How to Keep Your New Year Resolutions

How to Keep Your New Year Resolutions

by | Goals

Not sure when you’re reading this blog post the actual go-live date is a full week into January. My question is are you still going strong with your resolutions? If so, woohoo this is your year to stop failing on your resolutions and be part of the elite 8%. This is how to keep your New Year Resolutions.

About the 8%

Because according to research done by the University of Scranton several years ago, they found that 40 percent of American’s make New Year’s resolutions. Still, only 8% keep them longer than a few weeks. Here is the link. 

They meant that 92% of the people who set resolutions gave up on themselves.

They give up on dreams they had for their future self.

First, are you even in the 40% club with other Americans that set resolutions. If you are, good for you!

Second, do you fall into the 8%, or are you part of the 92% that stop? If so, why do you give up on your resolutions? Your goals to be a better you? Amiright?

Not one stone

Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m not throwing any stones because I’ve fallen into the 92% camp myself by not following through on every single resolution that I’ve set for myself.

I can almost hear you thinking, really, Michele, why are you even talking about this. Well, my failed resolutions were before I began my growth journey.

Now, I believe that resolutions are not just for a new year; they are meant to be set anytime you want to commit to improving your life.

I was pretty bold

In my January newsletter to my subscribers, I was pretty bold. I stated that there is no use setting resolutions if you do not have a plan to get through the messy middle.

Most people don’t realize that you must create a plan to get through the messy middle when setting resolutions. This is key to how to keep your New Year Resolutions.

The messy middle is when our minds begin to sabotage us.

Now, this is important; we are capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit. But our minds, our thoughts, not so much.

They crave safety and comfort.

The problem is the messy middle is when we are full of excuses as to why it's okay to stop. To give in and give up.

The Messy Middle of how to keep your New Year Resolutions

And now, you’re thinking, what the heck how do I get myself through the messy middle?

Let’s talk about how to keep your New Year Resolution.

You begin with giving yourself grace when you slip up. That doesn’t mean failure; that only means feedback.

Do not let your thoughts of comfort and doubt win. They want you to stay right where you’re at.
In the end, that’s not fair to you. As I mentioned above, look at it from the perspective of feedback instead of failure.

Those little slips, write them down. Yes, physically write them down in a notebook. Reframe what happened to what you want to happen the next time.

Reframe Your Failure to Feedback

For example, if you want to start exercising more. You’ve set a reminder in your calendar to work out every single day after work.

Instead of working out, you find yourself on the sofa scrolling through TikTok.

Write down in your notebook the feedback, aka your slip. Today, when I came home from work, I sat on the sofa and scrolled through Tik Tok instead of exercising.

Next, write down the reframe, what you will do instead. When I come home from work, I will change my clothes and exercise.

This is How To Keep Your New Year Resolutions to yourself.

At one little bump in the road, we take the easy path. The flat, easy way. Instead of taking the uphill, difficult pathway to improvement.

In the end, we know if we take the uphill, challenging path, it will come with satisfaction, whereas the flat, easy way comes with regret and disappointment.

How to Keep Your New Year Resolutions

Shift Your Thinking

It is our thinking in our minds that keeps us in the revolving cycle of disappointment.
I want you to step into your future self right now.

It is one year from today, and you stuck with your resolution. What does your life look like?

Now work backward and figure out the plan to get you to where you want to be in one year from now. Do this one step at a time.

What if, instead of choosing to stop, you use the feedback and keep going. How do you feel about yourself for following through?

It is one year from now, and you didn’t stick with your resolution. I’m guessing that you’ll want to try and set the exact old resolution for yourself with the hope that it will be different this year.

And will it? How will it be different this time?

Why not make this year a different year? Do it for you.

