So how is your 2011 shaping up?

I recently ran into a business friend who confessed that her New Year resolutions were already fading into the distance and that is with only one twelfth of the year over!

We talked about why this happens, year after year and we came up with some solutions to apply to ourselves – these ideas may assist you in achieving your personal and business goals in 2011.

We decided to divide our lives up into the four important parts and focus on each of these, setting specific, exciting, achievable, measurable goals in each area.

Spiritual: what really makes our soul soar?

Whatever that thing is let’s do more of it, it’s the thing that really gets you up in the morning in a great frame of mind, it’s the thing that no matter what other negative things are happening, we feel so good inside we can cope with the challenges of life and business.

Emotional: what makes us feel good?

What do we get deepest satisfaction from? Is it doing things for our family, is it taking part in community, is it doing things for our partner?

Do we give enough thought to what makes us feel good?

Physical: how fit and healthy do we really want to be?

At our age we decided we can’t expect to be as fit as a young athletes, but we can expect to get the benefits of a daily exercise regime and healthy eating.

Both of us decided that we could continue to commit to a daily exercise regime and that we would continue to take our good eating habits seriously.

Financial: as Robert Kiyosaki says there is nothing charming about poverty.

We both decided that finances required that we look carefully at how we are making, investing and spending our money, that we would set budgets for our spending and earning for the year. Of course, that goes without saying for our business, but how many of us bother to apply budgets to our personal lives?

One of the things I really enjoy with my Tec group is the idea of holding each other accountable for what we say we want to do. Who do you have to hold you accountable for your goals for 2011?

There is no doubt that person, mentor or advisor has to be someone we trust and who is interested enough in our welfare to encourage us to achieve our goals.

Marcia Griffin’s latest book, High Heeled Success (pictured left), is a frank account of building a business from a solitary sales person to a multi-million dollar business with 4,700 sales consultants around Australia and New Zealand. Contact Marcia to purchase. Marcia’s latest venture is skin care company griffin+row, an amazing range of naturally effective skincare that Target immediately ranged in 154 stores.