#21: How to Set Goals and Create a Plan for the New Year

The Amy Porterfield Show

Amy Porterfield

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2013

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast, we focus on streamlining your business planning for the New Year. We reached out to successful online marketers, including Michael Hyatt, Pat Flynn, Melanie Duncan, Chris Ducker, and Michael Stelzner, to learn how they plan for the coming year. Goal Setting Tips: 1. Get Specific: - Reflect on what worked in your business this year. - Identify what excited you, what customers loved, and what was profitable. - Prioritize enhancing and optimizing what already works. - Address what didn't work or needs improvement and what you should stop doing. 2. Stack Your Goals: - Create big-picture goals and break them down into smaller, achievable mini-goals. - Focus on one mini-goal each month, eventually reaching the big yearly goal. - Write down your goals, break them into smaller steps, and tackle them one by one. Bonus Tip: Be Protective of Your Time: - Be deliberate about how you spend your time. - Learn to say no when necessary to protect your focus and achieve your goals. Goal Setting Sheet: - Condense your goals onto one page, keeping them simple and concise. - Include: 1. Revenue projections: Specify how much you plan to earn and where the income will come from. 2. Contributions: Set goals for contributions, such as charity or connecting with customers. 3. My Special Focus: Highlight an area of special focus for the year. 4. Focused Foundation Strategies: Detail specific strategies to achieve your goals, such as content creation or email marketing. Vision Statement: - Develop a company vision statement that reflects your goals and aspirations. - Keep it simple and visible in your workspace to maintain focus. Comfort Zone and Growth: - Set your goals slightly beyond your comfort zone to stimulate growth. - Embrace uncertainty, fear, and a sense of inadequacy as indicators that you're heading in the right direction. To support your goal setting, a Goal Planning Worksheet is provided for download. This episode features insights and tips from accomplished online marketers to inspire you to take action and set your goals for the upcoming year.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the online marketing-made Easy Podcast episode 21
0:06.0	Welcome to the online marketing-made Easy Podcast
0:09.7	Business advice so easy you'll feel like you're cheating and now you're host Amy Porterfield
0:15.8	Well, hello there. Welcome to another episode of the online marketing-made Easy Podcast Amy Porterfield here and as always I am delighted that you're here with me today now
0:35.7	I know I always say this but I am especially excited about today's episode because it's all about getting ready for the new year
0:44.5	and there's just something exciting about starting over and reevaluating, tweaking, shifting, streamlining
0:52.9	I must admit I'm a little bit of a planning junkie and I say that proudly because I think my planning abilities have gotten me to some big successes
1:04.8	but sometimes I love to just kind of stay in that planning mode because I feel so comfortable there
1:09.8	So this is kind of a dangerous area for me. I've got to get in and get out quickly
1:14.0	So with that I thought why not make an episode about streamlining your planning phase so that you get all your goals set
1:21.8	You're ready for the new year and then you can start out just running really just
1:26.7	Putting things to action right away in the new year. So that's what this episode is all about
1:32.4	Now when I was planning this episode
1:34.3	I started to wonder how other people actually get things done and how they plan and set their
1:39.7	goals and by other people I really mean those that I admire and those that I personally know are getting really big results
1:48.1	in their online marketing businesses. So what I did is instead of just wonder I reached out and asked these people
1:55.1	Now specifically I asked Michael Hyatt, Pat Flynn, Melny Duncan, Chris Ducker, and Michael Stelsner
2:03.1	how they plan for the new year, how they set goals, how they get things in motion
2:08.0	So that's why I'm most excited about this episode. It's extra special
2:11.8	Not only am I going to share my best planning tips with you today
2:15.1	But I'm also going to share with you personal planning tips from these pros and because they recorded their planning tips
2:21.9	Especially for this episode you get to hear it in their own words which makes it even better now during this episode
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