Your Best Year Yet: Goal Setting for 2024 + Free Workbook for Your Success

Today’s episode of the podcast is all about making sure you are in a position to set your goals for 2024; so if you haven't set yours yet, or you need to add detail to the ones you have, then this is the episode for you! I delve into how you can ensure that the goals you set are based on what YOU want, what YOUR business is, and what season of life YOU are in. And the best bit? This episode comes with a free goal setting workbook, that you can fill in whilst you listen or at a later date! If you loved 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.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST The questions you need to ask yourself before you set your goals The questions to ask yourself during the process of setting your goals How to break your goals down into actionable steps and avoid self-sabotage   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Download the Goal Setting workbook Secure your spot at my Insider Experience Sign up to Teresa's email list Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook Transcript Welcome to the Your Dream Business Podcast. I'm your host, Teresa Heath Wareing, an international bestselling author, award winning speaker, TEDx speaker, certified coach, and the host of this number one ranked podcast. I am so excited to guide you on the journey of creating a business and life that you not only love, but one that perfectly aligns with you and the season of life that you're in. In each episode I'll share with you easy, actionable, and insightful strategies to grow your online business. Plus we'll be diving into some mindset tools and strategies that keep you focused, motivated, and are going to stop you from getting in your own way. So if you're a course creator, membership owner, or coach, you are in the right place. Let's get started. Hello and a really warm welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. And as always, I'm your host Teresa Heath-Wareing. How are you doing today? So I am coming to you with a solo episode today because we are midway through January. And I want to do a quick check in with you to see if you have given some thought to what you want to achieve this year and whether you have set your goals and planned out what they are and how you're going to actually plug them into your day to day life to get them to be achieved. So what I thought I would do is, as you well know, this is my jam. Like, if you're new to the podcast, if this is the first time you're listening to an episode, welcome. I am so grateful to have you here. But I am all things goal setting. Like I love this stuff. I am a qualified coach and part of that coaching that I offer and what I do is in and around goal setting. And this is something I have done myself for a really long time. So. I am a big fan of it. It's proven to work for me. It's really helpful for me. Now, I'm not saying that everybody will find it useful or helpful. Some people are super creative. They might not want to set goals. But for me, one of the reasons you do is that you have a kind of true north, a guiding star as to where you are trying to get to. And if you don't know, and there's the analogy of like, you know, it's like having a map, no idea where the destination is that you could just waste your time going around and running circles because you're not entirely sure where you're trying to head. And that's exactly how I feel when we do goal setting. And when we run a business, what is it that we actually really want? Now, one of the things I am super passionate about is making sure that these goals are based on you, what you want, what your business is, and what season of life you are in. Because that makes a humongous difference to the goals. It's all well and good watching other entrepreneurs, other business owners and think, Oh, well, they have achieved this. They think that this is a version of success and therefore that's the version I should go after. But actually that might not be what you want. And depending on your season of life, it might not be appropriate for right now. It's not to say that you never want to earn X amount of money, or you might not want a huge team, or whatever it might be. But right now, is that right? Is it fitting with you, your family, your needs, and like I said, the season of life you're in. And by season of life, what I mean is What is important to you right now? Is it that you have young children and you need to be present for them? Is it, I know one of my friends, their child is going through exams. So actually come the summer, it's going to be a real tricky time for them. So they need to put that into consideration. 2023. It was a huge growth year for me from a personal point of view. And that season of life actually meant that I didn't put as much into my business as I would have liked, but it was the right thing to do to invest that time into me and getting me to where I am today. And all that will come clear. I'm going to be doing an episode very, very soon on that as to what happened. But goal setting is super, super important for me to kind of look and attract and go, where am I trying to head to? What is it I want out of the business or this year or. And again, it's not about seven figure launches working from a beach. Now, if that's what you want, great, let's go for those goals. But just because other people go for those goals, you don't have to do the same. Yours can look very, very different and that is fine. So what I thought I would do today is this year I actually tweaked my goal setting worksheet that I do with my clients and my members and within the executive club, my mastermind. So I thought I would give you an opportunity to download a goal setting workbook, which I have put together really, really quickly. So don't expect like the most beautiful of landing pages, but I've put together a goal setting workbook. And in this episode, I'm going to talk you through some of those exercises in there. And if you have the workbook, great, you can download it and maybe listen along. Or if you just want to listen and make notes in a notebook, then absolutely fine. Or if you just want to listen and do it in your head as you're driving or getting ready or whenever you listen to this podcast, then that is fine. But I do think it's super important to spend a bit of time and I'm not going to dictate how long, but a bit of time giving this some thought and making a plan for 2024. So I guess I should start by telling you where you can go and get your free download. So if you head to https://teresaheathwareing.com/goalsetting, then you will find the free goal setting workbook, which you can work through with me as I'm speaking, or you can do it in your own time, or you can just listen to this podcast and make some notes in your head, like I said. Okay. So the very first thing we do, and I know it feels a bit dull and a bit boring, and sometimes I get a little bit embarrassed, like, Having to take people through it again and again, because I think surely they know this by now. And it's not about, they don't know it. It's the fact of giving them space to do it. We need to review what happened in 2023. Now, the only way we can improve, we can move forward. We can make changes is by understanding what happened in this last year. Now, the aim of this isn't to beat yourself up and be like, you know, well done, me didn't do as much as I said. The aim is to learn from it. So the first thing we do, and the first thing you'll see in the workbook is what went really well this year. And this is like typical me, but when it was New Year's Eve, it was my daughter and my husband and I, and I almost did like a whole year review with them. I didn't get my workbook. And I did choose more fun questions, but we talked about what went well in the previous year for us. So this is something that we do in our personal life as well as in the business and it was really good. It's really nice to remember what happens. Now for this bit I always go back through my phone or I go through my photos or I look at my calendar to remind me what happened this year because believe me when you're sitting down and reviewing the previous year. That kind of January, February, March feels like a million years ago. And actually what's always fascinating is kind of looking at it and going, Oh, okay, gosh, that was all that time ago. And I'd forgotten that even happened. So what went really well this year? So make notes of them, what happened, what was really good. Then we look at what didn't go as planned in 2023. And the reason we look at that is because we need to see where we didn't make the moves that we wanted to. And there could be a million reasons for this. It might be that you put it on the, in your goal setting, or you thought you were going to do something,