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Achieve Content Consistency: How to Create a Vision Board on Canva

Achieve Content Consistency: How to Create a Vision Board on Canva

by | Goals, Planning-Organization-Productivity

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Do you ever feel like you have a million ideas floating around in your head for your creative content? Only to struggle to create and stay consistent when it comes to publishing your content? Or maybe you have a goal in mind to create a new sales funnel but can't quite figure out how to make it a reality. How about using a vision board? As an entrepreneur in the online space, I'm guessing you’ve created a vision board at some point to help you clarify your goals, visualize your dreams, and ultimately manifest the life you want. Am I right? What if you create a vision board on Canva for your desktop to achieve content consistency? Today, I’ll share some tips and tricks for designing a vision board that will inspire and motivate you to take action. So whether you're looking to boost your creativity, create content consistency, or simply have fun designing a visual representation of your goals, read on to discover how to create a vision board on Canva so that you can maximize your creativity and figure out if a vision board truly works for you.

Benefits of using a vision board for goal setting

A vision board visually represents your goals, dreams, and aspirations. It's a powerful tool to help you clarify your goals and visualize your future. When you create a vision board, you can see your goals tangibly and visually, which can be incredibly motivating.

 

When you look at your vision board daily, you're reminded of what you're working towards. This can help you stay focused and motivated, even when you encounter obstacles or setbacks.

A vision board is a perfect solution to overcome your content inconsistencies. Or any other struggle you’re attempting to overcome in your business.

That’s why I create a monthly vision board on Canva for my desktop computer. Everything I’m working towards, along with a visual reminder of why I’m working to achieve it.

Just in case you’re unfamiliar with Canva, here are the basics

Canva is a free online graphic design tool that makes it easy to create stunning visual content. With Canva, you can create everything from social media graphics to presentations to vision boards. Here are some of the basics you need to know to get started with Canva:

1. Create an account – To use Canva, you must create one. You can use your email address, Facebook, or Google account to sign up for free.

2. Choose a template – Once you've created an account, you can choose a template to get started. Canva has many templates to choose from to create a vision board. This is how to create a vision board on Canva for your desktop. In the search bar, type in vision board desktop wallpaper.

3. Customize your design

After you've chosen a template, you can customize your design by adding images, text, and other elements. As I mentioned before, I create a new one each month with my current goals and projects that I’m working towards in my business.

Yes, once upon a time, I had the goal of creating consistent content for my blog.

4. Save and download your design

Once you've finished designing your vision board, you can download the image and set it as your desktop. You’ll see it all the time! That’s why I love to have it on my desktop to keep me motivated and focused on my goals.

Tips for how to create a vision board on Canva

Now that you understand the basics of Canva let's dive into some tips and tricks for designing an effective vision board. Here are some things to keep in mind:

1. Choose the right images and fonts for your vision board

When you're designing your vision board, it's important to choose images and fonts that resonate with you. You want your vision board to reflect your unique personality and style, so don't be afraid to choose images and fonts that speak to you! Personally, I use my brand fonts and color because I love them.

2. Add the Current Month's Calendar

While you do not need to do this, I like to put a calendar of the current month. I know this is the one thing I’m working toward that month. 

If it is a quarterly goal, add all three to the months and keep it until you achieve it. 

The easiest way to do this is to search for the current month and year when you are in the design from the left sidebar menu. I find a calendar I like and add it as a separate page. Then I group the calendar elements together; you may need to delete the other design elements in the background to do this successfully. 

 

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3. Adding motivational quotes and affirmations

In addition to images and fonts, you can add motivational quotes and affirmations to your vision board. These can be powerful reminders of what you're working towards and help keep you motivated and focused.

4. Organizing your vision board for maximum impact

When designing your vision board, it's important to think about how you want to organize it. Generally, I choose a template that speaks to me and go with it. But, you do you, arrange them in a way that feels visually appealing to you.

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It’s time to wrap this up. 

