I love resolutions and the start of a new year!  Being an entrepreneur, I have many resolutions. The most important one, resolving to make my company a smashing success in 2010! To achieve success, I am working on a business plan.  Once complete, I will break my plan down into smaller resolutions, or milestones.

Creating milestones can make big, overwhelming goals or projects manageable, and allow you to celebrate accomplishments along the way. Along with my resolution milestones, I routinely use milestones in all my consulting projects. Milestones outline a path of success, and allow clients to monitor and quantify progress clearly and easily. This methodology can be used by anyone working on a Digital Pathology project, and here are some tips to get started.

• Write a project or business plan that outlines and strategizes the scope of your goal
• Identify a realistic timeframe for executing your plan
• Break your plan down into action points
• Group action points into milestones
• If you are working with a committee or group, Project Management Software can make a big difference.  I love BaseCamp!
• Celebrate each milestone, big or small, it’s a step toward the finish!
• Do not stress over setbacks, but work hard to create realistic expectations so that setbacks do not occur often

In 2010, create and celebrate your digital pathology milestones.  Need help getting started, read my post “Empowering YOU To Take The First Step Forward.”