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New Year’s Resolutions – A List Of Fives

 

1. Talk to at least five percent more existing/past clients every day
2. Talk to at least five percent more potential clients every day
3. Find five ways to improve your product/service
4. Find five ways to get more out of your staff
5. Find five ways to get more profit out of your business
   
   
6. Find five ways to get more sales
7. Find five ways to improve understanding of how sales and marketing works
8. Find five ways to improve operational efficiency and consistency
9. Find five ways to spread the work load and not be so dependent on you
10. Find five ways to make money get used more effectively
    
    
11. Find five ways to improve financial planning
12. Find five ways to spend more time ‘on’ and less time ‘in’ the business
13. Find five ways to communicate the vision/purpose to the team
14. Find five tasks to finish or dump that have been hanging around
15. Decide five decisions you want to make
    
    
16. Focus on five ways to enjoy your social/private life even more
17. Find five ways to maximise your time
18. Find five ways to laugh more
19. Find five ways to congratulate yourself on your successes
20. Find five ways to spend a little more time thinking and a little less time doing, but also…
    
    
21. Find five ways to be a bit more spontaneous!
22. Find five new connections you want to make
23. Find five big steps you want to make
24. Agree five things you are going to do in the next five hours
25. Agree five of the above list that you are going to do in the next five days!
    

  

about the author

 Robert Craven is a keynote speaker and author of the business best-sellers 'Kick-Start Your Business' and 'Customer Is King'. He has recently been described as 'one of the UK’s leading marketing specialists' and the 'entrepreneurship guru'. He runs The Directors’ Centre, helping growing businesses to grow.
For further information, contact Robert Craven on 01225 851044. (rc@directorscentre.com) www.directorscentre.com

Robert Craven©2005, Daily Telegraph Business Club

publication details

First published in Daily Telegraph Business Club, December 2005
Dealer Support Magazine, Jan 06 and on their website.