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I’m putting you all on the naughty list!

As we come closers to clocking off for this year, I always start to review what has happened and more importantly try and understand how I can do things better next year.

The major concern I see is that the majority of people have not tried to be more enterprising this year. They have tried to do their business as usual, using the same business models, trying to hang on to the same funding models, dead end public sector jobs and even running the same university degrees which lead to zero employment prospects (unistats.direct.gov.uk).

We all have to make changes everyday to continue to develop and it through this development we can ensure we stay with the flow. This should be every person’s manta.  I am always amazed at why we think that doing the same thing for hundreds of years will provide prosperity in this country, whereas there are billions of other people in the world who are constantly looking at how they can develop faster, higher quality, cheaper, more effective methods to do what we have done for hundreds of years. These people are taking advantage of the global economy.

Its only through using innovation, our technology advance, our amazing communication advantage and selling in real time to the global customer we can move the economy forward. Its not through spending money we don’t have on goods we don’t make.

Our resistance to change is shown in the way the UK deals with Europe, the way we run our national infrastructure and how we educate our people. I am a great believer in if its not broken don’t fix it, however sometimes you have to take some hard decisions based on the rest of the planet and not just on the few who can’t be bothered to change (especially when their pension means the young will be paying for it in taxes for the next thirty years).

So lets make 2012, the year that we embrace change and especially entrepreneurial change, making sure that we develop new forms of income, new business models and creating a network of like-minded people who are developing a prosperous future.

So here are some New years resolutions for you for 2012:

  • Make 2012 you most enterprising year!
  • Become a self made Entrepreneur in 2012
  • Employ someone else in your business in 2012
  • Start a new business in 2012
  • Develop multi streams of income in 2012