by Patricia Feager, 10/3/2017
AR Photo contest and story behind the photo is for Dick Greenberg and his October AR Photo contest - Real Life: Travel/Places Category.
2018 Business Plan
Call me early but I won't be late. Taking a fall vacation is something I fall back on to reminisce the things I have accomplished, and set expectations for making plans for my future. For the third year in a row, I went to Glacier National Park. Wildfires couldn't keep me away. It was cloudy and smoky. The Sun Road was closed. I followed many detours driving and climbing on unfamiliar roads up to the Canadian Border. My first stop was Apgar. The azure-blue color was serene and quiet but smoke was in the air.
When you have expectations you are setting yourself
up for disappointment --- Ryan Reynolds
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
In the past, I always set myself up for expectations. It was how I was taught to set up a business plan. Glacier made it clear, where there is smoke, there is fire. My eyes dipped into the center of the lake to receive a gleam of wisdom.
When setting up goals, consider the external environment and the effect the unexpected has on your business. A business plan with reorganization and unexpected realistic expectations is the opposite and some may say the mind dwells on negativity. Personally, I'm sick of that word negativity. The word has been used, misused, and abused over the course of my lifetime. As you gain life experiences you begin to realize there are a lot of smoke and mirrors. Could the greatest danger to a sales person be another sales person?
Setting up reasonable expectations customized and designed by me is the greatest year end bonus I can give myself. My financial needs and goals do not include some other sales person telling me what I need or how to run my business.
Amen
Patricia's Tip for the Day
©Nobody tells the Grizzly to run, it knows when to get away from fire.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
This photo and story behind the photo is for Dick Greenberg and his October AR Photo contest - Real Life: Travel/Places Category. When I take a photo, I'm not just the person behind the camera. My thoughts dive into the setting and my ideas run rampant; then I write about the experience. I am part of the vivid imagary you see in photograph and my spirit is present in the clouds, land, and waters that ripple through my veins. Every photo I take exemplifies the person I am.
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