It’s that time of year – gifts have been purchased, wrapped, and distributed, I’m finished stuffing the turkey (into my belly!) and now there’s a brief pause to look back on the past year and forward to the year to come.
2009 has been really tough on everyone, but it feels like we’re beginning to get back on our feet. The surviving small businesses are all looking for ways to become profitable in the new, tight-money economy.
While I was Christmas shopping I came across the book The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
It inspired me, so my first resolution for 2010 is to put together my own list of best business books. I’m going to try to read a book a week, and write my own review here in this blog. I’m a voracious reader, so the reading part shouldn’t be too hard – it’s writing the reviews that will be tough!
My second resolution is to extract one good idea from each book and act on it. I’m sure I’ll be struck by more than one idea in each, but the goal is to actually make changes in my life and not just think “Gee! That’s neat!” and then do nothing.
I’ll highlight the good idea here in this blog, too. You readers can help keep me on track!
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that having a long list of New Years Resolutions is a bad idea, so I’m going to limit myself to just these two. Yes, I have other goals for the year, but those are typical “increase sales” and “cut expenses” type business goals. I’m going to limit my life-changing goals so that at the end of the year I can still recognize myself. It’ll still be me, just a better version (not to mention more handsome, too!)
, Facsimile Edition 2002, page 144.