- To be honest I've never really been a goal-setting person.
What?
I mean, I set New Year's resolutions a lot of years
but I'm that normal person that by February,
they've totally flown out the window
and I'm back to my normal habits,
but after running a business in 2016,
I realized how important it was going to be
for me to set goals in 2017.
So in today's video, I'm gonna share with you
the number one tool that I used this year
to set goals and reach them for my business.
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Just the Tips.
My name is Trena, and I help creative businesses
like you get started here on YouTube.
Today, I'm gonna walk you through the tool that I used
to set my goals in 2017.
That tool is PowerSheets.
So PowerSheets was created by Lara Casey,
and I bought this at the end of 2016
to really get serious about goals, track them
so that I could really have something to achieve
and see what I accomplished throughout the year.
So I'm just gonna walk through
what the PowerSheets looks like inside
and then share with you
did I complete or reach any of my goals?
So what's great about these PowerSheets
is it gives you all of these prompts to think about,
like lessons you learned, to really get thinking about
what kind of goals you want to set in 2017.
So after you start thinking about all of these things
and reflecting on the previous year that you had,
then you get down to setting your goals for the next year
and this book is great with these.
You can write them down, and by writing down your goals,
you're held more accountable.
Writing them down just feels more real
than to just have them floating around in your head
because I'm a mom, and I honestly can forget
what I had for dinner last night,
let alone a goal that I set for myself three months ago.
So in the book, you see that you can write down
up to 10 goals and I set seven goals for myself in 2017.
And what I really love is the Action Plan.
So you take the goal, you set your why to it,
and you start creating action plans,
what you can do, those tiny steps that you need to take
to really achieve that goal because just having a goal
doesn't mean you're going to do it instantly, right?
There's going to be a lot of little steps
that you need to take to get to that goal.
Then you basically have a goal check-in
every single month in this PowerSheet book.
So at the beginning of the month, I'll sit down,
I'll go through the prompts,
and then I'll really brainstream about
things that I need to do this month to reach a goal,
or to get things done I want to get done this month,
or things that are coming up this month,
just kind of as a brain dump to clear all that clutter
out of your head.
Then every month you have this tending list.
So you set your mini-goals for the month
and there's a little block that you can scribble
as you progress through that goal.
I love doing it.
I love being able to fill in that box.
And then there are weekly goals.
So what the things you need to get done each week
to get to that goal, that main goal
that gets to your overall yearly goal, right?
Then I love the little daily goals.
So you can start changing habits,
so whether you want to start walking more
or making the bed or drinking more water,
you can really start to track these types of things
in this daily goal.
And then you can pull out this tending sheet
and keep it close to you, so on your desk
or a corkboard by your desk, so that you can be reminded
every single day of the small goals you're taking
to get to those big goals that you set for yourself.
Plus the book is filled with a lot of inspirational quotes.
I love just flipping to a new month and seeing
a new quote that just gets me excited.
I mean, who doesn't love pretty quotes?
So did I think this investment was worth it?
Because these PowerSheets are pretty pricey.
I believe they're around $55.
I did think it was worth it.
It was the first time that I really set goals.
I did set goals the year before
but I just put it on like a note-card
and I probably lost that note-card
or I might have put it in a Google Doc
and have no idea where it was.
So I loved having that planner.
Now it's not a daily, weekly planner
like to write down your day-to-day tasks.
Like I said, it's more of overarching things
that you need to do to reach your big goals.
I will be purchasing for 2018.
I just like having that accountability,
having that check-in every single month.
If I don't have that monthly check-in,
I'm not going back to see,
"Oh, what did I do to reach this goal?"
or "What do I need to do?"
I just love having that check-in.
Out of the seven goals that I set for myself,
I believe I reached four of them.
So not bad. (cheering and applause)
Almost, it's almost 50%, over 50%?
I'm not a math wizard.
So I do think there were the,
there's a great PowerSheets community online too.
You can join other PowerSheet groups and work together
each month as you're setting your goals,
reflecting on your goals.
I'm gonna start doing PowerSheet goal check-ins in 2018
to share with you guys what I'm doing in my business
and how I'm getting there through the PowerSheets planner.
So my question of the day for you is
how do you set your goals?
Is there a tool that you use?
Let me know down in the comment section below.
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