How much of your planning is based on “What do I have to do today?”

How much of what starts out in the AM as what you have to do today is not completed by the end of the day?

How many things did you do during the course of the day that was not on your today list?

Working this way is working in a reactive mode. Your doomed, business wise and health wise.  This type of environment leads to frustration, high blood pressure and a high probability of failure. Let alone little or no growth.

It’s a fact, CEO’s, business owners and business mangers working 70% or more in a reactive mode have a higher stagnation and failure rate. Reverse that and the success rate goes up. Your blood pressure will go down. Maybe not back to normal, but down. A little stress can be good. Read my article on Stress at http://www.1888articles.com/stress-and-aging-00io5kd383.html

Changing your habits and going from a reactive mode to a proactive mode is a process. It does not happen overnight but if you work at it over a period of a few months you can move to the proactive way of operating. You will feel the difference. To start the process of changing you’re day to day functioning from a reactive mode to a proactive mode you need to develop two plans, a personal plan and a business operating plan. Then you have to start working both plans. Seeing your personal plan and goals developing as your business plan progresses will motivate you more and more. Before you know it you are operating in a proactive mode. You’re a happier person. It’s not easy. It takes work, focus, perseverance and patience. But if you want to be successful this is what you have to do.

A true saying:

If your work is successful, it generates more work; as a result, the concept of “finishing your work” is a contradiction so blatant and so dangerous that it can lead to nervous breakdowns – because this puts the pressure on the wrong places in your mind and habits.

How often have you felt that you just don’t have enough time to get everything done? We empathize. If we lead productive lives, we will die with work undone.

                                                                                                “Author Unknown”

If we plan we will reduce stress and enjoy our work efforts and life more.

Learn more about planning at http://www.bizstrategies.biz/strategic-business-planning.html

Let us hear from you. What are your thoughts and comments on this topic? What else would you like to have explained?

The strategies we will be offering are based on mine and our business partners’ personal successes and failures, along with successes and failures of businesses we’ve been involved with. Through these experiences the strategies and solutions we will be presenting have been proven. They work! Most were learned from failures we’ve had and how we corrected our own and other businesses’ mistakes. Failures, perseverance and support will lead to success. Many of today’s millionaires struggled though failure, some multiple failures, before they became successful.

We have many topics we can talk about such as:

• Business development: pitfalls, solutions and plans
• Strategic Alliances: different types, what works and what doesn’t.
• Business Funding: types, needs, what type of funding works for specific situations, where and how to obtain funding.
• Operating: pitfalls, solutions and plans
• Business Financial Management in good and bad times.

However… before we launch our own topics we would like to hear from you. What aspects of business… problems, situations, solutions and plans would you like to chat about?

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Andy Nester