Have you ever seen Tom Peters The Top 50 “Have-Yous”? If you haven’t don’t look at it until you create your own “Top ___Have-Yous.”
So, here are 25 I thought of before looking at Tom Peters list.
- Have you defined what success in your career means?
- Have you shared your definition with your family and/or friends?
- Have you created a plan to get you to your definition of success?
- Have you prepared a plan for 2014?
- Have you decided what you want to become better at doing in 2014?
- Have you found a method to hold yourself accountable for the actions in your 2014 plan?
- Have you met with clients recently?
- Have you met with referral sources recently?
- Have you sent any thank-you notes recently?
- Have you kept up with what is going on in your clients’ industries?
- Have you figured out what each of your clients value most?
- Have you written any articles or blog posts?
- Have you asked your clients for article or blog post ideas?
- Have you sought opportunities to give industry presentations?
- Have you repurposed materials you have created?
- Have you attended any client industry events?
- Have you become active in a charity or community service organization that you value?
- Have you regularly gotten up from behind your desk and had lunch with clients or referral sources?
- Have you learned anything about what your client representatives most enjoy doing when they are not working?
- Have you learned anything about your client representatives’ families?
- Have you defined with your client at the beginning of a new project what they want to achieve?
- Have you kept or exceeded promises or commitments you have made to clients?
- Have you been responsive to clients?
- Have you checked client bills before they have been sent?
- Have you given any of your time to your best clients without any expectation of anything in return?