The Ultimate Guide to Set Business Goals for Barbers And Beauty Entrepreneurs
Have you thought about what you want to be doing in five years? Are you clear about your main objective at work, business, or personal life at the moment? Do you know what you want to have achieved by the end of today?
Studies have proven that only 3% of the people in the world set goals, and even a smaller percentage of people achieve them. It’s time to understand how to set an achievable goal for the business, career, or personal life.
Les Brown once said, “Most people in life never reach their goals not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
It’s time to start thinking like a champion. Set your standards high and achieve them. I will be sharing with you some principles of setting achievable goals.
Understand what motivative you and set goals that resonate with it.
When setting goals for your business, ensure they are important to motivate and inspire enough to achieve them. This means making sure that they are important to you and value in achieving them. If you have little interest in the outcome, or they are irrelevant given the larger picture, then the chances of you putting in the work to make them happen are slim. Motivation is key to achieving goals.
Set goals that relate to the high priorities in your life. Without this type of focus, you can end up with far too many goals, leaving you too little time to devote to each one. Goal achievement requires commitment, so to maximize the likelihood of success, you need to feel a sense of urgency and have an “I must do this” attitude. When you don’t have this, you risk putting off what you need to do to make the goal a reality.
Ensure you set Smart Goals.
For goals to be powerful and achievable, they should be designed to be SMART. There are many variations of what SMART stands for, but the essence is this — goals should be:
S — Specific
M — Measurable
A — Attainable
R — Roadmap
T — Time-Bound
Make your goals SMART: specific, make your goals measurable, attainable, create a roadmap, and a time balance. Dreams are for free, but only the ones that hustle reach them. Don’t expect your dreams to come to you just because you’ve got good ideas and plans. Everyone had a dream to open up a barbershop, salon, or business, but not everyone is willing to put in the work.
To open up a barbershop, you need to be time-bound. It’s speaking in the atmosphere of what you want to achieve. Your goals of starting your own business must have a deadline. It means knowing when you can celebrate success and working on a deadline. This increases your sense of urgency increases and achievement will come that much quicker.
So if you want to open up a barbershop in 6 months, what do you need to do? What do I need to do in the next six months to open up my barbershop in the next six months?
Clarity is power. Even when you’re writing your goals, you have to be clear, be specific. A wise man and friend of mine once told me, “In order to be prolific, you have to be pacific.” Be pacific in your speaking and choosing the things you want to achieve, so be pacific about what you want in your business.
Next is planning for what you need. For instance, I need six barber chairs; figure out how much it will cost you to get six barber chairs. You need six capes, six mops, six mirrors, one shampoo bowl, etc. Start articulating what you need and calculate them.
Often, what people do is they do it the other way, they start adding all this stuff up, and the number gets so high, the number gets so high that it becomes unaffordable. Ensure to start at the top and work your way down. Also, ensure you get everything customized into your budget. You don’t necessarily have to buy everything new.
In business, keep your overhead low, and keep your returns high. Let’s be pacific in our choosing, making your goals measurable, making them attainable, creating a roadmap, and a time-bound. The time-bound is to make sure you do it because most people set goals, but they never put a time limit on it, and things never get done. People strive to be perfect, but you don’t need to be perfect in business; you just need to get it done.
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SMART goals mean making them smart and easy enough to understand and make them measurable and how long it will take.
Roadmap and What steps do I need to take to get there? In other words, what’s my GPS?
Make your goals smart, measurable, attainable, with a roadmap and a timeline. That’s going to help you elevate to a whole other dimension of getting these things done. Remember that 3% of the world only makes goals and achieves them. You’ve got a target, you can achieve it, and you have a time-bound.
Have you ever heard of Pareto’s law? Pareto’s law means getting things done quicker when you have a timeline or a time-bound, or a deadline. Set yourself with a timeline, so use the universal law, Pareto’s law, to help you get done, get your goals out of your head, and with SMART goals and decisions.
Goal setting is much more than simply saying you want something to happen. Unless you clearly define what you want and understand why you want it in the first place, your odds of success are considerably reduced.
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