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How to achieve your goals and dreams in life – Part Two

How to achieve your goals and dreams in life – Part Two

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Disclaimer: If you happen to purchase anything I recommend in this or any of my communications, it’s likely I'll receive some kind of affiliate compensation from these products that I use and love. Please do not feel obligated to purchase anything through my links.

Hello, and welcome to part two of our goal-setting series. In part two we're going to talk about your why. Did you read the post from last week yet? The previous blog post helps you figure out the goal that you want to work towards and achieve. Here is the link to How to Set Goals for Yourself. Let me ask if you are a person that struggles to achieve your goals. A possible reason could be your why is not strong enough. Use me for an example, I have some goals that I'll crush. Then I have others goals I fall a little bit short on and never actually achieve or even look at again. Well, I've discovered that when a goal falls short for me, or off my radar completely. It is for one reason, it's because I did not have a strong enough why. Here’s what I mean, I did not take the time to figure out my why. Why did I want to actually do it or what was gonna change in my life when I actually accomplished that goal.

Circle Back To Your Why

Do you have goals that have fallen off your radar? Now, it's important to circle back to your why and refocus.

For those goals that have fallen off your radar, it's essential to come back to them. Take time to refocus and troubleshoot the obstacles that you have to achieve this goal.

Do you know why you wanted to achieve this goal in the first place? If not, figure out your why. Is that why strong enough to keep pushing you when it gets in the messy middle and it's hard?

Get your homework from last week

Did you get your homework done from last week?

Fantastic, I knew you would.

I'm guessing that you have an exhausting list of how to improve your happiness rating in all the areas of your life.

Here’s the tricky part pick one area in your life to focus on that will increase your happiness rating.

Why do you want to achieve your goal?

In other words, everything starts with why, why do you actually wish to achieve this goal? What is the driving factor that you have behind it? What is your true feeling that you have behind it?

Recently, I came across the book, The Most Powerful Goal Achievement System in the World ™: The Hidden Secret to Getting Everything You Want by Mike Pettigrew.

I love goal setting.

So much so, that it’s an area that I take time to study and master. I find it fascinating the various drivers' individuals have to achieve their goals. Or their process to set their goals.

You must be wondering what is secret to goal setting. According to the book, the hidden secret to getting everything you want is to discover your big why.

He has his readers complete an exercise on how to discover your big why.

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Be willing to do the work to achieve your goals

You’re going to figure out your big why for your one focus goal. I'm gonna have you do this exact same thing this week. Are you ready?

In the book, and this is so good, Mike has you write out your goal. Simple enough, am I right?

The magic is about to happen, after your goal you will write the words so that.

Again, add the words so that to your reason. You'll continue until you discover your big why.

For example, if your goal is to get 1,000 followers on Instagram. You would write your goal, followed by so that.

My focus goal is to reach 1,000 followers on Instagram so that I can increase my reach. So that I can increase my impact.

You'll keep going with adding, so that until you find your big ultimate, why.

Mike explains that when you drill down through your goal like this, you get to the big why.

You'll become filled with a deeper sense of purpose, connection, energy, and passion for that goal.

How to achieve your goals when it gets tough

You must understand your big why to keep you going when things get a little bit tough.

If achieving goals were easy, we'd all be goal crushers. I am right? When achieving your goal, get hard and you might not be making the progress that you want.

You see it's critical to figure out what your why is for your goal. So this is exactly what I want you to do this week. I want you to drill down into that why you want to actually achieve this goal.

But, there's a catch if you're not able to find a why that fills you with a sense of purpose. You must find a different goal that has meaning for you.

Figure out a goal, that deep down you hold passion to achieve. This is how you achieve your goals. This provides the fuel.

The solution is simple complete your big why exercise. Once you have your goal or desired outcome you're working to achieve drill down into why you want this.

Different types of goals

Now let's break down how I actually see different types of goals. For instance, I've found they fall into different size buckets depending on the goal.

Stick with me here, because this is what I mean. Is it a small, medium, or large goal? Further, another option would be a lifelong goal!

But what exactly is a lifelong goal? Simple, you have a lifelong goal that you're trying to achieve in your life.

