After a long year, you’ve earned a holiday respite from the daily grind. But you must also maintain momentum toward the goals you set at the start of the year. Master the art of pacing yourself to ensure there’s something left in the tank come December.
What are you doing to cope with the daily distractions and diversions of December holidays? Try out my “Ten Keys to Staying Focused When Times Are Busy.”
This time of year, marketing seems to be focused on one thing: attracting shoppers and their eager wallets and purses filled with credit cards and cash. That said, there’s still plenty of consumer bandwidth left for non-retailers to get in on the holiday season action.
In business and in life, there are just some things we love to do and some things we abhor—even if we’re good at them. What we like gives us energy, what we don’t drains it. In that light, let’s explore some realistic options for overcoming energy drains and gains at home and at work.
Successful innovators not only consider the practical applications of their ideas—will this product solve a problem or fill a need—the entrepreneur in them also weighs whether the idea will be sellable. In other words, will anyone want or buy the resulting product or service?
