New Year’s resolutions: How to achieve your 2020 practice goals
Tired of your New Year’s resolutions failing before January even ends? Zoe Whitman shares her goal-setting technique to help you achieve your 2020 practice ambitions.
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Great advice Zoe.
David Allen's GTD methodology for projects (amongst other things) suggests that for every project you must have an immediate 'next action' or task to help you along the way to completing the project. Sometimes a project is too big to comprehend and so chunking it down into bite-sized bits (such as put 'bags for life' in the boot of the car) can help you to progress in your goal (such as save the world).
I've also read about the '12-week year' which is similar to what you are saying about having quarterly goal(s). I've not tried that technique yet - like most of us, I fall off the wagon often as my list get out of control.
Let's hope that we all manage to achieve at least a couple of our 2020 goals, and even if we only complete 50% of them by the end of the year, we are still further forward than where we would have been had we not set goals in the first place.
Same as last year. Month off the booze in January . Book a few holidays. Improve my bowls .
As for work , usual advice / warning to clients that fees will remain reasonably constant - subject to any special work. But a 10% hike if the info doesn't reach me by the end of September. And if not received before December and additional 5% . And if you don't like it suggest the services of some other practitioner . All very politely,of course, but it does work.
15% additional from December onwards? You're too kind. A couple of years ago I doubled my prices and gave my clients a discount of 50% if they sent me their records before 31st July or a 25% discount if before 30th September. You can guess how busy I was in the summer months and how relaxed I am at the moment. It was the best decision I ever made and I didn't lose a single client over it - in fact most of them said that the price increase at the end of July forced them to focus.
Obviously this is for current clients - new clients are advised of my policy when they sign up.