Every year a group of friends and I select one word themes for the upcoming year. My theme for 2014 was “Growth”. Yesterday, I sat down in a chair and proceeded to read my “Business Journal” (everyone should have one by the way!) and was amazed at how far I had come during 2014. Looking back on last year, there was definitely a lot of growth but more in the form of maturity and getting the ground solid underneath me. Whenever I took an action on my business, I asked myself: “How will this make me and my business grow? Is this something that’s going to help me for future growth?” I focused on the areas that I wanted to get stronger at. I even invested in a year long mastermind program! The biggest “growth” turning point was looking at my business activities and and turning down invitations to networking events because it wouldn’t serve my business and the growth that I wanted for KR Design. I wanted to continue on the momentum that I had built for myself and it finally hit me what my 2015 theme would be: “Build”. Continue reading →