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5 Key Questions to Ask Yourself at Mid-Year

5 Key Questions to Ask Yourself at Mid-Year

by | Goals, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Holy moly, Friend! Can you believe it is time for a mid-year review? It’s crazy. I think I mentioned to you last week during our discussion on third-quarter planning how quickly time has flown by, and it is all good. I’m not exactly sure when you’ll read this, for me in a few days, it will be the halfway point of the year. As you cross the midpoint of the year, this is the perfect time to pause and reflect on the year thus far. What are the things you've accomplished, and what are the things you're hoping you can achieve for the rest of this year? Here are five key questions to ask yourself at Mid-Year to gauge if you are on track to reach your goals. Be sure to get your hands on the free Mid-Year Review download!

Make time for a mid-year review.

Now, this is important; please schedule time for a mid-year review. If you are not honoring your desire to go after your goals, who will?
Well, of course, besides a private coach, they always hold space for belief in your goal achievement. Just sayin’ I know my coach has the belief in me as I’m tackling my mind drama. You know, when you level up, a whole other door of limiting beliefs seems to open up for you.
A mid-year review will not magically happen if you’re not mindfully setting aside time. Why not pull out your calendar right now and block off a whole day for time to reflect and plan for the months ahead. That’s why the best way to do this is by scheduling time in your calendar.
It says this is important when you create space by blocking time on your calendar for a mid-year review.

Why a mid-review is important to you

I know what you’re thinking; why is it important to do a midyear review? Because it's essential that you know where you're going and to reflect on where you’ve been.
Mid-year is a great time to pause, look back and celebrate all the accomplishments that you've gotten done so far this year.

As well as to take a look forward for the rest of the year of the things that you'd like to still achieve.

Yay! Let's celebrate your wins!

A mid-year review is a perfect time to celebrate! Be Your Own Best Cheerleader! Toot your own horn, Friend! Read this post for more on Be Your Own Cheerleader!  

Do you track all your wins?

Just saying, if you're not keeping track of your wins, you should be! Not everyone is disciplined to go after their goals. When you honor your desire for success, it's important to celebrate!

You can keep track in a success jar or write it down in a journal. I have mine in Notion in my daily journaling so that I can really pick one thing every day that I'm celebrating and grateful for.

If you need a bit of guidance on tracking your success, I’ve got you. Here is a previous post on Success Journaling to keep track of your success: 

Mid-Year Review Question One

Tell me in the comment below, what are the big and small wins you are celebrating? Now, this is important; each success deserves a little happy dance; spend a little time thanking yourself for accomplishing those!

The first question to ask yourself mid-year is:

What am I celebrating in my life and as an entrepreneur?

Michele Duwe from Miss Task YouTube On Mid-Year Review Questions

Mid-Year Review Reflection

Now that you've cleaned up all the confetti, let’s reflect. Hmm, I’m curious. Is this you? Do you run into trouble reflecting on your life and small business? Are you an entrepreneur who keeps going and doesn't take time to step back and reflect?

Not reflecting is where entrepreneurs run into trouble; they keep going and going without stepping back to reflect. Now is the time to reflect on your small business and the personal goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the year.

How do those goals feel at mid-year?

Are you still aligned with your goals and where you’d like to go as an online entrepreneur?

As your online business grows and transforms, the goals that you’ve set at the beginning of the year may no longer feel in alignment. That’s okay. Here’s the big secret: you must be willing to let go of what is no longer aligned with your business and personal goals.

It’s important to reflect and do a mid-year reset to build up the steam for the remaining year in your online business.

Mid-Year Review Question Two

What big goals did you set at the beginning of the year? Are they still there? Are you still working at 'em?

Taking time to reflect is a critical piece to goal setting and goal accomplishment. You must spend time evaluating what you have done and if you’re on track to achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself at the beginning of 2022 or whatever year you’re reading this. (;

The second question to ask yourself at mid-year is:

Am I still on course to achieve the goals I set for myself in my life and as an entrepreneur? Why or why not?

