Business is living thing

The popular motivational speaker of the 21st century, Zig Ziglar, once said, ''Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation." New Year is the time for new beginnings. The end of one calendar year and the start of a new one opens itself to starting new things - making plans, taking new initiative, self-improvement. Even if you are not the type that makes resolutions (though nearly half of us do), chances are you still have plans, hopes, and dreams for the upcoming year - ideas for writing a book or starting a new business. We all have some ideas for what we want the future deliver to us.
Survey analysis revealed that 45% of people usually make New Year's resolutions, but only 8% of those people are usually successful in achieving them. Yet, people who set goals are a whopping 10 times more likely to attain their goals than the people who don't.
So this New Year, make your resolutions, set your goals, or merely state your intentions and then make them happen. Whether you are trying to write a book, enroll in a business school or become a parent, there is no better time to get started on it than now. I have already started working on my goals and resolutions.
Here are five steps that can help everyone of us create the new beginnings we want this year:
1. Create specific resolutions or goals. We need to be explicit in describing what we want to achieve. The more realistic we are, the better we can envision the end result. If you want to become a published author, instead of saying ''I want to start writing a book,'' say ''I will start writing one page of my about to be published book everyday, including Saturday.''
2. Take personal responsibility, make a commitment to yourself. When we get up each morning and go to work, we are fulfilling a commitment we've made to our employers. Yet when we set goals for ourselves, we often let them fall through as not a priority. Why should our commitment to ourselves be any less important than any other commitment? It shouldn't be, so when you make resolution for yourself, commit to it and follow through.
3. Create a timeline for achieving measurable goals. When we write deadlines on our calendar, it makes it much easier to keep track of what we should be doing. By creating a timeline for when we should achieve certain steps, we are breaking down something that feels huge and unachievable into increments that don't feel so overwhelming. If you want to publish your first book of five chapters, say by July, it becomes much less daunting to set a goal of writing one chapter every month. That will give you five chapters by May. Taking baby steps may take longer, but we're more likely to achieve our goals.
4. Follow through. We've set our goals, made a commitment, and set-up achievable milestones. Now we've got to DO IT! Get started - sign up for the business school, start writing that manuscript...Once we start, we've got to keep going.
5. Have faith in God and believe in yourself. This might be the most formidable step of all. This is one of those concepts that seems easy but requires diligence to put into practice. Our goals and resolutions are only as achievable as we believe them to be. If we don't believe in ourselves, our chances of succeeding dwindle down to nothing. If we don't have faith in God and believe in our dreams, we will never succeed no matter how much we try.
Finally, preparation is a powerful tool in creating something you want in your life. Preparation combined with action is almost guaranteed to help you achieve your resolutions and goals. Take time to prepare, take the appropriate action, follow through and make 2017 the best year possible.
To Your Success,
See You At The Top In 2017. #MoreGrace!