Year-End Planning Tips to Stretch Your Goals and Level Up

All right, welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your very last dose of inspiration, motivation, and education for the new year. I'm really excited to give you a couple of tips and ideas. I've had some great shout out to a couple of great listeners that I was able to connect with over the last little while, Darren, Doug, Eduardo, Lisa. I've been able to kind of go through some different things with them in their year-end planning. But what I wanted to do is I wanted to give you some tips and strategies that you can use at the end of the year here, because sometimes we fall into those same habits of just, you know, setting goals and working with what we have and trying to make decisions. I want to give you a couple of things that might be able to help give you, you know, new thoughts and perspectives in doing your year-end planning. So I wrote down this morning, they're going to be quick and random, but I wrote down about five different tips you can use in your year-end strategy planning sessions. The first tip is think big. Think really big. What you think is big is probably not big. What do you really want your life to be like? When you start planning out what you're going to do this next year, what is it that you want to accomplish? What is it that you want to do? Be very specific and be detailed. Don't hold back anything. Really stretch your dreams and be clear on what you want. It's helpful to kind of get an idea of where you are as far as the seasons of your life, but it's very, very important for you to stretch your thinking because this is your end planning. This is not your to-do list, your task list. If you're going to do this at least once a year, you may as well think big. The second thing I wrote down here was begin with the end in mind. I know you've heard that before, but I think so many of us set our goals based on our circumstances and we work forward. What do we have to work with? What are our options and resources? Do we have time? Do we not? And we structure what we're going to do this next year based on that. And what I would suggest to you is start with the destination of where you want to be when you're thinking big and then back it in. Don't worry about what the path is. Year-end planning is designed to help you stretch. It's not designed to help you put your tasks and priorities together. Get that big picture, focus on the destination, begin with the end in mind, and then back it in. And also set aside any baggage or bad experiences you've had. So many times at the end of the year we plan and we like well you know I not good at this I not good at that This hasn worked so far This has worked so far Push all that stuff aside This is about setting up goals that are outside your comfort zone things that can help you go to the next level. The next thing that I want to suggest is that you establish new disciplines. What are the new disciplines that you're going to carry into the new year? What new habits can you do? What bad habits can you break? What daily rituals will you change? What I would suggest is you don't continue to just do the same daily rituals. Analyze which ones have worked the best for you. Analyze what time of day they've worked the best for you. Do those things because if you can do that, you're going to have some new activities and you're going to have new stuff going on and figure out who the people are in your life that you're going to, you know, basically bring into your life and ones that you're going to push out because they haven't served you this last year in your habits and establishing rituals towards your success. Now, here are some mobile apps that I use personally. I use the Calm Meditation app. I use the Wake Up Meditation app. I like that one because Sam Harris does a lot of theory, and sometimes it gets me into a frame of mind. Calm app has some great sleep stories. If you have trouble sleeping, that's a great way to put it on and your brain can disconnect. I use the day one journal app and I and I upgraded slightly on that because I wanted to be able to add a picture audio or a audio to text And it's not much at all But it would be amazing if you had like little pictures in your journal and then what wins what memories what successes you had And so, you know begin with the end in mind Think really big establish some new disciplines. I also had and this is one that my business partner Robert Stubberg suggests a lot and that is make a list rather than focusing in on your 20% at the end of the year always find ways to delegate or eliminate things that you're doing. Delegate or eliminate things that you're doing. In other words the answer isn't always just to cut things out of your life sometimes and you feel like you don't have any options. Sometimes the option is you can delegate something that you're doing. You got to think out of the box here. What are the activities? Look at the activities that you've been doing this last year. Which ones give you a return and which ones are just busy work? If you getting a return continue on those but get rid of the busy work by delegating or eliminating because there a lot of ways And the way you do this best is you really create a value of every single task you do If you doing responses or copywriting or editing or mowing your lawn or doing housework, whatever it is, put a value on those activities. Because when you value yourself at a higher level, you're certainly not going to do activities that you can pay someone to do for you. Things like Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek, that book really gets you thinking out of the box. Now, here are some resources you can use to delegate or offload lower value tasks. You could go to Fiverr. That's F-I-V-E-R-R.com. I use that all the time for $5, $10, $20. You can have people create logos, design work, write copy, You write your blog articles. You could also go to Upwork. There's a lot of staffing kind of agencies and outsource contractor agencies. Or you could go to outsourcejobs.ph. Outsourcejobs.ph is virtual assistants in the Philippines. And when you go through that and you realize just how inexpensively you can get people with degrees and knowledge and aggressive, passionate work ethic, it'll blow your mind. You'll wonder why half the stuff you're doing right now, you're doing when your value should be $250, $500, $1,000, $2,000 an hour. And you're doing stuff you can pay somebody $3 an hour, $5 an hour. And there's some tips and tricks to having the right virtual assistant we could talk about another time. But OutsourceJobs.ph is a great source for that. And the last thing is, I'd like you to establish what you can do to prune various areas of your life. See, we think about cutting things off in our life and we think, ah, that's a negative. But pruning, if you look at landscaping or taking care of plants or things like that, when you prune a tree, you're getting rid of all the dead branches. The branches that are, for most important, they're stunting the growth of that. And there are things in your life that are keeping you from growing. It might be people. Yeah, it might be. Look, relatives, family, friends, people can love you but not have your best interests at heart, right? Because they don't understand the situation. But there are people, friends, that are keeping you from doing what you need to do. You need to prune them out of your life. You need to prune and cut back on your screen time your social media You need to cut back on your overeating You need to cut back on spending money on things that are expenses and not investments You need to cut back on certain things in your health that are holding you back. Maybe it's smoking or drinking or activities that don't serve you. Also, what rituals are you going to prune? Like I mentioned before, there may be some daily rituals that you just go through the motions because you think it's helping you and you feel productive because you can check that box, but it's not taking you any closer. Reading for an hour might not be taking you closer. Maybe you need to do an audio book while you're on the treadmill. Maybe you need to do something while you're driving. Not anything that'll distract you, but you know what I'm saying. Prune things in your life. So basically, and here's the thing, I want to challenge you to do something. Pick at least one thing that you add to your life that is going to be 100% outside your comfort zone. It might be going to a meetup group. It might be networking. It might be making cold calls. It might be writing. Do something, not something that you're not good at, but something that's outside your comfort zone that'll stretch you in areas of your unique talent. And so those are the suggestions I have for you today. Think big, begin with the end in mind, establish new disciplines, and delegate or eliminate and prune things out of your life. Look, you know, it was a commencement address that Jim Carrey was given, and I love this quote. You've probably heard me give it before, but he said you can fail at what you don't want so you may as well take a chance on doing what you love that's the message i want you to carry into this next year why not why not do something that you love why not do something that you love and have the faith that it'll help you to be successful fulfilled happy and make money because it's possible it is possible um you know uh a friend and mentor of mine, Les Brown, always says, you know, you have greatness inside of you. You've got to stretch yourself. So don't just set goals at the end of the year here. Stretch yourself. Go to the next level. That's my message for you today. I hope that helps you. 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