We’ve hit June, six months into 2011, and am wondering how you are going? It’s been a big six months for some of you, whilst others are struggling to meet the targets set at the start of the year.

Stepping back and taking time to assess where you currently are, is such an important business strategy for keeping you on track.

So take a moment to block out some time in your diary to re-evaluate your original targets for 2011. Maybe you’ve set them too high – made them too unattainable? Or maybe you haven’t stretched yourself enough and need to push your targets a little further out?

This week, I’ve encouraged all my one on one VIP Mentor clients to block out time in their diary, and reassess what has been happening for them so far this year. And I would like to share with you the five questions that my clients are currently working through, and make a request that you block out some time this week in your diary to work through them as well.

Don’t rush through your answers, take the time to answer them. Be really honest with yourself around where you are currently, and what changes you need to make.

1: What have been my major achievements in the first half of 2011?

2: What have been my biggest setbacks in the first half of 2011?

3: Have I limited myself in the last six months? If so, how did I limit myself? And what do I need to do to remove these limiting beliefs for the second half of 2011?

4: What do I need to learn from my answers to the above questions?

5: How can I use this information to make the second half of 2011 ROCK? (and yes, I did write ‘ROCK’)

Now, looking over your answers what have you noticed? What do you need to change and do less of? What is working well and you need to keep doing?

Author's Bio: 

With nearly two decades of business building experience, Deb has worked with entrepreneurs all over the world. Over the past few years, Deb has been specifically committed to working with woman entrepreneurs who want to take their business from ordinary to extraordinary. She does this by taking them through a step-by-step process that teaches them how they can consistently grow their business, whilst creating the lifestyle they want. Deb has been recorded as saying: "Your clients are your business. If you have the wrong clients, you have the wrong business. Having the right clients is having the right business."

Prior to founding DebPilgrim.com, Deb worked with executives at some of Australia's largest corporations, coaching, training and developing senior managers through important leadership and business development challenges across a range of industries. Deb was a lecturer in the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney and prior to this a serving member of the Royal Australian Air Force.

Because of her impressive track record of helping woman entrepreneurs grow their business, Deb is known as the Woman Entrepreneurs' Business Mentor. She is a highly sought-after business mentor, speaker and consultant. Her expertise as a business mentor is on display at Flying Solo, an online resource brimming with small business advice. Deb is regularly featured in Dynamic Business Magazine, NZ Small Business Magazine and NineMSN. She has also been awarded a Masters of Coaching Psychology and Human Resource Management from The University of Sydney.

Deb currently resides in Sydney, Australia with Michael, her husband, and their two beautiful girls, Laura and Giaan.