b5 Business Channel Bloggers Share Their 2007 Goals
“Goals for 2007” was selected as the topic for the Business Channel’s January Theme Day. These might include their business goals, personal goals, or goal setting in general. The beginning of the year is a good time to write down your goals in various areas of your life and make specific aims for the coming months.
The bloggers in our channel have shared goals and goal setting as they see it in relation to their lives and blogs. They have approached this topic in their own unique ways and offer some great suggestions and interesting anecdotes I’m sure you’ll find helpful, encouraging, and enjoyabe.
Darlene McDaniel, at Tough Questions? Great Answers!, discusses how to set your goals to give life to your career, not lack of fulfillment or death. “Life choices are the choices that give you a feeling of satisfaction, pleasure, joy or fulfillment. Death choices are ones you make when you feel you have no options.” Check out what Darlene has to say about your choices for 2007.
On Business and Blogging, Des Walsh posts about Goal setting and accommodating change. That can be change in circumstances or changes in the goal-setter’s reasons for setting the goal. He suggests a way of handling this challenge.
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog, extends her Problogger Writing Project Blogging Goal with a story, “The Saloonkeeper’s Daughter,” that shows how loving the people you serve is Nice, Intelligent and Strategic.
Scot Herrick of Pimp Your Work writes about Goals:Uncomplicated. He mentions that we often overcomplicate the goal-setting process. Why not take some of Scott’s suggestions and create less complicated, and ultimately more doable, goals?
Ben Yoskovitz of Start Up Spark, writes about an intriguing topic: New Year’s Resolutions Are for Liars. ”Lots of people make New Year’s resolutions. So few people stick with them,” says Ben. “Instead, set goals constantly. Think about Steve Pavlina’s ideas on goal setting - goals should make you happy in the here and now, in the present. If thy don’t they might not be worth setting at all.” Check further on this topic at Ben’s blog.
On propertycrossroads.com, Maricel Ferrer-Custodio writes about goals you can live by every day of the year, that can make you a better person, achieve the best you can be, in whatever situation you may be in.
Rico at Contract Worker writes about Setting Goals: It’s All About Writing Them Down. Whatever goals you make, write them down! And don’t forget to make your goals specific enough. Read more about the specifics at Rico’s blog.
Mark, at Digital Money World says he’s not a big fan of goals. Read more about his interesting take on different types of goals and success at his post, Trees, Goals, Success & the Rest of That Stuff!
On Linked Intelligence, Scott Allen says that getting the most out of LinkedIn requires some forethought, not just unfocused activity. In the first installment of a three-part series, “Practicing LinkedIn,” he lays out his suggested monthly planning process to help you stay focused and achieve actual results, not just more connections.
Ron at Brand Curve mentions the 5 Goals every Marketer must have for this upcoming year to adapt to the changing consumer and quick trends. See how you can adapt them for your needs.
At Home Biz Notes, I ponder about setting personal and home business goals in the Internet age. How have computers and the Internet changed our lives? How can we continue learning to keep up with current innovations? It’s exciting to be part of this adventure in 2007.
At Franchise Pick, Sean Kelly’s post, “When Setting Goals, Don’t Forget Passion,” contends that the key to successful goal-setting is PASSION…and a minimum of one hot fudge sundae.
Communications plans grow out of the overall company goal, says Eric Eggertson on Common Sense PR. Without commonly agreed goals for the organization, you have no reason to take any action at all.
Enjoy this round-up of posts on goal setting from the Business Channel Bloggers. Do you have any goals setting techniques you can share in the comments? Have you set any goals of your own…or found a goal setting process that has really enabled you to stay on target?
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14 opinions for b5 Business Channel Bloggers Share Their 2007 Goals
Liz Strauss
Jan 16, 2007 at 9:52 am
Wow! Mary Emma, this is some list of posts! It’s like a course on goal setting from every angle. Congratulations on such as successful collection for theme day! Thanks for inviting me to participate. :)
startupspark.com - New Year’s Resolutions Are For Liars
Jan 16, 2007 at 9:54 am
[...] What you’ll discover is that the sum of the goal’s parts is smaller than the whole goal itself. And each mini-goal will provide more positive bang for its buck by being a part of something bigger. This post is part of our Business Channel Theme Day on goals for 2007. Please check out the rest of the posts at Home Biz Notes. Tags: 2007, b5biz, goal setting, new years resolutions, setting goals steve pavlina [...]
Franchise Pick - When Setting Goals, Don’t Forget Passion
Jan 16, 2007 at 10:42 am
[...] This is Theme Day in the b5media blog network’s Business Channel. Today’s theme throughout the channel is Goals. Thanks to Mary Emma of Home Biz Notes for hosting today’s theme entries. Check out the excellent entries by clicking here. [...]
Sean Kelly
Jan 16, 2007 at 4:22 pm
It was really interesting clicking through to all the sites and the varying perspectives. Great theme day. Thanks for hosting, Mary Emma, and for accomodating the straggler.
Douglas
Jan 16, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Good job on putting these posts together everyone. Hopefully everyone will be able to meet their ‘07 goals.
Tough Questions? Great Answers! » Blog Archive » Goals, Goals, Goals!
Jan 16, 2007 at 7:28 pm
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Contract Worker - Setting Goals: It’s All About Writing Them Down
Jan 16, 2007 at 10:00 pm
[...] For today’s Business Channel Theme Day, we’re all writing about our Goals for 2007. And my goal is to become a more organized person. I’ve realized being organized starts with remembering. and for me at least, this is where writing things down helps greatly. So, by writing down these items: [...]
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Jan 17, 2007 at 7:28 am
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Common Sense PR - It all Starts with the Company’s Goal
Jan 17, 2007 at 11:33 am
[...] You can find other posts by b5media business bloggers on the theme of Business Goals for 2007 on Mary Emma Allen’s Home Biz Notes blog. Wilma Matthews quote courtesy of Shel Holtz and Joseph Thornley. Photo by Compujeramey. Tags: business, goals, objectives, strategies, communications, wilma matthews, planning [...]
maryemma
Jan 17, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Thanks, everyone, for taking time to comment and leave your input. Also, thanks for all your great posts. It was fun hosting Theme Day with such a great group of bloggers.
Des Walsh
Jan 18, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Liz took the words - more or less - out of my mouth. This series of posts could be turned into a very flexible, very useful seminar, or series, on goal-setting in the real world, as distinct from a number of theoretical, ideal world, goal-setting exercises I’ve done with people who either just luuuurve goal-setting or are expert liars :) Great job, Mary Emma, and I’m glad I was able to drag myself out of my I-am-challenged-by-goal-setting mode and participate.
Business and Blogging - It’s Not Too Late for Goal-setting for ‘07 and Here Are Some Tips
Jan 18, 2007 at 9:02 pm
[...] For anyone who has yet to set their goals for the year Mary Emma Allen has put together, in her post b5media Business Channel Bloggers Share Their 2007 Goals, what amounts to a set of tools for a DIY seminar on goal-setting. Good, practical stuff, different points of view and tips, with a suitable dash of aiming for the stars. Tags:b5biz, b5media, goal setting, goals homebiznotes [...]
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Jan 22, 2007 at 8:16 am
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Contract Worker - Luck = Opportunity + Preparation
Mar 19, 2007 at 8:11 am
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