If you need a life coach in your corner to work through the messy middle with you. I got you. The link to apply to work with me is below.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Why do you give up on your resolutions? Your goals to be a better you?
  • There is no use setting resolutions if you do not have a plan to get through the messy middle.
  • The messy middle is when our minds begin to sabotage us.
  • We are capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for. But our minds, our thoughts they are not. They crave safety and comfort.
  • Let’s look at it from the perspective of feedback instead of failure.
  • This is How To Keep Your New Year Resolutions
  • Write down in your notebook the feedback, aka your slip. Today, when I came home from work, I sat on the sofa and scrolled through Tik Tok instead of exercising.
  • Next, write down the reframe, what you will do instead. When I come home from work, I will change my clothes and exercise.
  • At one little bump in the road, we take the easy path. The flat, easy way. Instead of taking the uphill, difficult pathway to improvement.

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Plan an Amazing New Year in Your Life and Business

Plan an Amazing New Year in Your Life and Business

by | Goals

 

Woohoo, are you ready for 2022 to be an amazing year? I know I am! Something about the end of a year and the beginning of the next – it’s exciting. Suppose you’re like me, balancing life as a mom, wife, and home-based entrepreneur. You get that planning is a difference-maker to feeling like you have it all together.

This is a high-level overview of the amazing year planning intensive that I do with my one-on-one clients. Grab a calendar and your journal, let’s dive in and plan an amazing year for 2022. Cue the confetti.

Let it go

I’m not sure about you, but the words let it go, and the movie Frozen go hand and hand for me. Still, I cannot see or hear those words and not have the song run through my mind. Anyway, my point, if you have any resistance to planning, I give you permission to let go of the resistance. What I’ve found for me personally is the things that I resist are the things I need to be doing.

You would not start out on a road trip without a map, well, unless you're totally in love with taking a long way.

If you want to have an amazing year in your life and business, you need to have some idea of what that means to you.

Spending time creating a plan will do that for you.

Always Start With Reflection

Every amazing year starts by reflecting on what worked, areas of improvement, and dropping what you need to walk away from.

What was really successful this past year? What did you achieve? The positive reflects always comes before the negative. Keep that in mind.

What didn’t go as smoothly as you hoped this past year?
What challenges did you face? Were you able to overcome those challenges? If not, what do you think you could have done differently to overcome those challenges?

Did you stick with your goal or hop around like a kid on a pogo stick? What pulled your attention away from achieving your goal or executing your plan?

Was it a shiny object, or was it a necessary pivot in your life and business?

Plan An Amazing New Year

Reflect on your numbers or metrics

Gather all the status of your business. How many people do you have on your email list? What is your traffic to your website?

What was your profit, expense, income, clients?

You’ll want to make sure that you’re measuring your progress.

Numbers tell a story that we can’t always see.

Here’s an example of how numbers tell a story. I recently met with one of my clients, she was pretty down about a launch she had earlier in the year, it was a complete failure in her mind. This was causing substantial mindset issues with relaunching her group coaching program again.

However, the launch numbers told a very different story. You see, once we dug into her numbers, her conversion rates were outstanding!

That story she was telling herself wasn’t true. Our minds are sneaky like that.

Reflect on your life balance

Do you want to know what makes for an amazing year? Feeling amazing! Do you know what can derail you? Not knowing what you’re priorities are in regards to what gets your time. Let me walk you through a life balance exercise to gauge where you are now so you know where you’re headed in 2022.

Feeling balanced is unique to you, but what does that look like for you.

Here are 8 life categories; please rank your level of satisfaction with each area from 1 (very dissatisfied) and 10 (fully satisfied).

  1. Family
  2. Significant Other
  3. Business
  4. Finances
  5. Health
  6. Home Environment
  7. Fun & Leisure
  8. Personal Growth

Please feel free to change any of these categories that are the most meaningful to you. Here are a few ideas for you: Friends, Security, Leadership, Community, Faith, Dating, Relationships, Motherhood, Career.

After you have ranked your categories, reflect on your answers.

  • Are there any surprises for you?
  • How do you feel about your life as you look at your answers?
  • Which of these categories would you most like to improve?
  • What change do you feel called to make first in your life to have an amazing year in 2022?