Mid-Year Review Question Three

Numbers tell a story about what is working and not working in your online business.

The third question is more of a set of questions to ask yourself mid-year and will give you a realistic look at the first six months of your small business.

Here are questions to ask yourself mid-year as an audit of your numbers in your online small business.

Finances

  • What do your finances look like for the first six months?
    • Gross Revenue
    • Costs
  • How much have you paid yourself?
  • Are you on track to hit your yearly revenue goals?
  • How can you shift your offering to hit your financial goals if not?
  • How is your spending?
    • Are you on a budget?
    • Do you have any areas where you’re overspending?
  • What is your profit for the year?

Marketing

What are your marketing efforts saying to you? Begin with your website; where is your traffic coming from? Page visits? What are the blog topics or keywords that generate the most traffic?

Why do you want to know this? These would be great topics for your content calendar!

Next, check your email marketing, has your email list grown? How were the open rates? Click through rate with your call to action? Are you getting engagement from your email list?

Social Media

Finally, review your social media numbers. What is the engagement rate? Do you know what content had the best engagement? How about what content has the worst engagement? Use this information for your content calendar.

Mid-Year Review Question Four

What is your vision? You need to start with the end in mind. What is the vision for your life as an online entrepreneur? Do you know how you want your life to look three years from now?

The fourth question during your mid-year review for your online business:

Where am I going, and why?
Where do I want to be 90 days from now?
Where do I want to be by the end of this year?

Mid-Year Review Question Five

Another key piece of your mid-year review is getting honest with your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. What thoughts keep you from achieving your vision for your life and as an online entrepreneur?

The fifth question to ask yourself at mid-year is:

Where are my thoughts getting in the way of my vision for my future?

Not sure? No problem, ask it this way instead.

If I did know where my thoughts were getting in the way of my vision for the future, what would they be?

Our thoughts and feelings create our actions and results. It’s important to be mindful of what your thoughts are regarding the success of your online business.

Mid-Year Goals

To conclude your mid-review of your online business, set new goals or create a new plan on how to achieve the goals you’ve already set! If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? Mid-year goal setting allows you to plan for the rest of the year!

Here are a few previous posts on goal setting for additional resources.

ttps://misstask.com/goals-daily-doing/
https://misstask.com/visually-tracking-your-2021-goals/
https://misstask.com/achieving-2021-goals/
https://misstask.com/mind-mapping-to-plan-your-goals/
https://misstask.com/mid-year-review
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C.S. Lewis Quote Phone Screensaver

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is a snippet of the essential mid-year review questions for online entrepreneurs.

Schedule time in your calendar for the mid-year review

  • What am I celebrating in my life and as an entrepreneur?
  • It’s important to reflect and do a mid-year reset to build up the steam for the remaining year in your online business.
  • Conduct a mid-year audit of your financial numbers in your online small business. Are you on track to hit your revenue goals?
  • Review your marketing efforts, and check the numbers for your website, email marketing, and social media.
  • Where am I going, and why?
  • Where do I want to be 90 days from now?
  • Where do I want to be by the end of this year?
  • Where are my thoughts getting in the way of my vision for my future?
  • Reevaluate your current goals. If needed, set new goals and a plan to achieve them.
  • Mid-year goal setting allows you to plan for the rest of the year!

Michele from Miss Task here! I'm an Operations Manager with a heart to help take the headache and chaos out of running an online business from your home with your family in tow.

