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1. WORK ON YOUR SELF BELIEF DAILY.

The great business mentor, Dan Sullivan, has long stated that in his 35 years experience, confidence is the single most valuable attribute to succeed in business. But most of us aren’t just born confident, we need to work at it.

 One of the best ways to do this is to spend a few minutes daily being your own mind coach – talk yourself up, convince yourself that you have what it takes to achieve great things this year.

It’s time to complete your business year the right way: clear, positive and ready for the new year ahead.  Follow my suggestions below and you’ll finish December calm, confident, organized and inspired.

1.GET YOUR TO DO LIST OUT OF YOUR HEAD.

 Get all the jobs and tasks that have been floating around in your head onto paper. Then put them into relevant categories.

All the efficiency experts say it – a neat, clear desk dramatically improves productivity.  But what’s the best way to achieve it?  I’ve spent over 20 years studying productivity and efficiency in the workplace, and I’ve found the following technique really useful.

The central way Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg works can be summed up in his often repeated mandate to his staff: “Move fast and break things.”  What Zuckerberg is talking about has two dimensions:

1. That speed needs to be a key component of how his people work. If they don’t have a sense of urgency then it’s unlikely that they’ll achieve anything substantial quickly. As businesses grow (and Facebook is no different), layers of bureaucracy develop that impede rapid progress. That must be countered by elevating the speed at which teams work (this sense of urgency was also identified as a key component of many other successful businesses. See Professor John Kotter’s work at Harvard on corporate urgency.

Many CEO’s moan that business is tough and growth is hard to find. Yet, there’s a very quick way for you to substantially increase your company’s revenue.  Any company can do it, it’s fast to implement, and it’s usually extremely inexpensive to do.  Yet, despite these factors, in my experience, most companies do not come even close to making the most of this revenue maximization technique.