THE STEPS YOU NEED TO TAKE FOR A SUCCESSFUL QUARTER TWO

Today’s episode of the podcast is a solo episode where I am talking all about the practical steps you need to take to set yourself up for success in quarter two. I am so excited to share with you the exact process I go through, and some of the key things you will want to think about when doing it for yourself - because trust me when I say that it is absolutely key to the growth and success of your business.   TUNE IN TO FIND OUT: The practical steps I take to review quarter one The questions I ask myself to move forward into quarter two How I review my annual goals to ensure I am still on track   If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to iTunes and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Buy a Full Focus Planner Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook   Transcript Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Your Dream Business podcast. How are you doing this week? I hope you are good. I just want to say a little thank you for tuning in and listening. I really do appreciate it. And just as a quick reminder, if you have not already subscribed to the podcast or reviewed the podcast, I would be so, so grateful if you would do those things. It really helps not only me by my podcast being heard more, but also helps other people because they get to discover the podcast. So I'd really appreciate that. Okay. So this week, I don't have an interview. I am doing a very quick solo on some practical steps to reviewing your quarter. So at the time you're listening to this, we've not long come into quarter two of the year, and my quarter one was the crazy. If you've been in my world, you will know that I have done a lot of stuff this year already. So I launched another podcast. I started a beta group program. I've relaunched that program. I have done a massive summit with thousands of people and 38 phenomenal speakers. So I have been like smashing out the work in the first quarter. So it's a great time for me to review what I've done and also maybe walk you through the steps that I do at the end of every quarter and I do with my executive club members and with my club members. So what I'm going to do is just walk you through the questions that I ask myself and If you've got a piece of paper and a pen, then maybe make a note of these questions and give yourself some time to go through it. I promised you anything like goal setting, anything like reviewing and looking at where you are is never ever wasted, ever. So the very first question I ask myself when I look at the previous quarter, so first of all, remind yourself what happened in quarter one. So January, February, March, what did you do in those months? Now, one of the things that I do, which really helps is I have a full focus planner, which we'll put a link to in the show notes. I'm a big fan. They were a sponsor of the summit. So basically Michael Hyatt and a team have put together this amazing planner that I've used for years. And one of the things it does is every week it asks you to celebrate your wins. So that really helps when it comes to review my quarter, because I can literally just go back to that planner because the planners are in quarters. So I'm starting a new one at the beginning of April and I can just scan through to see what happened in that quarter. Sometimes looking at photos, looking at your calendar, looking at like, you know, if you've got a wall calendar. Just trying to keep an eye on what happened in that quarter, because you'll be amazed how quickly we can forget things. So the very first question I ask myself is what went well in that quarter? And I list out all the things that went really well for me in quarter one. And this year it was lots of good stuff. Like I did lots of work, which felt really good. If you've not been a long time listener, then you'll, you might not know that last year, although I showed up every week and I still did everything I needed to do. I was not moving forward with my business as well as I would have liked for many good reasons. One of them being that I spent 2023 working on getting sober and now I'm working on staying sober. So for me, focusing on what went well is really, really important because we need to celebrate those wins and we need to take some time to realize some of the really cool things that happened and just pat ourselves on the back of them. So. What were they? What happened in this first quarter? Did you get some really good engagement on social media? Did you build your email list? Did you get asked to speak somewhere? Did you get some new clients? Did you do something phenomenally huge, like start a new product or service? Or did you redo your website, maybe have a rebrand? What was it that you did? So let's celebrate those wins first. The next question is, what didn't go so well or as I expected? So it's not that we're going what was awful in the first quarter, what didn't quite go as I expected? One of the tools that I have developed over time has been the ability to go, Hmm, that was interesting. Often when I want to scream, shout, cry, throw myself on the ground because something hasn't gone the way I wanted it to go. But this is the point. It's always trying to acknowledge that, okay, that was interesting, that, why was that the case? So doing the summit, and I'm actually going to do a podcast episode around the summit and how it went and my takeaways and what happened and what was good and what wasn't good and all that sort of thing. But doing that was such an eye opener in terms of, okay, what has, what is going like happened here. And rather than judging myself by going, well, I could have done that better, and that wasn't very good. And who did I think I was with this thing? I just spent the time going, okay, that's interesting. So now I know I've never done a summit before. So again, be really gentle with yourself. If this is something you've done for the first time, Your only goal is to learn, is to learn from it. So what did I learn from doing XYZ? What did I learn from being asked to speak at such and such? Where did they find me? How can I replicate that? So what didn't quite go to plan? And again, it doesn't mean that it was awful. It just maybe didn't go how you thought. Maybe you didn't hit the numbers you wanted. Maybe you didn't sell what you wanted. Maybe you got no's in places. So Just make a note of them. What can you learn from those things? What didn't go so well this quarter? So the next thing I look at, and the next question I sort of address is, I look at my annual goals. So what goals did I set at the beginning of the year? And were those goals, they should have been broken down into quarters. And therefore, did I achieve the things I wanted to achieve in the first quarter? Now, one thing I want to remind you of with all of this is none of this is a tool to beat yourself up. None of this is a thing to hit yourself around the head and go, you haven't done well enough. Not at all. The whole aim of doing anything like this is if we don't review things, we don't know where we are and we don't know what we're doing and we don't know how to improve it. So, Go in with that kind of, you know, scientist head, not the judge and review and think, okay, where am I at? And the thing with the goals could be, you might have started, or maybe you did your goals at the end of last year, with all good intention of something happening and something already has come and knocked you off your feet. And you've got to now decide, is that thing big enough to change the direction in which you're going and therefore you need to align your goals to match that, or is it something that you need to get back on track and you stick with your goals as they are? So again, this, none of this is set in stone. It's not like you have to go, Oh, well, these are the goals I set. I've got to do them. So I review my goals. I actually part of the full focus planner is I actually go in and so they make you rewrite your goals every quarter, which is really helpful because it makes you really kind of think about it. A couple of my goals for this year were. to put the podcast live, the new one, the losing part of me podcast about my getting sober and to do the summit. And both of those things have happened already in the first quarter of this year. So they are off, like they're done. Tick. Well done. Amazing. So now it's a case of, do I need to put something else else in to replace them or am I okay then working on the other goals? And some of the other goals were weren't worked on at all because I was too busy working on those others. And that's fine because I knew that before I went into that quarter, I knew that in quarter one, the focus was get out the new losing part of me podcast and do the summit. Everything else could wait till quarter two, quarter three, quarter four. So that's what I mean, like in terms of being flexible and tweaking and changing as need be. So I look at my goals...