Reviewing 2018 and Setting Incredible 2019 Goals You Will Actually Achieve

KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCASTThink about everything that went well in the year, and how they made you feel. If you need to, scroll back through emails and social media and make a note of everything good that happened. At the same time, make a note of the things that didn’t go so well.It’s also important to make a note of the things I loved in the previous year. These may be completely different to the things that went well, but it will give you a chance to see what you want to do more of in the year ahead.When analysing your metrics, think about money. What did your business earn? Did you achieve your goal? What services made you the most money? How many customers have you sold to?It’s also important to think about your social media numbers. How many followers have you gained? Has your engagement rate increased? How big is your email list?When thinking about next year, think about what you want to be reviewing at the end of the year. How do you want your business to look? What do you want your personal life to be like? What would you like to achieve? Remember to dream big as nothing is out of reach!Once you have thought of your goals, who do you need to be in order to make this happen?It’s also worth thinking about what you need help with in order to achieve your goals.THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…No matter where you are in your business, the New Year is a great time to review everything you’ve done and set goals for the year to come. Think about monetary goals, social media goals and even personal goals that you want to look back on at the end of 2019.HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISSReviewing The Year You’ve Had – 03:46Metrics, Numbers and Stats – 08:15Planning for Next Year – 12:57Achieving Your Goals – 20:00LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODELink to WorksheetTranscript below Hello and a really warm welcome to Episode 42 of the social media marketing Made Simple podcast. And I am your host Teresa Heath-Wareing. Wow I can’t believe we’re in December already and I feel like everything is starting to slow down. No one wants to do anywhere. Everybody just wants to get on with the amazing Christmas cheer and you know what happens in my business in December is because there’s a huge part of the business that deals with clients. Often the clients start to naturally want to wind down as well. Anything new. We don’t do until the following year or we don’t have any particular meetings coming up in December. So for my business typically December has been a quiet month which is no problem to me whatsoever because as you can imagine with the family and Christmas and my daughter breaking up it’s hard work trying to do of things so I am very grateful for the fact that December’s a little bit quieter. The other reason I’m super grateful is because in December I obviously like to review where this year has taken us what we’ve achieved and then look to next year and focus on where I want to go what dreams and aspirations I’ve got. So today I wanted to do a podcast episode that focused around this. I’m wondering have you already done this yet in your business or do you normally do this. Do you take time at the end of the year to really look at where you’ve come from what you’ve achieved and then make those amazing goals for next year. If you haven’t I highly recommend that you do. Because sometimes we forget what we’ve done and we always focus on like the last thing and if the last thing was particularly great or you know wasn’t as good as you would hope. Then maybe you’ll be feeling like you know what this year hasn’t been what I wanted it to be. But actually you know I can’t remember what happened two weeks ago let alone back in March or June or whatever. So it’s really good to review where you’ve come from and then let’s look forward. As you know I am a big fan of making goals and plans and dreams and having a real focus of where I want to take my business because at least then if you’ve made that intentional you’ve made that focus then at least you’re looking towards it. If you don’t have a clue where you’re going in your business or what you want for it then you’re kind of just walking a path of.It’s like trying to get somewhere without that map but you don’t even know where you’re actually trying to get to. So today I’m going to talk you through the kind of process that I go through and to help you as well because I’m going to be covering quite a bit. I’ve actually put together a worksheet that you can work through at your own leisure and fill in all these bits that I’m going to explain to you how I use that obviously on this podcast and you can go and get that in the show notes. So if you head over to www.teresaheathwareing.com/42 as in the numbers then on there you’re going to find an option to download this kind of worksheet so you can work through and it has a few extra bits on there as well. Okay let’s get started. So either grab a pen and a piece paper to be Jotting things down or if you’re busy doing something like I normally am with a podcast like said you can head over and get the show notes later. So the first thing I do is I review the year we’ve had because it’s really hard to think about where you want to go if you don’t know where you’ve been and you don’t know what position you’re in right now. So what I first start with is a bit more of a qualitative I guess research on myself. And these are kind of questions that I just write answers to. So I think about what went well in the business and I try and highlight all the various things that happened in the year and you might have to go back and look at your calendar or emails or you know just one thing I do I go back and look at my social media feed which actually is really helpful to remind myself what happened this year because like I said come back to March or whatever. I can’t remember a single thing. So I think about what went well this year what events that I attend that I liked what things that I achieve where did I speak. What podcast interviews might have had all those kinds of things. I think that was brilliant. I loved that. Then on the flip side I think about what didn’t go so well. What happened in the business that I thought wow that’s a shame that wasn’t what I thought was going to happen or that was something that I didn’t like or that didn’t go so well or the launch didn’t go so well or whatever it might be. So have a think and it is important to review the things that didn’t go so well. We do want to dwell on them. We don’t just sit there and think gosh what a terrible failure I am because this thing went wrong. But you do just want to recognize the fact of that didn’t go so well because nothing is ever that awful as long as we’ve learned from it. If we’ve learned from that thing that went bad then that had its purpose and it’s definitely worth making sure that we look at those things and acknowledge them. The next thing I write down is what did I like doing the most. Now there’s a big difference between what went wow and what did I like. Because something could have gone really well. But actually to know what that isn’t that fun or I didn’t enjoy it very much. So I write down what did I love. What was brilliant about the business. What parts of the business did I enjoy the most. What sort of things really made me happy and made my heart sing. And I write those down because you know what when I’m planning next year I want more of those things. The other thing I write down is what did I set out to achieve last year that I didn’t achieve because actually when I think about back to my assistant I had a planning meeting at the end of 2017 to talk about 2018 and there were definitely things on that list that we just didn’t do this year we just haven’t got round to all things changed and no longer was that thing that we put on the list to do appropriate or correct or whatever the reasons were. But it’s always good to sort of go What did I think I was going to achieve and what didn’t happen. And again you might write those things down and go but actually it was the right reason they didn’t happen. Or you might write those things down and go I need to make sure they happen on 2019 also put down the reasons why you didn’t think may happen. So was it you. Were you holding yourself back. Was there a logistics thing. Was it. You didn’t have the right person. What were the problems that made those things not happen. Because again if you’re going to put back on your list for next year we really need to have a think about how we can solve those problems and how we can make sure that next year you don’t have the same problem. And then the last sort of questions I asked myself in this section is how did I feel about last year. What sort of feelings came up in the year when was I feeling particularly happy or when was I feeling particularly motivated and energized. And then I think about what fears came up for me. What fears held me back. What fears stop me from doing things or affected my business or made me not achieve something. So I try and have a think about the kind of emotions both positive and negative and think about how they might have affected my business because if you’re anything like me then they will affect your business. My emotions really do affect a how much work I do what I achieve what I attend and go to what I put myself forward for. So for me this is a key area to think back. We’re still reviewing this year and now we’re going to move on to the metrics and the numbers and the kind of stats and facts and things. I know there can be a little bit boring and you do have to