Reflect on where you were at this time last year in your business, in your confidence, in your financial well-being, and in how you were able to serve others and provide the gift of your business to them.  You’ll no doubt see some remarkable offerings you put forth. 

To continue to move ahead in 2010 you’ll want to apply these tips as you prepare your new year’s resolutions.  Many of these were inspired by a discussion among Women Entrepreneurs on Linkedin, as they looked over their learnings from the trenches and re-chose what’s important to focus on.

Tip 1.  Commit to better acknowledge your skills, talents and your contributions to others even more than you focus on areas of improvement and new learning.

Tip 2.  Let go of everything having to be perfect – including you – and learn to prioritize.  Do your best prep work and then get on with taking actions.  Don’t let your desire for getting it right hold you back from accomplishing the bigger picture.  In this way, you can aim the growth of your company to be even higher!

 3.  Remember that listening is twice as important as talking and it’s the best way to learn about your customer’s needs and how to serve them, rather than putting forth your great ideas and hoping your customers want that.  After all, business is all about meeting a need in the marketplace and their ideas could be your bigger moneymaker!   Call them, email them, mail them regularly.  Establish a true relationship model of service in your business and be determined not to lose touch with your customers.

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