I love starting a new year. Yes, I'm one of "those people" that loves starting fresh on January 1st.
Yesterday morning, Joe and I did a retrospective of 2017.
We poured ourselves some fresh hot coffee... curled up on the couch and began listing all of our wins for the year. We listed all of the big obvious ones... like getting married and taking our kids to Europe. We also listed wins for our business... like launching the new Your Color Style color fans and growing our team to 9 people. And we listed our good health as wins.
We then listed what wasn't successful this year and what it lead to. This
part of the process was not about listing complaints but about learning from things that just didn't go well. What did those things lead to and what might we do differently going forward.
And then lastly, we started writing our goals for 2018.
I first ask... this time next year... what do I want to be celebrating in my list of wins? And then I work backwards to milestones that will pull me
toward this goal. I break it down by quarter... then by month and then by week.
The weekly goals may change but as long as I have the end of year goal in mind... I have a greater chance of achieving it.
It's also important to share your goal to as many people as possible. Saying it out loud and writing it down puts your goal in motion. Your brain will begin to find ways to achieving your
goal.
So, if you haven't yet... wrap up 2017 with a retrospective. List all of your wins (big or small). Identify what wasn't successful and what you might do differently next time. And then set 1 large stretchy goal that you can achieve by the end of 2018. Your goal should excite you. It should scare you a little. And it should be achievable. Not easy... but achievable.
If you're in
the Style Club, share your 2018 goal with the group. Set your goal in motion.
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Jen Thoden is a color style coach, entrepreneur, runner & mother-of-the-year (not) dedicated. Her expertise in color and style has been featured in Inc.com, She Knows and Thrive Global. Her mission is to help women (re)discover their
unique self and inspire them to take back their power in fun and creative ways. She is the founder of Your Color Style™, a proprietary online color system that makes it easy for women to discover their best colors and to learn how to style themselves in ways that say "I am worth knowing!".
