Well its hard to believe, 2006 is here!
After visiting friends yesterday, my wife and I put the kids to bed and cooked up an amazing dinner followed by a great movie, and celebration of the New Year – not quite as rowdy as things used to get in the past, but exactly the way we wanted it.
What did you do to bring in the New Year?
Here’s a quick thought about looking back on 2005 and looking ahead toward 2006.
I think it is very good to highlight the top 2 most important things that happened in both your personal life and career AND to highlight the two biggest regrets you have from 2005.
For my information publishing business, here’s mine:
BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
1. Touched the lives of more than 30,000 subscribers to this blog, my newsletter and podcasts, through my products and coaching – to me the single biggest blast is to see people living their dreams, changing their lives, finally achieving things they have secretly desired for many years.
2. More time with my family. In 2005 I actively worked to increase automation in my business. By working on smarter activities, outsourcing more tasks, I was able to spend more time with my family than in the previous 5-years.
REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT:
1. I felt very challenged this year to reach an ever growing number of people who required personal assistance – but could not necessarily afford a full consultation fee. So, that will change this year as we work on a very affordable membership site that will allow a growing community of information product marketers to help each other – something I look very much forward to running early in 2006.
2. Outsource more…. If there is one single thing I would have changed about 2005, it would have been to outsource more. Being a perfectionist and true blue entrepreneur, my tendancy is to try and do it all myself. In 2005 I outsourced much of the web development, some content writing, administrative tasks and more…evaluations are already under way on what else we can outsource this year – so we have more time to spend with you.
Now, what about you – be honest with yourself, what have you done well this year and what will you do better in 2006?
I am a firm believer that things won’t happen until you desire them so badly that they cannot help BUT happen.
Its the New Year, you start with a clean slate.
I know many people who launched their first (or next) information product in 2005 and can’t believe the success they have achieved – people that had no confidence, little going for them in their lives, but had a dream they acted on.
Will you finally launch your first information product in 2006?
Is this the year you finally replace your job income with freedom income – and can quit your job to focus on what you love?
Most important, will you make 2006 the pivotal year that you will look back on – 10-years from now – telling others that the weeks you invested in publishing your own information products allowed you to live a life rich with family, friends, health and prosperity?
I wish all of these things for you – and more. We’ll do our best to help you get there in 2006 – after all – its our primary goal.
Happy New Year!
Jeff
