It’s that Tme of the Year Again

I spent most of the last week in Montana where I was able to check email via my cell but not really able to have much more online interaction than that. That means that I have no idea what has been going on in the blogosphere.

But, I can guess.

Let’s see, it’s a few days after Christmas and a few days before New Year’s Eve. That means that people are doing two things on their blogs:

1. Reviewing the previous year
2. Making resolutions and setting goals for 2009

Personally, I think this is a great idea, and Tamara and I are getting set to do the same thing for our business. On Tuesday we will be having our second annual end-of-year/beginning-of-year meeting. Last year’s was a huge wake-up call during which we discovered that we were holding ourselves back and sabotaging our own success. All year long we have harkened back to that meeting with the ultimate lesson we learned: WORK HARD.

So, now I’ll be going back through my files from a year ago to find the questions we asked ourselves then and to revisit our answers. We’ll be pulling out the business plan and comparing our progress with the goals we set for ourselves when we stated this endeavor.

It promises to be an interesting learning experience, and you can bet we’ll be filling you all in on what we discover. In the meantime, does anyone have any specific end-of-year review processes that you use for your freelance business? If not, then you should definitely consider it. As I said, the process was incredibly important for us. It led to us going from earning several hundred dollars a month to earning more than $2,000 last January.