As a business coach I am more about motivating action than generating ideas. I find my clients have ideas aplenty and although I certainly add more, it is getting them to do what they say they will which is the real challenge. It is not as if we don’t know what we need to. It is simply finding time in between everything else to get these tasks completed.

I have now evolved a simple weekly planning process where we agree at the start of the week the business priorities which must be achieved and then review them at the end of the week to make sure they have been completed. ‘Nothing revolutionary about that’ I hear you say and you are right. I suppose the difference is that instead of having these actions wandering around in their heads we write them down. That simple process of having something in black and white makes all the difference.

There are many people who do this naturally, but if you are not one of them why not try this today. It is not hard and the pleasure of ticking off what you have achieved on Friday night makes it all worthwhile.

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