What’s your vision for the future?

What’s the vision for your home-based business?

Do you know where you want to be in three years?

Looking at your three-year vision. What should be the focus on in the upcoming year to bring the idea to reality?

What’s the vision for your life? Do you know where you want to be in three years?

What are your goals for the year?

Look at the upcoming year…

  • What do you want more of in your life and business?
  • What do you want less of in your life and business?
  • What would make it feel like you were living the good life?
  • Top Three – Business, Personal and Financial Goals

A question I ask myself when setting a goal “But, have you committed Michele to achieve this outcome?” If my answer is no, I need to set different goals that feel in alignment and that I’m willing to commit to achieving the outcome.

Oh, just one more thing, when creating my goals. If you use the word “want” and replace it with “will.” What that looks like. I will make it into the $200k Mastermind in August 2022.

Now it is your turn, what WILL you accomplish in your amazing year ahead?

Let Me Guide You Through An Annual Plan

Firstly, pull out the calendar and figure out the actual number of working days you’ll have available in 2022. What days do you plan to take time off for vacation, holidays, rest, and leisure?

Block those days off on your calendar now as out of the office. In other words, we will plan our business around the meaningful dates in our life.

Secondly, grab your notebook; it’s time to create an exhausting list of all the projects you want to accomplish next year, not only in your business but in your life. You do not want to be in the middle of a house remodeling project AND launching a new service at the same time. Girlfriend, that has stress, overwhelm, and a lack of sleep written all over it.

When I say exhausted, I mean get it all out, even those crazy ideas. No project is too small or simple for the list. Write down everything that pops into your head without any judgment.

What projects are aligned with your life vision

With your exhausted list of ideas, which projects do you feel are the most aligned with the vision for your life and the mission of your online business. Next, cross off anything on the list that is out of alignment with your vision, your mission, or doesn’t bring joy.

Then, circle ideas that feel aligned with your life vision, business mission and rank each of the tasks by importance to you and your ideal clients. This will help you figure out where to start.

Each quarter may be assigned up to three projects to achieve! If it is a massive project like a launch or house remodel – only one!

Basically, one per month if they are small. Start with the projects that have the most impact on the growth of your home-based business or are the quickest path to cash. Either highlight the three tasks for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 with a different color or note the Q before the project.

Mindmap the Quarters

My favorite way to create a plan is, to begin with, a mindmap. I’ve talked about mindmap previously in the post if you’d like to read it. — find the mindmap post.

In the center of a new sheet of paper, pick one of the ideas from your list. This is how you start your mindmap.

Circle this idea that is written in the center of your page. Begin by drawing lines off of this idea with all the big to-dos for the project. Likewise, create smaller to-do items off of bigger ones that need to be completed.

For example, if one project in the next quarter is to create a new opt-in. You’ll need a landing page for one of the items. What are the small accomplishable daily tasks to create a landing page? Here are a few ideas.

  • Find images
  • Write Copy
  • Create Wireframe
  • What else do you need to do?

Get it scheduled

If you have a project management system, you can set this all up inside to know what to do when. If not, a paper calendar or Bullet Journal will work just fine.

At the top, write out your online business mission, life vision, and goals for the first quarter. Under this breaks it into three columns. One for each project.

Looking at your list, if you had to pick just one project, what would it be?
Start with that one.

Under the Project Header

Now we will put in all the tasks that need to be completed by who and when. Will you need any resources, such as a new software application, to complete the task?

Not all the tasks must be completed by you. You must stay in your lane and delegate out the functions that can be done by someone else.

