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When building a business plan strategy for your business it is important to define your company’s mission.  To be brief, it is in the mission statement that you let the world know what your company does.  As part of that mission, you will be identifying your company’s goals and objectives for the short and long term. 

Clear, understandable goals and objectives in a business plan strategy is key to clarifying the company’s important values to the team and to others.  In addition, even when you get caught up in the day to day issues that always arise and threaten to get you off track, your goals and objectives will give you a blueprint of how to operate. 

Goals and Objectives are actually different, and both are equally important to the success of your business:

Goals are written descriptions of those things that really matter to you, and involve your emotions.  Being able to visualize your goals as real is an important factor in describing your goals.  If one of your goals is to become a million dollar company, your goal is less about the million dollars, and more about what the million dollars means to you and the way having it will make you feel. 

Solid explanations of the steps you intend to take to meet your goals are objectives.  Achieving your goals is the inevitable result of accomplishing your objectives. 

Think of your objectives as the fuel you need to get up each day and work with passion to achieve your goals.  A race car will never win the Indy 500 unless it has adequate, quality fuel to power it through the race.  Your goal is nothing more than a really passionate wish until you have set clear objectives that you will follow until you meet your goal. 

Don’t start with a ton of goals, because the list of objectives you’ll need to achieve them will be overwhelming.  3 short term and 3 long term goals will be adequate to start. 

Set goals that speak to the emotions and create objectives that are clear and easy to follow every day.  And, most important, as you succeed and meet your goals, make sure to revise your business plan strategy with more, always driving your company to success. 

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