Creating a vision board is a powerful tool for clarifying your goals and aspirations, staying motivated, and achieving the life and business you want. 

By choosing the right images and fonts, adding motivational quotes and affirmations, and organizing your vision board for maximum impact, you can create a vision board that truly works for you. So why not give it a try? Create your own vision board on Canva today and start visualizing the life of your dreams! So, grab your laptop and get started today! Okay, maybe not today; instead, schedule time on your calendar to get it done. Better yet, set it as a recurring monthly action item in your project management system! 

Thank you so much for reading this, Friend I appreciate you, and I hope you have a wonderful week! 

Overly Ambitious Goals: How They Impact Your Work-Life Balance

Overly Ambitious Goals: How They Impact Your Work-Life Balance

by | Goals

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Have you ever found yourself swept away by the intoxicating thrill of setting goals that may be overly ambitious, only to question later if it is aligned with your overarching “why” or if it was set more as a vanity goal? While the goal may be achievable, is it a goal that is truly fulfilling? I must confess I've fallen into this trap recently, especially when juggling my commitment to publishing podcasts while still being there for my clients and family. I had to step back to look at my goal to reach 100 podcast episodes before the end of the year. Come on, Friend, let’s explore the alluring tap of overly ambitious goals and finding balance. 

A Personal Journey into Overambition

Yes, I must admit I was too ambitious with my content creation goal. Do you set goals that may be overly ambitious out of pure excitement?  Well, this was me with the number of podcasts I could publish consistently and finding balance to be present for my clients and family.

This was my thought; it will be so cool to have 100 podcasts before the end of the year. It’s doable. Totally doable cause I set the alluring ambitious goal only looking at the numbers and not considering the possible effects.

I kinda wish I could tell you this was the first time I’d done this, but it would be a lie, and most of the time, I’ll push through because I set the goal. Ask my husband, I’m stubborn. What happens to me when I do this instead of enjoying the progress toward the goal? Suddenly, it is a box that I need to check off, no longer a goal I feel aligned with. I’ll go through the motions not with excitement but with dread. I have a hard time throwing in the towel. I’ll tell myself you can do this, and I’ll run myself ragged.

A Quick Recap From Last Week

I touched on this briefly last week in episode 17. On the point of knowing how much organic content you can create without feeling overwhelmed. Friend, this question is so very important. It will vary for each of us. We all have different things on our plates.

I discovered really quickly that putting out three podcasts a week, while doable, was causing me to say “no” to things that I wanted to say “yes” to. Seriously, my ambition gets the best of me sometimes.

I’ve had enough failed attempts at creating consistent pillar content that I know my sweet spot is one piece of organic content a week. This is the right amount to allow me to find a balance between running a business and my family. I ignored this when setting my goal of 100 episodes before the end of 2023.

I thought no big deal, I’ll batch record and have my VA handle everything else. Well, until something happened to the recordings, eight episodes of batch work were gone. Well, not gone exactly; I sounded like a super fast-talking chipmunk. Let’s say I was in complete horror when I found this out, just as we are getting into one of our busiest times this year, graduation time. My three kids are graduating from either college or high school this month.

Are you sitting on the edge of your seat, wondering about my reaction? 

Of course, you are wondering, LOL. 

At first, I cried a little frustrated with myself. Oh, and believe me, at one point, I would have pushed through and batch-recorded all eight of them again.  With the thought, no big deal, I can find time.

But you see, that “time” that I’d be required to find would cause me to say “no” to a lot of important things we have going on right now. Only to say “yes” to my overly ambitious goal.  

You may not be impressed with me, but I truly was. Instead of batch recording them again, I asked myself what is the lesson here? What is the message that God is sending me? I stepped back to look for my message; everything happens for a reason, am I right?  

Is this goal aligned with my why? 

Asking this question tends to give me insight when I set or want to set overly ambitious goals. Sometimes I’m selfish and want to do things for vanity or what I’ll receive in return.

