WEBVTT - Plan to end the year well

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to plan to end the year well.

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<v Speaker 1>The start of the fourth quarter is a great time

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<v Speaker 1>to look back and look forward. You can figure out

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<v Speaker 1>what isn't going to happen, but also what still can.

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<v Speaker 1>I know a lot of organizations do end of year

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<v Speaker 1>reviews in November or December. As I've talked with people

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<v Speaker 1>about the reviews, I have realized something what happens recently

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<v Speaker 1>often winds up mattering a lot more than what happened

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<v Speaker 1>months before. Theoretically, a big win in February is just

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<v Speaker 1>as amazing as a big win in October, but in

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<v Speaker 1>practice everyone is still celebrating the October win when it's

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<v Speaker 1>time for reviews, and so that leads to the promotions

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<v Speaker 1>and raises. It is all a little silly, but if

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<v Speaker 1>you know this aspect of human nature, then you can

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<v Speaker 1>also work with it. Stepping on the gas now can

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<v Speaker 1>have a big payoff whatever happened the rest of the year,

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<v Speaker 1>personally or professionally. You can end the year feeling like

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<v Speaker 1>a winner. So think about how you might plan to

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<v Speaker 1>end the year. Well, look at your New Year's resolutions.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you plan to get in shape. That may or

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<v Speaker 1>may not have happened. But now at the start of

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<v Speaker 1>Q four, you could sign up for a Thanksgiving ten k,

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<v Speaker 1>spend the next few weeks training for it, and end

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<v Speaker 1>the year in better shape then you started. Maybe you

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<v Speaker 1>planned to take a particular trip, but with the uncertainty

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<v Speaker 1>of the pandemic, all those plans have still been on hold.

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<v Speaker 1>Think about a vacation you could still take by the

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<v Speaker 1>end of the year, basically regardless of what happens. Think

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<v Speaker 1>driving to a pretty place for a long weekend where

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<v Speaker 1>you rent a house just for your family. You could

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<v Speaker 1>get your meals delivered. You can do this. Yes, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a bother to travel, but in the long run you

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<v Speaker 1>will probably rather have the memories than not have the memories.

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<v Speaker 1>Or maybe you had a particular professional project you wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to accomplish. This will look different for everyone, but a

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<v Speaker 1>great many winds can be engineered in six to eight weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are strategic, want a big new client, pour

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<v Speaker 1>it on reaching out to everyone and spending a little

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<v Speaker 1>time each day brainstorming specific pitch as you might send out.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe you want to create some sort of intellectual property,

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<v Speaker 1>like a white paper. This week, nail down your idea,

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<v Speaker 1>then carve out time for research the next week, right

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<v Speaker 1>the draft over the next two weeks. After that, get

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<v Speaker 1>feedback and edits, and then circulate through your organization. This

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<v Speaker 1>is something tangible you can point to and it's done

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<v Speaker 1>by the end of the year. I am considering participating

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<v Speaker 1>in National Novel Writing Month again. You commit to writing

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<v Speaker 1>a fifty word novel in thirty days, then you in

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<v Speaker 1>the year with a manuscript written. Goal accomplished. You can

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<v Speaker 1>always turn something into something better. Or maybe you have

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<v Speaker 1>more nebulous goals, like being more social. You could reach

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<v Speaker 1>out to someone every day for the next four weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>If you do this, I promise your social calendar will

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<v Speaker 1>look amazing by the end of the year. It is

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<v Speaker 1>just about the discipline of getting it done. So today,

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<v Speaker 1>think about what it would look like for you to

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<v Speaker 1>end the year strong. Think about how you can break

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<v Speaker 1>these big goals down into smaller steps. Think about how

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<v Speaker 1>you can put those steps into your schedule over the

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<v Speaker 1>next few weeks. Then, no matter what happened the rest

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<v Speaker 1>of the year, you'll think of as a great year,

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<v Speaker 1>which it was even if most of the great stuff

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<v Speaker 1>happened at the end. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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