#107: 4 Tips for a Successful Quarterly Preview

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

4.6 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A new quarter has begun, with all of its new deadlines and tasks, and you’re still furiously trying to tie up the last quarter. All of a sudden, you’re in “reaction mode.” You’re struggling to think strategically. How can you set yourself up for a win instead of drowning in busyness? In this episode, Courtney and Blake discuss four tips for conducting a successful Quarterly Preview. They talk about how to pave the way for success, so you don’t end up overwhelmed, whiteknuckling your way through. A lot of people underestimate the power of a Quarterly Preview, but when you make the most of this process, you start the quarter off empowered and ready to meet the challenge of whatever may come. In this episode, you’ll discover—Why it’s essential to schedule time now for next year’s quarterly previewsThe influence a new location can have in helping you make a mental shiftHow reflecting deeply exposes recurring themes to addressThe power of planning ahead to build confidence, energy, and excitement Resources:Full Focus Planner annual subscriptionGuided Weekly Preview See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.8	Courtney, there's something that happens in, I feel like, I don't know if it's the second part of the year. It feels like this is more common for me where you're kind of just almost like it's
0:54.0	blur season. You're kind of,
0:55.8	it's summertime, then you shift into fall, then all of a sudden you're like looking ahead and
0:59.5	like, wow, how is this year already almost done? I'm looking at the fourth quarter already.
1:04.9	And you're kind of just hustling to kind of chase the big goals that you faced? Have you ever been there and felt like,
1:13.4	just like, man, I'm feeling, I'm feeling, maybe not burn out, but just, I don't know,
1:17.8	a little overwhelmed, a little sense of like I just feel like I'm in an all out sprint mode.
1:23.5	Yeah, totally. I think, I think sometimes I find myself almost a white knuckling the fourth quarter a little bit.
1:31.2	You're like everything that I had planned, you know, like a year ago is now coming to like fruition, but all these other things have happened that haven't been accounted for.
1:42.8	You know, and it's like just trying to
1:44.3	like force the things together. It's a kind of terrible feeling. I will steal away sometimes
1:54.1	and allow myself to sing a Christmas song. And I go, why, it's September. Why am I singing a
2:00.0	Christmas song? That is absurd.
2:02.8	Now, marketers would love that I'm singing Christmas songs already. But I think I'm doing it
2:07.3	because my subconscious is like, oh, when Christmas gets here, then you can actually stop, pause,
2:13.5	reflect on your life, and plan ahead for the new year. But what we're going to talk about today is a version of that that you can do right now,
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