Is 2011 going to be the year your business really takes off? Or just another year of treading water?

1. Start 2011 With A Practical Plan For Growing Your Business Is 2011 going to be the year your business really takes off? Or just another year of treading water?

2. Agenda Content: Panel Discussion Questions (and Answers!)

3. Steering your Future If you don’t steer you will drift If you don’t know where you are going tomorrow any direction will do for today

4. Successful People Plan Planning to fail or failing to plan? Lots of stats about people with goals 5% of people make plans 95% of the wealth The planning process A simple discipline

5. Start with the End in Mind Project yourself forwards and look back: 5 years? January 2012 What is different about your business “now”? How is that differencefelt? How is that difference measured? What does that business difference mean to you personally? Repeat working back to 13th April 2011

6. Keeping your focus People over-estimate what they can do in a quarter People under-estimate what they can do in a year Pick your top 3 priorities for tangible change Keeping things current

7. What needs to happen? For each change you commit to make: Practical activities to make the difference How much how often? Measuring Progress How will you track activity? How will you measure results?

8. Your Daily Dose Make this part of your routine Little and often “Progress by the yard is hard. Progress by the inch is a cinch”

9. Summary Having a clear sense of direction is essential: What do you want to achieve this year? How will you track progress? Manage Activity/Measure Results The best plan in the world is nothing without action Why are you doing this?

10. Panel discussion VERT Team

11. Questions & Answers Member