Suggestion: Goal setting

Happy New Year everybody! The start of a New Year in combination with a short holiday break is a good moment to evaluate and reset your goals. Why should you set goals for yourself? 

1. Well, companies are setting goals as well; sales targets, budgets to control costs, and so on.  

2. Goal setting is one of the main topics which you can find in almost every book, program, magazine or e-book about success and entrepreneurship. The most quoted author on this subject is Napoleon Hill. In his book 'Think and Grow Rich' he wrote: 'Goals are dreams with a deadline'. So, it's about dreaming, thinking through the things you want to achieve and trying to get some focus in your daily activity. 

3. Stay focused. This element of goal setting is becoming more important in our 'attention society'. Every company, brand, band, blogger and 'social networking friend' is asking you to buy, read, listen or connect. But what about your own plans? Can you give your friends, family, business and customers enough attention? You'd better set goals, plan and act to survive the information overload.

Funny enough most of us will plan to write more blogposts, to use Twitter more frequently and to enlarge our social digital network even more. Great when these activities are part of your plan, beware if it doesn't!