It’s A New Year! What’s Your Goal?

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2018!  We all made it to the new year.  Yay for us!  Now what?  Have you set your 2018 goal?  So, what was the result?  Do you have your plans in place for 2018?

Its A New Year! What's Your Goal?

I am naturally a planner.  I like to make lists for everything.  I wanted to find a more cohesive way to help me plan for 2018.  It was important to me to  combine my personal life and my business life into my planning strategy for the new year.  After all, I’m just one person with several areas of focus.  In my pursuit to find a planning tool for the new year, I searched and reviewed many planning strategies.  Just in case you didn’t know, I am a YouTube-aholic.  That’s probably not a word, but that’s me.  I finally found the goal tracking planner for me!  It’s call PowerSheet by Cultivate What Matters.

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Create Your 2018 Financial Plan

This week on Tuesday Tips we will continue to talk about how we are preparing for year end and setting your business up for success in 2018.

Create Your 2018 Financial Plan

As a business owner, you should be having a CFO day each week. If you were doing that, you should be looking at your business financials.  You should know:

  • How much money you received this week?
  • How much do you expect to receive next week?
  • How much were the expenses for this week?
  • How much is the projected expenses for next week?

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Preparing for Year End

This week on Tuesday Tips we will continue to talk about how we are preparing for year end and setting your business up for success in 2018.

This week, I am headed to San Jose, California to attend the annual QuickBooks conference. I am preparing to learn new skills that I can share with you in the coming months. I attended this conference last year and it has made a tremendous difference in my business in 2017.

Preparing for Year End

What are you doing to prepare for your success in 2018?

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Are You Ready for 2018?

We are about mid way through the month of November.  Have you started thinking about what your goals are for 2018 yet?  If you haven’t, you should be thinking about it and putting plans in place to finish out 2017 strong so that you can hit the ground running in 2018.

I recently posted a video asking savvy business owners this exact question.  There is about 6 weeks left in 2017, are you prepared to close the year out strong?  My question to you is: when was the last time you took a look at your numbers?  Do you know how much income you brought in last week?  Do you know what your expense are this month?  Do you know if all of your product lines are profitable?

Are You Ready for 2018?

If you answered no to any of these questions, NOW is the time to start thinking about them.  Now is the time to know where you are financially in your business. Now is the time to which product lines are profitable.  I know that numbers are not your thing.  I know that you started your business to do your thing and you are awesome at it, but one of the tasks that go along with running a successful business is keeping track of your numbers.  I know that you don’t like to pay attention to that kind of thing, but here is why you should.

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