Most people will agree that business goals are important. I actually did know of someone who was pretty successful in his field who used to say that having business goals or goals of any kind were silly and that you should not have them. I can't remember why he felt this way but I do remember that when he would go over his business plan it was actually filled with goals. So, the only person I can remember that did not believe in goals actually had them and wrote them down.

So how do we decide what are goals are going to be. The first step is to figure out where you want to be in a certain period of time. Once you have established your first big goal, you can start to decide on the little goals that are going to get you there in the specified amount of time.

If you have a vague idea in your mind about what you want to be doing in 10 yrs on a personal level, you need to get decisive as to what you want and by when.

The same goes for business goals. If a position is open and you want to be in that particular position in your company, decide on a time frame you would like to see yourself in that position or better. Then decide what you are going to do to get it. How are you going to show the person or people responsible for promoting you that you are worthy? If you want to own your own business, or already do, but are not as successful as you would like to be, where do you want to be? What kind of money do you want to be making? That is your big goal, now what are your little goals that are going to get you there?

Set your business goals. Write them down, look at them often and finally TAKE ACTION!