If you know us AT ALL you know that we’re HUGE advocates for goal setting. We talk about it CONSTANTLY. Since we’re getting towards the New Year, we thought this would be a GREAT time to sit down and chat with all you entrepreneurs about setting your business goals moving forward into the new year!

So if you’re ready to set goals and are feeling overwhelmed or lost or just ready for some solid tips and strategies on how to set business goals heading into a brand new year for yourself and your biz, well you’re in the right place! Let’s dive in!!

 

1. Take time to reflect on your past year.

What did you do well in your business? Looking back see what worked well and what didn’t. What do your financials say about the business moves you made? Do you need to change something you’re doing?

How did you feel about the past year? Were you able to create balance, space, prioritize what’s important, serve your customers, etc?

 

2. Always come with personal goals to the table when you’re planning business goals.

These two are congruent, they work together and they have to. 

Also on the practical side, do you want to earn more money to save up for/buy a house?

Are you wanting to have a baby? Get married? Take a month off to travel? Coming to the table with a clear vision for what you want to accomplish, how you want to feel, and what you want to prioritize will make the biz goals clear.

When you are setting your business goals keep in mind what are your life goals?? What do you want your legacy to be?? That’s KEYYYY in EVERYTHING you do. As entrepreneurs, it’s easy to have our business bulldoze our life, but it’s key and those can work hand in hand. 

 

3. Do all the above with TIME.

Plan out a couple of weeks but it doesn’t always have to be that way. If you can’t get away, just carve out a few hours a week and focus on one area at a time. 

We both take a few weeks in December to go through our past year and reflect, pray, write down. Then we also have our full team retreat that’s usually 2 weeks long (1-week exec – just us; 1-week team) plus time to dream with our husband. 

Make sure you’re giving the appropriate time to both reflect, assess, as well as plan and strategize for the next year.

 

4. Break down your year into quarters to help think logistically.

What do you feel is reasonable to accomplish within each season? Breaking it up makes it feel and be a lot more attainable. If you have a yearly goal break that up into quarterly goals, which helps it feel emotionally and logistically more possible. Do you have any “busy work seasons” or even big life events, etc that you’ll want to work with or around?

It’s easy to look at the full year and be like “I CAN TOTALLY DO ITTT!!” but breaking it down into 3-month stretches will help you think more realistically and set actionable/attainable goals. 

5. If you don’t plan your life, it will just happen to you.

It’s like stepping into the back seat of a car vs choosing to sit in the driver’s seat. You can set the destination in your maps and take the wheel. And sometimes, construction or traffic jams change your plans, take you on a detour, or reroute you entirely but you’re still the one at the wheel and stepping on the gas instead of sitting in the back seat of an uber hoping you arrive somewhere nice. 

When you set goals you are directing your life. 

 

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