Happy New Year!

One of my new year’s resolutions this year was to finally make this blog something that people are interested in reading.  I’ve had this site for about seven years, and it’s been in it’s current form for about two years and I’ve done almost nothing with it.  2011 is the year when that changes, along with many other things.

For the past several years, I’ve had a tradition on New Year’s Eve.  After everyone goes to bed, I sit down with a pen and a legal pad, and I brain dump onto the paper.  I think about the past year, and my goals for the coming year, and I get it all out.

Then, I make a list of what I want to accomplish in the next 90-120 days.  It would make sense to set goals for the year, but I think those are too easy to break.  Any goal that I don’t want to start working on immediately isn’t something I even want to bother writing down.  I’ll keep it tucked away until I am ready to work on it.

Anyway, at the end, I’m left with a list of 10+ things I want to accomplish on in the coming months.  These aren’t goals like “make $15,000 a month by March”, but rather goals like “Sell the viral script I’ve been working on” or “Create and sell a line of WordPress themes”.  Sort of like goal/projects.

This master list (which ended up with 13 items – my lucky number) now sits on my desk, and every morning when I plan out my day, I look at the list, and for each item, I ask myself “What can I do today to get myself closer to reaching that goal?”.  It’s a surprisingly effective strategy.  I’ve already made huge progress towards two projects I’ve been sitting on for months!

Writing this post is the first step towards one of the goals, which is to communicate more through this blog, and post valuable information that you can use to help your own business.  If you haven’t sat down recently and assessed everything you are doing online, I suggest you do so soon.  The New Year is a great time to do it, but there is never a bad time.

All the best to you and yours in 2011!  You’ll be hearing from me again soon!