Planning My Year | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

People ask me all the time how I go about planning my year. It’s so simple that I can describe it to you in less than three minutes, but it’s one of my most powerful practices. If you want to get more done, control your calendar, and make more money, this Mindset Monday is the place to start.

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0:00.0	So I love this question. What do you and Kathy do to kind of get ready for the next year?
0:06.8	Well, would it shock you to hear that my wife and I will sit down and we will say,
0:11.1	what are all the holidays, what are all the events, what are all the birthdays,
0:14.7	what are the vacations, what are the getaways, what are the events that Tom's going to travel to
0:18.9	that Kathy may want to come? And we try and put all of that into the entire calendar for 2025.
0:25.4	You just went from 365 days to dramatically less.
0:29.4	Work expands to the time allotted.
0:32.0	I'm now down to this many days for the year.
0:35.4	How am I going to spend that time?
0:37.2	What is the highest and best
0:39.2	revenue use of my time on those days? And here's the time where I'm going to be resting.
0:44.1	And here's the time where I'm going to be working my face off. For you, it might be.
0:48.3	I've got a plan next year to do 60 open houses, 70 open houses, 100 open houses, here's where I'm going to do them.
0:55.2	This is when I'm going to do my client events.
0:57.1	Everything that makes your business work better, I'm going to put it all in the calendar,
1:01.7	the entire calendar.
1:03.2	That's the first one.
1:04.4	The second thing we do is we'll ask ourselves, hey, this year, do we want to take on a new
1:09.1	couple or two?
1:10.3	Meaning, do we want to expand the a new couple or two? Meaning, do we want to expand
1:12.5	the personal relationships that we have? Like, having one more great couple that we can, you know,
1:17.3	go to dinner with, have some fun with, play cards, pickleball, whatever it might be. Then we're
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