We are not intended to serve ourselves in this life. We have been given specific gifts from God to help serve one another. 

For this reason, I had to step back, reflect on my overly ambitious goals, and find a balance that allowed me to say “yes” to the things that truly mattered.

Was it hard? Yes, I feel the desire creep in,100% I do. 

However, I set the goal without sitting down and determining if it would be realistic and achievable with everything I’ve already committed to this year. 

Do I feel out of integrity, going back and changing only after a short period of time? Yes, a little. But, this goal in only a few weeks infringed on my overarching why: to create an impact while being present for my family. 

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The Lure of Overly Ambitious Goals

Oh, yes, they bring feelings of exhilaration when setting goals with high aspirations. C’mon, you know that feeling when you totally crush a goal that has been working hard to achieve? 

You can already feel the joy that will come when the dream of accomplishing that extraordinary goal is a reality. All the atta girls you’ll get from your clients, friends, or family members only reinforce the desire to set overly ambitious goals. There is one small problem when these types of goals are made from a space; it would be so cool without thinking through how they will impact finding balance for the things that truly matter. 

The Reality Check: Juggling Clients, Family, and Ambitious Goals

The initial enthusiasm will start to wear off, and the mounting pressure of meeting aggressive deadlines will force you to say no to the things you want to say yes to. In the end, this realization will be the reality check to help make the hard decision of letting go of this goal. 

The Turning Point: Acknowledging the Need for Change

Let me tell you; it takes a whole bucketful of courage to look at yourself in the mirror and say, “Hey, I think I bit off more than I can chew.” You see, there's a certain charm in admitting that you've been overly ambitious – it’s kind of like eating a whole pan of warm, gooey, fresh rice crispy bars by yourself; initially, it seems like a great idea until you're halfway through, and the guilt of keeping them all for yourself kicks in. That's when you know it's time to quit while you're ahead and share it with your family. 

Pause, and reevaluate your priorities. It's about taking a long, hard look at your why and asking, “Is this goal truly in alignment with my why or is it more of a vanity metric?” 

And sometimes, it's about admitting that it wasn’t completely thought through it was a goal made from excitement, just like my 100 episodes. 

Finding Balance and Redefining Success

You know, there's a certain finesse involved in setting realistic goals. Not every goal is a good goal to strive for, yes, they should challenge you, but not to the point where you’re overwhelmed and questioning what the heck you were thinking setting this goal. 

It is okay to step back and readjust the goal to be a little less ambitious so that you have the space to say yes to the things that matter and the people that matter. 

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The ongoing pursuit of balance, growth, and happiness

I’m guessing we both want to pursue all the goals that grow us personally and our businesses. If you find yourself in the future contemplating if your goal is a little on the ambitious side or if it is simply stretching you. 

  • Be sure to sleep on goal; heck, you may even need a week.
  • Circle back on the goal and ask yourself the following questions for a better gauge. 
  • Is this goal in alignment with my why? 
  • If I say yes to this goal, will I have enough bandwidth to be present for my family, clients, and potential growth opportunities that may come up? 
  • What is driving my desire to set this overly ambitious goal? 
  • Am I realistically able to achieve this goal in this time frame, with all my prior commitments? 
  • Will setting this goal allow me to maintain balance in my life?

It’s important to clearly understand what you want to achieve and what steps you need to take to get there. However, it's equally important to recognize that you can't do everything. As much as we want to, our goal must be prioritized and either let go of, the end date readjust or moved out to a future start date. 

If you struggle with a goal, remember it is okay to reevaluate and redirect. As a busy online business owner, you have enough going on without the added stress of an overly ambitious goal.Heck, if you’re looking to Find Balance in your life and business, I invite you to download my free resource, Find Balance.

Thank you so much for reading, friend; I hope this was helpful. I appreciate you, and I hope you have a wonderful week.

