Today we flip the calendar and greet a fresh, new month. How do you kick off this milestone every 30 or so days to ensure it’s fruitful, enjoyable, and intentional? Here are 6 actions you can take at the start of each month to up-level your career or business and stay on course with your goals:
1. Review.
Briefly look over your past month: wins, lessons learned, successes, out-of-the-ordinary activities. Celebrate your victories and take note of actions you won’t repeat.
2. Assess Your Bold Goals.
Check in with those longer-term goals and determine if you need a new, bolder, or restructured course of action. Set your milestones for the month.
3. Establish Sub-Goals and Intentions.
Plan to finish the workbook you’re writing? Make 60 sales calls? Connect with a dozen collaboration partners? Set your sub-goals, keeping them to a reasonable number.
4. Schedule Professional Development.
Each month brings oodles of networking opportunities, classes, webinars, and so forth. Choose which will serve you best then schedule them into your calendar.
5. Update Your Content Calendar.
If you write a blog, publish an e-zine, schedule tweets, or connect with colleagues and clients in other ways, you’ll find the greatest results (and ease) by designing a content calendar to guide you through the year. Review this month’s topics and ideas, then frontload any content you can.
6. Block Time For Treats.
I’m a firm believer in having something on the calendar to look forward to. Block the time now for a massage, an afternoon getaway, or an event that will bring a smile to your face every time you see it on your schedule!
What other first-of-the-month actions do you take? Please share your ideas below!
Dr. Christi Hegstad helps you successfully do what you love! As President of MAP Professional Development Inc., she coaches business owners and leaders to get unstuck and reach Bold Goals with clarity, confidence, and meaningful action. Learn more at www.meaning-and-purpose.com and follow Dr. Christi on Facebook and Twitter.