How to break down your goals into actions

Today’s episode of the podcast is all about the next step you need to be taking, now that you have set your goals for 2023. In this episode I take you through a practical example of how to take a goal and break it down into actions, to bring it to fruition. Spoiler alert, if one of your goals this year is to be more visible, then this is an episode you’re going to want to listen to! KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST ● Practical ways to break down your goals into actions ● When you need to check in on your goals to make sure they’re still right ● How to measure your goals and amend them when you need to THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE If you set a goal, you need to have an actionable plan of how you’re going to achieve it! Transcript Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are Things? So how have you started off in the year? Now, it's been really interesting speaking to my community and seeing how I've been, because a lot of them have had a very slow start of the year, and I did the very first week. You know, I said to you before Christmas that basically during Christmas, I always plan to do so much work that I feel like I must have three months off. I did nothing. Now, this must be for the first time ever that I didn't use that time between Christmas and New Year to get some work done. And I don't really know why I didn't do anything. And I'm quite happy that I didn't do anything. And it does mean that I perhaps came back into this year thinking, oh, I feel behind, but not really behind when no one's behind. We just set ourselves a kind of, you know, task of when we want things done by. There's no race. I had a pretty slow start to the year. Also, I dunno about you, but I was so tired. So even though I did nothing over Christmas and New Year, pretty much nothing. I was still absolutely shattered. And also there's been loads of illnesses. I know I sound a bit funny. I've just been sneezing. I'm absolutely fine. Yeah, there's been loads of illnesses and people have not been right and. Anyway, so I feel like lots of us have come into this year not quite firing on all cylinders that we might want to be. One thing that was really interesting was I went on with a session with Mary, my coach, at the beginning of the year, and I said to her, I'm really tired and I don't feel very motivated, and I'm just really exhausted. And she's like, is that you or is that someone else? Now, You might be similar to me, where I am a bit of an empath and I take in people's feelings, which is a really, like, it can be really positive. It means I can understand very quickly how my members are feeling and before they've even opened their mouth, I normally know whether they're not very happy or if things aren't going right or you know, or if they're super happy, like I kind of get a feeling straight off the bat. But it also means that I take in a lot of other people's feelings and I can sometimes forget whether they're my own or whether I've taken them from someone else. So of course, me listening to everybody saying, I'm so tired, it's been, you know, really hard start to the year. Of course, I was saying the same, and Mary sat there and was like, and just want us to have a minute and decide, and we did some kind of, you know, meditation exercise and, and is this you or is this someone else? And you know what was so fascinating? We got to the end of the meditation. I was like, oh yeah, no, that's not me. Yeah, no, it's not me that's super tired. I've obviously picked that up from somewhere else and I'm carrying around as if it's my own, and I was like, I can put that down now that's not me. And suddenly then I felt absolutely fine and I've been fine ever since, which is really, really funny. How the world works. It's very odd. Anyway, anyway, just a little bit of a weirdness to get started there for you. So today I want to talk about, and I know I talk about it a lot and I know you're probably getting a bit annoyed, but I'm gonna talk about it anyway. I'm gonna talk about these goals that you might have set. I have done all my goal setting now, by the time this episode comes out, I've done all the sessions for all the different people and for my members and for the exec club and for people who signed up to do my goal setting stuff. And everyone is walking away with a set of goals that they've put together for themselves. And part of the work I do with them is we use one session to set the goals, and then they have a follow up session to work out how these goals are going to turn into fruition. Because what happens is we set a goal, we don't actually think. It's like we set a goal, we write it on a piece of paper and then at the end of the year we just revisit it and go, oh, did we get the goal? I dunno. Like it's, and, and most people goal set like that, you'd be amazed the people who goal set, like the amount of people goal set like that, and they don't actually think, and, and I get it, this is actually a really hard thing to do and it's taken me a lot of time and a lot of is to do this and to help other people do this, to actually take that goal and break it down into actions for them to actually help complete the goal. So, I did a session yesterday with the people who had their goal setting session in December, and one of the people on the session, and I thought it'd be really good to bring it to here, because as I was going through kind of the hot seat with her, other people were like, oh, I'm so glad you did that, because now I understand what I've gotta do. So basically she was saying that she wants to be more visible. That was one of her goals for this year, I need to be more visible. And quite honestly, I would imagine lots of people have that goal on their, their goal list because as we know, and as horrible as it sounds, it is a numbers game. And the more people who know about you, the more people you have a chance that can actually buy your stuff. So unless you have a very high-end exclusive stuff, Maybe you don't need to grow your audience, but this person was saying, I need to be more visible. And that's what she wrote on her goal. And I was like, so what are you gonna do in quarter one to get you more visible? And that's where everybody kind of stopped and was like, I don't know. So what we did is we did some action straight off the bat. I did it with her. So the first thing I said to her, so if you've got this on your list, this is what you need to do. The first thing I said is, let's look at all the different ways that you can be visible. So you can be visible by showing up on social media. You could be going live, you could go on other people's podcasts. You could start your own podcast. You could go on other people's YouTube channels. You could write a guest blog. You could write your own blog. You could speak at people's events. That's definitely one of the ones I use. You could create a summit for yourself. Like there are lots of different ways to become visible, so the very first thing to do is write it down all those different ways that you can become visible. Then once you've got them all written down, look at them and the ones that you think, I'd love that. Like, I'd really enjoy doing that. So for me, I love being interviewed. I find it very easy. It's very natural to me. I really enjoy it. I don't have to prep for it hardly, and I just rock up and I talk and it's ace. So for me that is like, oh yeah, love that. Speaking on stage. Love that too. Again, admittedly, that takes a lot more work in terms of prep, but I really, really enjoy it. That's the first thing to do. You wanna pick something that you actually like doing. Now, this might sound really obvious, but you'd be amazed the amount of people who do stuff, and when they get on a coaching call with me, I go, do you like it? And they go, no. And I'm like, why are you doing it? Because I get that there are things in our business that we've gotta do that we might not like. However, If this is something that you've gotta show up consistently throughout the year to do, to help hit one of your targets, if you don't like it, you're not gonna do it. Or if you do do it, you're not gonna enjoy it, which makes you miserable and therefore you're not gonna give it your all. So pick the things that you like to do. Oh, she had networking on there as well. So one of the things that she said she liked to do was she was more than happy to do training in other people's groups as like, brilliant. Let's look at that one. So we picked that. So that was action one. Write down all the things. Action two, pick which one or two or three. Don't give yourself too much work to do that you might pick and go, yes, I, I think I could do that, and I'd be happy doing that. Then once you've decided, so hers was, she's happy to go into other people's groups. So her next action, which we put in for January, so bearing in mind we're looking at quarter one at this point, so I said, right in January, by the end of January, what I want you to have done is I want you to have decided what you can train on. Give me a title, give me some description and tell me what my audience is gonna get from it. So as someone who has people come in and do...