Creating and working toward yearly goals is an essential way for you to bring more success to your business, but achieving your goals can seem like a daunting challenge. That’s why we’ve brought together five tips to help you achieve your goals.
1. Know How Much Time You Have
One essential element of making an attainable goal is to give yourself a deadline. Of course, yearly goals are a great way to do this, but good goals aren’t just a year-long endeavor. Consider whether your yearly goals can be broken down into smaller tasks throughout the year or whether some of your smaller yearly goals can be achieved by midyear rather than leaving them for the end of the year.
And speaking of breaking down your yearly goals…
2. Break Things Up
No matter what the large goals you have, they can seem daunting when you look at them as a single, large objective. As a result, it can be a good idea to break those goals down so that you have a smaller, more manageable set of subtasks.
3. Make Sure Your Goals are Measurable
It’s easy to make your goals vague. Maybe you are concerned about failure and are leaving yourself wiggle room in your goals. Maybe you want to make progress in general but are unsure how to measure that progress. However, making your goals measurable is an essential element of ensuring that you can achieve them.
If you’re hoping to add new customers, for example, knowing just how many customers you want to bring in will let you know how you’re progressing throughout the year. If you want to be more consistent about your marketing, make sure you have certain tasks that you must achieve each month.
4. Make Sure Everyone is On The Same Page
Your business’s high-level goals can feel like they don’t connect with every employee’s day-to-day work, but it’s important that everyone knows how their job connects with those goals. No matter what their role, whether they work to market your business or they are working with customers on a daily basis, everyone should have goals that support your business’s goals and should know how their goals support the business.
5. Celebrate Success
Celebrations are great motivation, and celebrating your business’s achievements can help motivate everyone to work harder on their own goals. Celebrations don’t have to be big—breakfast for the team during the last part of a big project or a round of applause at a meeting can still give motivation a boost. No matter how you celebrate, though, that celebration can help everyone at your business keep up their momentum to ensure that you achieve your goals this year.
Need more ideas? Throughout the month of January, we’re going to be bringing you ideas for New Year’s resolutions that you can use in your business. Keep an eye on the blog for more ideas for goals you could pursue throughout the year.
What goals are you working on in your business? We’d love to hear about how you’re working toward achieving them in the comments below!
Have you taken a look at the 2019 Navitor catalog yet? If you haven’t, you might have missed that we have a wide variety of different promotional products joining our offering! Because so many new promotional products are joining our catalog, we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to all those new options. Take Note with NewPens Writing utensils are one of the most effective promotional products, and we are proud to bring two new pens to our offering. If your customer wants a pen that does double duty as a highlighter, the new Fusion Highlight Twist Pen features a built-in highlighter in their choice of four different colors. And if they want something really eye-catching, the Luminate Prism Stylus Pen features illuminated laser engraving and a stylus on a metallic pen for a high-tech look and feel. Raise a Glass to NewDrinkware If your customer wants to go big with their accent mugs, they have two new,larger-volume mug options that are sure to please. The Digital 15 oz. Accent Mug is printed in full color and features a colored interior and handle that can be chosen to coordinate with your customer’s design. The 16 oz. Black Accent Flare Mug is a stylishly shaped black mug with your customer’s choice of five interior colors and printed with a striking single-color design. Is your customer looking for a good way to keep things cool?We’re delivering that, too. The Digital 16 oz. Acrylic Tumbler with Straw pairs a lidded tumbler style that is perfect for picnics and other outdoor events with full color print! And for health-conscious customers, the 20 oz. Aluminum Sports Bottle and 26 oz. Groove Grip Plastic Water Bottle are new water bottle styles that their employees or clients will love. And we have new drinkware accessories, too! For those water bottles, we now have water bottle bags that make them portable and will keep their contents cool. We’re also adding the Slim Fit Pocket Can Cooler to our selection of can coolers, and it is ready-made for the slimmer cans that have recently become popular. Promote with NewOptions Alongside these popular promotional options, we’re bringing you a selection of brand new options for 2019. The Luminate Flashlight Key Fob is a miniature flashlight personalized with illuminated laser engraving. Business Card Sized Mint Dispensers feature sugar free peppermints in a convenient dispenser shaped like a credit card. Lip balm in a variety of flavors is also joining our offering—and it’s made in the USA.If you want to know more or are looking to place an order, take a look at the Promotional Products section of the 2019 Navitor Catalog. And we’d love to see you join the conversation in the comments below.Which of these new promotional products is your favorite?