Why is that? The timeframe determines the size of the goal, and how long will it take you to reach that outcome.

Let me elaborate if goal setting and achievement are new to you start with a short-term goal. Listen to me, short-term goal.

You don't want it to be too long because it becomes overwhelming for you.

Large goals will make you feel overwhelmed and you'll struggle to achieve them.

Smaller is better because it's going to help build your goal achievement confidence.

Lifelong goals

Here is an example of my lifelong goal. Cause I get it. A true goal is measurable and has a timeframe on them.

My lifelong goal is to live a long healthy, and active lifestyle. I measure this goal by creating what I refer to as micro-goals. Micro-goals determine if I'm staying on track with my lifelong goal.

Why I have these micro-goals, goals need to be measurable by a timeframe.

That's why micro-goals allow you to stay on track toward your lifelong goal as they have an end date.

When you have micro-goals that go along with your lifelong goal, it's milestones to achieve.

How to achieve your big goals with micro-goals

As I mention, living a long, healthy, and active lifestyle is my lifelong goal.

One micro-goal, that I set is exercise. Now for me, exercise is a habit. It's something that I do, as I refer to myself as a person that exercises five days a week.

I'll be honest, I also must switch up my workouts and try new things for it to be exciting.

When I do not check in with myself, it is easy for me to get bored. When I get bored with a workout, exercise begins to feel like a chore.

A micro-goal that I achieved recently was a six weeks pilates challenge with the FitOn app. Here is a link if you'd like to try it out.

When I change my workout routine, it feels fresh and I don't fall off exercising.

Have you ever stopped something that was a habit? It can be so difficult to get back on.

To stay on track, I relate to myself as being somebody that works out five days a week. I set micro-goals with different workouts to make sure it happens. Furthermore, it feels amazing to achieve a goal.

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Little Side Quote

What is your why for your focus goal?

It's your turn, figure out what your big why for your focus goal.

Add a so that until you drill down enough to find out why you're passionate about achieving this goal.

Please come back next week and we're actually gonna talk about setting a smart goal. Thank you so much for reading. I hope you have a wonderful week and I appreciate you.

Psst…you'd love to help you achieve your goals. Fill out an application and we can crush your goals together.

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Streamline with Honeybook

Streamline with Honeybook

I’m going to guess you’re with me on this one, you want prospective clients to have a positive experience with your brand no matter where they are on the customer journey.
How can you create a simple workflow that is easy to implement and is welcoming and streamlined for your prospective clients? Let me tell you about Honeybook to create a streamlined onboarding process.

Hello. If we haven't met before, my name is Michele and I am a life and success coach utilizing my experience as a certified online business manager to help female entrepreneurs achieve their goals, their visions, their dreams, so they can live a good life and actually have time to enjoy it.

With all the happening we have going on in our businesses we can’t be productive and have a watchful eye on our inbox 24×7 just in case a prospective client reaches out to us.

When they do we want to make a good first impression with a streamlined greeting leaving them feeling warmed and welcomed as if they walked into your office.

One way to automate is with zaps

I’ve seen some pretty fancy and impressive low-cost automated onboarding workflows held together with zaps.

They keep everything running smoothly in the background from filling out a google form, sending the email to schedule a consult, adding a task in a project management application for following up.

You guessed it this automation is great if you understand the setup and how to troubleshoot if it isn’t working correctly.

Here is an example of what happens when it is no longer working correctly.

Case in point, one of my clients had a fancy onboarding process with zaps that pulled the workflow together seamlessly. It was a beautiful thing of low-cost efficiency up until it stopped working.

Do you know how embarrassing it was to have to go back to prospective clients weeks later that fill out our contact form requesting more information and heard crickets from us?

Worse yet, can you guess how many of them were still interested in working with us?

Zero.

You must be wondering how exactly did this happen? Aren’t you alerted when a zap fails?

The problem was the team member that created the fancy, impressive low-cost automated onboarding system held together my zaps no longer worked for us.

To our surprise, the notification for the failed zaps was going to an inbox that wasn’t being monitored as closely as it should have been.

I think you’ll agree with me when I say we had lots of learning lessons.

