Happy Thursday morning, everybody.

Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast where our goal is to help you grow a profitable or a more profitable location independent business.

We are going to do exactly that today. Resources from this episode will be in the show notes

and at tropical MBA.com slash resources. So here's the concept. We're all thinking about the goals we can

achieve next year. The question is, what is a reliable framework

that we can use to set an effective plan for next year that takes just a few hours and is very

simple? The genesis of this is that we do this with our DC Black members at our events.

So we'll be doing something similar to this in New York City in just a few days here.

And also we do executive coaching.

So the question is, is like when clients come to us and they're ready to set their goals for the next year, what are some of the frameworks who've walked them through?

So what I'm going to do today is share with you exactly what Ian and I do to set our plans for the next year, what are some of the frameworks who've walked them through? So what I'm going to do today is share with you exactly what Ian and I do to set our plans for the next year. And hopefully

you can take away something from it, whether you're a solopreneur or whether you've got a large

team in millions of dollars in revenue. This simple step-by-step process can help you plan for

next year in just a few hours.

All right. I've got 10 points to get through here.

The idea here is to keep what you write down as your 2026 plan.

Incredibly simple, incredibly effective, and very clear to all stakeholders involved.

And this is doubly important if you're a lifestyle business owner who plans to maybe be less

involved next year, but also reach your goals. It's possible, but we need clarity around the plan. All right, let's get

started. You're sitting down. You can download this worksheet in the show notes or

tropical MBA.com slash resources. So you can walk through it with me. First step is simply this.

What is your goal for 2006? How are you going to represent that to both you and your team? Is it a revenue goal? Is it a profitability goal? Those are going to be typically the two types of answers that a business is going to want.

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