Yes, it’s the end of the year. Yes, there are very few people in your office. Yes, you can only talk to your friends so often and none of your clients are around! Yes, you are bored—in fact very bored and have no idea what to do.
Here are six suggestions:
- Clean up your office. Chances are that your office is full of files that are from years ago that you somehow have been collecting and you no longer need.
- Update your day-timer and Outlook calendar. It’s time to update the 2007 conference schedule and important dates (like your spouse’s or clients’ birthdays, wedding anniversary, kids’ birthdays and anything else that you want to remember)
- Catch up on your mail. Take advantage of a little down time to get caught up on all of those magazines and research newsletters that you have been putting off and are in the big pile on the back of your desk
- Go to your website and really analyze it.
- What is missing?
- What services should we highlight?
- Why don’t we have any white papers?
- Go to this site and try and solve the daily USA Today Sudoko. I always enjoy doing this. I found it gets my mind really thinking and the wheels cranking
- Go to YouTube and watch a video that is of interest for 5 minutes
I hope one of these helps you in your state of boredom.
I look forward to hearing your comments and ideas.
Paul Kirch says:
I’m trying to take advantage of this time to complete a sales plan for 2007. I’m focusing areas such as personal system changes that can improve my effectiveness and efficiencies, setting goals, focusing on areas I can improve and various other elements which will put me in a better position to succeed during the upcoming year. Getting off to a quick start in 2007 is the key to building the type of momentum that can be the difference between a good year and a great year. I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions since those are easy to break, but I am a big believer in changing those things that didn’t work and enhancing those things that did (both personally and professionally). The start of a new year is a great time to do it since most of us are coming off of a little down-time and it’s easier to approach things with an open mind, since there aren’t as many distractions from day-to-day activity.