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Why Your New Years Resolution Failed

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Have you heard the saying, if you fall down one step..don’t throw yourself down the entire staircase? As we approach the end of February, now is a good time to pull back up those New Years Resolutions and check in on your progress. Did you crumple up your list after one week or did you come up with an achievable (and realistic) list of goals?

I see this trend with Handmade Sellers as well. They will have a flurry of activity the first shiny new weeks of the year and then slow down when some goals seem out of reach. Some publicized their goals, “I will have 500 new Facebook Fans this month!” I check back  a few days later and their status reads, “Hello? Where are you fans? Am I invisible?” Well, maybe not invisible so much as setting the wrong goal. A much more achievable goal would have been, “I want to get to know ten other sellers through Facebook this week and learn more about them and their business.” It is easy to get caught up in big benchmarks but the focus needs to be on all the small ones that will get you there. Forming an actual relationship with someone in your community has a much higher chance of helping you with your business than hitting 4,000 “likes.” Who cares if you don’t know one thing about anyone who “likes you” or why they like you?

Did you check back in on your “failed goals” to see where you went wrong? Did you do your research before jumping in blind? Did you set small achievable goals to get you to those big ones? Are you expecting too much too soon? Are you running a marathon pace instead of sprinting in short spurts to the point of exhaustion?

What have you learned so far in this new year? Are your goals on the right track? Comment below!

~Amber

Amber is the Editor for Handmade Spark. She gave up on her resolution to eat less chocolate the day that Girl Scout Cookies went on sale. Next years goal: don’t eat the entire box in one day.


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