I have plans. You have plans. We all have plans. Entrepreneurs are constantly coming up with ideas, strategies, tactics, and goals for their ventures. Having plans and goals is a great thing, no doubt.

However, without the proper organization and prioritization of those plans and goals, you won’t be able to measure your success and know when goals are reached. If you have goals, you’ll need to set up a system to track those goals.

You don’t want to have a list of a million things to accomplish and never organize them in a manner that you can track your progress, that wouldn’t be prudent. It would be a waste of your time and be very inefficient to your business.

Ever hear the business saying: “back to square one”? Well, without the necessary organization of your plans and the required follow-through to see those plans realized, that’s exactly were you’ll remain with your business — square one.

But we don’t like square one, right? Square one is just the beginning of our plans. Any entrepreneur that wants to be successful and accomplish their goals wants to get to square two, square three, square four, etc… Square one just isn’t cool.

So what about taking that business saying of “Square One” and making it real. What do I mean? I mean literally taking out a white sheet of computer paper and sectioning it off into squares.

You can do it on anything, really. If you prefer a whiteboard, take it out. If your prefer a notebook, get it ready. If you want to make something with Photoshop or Word, then load ‘em up!

Now draw a few squares on the paper and begin to write down your monthly goals. Sure, you can also do long-term goals as well, but I find focusing on monthly goals is much more motivating and keeps me more focused on my goals.

You can devote each square to a particular project or category. For instance, maybe you’d like to increase traffic on your site so you’d create a square called “TRAFFIC” and within that square created a bulleted lists of the “actions” that you plan to take that month to increase traffic.

Once you start creating these square and sticking to them, you’ll never remain at square one. Each month start with a fresh set of squares and do everything in your power to realize your goals and plans for that month. Stay focused. Stay committed. And watch as those squares go from goals to results!