Small Change Makes A Big Difference | Habit Change

Small Change Makes A Big Difference | Habit Change

by | Online Business

I get it. Are you trying to make a habit change and keep failing? Do you ask why it is so hard to start a habit? I have been there and done that myself. Let's talk about what you can do to make those new habits stick. Have you found yourself in this habit loop? You have some new HUGE habit change that you want to create in your life; it’s not a small change. As a matter of fact, it will require you to start a good habit; however, you keep failing no matter how many tricks you try. You get on the habit train, and then shortly after that, you get off. What is a life-changing new habit that you want to create to transform your life? It’s so dang frustrating each time you start so good, but it ends the same way, with you struggling to follow through to make a big difference in your life. When you set out to change your life, you typically feel that you’ll need to make big changes to see significant results. What if, instead, you start with a tiny, simple change that you can begin and then simply add onto to make a big difference. So what is one big change you'd like to see in your life?

What is one big habit change?

What is it? Undoubtedly, you’ve been wondering how to start a new habit. What is one simple step? If you do that consistently, you will begin to feel a big wave of change start.

What's one possible daily change you can make that will compound into a huge life change over time. To begin with, think small; what's one little thing that you can do to start moving forward to create a new habit. So here's a perfect example that I'd love to share with you today.

How Small Change Makes A Big Difference

In addition to being a private coach, I am also an operations manager for small online businesses. Recently, during our annual employee reviews, each employee set a personal goal that they wanted to achieve in the upcoming year for themselves and a company goal we set jointly.

We want to help support them personally and professionally to achieve their goals. One of the employees set this big, huge goal to quit smoking. Wow, that's a big life-change goal.

Oh, how life-changing and difficult it is to quit smoking. This advice came from another manager who happens to be a former smoker.

Fantastic advice on how to start a new healthy habit

He said he actually quit smoking because he stopped having a cigarette 15 minutes earlier every day. Wow. Is that not just one tiny, small thing you could do daily to change a habit?

Every day he would just have his last cigarette 15 minutes earlier. On the first night, he had a cigarette 15 minutes earlier than the day before.

Do you see how one small change makes a big difference? It all began with the decision to start small.

Above is the perfect example of a simple step to create a new habit. When you find a small doable change in new habits, it will be easy to stick to making massive life-changing results.

With this in mind, can you think of how to start a good habit for yourself?

Instead of all or nothing, how can you apply the 15-minute principle to make a big difference?

Michele Duwe from Miss Task | Small Change Makes A Big Difference | Habit Change

Start A Healthy Habit

Do you drink a lot of soda and would like to replace that with a healthy habit of drinking water? A simple step to start a new healthy habit of drinking water instead of soda would be to decrease your ounces per day of soda while increasing the ounces per day of water. This is easy and doable. One ounce at a time until you have swapped completely. Again a perfect example of one small doable change that you can make that leads to huge results.

Here are a few other examples that I could think of off the top of my head.

Have you wanted to start a yoga practice and give up after a short time? Why not start with one pose a day? Maybe you begin with just doing one down dog a day; after a week, you add on child pose. I’ve Googled for you already the best yoga poses for beginners. Here are the five best poses.

What to mediate? Start with a couple of minutes, 30 seconds, possibly a minute; just start small and add on as you truly get into it a little bit more, cuz who says that it has to be all or nothing.

One last example is to create a one-step unwind routine if you need to get more sleep. The routine could be taking a bath or reading a book for fifteen minutes. Plan your day backward from your bedtime and create space for your unwind routine. By planning backward, you make sure that you have time to get everything done that you want to get done before you unwind and go to bed.

Again, we're not looking for some pie-in-the-sky change; pick one small doable change and just stick with it, stick with that one thing.

Start with those small, doable changes that make it easier and easier to form that new habit over time.

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Little Side Note

Atomic Habits by James Clear is a must-read if you struggle with forming good habits. Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results Here is a link

How will you start a good habit?

Let me ask again, is there one area in your life where you can use this exact same technique by starting with one small action that will compound and compound over time?

And the best part is committing to a small change will feel much easier for your brain. This is how you start a new habit and make it easy. What you want to do is make the plan so easy. It should feel simple. The simple solutions are the ones we tend to overlook.