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Little Side Note

If you’re planning to create a new offering, this should be your single focus for the one whole quarter. If you’re going to remodel your kitchen and it will take six months, for the love of all that is good and holy do not try to do it all.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Suppose you’re like me, balancing life as a mom, wife, and home-based entrepreneur. You get that planning is a difference-maker to feeling like you have it all together.
  • If you have any resistance to planning, I give you permission to let go of the resistance. What I’ve found for me personally is the things that I resist are the things I need to be doing.
  • Every amazing year starts by reflecting on what worked, areas of improvement, and dropping what you need to walk away from.
  • Do you want to know what makes for an amazing year? Feeling amazing!
  • Block those days off on your calendar now as out of the office. In other words, we will plan our business around the meaningful dates in our life.
  • Grab your notebook; it’s time to create an exhausting list of all the projects you want to accomplish next year, not only in your business but in your life.
  • Then, circle ideas that feel aligned with your life vision, business mission and rank each of the tasks by importance to you and your ideal clients.
  • Each quarter may be assigned up to three projects to achieve! If it is a massive project like a launch or house remodel – only one!
  • Get it scheduled!
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Time For A Healthy Lifestyle Reset

Time For A Healthy Lifestyle Reset

by | Goals

It’s time for a healthy lifestyle reset, being the CEO of a growing business and team it’s essential that I stick to a healthy lifestyle. This is what gives me the motivation and brainpower needed to run a business.

How can I tell it’s time for a healthy lifestyle reset

This month it's time to turn my focus toward resetting to a healthy lifestyle. Not that I’ve gotten crazy off track, but I can tell my creative wheelhouse, my energy level, and focus are not at their normal levels.

It’s funny how simple it is to get off track and how simple it is to get back on track with a little awareness.

Here are the things that I’m doing to bring my awareness back to a healthy lifestyle.

Creating a healthy lifestyle vision board

You must be wondering, why start with a healthy lifestyle vision board. It’s a visual trigger of the reset that I’m working towards.

It puts my why into images.

Creating a healthy lifestyle daily routine

Here’s the big secret to creating a healthy lifestyle daily routine, track it.

It boils down to this, what gets measured gets improved. It causes us to pay attention.

The problem is, it takes a bit of time to keep track of healthy habits. Something we do not feel like doing this.

If you’ve read The Slight Edge you know it is just as easy to do something as it is not to do something.

Do you feel any guilt if you actually do the thing?

I’m sure you’re with me on this one, no we do not feel guilty if we do the thing. It’s when we don’t do the thing that takes up more mental energy.

Nike says it perfectly, Just Do It.

Time For A Healthy Lifestyle Reset

Tracking my healthy lifestyle reset

Laying it all out in Notion allows me to keep tabs on my progress on my reset. Cause it bears repeating what you track improves. Plus, I’m in love with Notion and its flexibility.

Curious what I’m resetting this month? Here are my areas that I’ve selected for my healthy lifestyle reset. These are the areas that are important to me. Yours my friend may be different.

Time For A Healthy Lifestyle Reset

 

Each one of these has a good, better, best goal.

To explain, Eat Veggies has a good goal of 2 servings, better 3 servings, and the best 4 servings. Even if I reach my good goal I’ll get to check off the box.

Time For A Healthy Lifestyle Reset

Inside each habit is another checklist of which level of goal I reached.

How to get motivated to be healthy

While this is different for all of us, this is the content I consume to get back on track.

Podcast:

Corinne is a bit colorful with her language, but her content is amazing: Losing 100 Pounds

YouTube:

Feelin Fabulous With Kayla 

Downshiftology 

Pinterest:

Healthy meals Pinterest board

Health Pinterest board

All the Pinterest Boards

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Little Side Note

Download Notion for free and play around with it for yourself. https://www.notion.so/product

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Life has been very busy and I'm not anticipating that it's slowing down anytime soon. It's time for a healthy lifestyle reset.
  • This month it's time to turn my focus toward resetting to a healthy lifestyle
  • Creating a healthy lifestyle vision board
  • Laying it all out in Notion allowing me to keep tabs on my progress. What you track improves.
  • Switching gears from learning about marketing for the month and filling my brain with health-related topics.