Blending Your Goals With Your Process: Things You Should Be Thinking About.

How do you prioritize goals when you have many projects and possibilities competing for your attention?

We’re approaching the busy 4th quarter jewelry-sales season. As you are busily trying to increase your inventory, either for sales or gifts, I think it’s a good time to ask yourself about your goals.

Goals are things that tell you where you want to end up and what you want to achieve. They help you make sense of, make choices about, set priorities for all the overwhelming set of things that have to get done to keep your business or avocation on the right track. That is, on the right track so that you do not get overwhelmed, paralyzed, frustrated, angry or disappointed.

You don’t want to get stuck wondering what the future should be.

You set goals and let them guide you in your decision making simply because you want to maximize your creative time, minimize your non-creative time, and end up with a satisfying degree of accomplishment and profit.

Ask yourself these questions:

• How do you prioritize goals when you have many projects and possibilities competing for your attention?
• How can you identify the things that really matter in your business or avocation, and…