John and he talked to his friends who talked to their friends it becomes a positive circle. Without any additional effort you are already connecting with more potential customers and clients for your market.

Another aspect of network marketing is that it saves time. If you had to go and individually talk to each of John’s friends in order to tell them about your company that would begin to take up a lot of time that you could be using for other business tasks.

Because you networked with John he is spending the time while visiting with his friends to let them know about your company. As a natural progression those friends are spending their time talking to additional people that they know. While all these network people are busy talking to one another and to new people you are spending your valuable time completing other business tasks.

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About the writer:  Zach Thompson is a 23 yearold network marketer marketing consultant. Why Become a Distributor?