Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to plan to end the year well.
Speaker 1: The start of the fourth quarter is a great time
Speaker 1: to look back and look forward. You can figure out
Speaker 1: what isn't going to happen, but also what still can.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of organizations do end of year
Speaker 1: reviews in November or December. As I've talked with people
Speaker 1: about the reviews, I have realized something what happens recently
Speaker 1: often winds up mattering a lot more than what happened
Speaker 1: months before. Theoretically, a big win in February is just
Speaker 1: as amazing as a big win in October, but in
Speaker 1: practice everyone is still celebrating the October win when it's
Speaker 1: time for reviews, and so that leads to the promotions
Speaker 1: and raises. It is all a little silly, but if
Speaker 1: you know this aspect of human nature, then you can
Speaker 1: also work with it. Stepping on the gas now can
Speaker 1: have a big payoff whatever happened the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: personally or professionally. You can end the year feeling like
Speaker 1: a winner. So think about how you might plan to
Speaker 1: end the year. Well, look at your New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 1: Did you plan to get in shape. That may or
Speaker 1: may not have happened. But now at the start of
Speaker 1: Q four, you could sign up for a Thanksgiving ten k,
Speaker 1: spend the next few weeks training for it, and end
Speaker 1: the year in better shape then you started. Maybe you
Speaker 1: planned to take a particular trip, but with the uncertainty
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, all those plans have still been on hold.
Speaker 1: Think about a vacation you could still take by the
Speaker 1: end of the year, basically regardless of what happens. Think
Speaker 1: driving to a pretty place for a long weekend where
Speaker 1: you rent a house just for your family. You could
Speaker 1: get your meals delivered. You can do this. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a bother to travel, but in the long run you
Speaker 1: will probably rather have the memories than not have the memories.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you had a particular professional project you wanted
Speaker 1: to accomplish. This will look different for everyone, but a
Speaker 1: great many winds can be engineered in six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: If you are strategic, want a big new client, pour
Speaker 1: it on reaching out to everyone and spending a little
Speaker 1: time each day brainstorming specific pitch as you might send out.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to create some sort of intellectual property,
Speaker 1: like a white paper. This week, nail down your idea,
Speaker 1: then carve out time for research the next week, right
Speaker 1: the draft over the next two weeks. After that, get
Speaker 1: feedback and edits, and then circulate through your organization. This
Speaker 1: is something tangible you can point to and it's done
Speaker 1: by the end of the year. I am considering participating
Speaker 1: in National Novel Writing Month again. You commit to writing
Speaker 1: a fifty word novel in thirty days, then you in
Speaker 1: the year with a manuscript written. Goal accomplished. You can
Speaker 1: always turn something into something better. Or maybe you have
Speaker 1: more nebulous goals, like being more social. You could reach
Speaker 1: out to someone every day for the next four weeks.
Speaker 1: If you do this, I promise your social calendar will
Speaker 1: look amazing by the end of the year. It is
Speaker 1: just about the discipline of getting it done. So today,
Speaker 1: think about what it would look like for you to
Speaker 1: end the year strong. Think about how you can break
Speaker 1: these big goals down into smaller steps. Think about how
Speaker 1: you can put those steps into your schedule over the
Speaker 1: next few weeks. Then, no matter what happened the rest
Speaker 1: of the year, you'll think of as a great year,
Speaker 1: which it was even if most of the great stuff
Speaker 1: happened at the end. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey have buddy, I'd love to hear from you.
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