Imagine a blackboard cluttered everywhere with writing. Not only will it be impossible to decipher the contents on the board, but there will be little room for anything new.

The same is true with our businesses. Our business performance is only as strong as our personal performance and both are greatly diminished by excessive "energetic clutter." If you don't address these clutter areas now, they will seriously undermine your business results in 2002.

Let's take a look at some key "clutter" areas:

1. "UNFINISHED BUSINESS"
"Unfinished business" are those items that consume our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy and require closure or completion to free up your energy. Eg.,
==>> Projects or goals started and not being worked on
==>> Undelivered communications
==>> Backlogged correspondence
==>> Delinquent bills or tax payments
==>> Chronic office clutter

2. "ENERGY DRAINS"
"Energy drains" are people, places, activities or procedures that undermine our effectiveness, violate our integrity standards or "cost" you business. Eg.,
==>> Difficult clients
==>> Wasting precious time on the wrong tasks
==>> Participating in "win/lose" situations
==>> Vagueness in your operating procedures

3. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?"
These areas include where we are out of integrity with yourself, your desires or your sense of fulfillment. Eg.,
==>> Things you want to be that you're not being
==>> Things you want to do or start and you're not doing
==>> Things you want to change and you're not changing
==>> Things you have done yet not acknowledged for doing them

The remedies for each "clutter" area are the same. Either complete, eliminate or take action wherever your business requires decluttering. Your business future depends on it.

From the above list, identify your top 3 performance clutter areas that you need to complete, eliminate or take an action step on. Make a commitment to remedy these areas by next week

Denise Corcoran is a Master Business Coach, Strategic Consultant and Breakthrough Catalyst. Would you like to invigorate your mind, your business savvy and your creative juices with paradigm-shifting, breakthrough strategies and principles of today's superior businesses? Then subscribe to our monthly ezine - THE EMPOWERED BUSINESS^tm.