How do you get anywhere new without utilizing a map or asking for directions? Do you just pile the kids in the car and hope that by driving around aimlessly for hours you will eventually find the place? If you didn’t have such things as the address and a general vicinity it would make your job even harder. Similarly how can you have a successful day without mapping out where you need to go?

Like the map which provides directions, so too does a daily task list (or to do list, if you rather) provide you a direction for your day. The tasks that you list are small tools that help you to make sure that you stay on the road to success. I guarantee you that if you take the time to write out your list daily of all the things you need to accomplish you will be on the track to having a successful and thriving business.

Better yet, why not prepare your task list the night before? That’s right … This is when you are likely best to remember all the things you need to do the next day that were not accomplished in a particular day. Then it is easier for you in the morning to just jump right in and get a great start to your day.

For myself and my business, I take the time each and every night to map out what I need to accomplish the next day so that nothing is ever forgotten. I have found for myself because I do have a busy business, that by setting this out each day I am more productive and I no longer feel lost!!

Good luck!!

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? – Stephen Levine

I want you all to take a minute today and think of someone that you have lost touch with, someone you haven’t spoken with in awhile, or just someone that you need to remind that you love them and reach out and remind them!!

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
– Michael Johnson

This quotation has a great lesson in it … even though others have tried and failed, it is still possible to be a success. I think many of us ignore possibilities because of the fear that they will be a potential failure, especially if others have failed before us. What if, perhaps, you looked at this in a different light and looked at others failures and thought about ways you could try that same thing, but only BETTER!!

Take some time and look at others that have tried something and think about ways that you can improve on their idea. Some of the greatest products, services and ideas are created from fixing someone else’s “mistakes”.

Good luck and enjoy … my goal this week will be to find something that someone else has tried prior to me and failed and I am going to report to you on how I was able to make it really great. I would also love to hear your comments as well!!

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke

This is one of those quotes that the longer you look at it the more you go “Hmmmmmm”.

I love to push the limits … it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you do things that you never would have imagined doing. So just what are you doing to push the limits? What are your “impossible” dreams?

I found this quote on my friend Cristina Favreau’s blog, The Savvy Entrepreneur and I have not stopped thinking about it. It is going to be my mantra this year … let me know your thoughts.

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing”. — Walt Disney