Normally,
in early December,
I will review
the performances
of
my business ventures.
The first thing
I do
is evaluate
whether or not
I met my goals
for the year.
I suspect
very few of us
have met our goals
for 2020.
This has been
a strange
and challenging year.
No one
could have predicted
what happened
in 2020.
It was outside of
any norm.
I’m setting aside
my 2020 goals
and I’m replacing it
with
one perimeter
– ‘Did my business
SURVIVE this year?’
If my business
survived,
I consider it to be
a success.
Not all of them
did that.
One of my businesses
was simply too new.
It didn’t have
an established brand
and it couldn’t pivot
easily
with the changing circumstances.
I made mistakes with it
and that was to be expected.
Everything I was facing
was new to me.
I’m wiser now.
I’ll make different mistakes
in the future.
If your business
survived this year,
you should be
very proud of
it,
of yourself
and of your leadership.
If your business
didn’t survive,
hopefully you learned
lessons
that will help you
in the future.
You can restart it
or start another business
or do something else,
something you’ve always wanted
to do.
Because…
YOU survived.
You’ve achieved
what should have been
your #1 personal goal
for the year.
You should be very proud
of that.