Streamline with Honeybook

Another way to create a streamlined onboarding process

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere without watching your inbox 24×7 with streamlined automation created in Honeybook.

Honeybook is simple, easy to use, and keeps everything organized in one application.

It allows business owners, just like you to focus on the things that you should be doing to grow your online business.

While you’re focused on growing your business, Honeybook is welcoming your prospects the second they submit an inquiry.

If you haven’t looked at Honeybook in a while, they have recently enhanced their automation.

Which is a win for all of us busy business owners.

All In One

Honeybook is an all-in-one CRM that allows you to keep the history from prospect to long-time client.

This has it all forms, brochures, proposals, contracts, invoices.

It is a simple and easy solution for any growing business.

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Little Side Note

If this is something you want for your business?

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Disclaimer: If you happen to purchase anything I recommend in this or any of my communications, it’s likely I'll receive some kind of affiliate compensation from these products that I use and love. Please do not feel obligated to purchase anything through my links. (: 

✁ Just a Snippet

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

  • With all the happening we have going on in our businesses we can’t be productive and have a watchful eye on our inbox 24×7 just in case a prospective client reaches out to us
  • How can you create a simple workflow that is easy to implement and is welcoming to prospective clients? Let me tell you about Honeybook.
  • One of my clients had a fancy onboarding process with zaps that pulled the workflow together seamlessly. It was a beautiful thing of low-cost efficiency up until it stopped working.
  • Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere without watching your inbox 24×7 with streamlined automation created in Honeybook.
  • While you’re focused on growing your business, Honeybook is welcoming your prospects the second they submit an inquiry.
  • Honeybook is an all-in-one CRM that allows you to keep the history from prospect to long-time client.

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?

Who’s the best fit for your business?

Who’s the best fit for your business?

Who’s the best fit for your business; a virtual assistant, a techie virtual assistant, certified online business manager or all of the above?

Hey Friend, who’s the best fit for your business? This is determined by where you’re at in your business. Let’s take a look at the different done for you service providers roles. Who’s the best fit for you and your business a Virtual Assistant (VA), a Techie Virtual Assistant  (TVA), Certified Online Business Manager (OBM) or all of the above. Depending on what stage your business is in all three may be what you need to take your business to the next level.

 

Who is the best fit in your business

VA

Commonly, your first hire is going to be a virtual assistant, that special savior that get you back to doing what you love and take all those administrative tasks that you’re burying yourself with you.

Trying to be everything to everybody. Trust me, I've got that badge along with the busy badge.

A Virtual Assistant will sort through your inbox, organize the to-do list, protect the time on your calendars, they simply will be the organization and time-saving machine for you and your business.

A Virtual Assistant will be a doer of all the admin tasks that you have in your business.

TVA

Depending on what drains your energy and time in your business, a Techie Virtual Assistant, possibly could come before an Admin VA. Most, but not all TVA are subject matter experts on a software application. You’ll find a few Techie VA that are rockstars at a few different subject matters that are closely related. A Techie VA is a Done For You service providers.

The Miss Task Team is a group of Techie Virtual Assistant or Subject Matter Experts. Our Techie Superpowers are working with WordPress Website Design and email service providers, such as MailChimp, ConvertKit, and Ontraport.

OBM

A Certified Online Business Manager. I’ve made the transition from VA, TVA to a Certified Online Business Manager. A Certified OBM actually supports the business owner and manages the business.

An org chart for a digital business would have the OBM directly under the owner managing all the team members. The focus of the OBM is on the how and the who. How the vision of the business owner is going to be carried out and by whom.

We manage all of the things. An OBM manages all the people, all the operations, all of the things that are going on with the projects that you have in your business so that you're able to focus on your vision and the elements that actually only you can do in your business.

Hope this has helped to clarify who’s the best fit for your business right now! Who do you need? A Virtual Assistant, a Techie Virtual Assistant, Certified Online Business Manager or all of the above.

Two Resources

What? Yep, I have two resources that you could download. One is my Overwhelmed to Outsourced Planner and the other is my 100+ Ways An OBM Can Boost Business.

Enjoy! Let me know if you have any questions.