As people and as business owners, many things can take us off track and we can find ourselves spinning ineffectually. Maybe it’s an issue with employees, a problem with a client, a difficult co-worker, or maybe it’s a project, job or sale that isn’t coming together the way you envisioned that it would.

When these things happen, it’s easy to feel discouraged, disappointed, frustrated, angry or even victimized. If we wallow in these feelings too long, it can keep us from being effective at our business and in working towards our goals.

It’s time to refocus! So whatever happened, happened. Now we need to turn our attention back to what we want to accomplish this month, this week, or this day in our business and identify the next actions we can take to make that a reality.