• over a month
• over 11% of the entire year
• too long a time for any business owner to relax.
• an opportunity to gain an extra month on your competition

With so many people having the same mind-set, it becomes a self fulling prophecy and business does slow down. So what should you be doing?

• if your competition is relaxing, you can work and get ahead
• you can review your business plan for  last year and develop a new one ( don't be like so many who work on their goals on New Years Eve) Give the preparation of a new plan the time it deserves.
  
• you can implement your new plan now!
• review my blogs from last year and select several that you will focus on and use to grow your business.

Yes family time and spiritual time is important, but it should be important on a year-round basis. Give your family and spiritual life the time they deserve, but don't procrastinate with the rest of the time.

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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that if must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: When the sun comes up you had better be running.( you may have heard this before, but it serves as a good reminder of what we must do with our time)

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Nick J Petra