We want your thoughts to be. That's easy. Oh my gosh. That's so easy. That's so simple. Yeah. I can totally do that. You want to get your brain on board that you are 100% bought into this new habit. When your mind starts to take you down the same old path, tell yourself this plan feels simple enough; it is easy for me. Before you know it, your new habit will be who you are because your small change became a routine that turned into a healthy habit. Then it's just second nature, and it's just who you are.

You also prove to yourself; you prove to own self that you are a person that follows through on what you say you’ll do. You’ll believe you’re able to accomplish hard things, that you're able to make a commitment and follow through on that commitment.

If you’re the person who often puts other people ahead of what you said you’d do for yourself. Well, you know what, just do it for yourself. I give you permission to put yourself first once in a while when it comes to taking a small action to create big habits and changes in your life. You’re the only one that can commit to the change.

Change starts small. And I promise it will compound over time. You may find yourself adding more little things to that one small change. It will have a ripple effect to change so many other things in your life. So friend, if you want that ripple effect in your life, I invite you to apply for my private coaching.

The button to apply and work with me is down below. After applying, you’ll be sent an email to schedule a call to discuss the small changes that make a big difference in your life.

Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you, and have a wonderful week.

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Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

Are you ready to experience life from a different perspective?

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How Do You Feel Happier?

How Do You Feel Happier?

by | Online Business

It’s funny how we can so easily tell ourselves that I’ll go after my dreams when I'm more confident. Do you think that maybe believing in yourself and thinking positive thoughts will help you feel happier and even influence your life positively? But here’s another factor you might not have considered, what if it had more to do with your mind. 

Did you know that developing focus, creativity, and sharpness will help you feel happier and even more blessed in your life?

Those who are more positive and happy tend to notice opportunities more because they are less stressed. And by the same token, you could see even more opportunities because if you’re expecting positive results, your mind will begin to look for positive results to prove you right.

When you overload your minds with negative thoughts, the outcome could leave you feeling groggy and easily distracted. It will feel difficult or impossible to exert the necessary discipline to change your thinking and life. 

So how do you boost your mind to feel happier and even more blessed in your life? 

I’m a big believer that your thoughts create your life. Another critical point is taking care of your mind with sleep, meditation, and proper nutrition. As soon as I begin not to make these things a priority in my life, it creates a ripple effect. 

This bit of self-care allows you to show up as a happier person. At the same time, you feel more focused. You feel more present and patient with yourself and all the beautiful blessings you have in your life.

What does all of this have to do with believing in yourself and thinking positive thoughts? 

I know what you’re thinking; how does any of this have to do with going after your dreams, having more confidence, believing in yourself, and thinking positive thoughts? 

Our minds are so mighty; if you truly accept and believe that your thoughts create everything in your life, you’ll begin to see that you have the power to create your happiness. 

You hold power to look for the positive, even in the negative. 

Michele OBM and Life Coach from Miss Task How Do You Feel Happier?

Life is filled with lessons

Why do you find yourself in similar situations? It may be because you have more to learn from that lesson. What else do you need to get from the teachings you haven’t gotten? 

I’ve had plenty of aha moments when I’ve realized that I’ve had similar situations show up in my life really close together. I’m like, ahh, guess I didn’t get it the first time. 

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Where do you need to work on your mindset to feel happier in your life? I’d love to know what thoughts you’re working on! Share in the comments below or send me a DM on Instagram. 

Sometimes you just have to make the decision

Don’t you wish that life had an easy button sometimes? I’ve found that life can feel easy and happier when I decide to be happy and look for the blessing even when I think it is hidden under a bunch of crap. 

People who decide that they want to love life no matter what life lessons come their way are happier, more focused, and think positive thoughts.

If your life feels like a complete mess and you’re living your days in frustration, I got you! Together in six months in my private coaching, you’ll achieve the joy and peace you want more than anything right now.

Private Coaching

Why do I believe in the power of private coaching?

Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

Are you ready to experience life from a different perspective?

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