How to Pull All the Benefits From 2011 to Maximize Your Business Results in 2012

If you, like me are about to set your goals for 2012 then its important to first take a step back and pull as much life experience out of 2011 as possible. This way you can get the greatest results from your strategic planning and goal setting. In this article I am going to give you a couple simple questions that will help you make better decisions in your goal setting and strategic planning for the following year.

Outline Your Biggest accomplishments. When we outline our accomplishments we put our mind in a more creative and confident state. Our minds start sorting for ways to stay congruent with the kind of person that would have those accomplishments. That's why the best time to close a sale is right after you close a sale. You are more confident and because of that confidence your mind is in an optimum place to support that confident self image.

Separate each one of those accomplishments and ask yourself:

What are the skills that I have that are responsible for that accomplishments?

What are the beliefs I have about myself that are responsible for that accomplishment?

Focus on enhancing those skills, and stabilizing those beliefs as you plan your future goals. This is how you are going to take the key aspects responsible for your successes and develop them for continual growth in 2012.

Outline your biggest Lessons over the last year, Many times these are going to come from your biggest challenges.

Now outline everything that you will do differently if you are in a similar situation over the next year. Take what your biggest lessons or the things you would do differently and use them as a foundation to make your decisions about what you goals are going to be, and what your plans are going to be for achieving those goals.

List out the things that your are presently engaged in; that if you knew what you know now about them you wouldn't have started doing them. This could be a business activity, or someone that you have hired. This could be a vendor you have choose or a client you took on. Whatever it is, commit to stopping it before you make your new goals and plans.

Take Full responsibility for the results you have gotten over the last year.

Now summarize this information and start your goal setting and strategic planning for 2012.