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I always give wishes to everyone for a healthy and happy new year but the best thing I am doing when a year goes by is to write down my mistakes and try to fix them starting from 01.01.NextYear.

As no exception, this year I made a lot of mistakes. Some of them I would like to share with everyone:

  1. I delayed to take action when the problem was obvious. This happened many times during this year in many different situations. Moreover, this mistake is carried on from previous years. I hope I will fix this in 2007 because it’s one of the worst mistakes an entrepreneur can make. When you see a problem think and take action immediately.
  2. I spent many hours on micro-management. This mistake is almost fixed by now. Of course, depending on what you consider micro-management to be, you always have to do little of it.
  3. I dedicated much of my thoughts to ideas that I already knew I wouldn’t make a reality. Be careful about this one: The mind always goes wild but you have to do some execution as well. Think and invent new ideas but also make your project a reality. I have now ended up with a list of hundreds of ideas but decided only to dedicate myself to one. I believe this is a right choice for the new year:)
  4. I didn’t do any sports, outdoor activities, etc. I did swim more than a hundred times in the sea during the year but still I didn’t do much to improve my physical health. Anyway, this is quite fixed again (I am not talking about the Wii tennis I was playing yesterday) by building a personal gym in the office and arranging some football and basketball matches with friends.
  5. I forgot to keep in touch with many friends. This is the part where sometimes business takes over your personal life and really no one wants this to happen.

As a last remark I would say that it’s impossible not to make any mistakes at all in your life but you have to be careful not to make the same mistakes again. Life itself is a great teacher for everyone but you need to be able to sit down and learn from your mistakes.

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