Hey, welcome to the series of Five Minute Fridays all about planning, how to plan, how to get more done with your planner, and how to use the right checklists and numbers to track so that planning is actually moving the needle in your business.

For three series, we're going to dig deep into getting more done and being the CEO that your business deserves, not just a hustling entrepreneur.

So let's get into it. Hey, guys, I'm sure one of the things that we have in common is we probably love checklists. Like, I am a huge checklist lover. I love the feeling that you get, right? Is it the endorphins that are released when you cross something off a checklist? Like, boom, done, accomplished, moving on to the next thing. I think as humans, we all love that feeling. when you cross something off a checklist, like boom, done, accomplished,

moving on to the next thing.

I think as humans, we all love that feeling.

And so when it comes to setting your year up for success and using a day planner in our

five-minute Friday series we've been doing here on planning, using day planners, getting

ready for the year ahead, I want to talk about one tool that you

can use, whether you're using our retail planner here at the boutique hub or you've got your very

own day planner you're using. I want you to set your year up for success using checklists.

So again, inside of the retail planner, we have several different checklists, whether it's our

annual checklist for you and your

staff, and these are just things that, you know, once a year, someone needs to sit down and

refresh some of these things. Whether it's doing, I'll give you a couple of examples, the owner doing

a self-audit on sabbatical planning. How do you plan to avoid burnout this year? When are you going to map out

time off? Okay, really? You need to sit down and talk about that. What is your education plan for

yourself? What conferences, masterminds, books, or coaching are you going to seek out this year?

And when are you going to map out time for it? Okay, how about this? How about backing up all

digital assets? Photos, videos, customer list,

financial documents. What is stored somewhere willy-nilly? It's on your desktop or your Google

drive and it needs to be cleaned up and organized. Once a year, right? Just the silly stuff we've got to do.

So if you're using the planner, there's the annual checklist or there is the quarterly and beginning of month checklist

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