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4th Quarter Planning Tips for Entrepreneurs

4th Quarter Planning Tips for Entrepreneurs

by | Goals, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Drum roll, please; hello, quarter-four! Oh my goodness, quarterly planning is one of my favorite things to do. Let’s go ahead and step through these essential 4th Quarter planning tips and, of course, a 3rd quarter review! Why are these days so important for your online business? Because what you focus on improves. Taking a few hours each quarter to review and plan for the upcoming quarter will get you out of the trenches and help you focus on growing your business.

Here is the perfect opportunity to download my quarterly planner if you'd like. It will walk you through this!

Schedule Time For 4th Quarter Planning

It’s funny; after working with multiple creatives, you’d think the shock factor would wear off. At any rate, the shock factor never seems to go away when I realize that not everyone loves to sit down and plan. Who knew?

If this is you waving your hand in the air like you just don’t care, hear me now. Please block time on your calendar. As if that’s not enough, you’ll need to show up and do the work for your business and plan your fourth quarter.

Equally, you must set aside enough time to review the previous quarter and plan your next quarter.

At a minimum, block off two hours on your CEO day to get this done, preferably before the end of the quarter. However, this can be done at any 90 Day increment.

Copy and paste the link for this blog into your calendar event; just saying. (:

Set the tone for fourth-quarter planning.

Now that you’re sitting down to plan grab a cup of coffee, water, or your drink of choice. Also, have a timer handy you’ll want that. If you don’t have a timer, simply Google the word timer, and one will pop up in the browser. Easy peasy.

With fall in full swing, my diffuser has lovely fall scents from Plant Therapy. Not an affiliate link, just a product that I use and love. Running my diffuser while planning is another thing that I do to set a pleasant tone. https://www.planttherapy.com/seasonal

Limit your distractions.

Before beginning, turn off all the distractions because it's time to focus on your online business. Let me elaborate, turn off your notifications, put your phone in do not disturb mode, and close all but your needed applications and extra browser windows.

Close all the open tabs that do not relate to your 4th quarter planning.

Start with Reflection

Now, this is important for your quarterly review and planning. Begin reflecting on where you’ve been in the past quarter. You need to look back to look forward.

I can almost hear you thinking, what the heck do I reflect on? No problem, I’ve got you.

What worked really well?

What are the areas of improvement?

Umm, total feedback – not doing that again!

Woohoo, review your win jar (in case no one has told you lately, YOU’RE AMAZING, just sayin’).

Did you achieve your goals last quarter? If not, why?

Are you on track to hit your yearly goals?

Think back over the previous quarter, the last month, the current year, and the entire length of time as an online entrepreneur.

Let's set the timer for five minutes, maybe ten minutes, whatever works for you. Be sure to grab your journal or notebook and get to writing.

Do a brain dump.

Stay with me now, I want you to do a mind sweep and get all of your thoughts that are distracting you out on that paper.

To begin with, this provides for a clear mind while you’re planning.

With a mind sweep, it lets your brain know that all your thoughts are in a safe place and you don't need to worry about them while we're moving forward in the quarterly review, and your next quarter planning.

Michele Duwe from Miss Task 4th Quarter Planning for Online Entrepreneurs

Revisit Your Yealy Vision

Moving on with our review, what's your vision? Pull that out and read it.

What if you do not have a vision? Now seems like a perfect time to write one out.

Does your vision feel in alignment with you still? Do you feel like, oh, yeah, that's my vision!
That's exactly where I'm going.

Is your vision that you created when you first started your business, is that where you’re still headed as you've matured as a business owner?

Bottom line, does your vision still feel in alignment with you? Great.

Now, I want you to write out your vision, what are your three-year and one-year visions?

If it's the same, beautiful. Write it out exactly the same and step into your future self that already is living the vision of your business.

Pause and set your timer for about five minutes.

What is your vision for the next 90 days? Pause and spend time tapping into your vision of how the next 90 days will go in your business.

What are your goals?

