Merry Christmas from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions.

This is Entree Leadership, the show where leaders like you learn what it takes to win at any stage of business and leadership.

I'm Dave Ramsey, your host with over 30 years of experience leading in the trenches right alongside

you. And since it's Christmas, we've got a special gift for you, an exclusive talk straight from

our 2023 Entree Leadership Master Series. You'll learn why intentional planning is the engine that drives your business forward.

Plus five things, every goal needs to get real results. Because if you want to grow your business,

you need to know what you're aiming at. This is the playbook I've used to grow my business over all these years, and it's helped

thousands of others grow theirs.

So settle in.

Let's talk about how to make next year your best one yet.

Planning started at a really, really young age for me.

I think I was just a little business nerd to start with.

I mean, I used to buy

these, the leftover or the seconds little pieces of leather from tandy leather company. Does

anybody remember Tandy leather company? And I got these little leather tools and I could

put someone's name with these little leather tools on these little pieces of

strip of leather and snap on each end and then paint in their name.

And so I'm selling them out of my locker in mass.

I mean, I had a booming business in middle school eighth grade.

And I got called to the principal's office because I saw this activity around my locker

and thought I was selling something else. Yeah, so I've always been a little business nerd and

kept a P&L and I don't know why I knew to keep a P&L. I guess my parents were entrepreneurial and

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