What are the goals that you want to achieve for the next quarter, the next six months, the next year, whatever it is, you can achieve them!

This is where I really want you to focus. What is your goal for the next quarter?

Now, this is important, what do you want to accomplish in the next quarter that will push you towards your one-year goal?

Here’s what I mean, ask yourself if what you want to accomplish in the next quarter will directly impact your one-year goal. Therefore, pushing your business toward your vision.

If it does, in this case, good job!

However, if not ask yourself, why am I trying to accomplish this goal when it is not in alignment with my vision?

As a follow-up question, would achieving this goal make you feel like you’re living your good life?

Get that timer going! You may want a bit more time for this one.

The next thing, what do you want more of in your life and business?

For example, would you be on cloud nine if you were to do this every day in your life and business? What is it? What do you want more of in your life and business? That's going to make you feel like this feels wonderful.

Now, it’s important to know what you want to do less in your life and business. The problem is there are things that you're doing that you don't need to be doing that drain your energy.

What are those? Go ahead and write them out. Here’s why that’s essential those draining tasks will be the items we look at potentially outsourcing to somebody else that would not find it draining.

And the best part is it will preserve your energy for the things that only you can do in your business as an entrepreneur.

Those tasks that are draining your energy and focus need to get off your plate if you have any hopes of growing your business to six figures.

What is that? What can you outsource?

Circling back to your goals, what would make you jump up and down with joy if you were to actually achieve them? What would that be?

Don’t forget what are your top three personal, financial, and business goals that you have for the next quarter.

Here’s how to filter your goals

Now, this is the kicker; this is the goal filtering question I ask my clients.

Read those goals you just wrote down for your life, business, and finance.

Looking at those goals and ask yourself, are you committed? Are you committed to those goals? By committing, are you willing to devote two hours a day to achieving those goals? If not, they are not meaningful to you.

Map out important dates

Time to pull out the calendar. What dates do you need to plan around?

Here’s what I mean, for me, my sister is getting married in November I’ll be out of the office for eight business days right before Black Friday. You guessed it; I’ll need to ensure my Black Friday campaigns are ready to go before I head out of the office.

Consider this when planning out how to reach your goal.

You’ll reverse engineer from the end date. You need to understand you’re runway. Having two weeks out of the office for a vacation will play a huge factor in getting stuff done.

Block all the time you’ll be out of the office. You can use stickers or wasabi tape in your paper planner to make it fun.

  • Vacation Days
  • Important Kid Events
  • Holidays
  • Launch Dates

Breakdown the Goal

Here’s how it works: for the goal to be a success, there must be a commitment to follow through.

This is plain and simple; you can hope to reach your goal all day. Here’s the bottom line, if you’re not committed to creating a plan, following through, and taking action, you will not have success. This is accountability, Friend!

Fortunately, a simple solution is breaking down the goal into a plan by figuring out who, what, and when.

Digging in and figuring out what needs to be done, who will get the work done, and when it needs to be done. You may need to figure out the where, too if it needs a physical location.

Business Pulse

The final thing is, what is your business pulse? What I mean, what are the numbers telling you about your business? Do you have a healthy, thriving business? Or do you have areas that need to be focused on in the next quarter?

Do that now if you’re not tracking your numbers weekly or monthly. What gets measured gets improved. Here are a few common stats.

  • Website Traffic
  • Email Subscribers
  • Engagement
  • Number of Clients

 

 

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Little Side Note

Because I 💙 planning I have a few articles pretty similar to this one. I'd still invite you to review them. 

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Highlights of how to plan your fourth quarter.

  • Looking back is the best way to move forward.
  • Are you still in alignment with your vision?
  • What are you actually committed to doing?
  • Add all the important out-of-office dates to your calendar
  • Create a plan and commit to your success
  • How do you know you’ve improved without having a business pulse with all your numbers?
  • Go get ’em, tiger! You’ve got this.
  • Schedule time on your calendar for your NEXT quarterly review and planning.
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