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Welcome to episode 19 of design,
curious podcast and happy New 

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Year. 
It is finally the year 2023. 

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And here's to new beginnings, 
cheers to the New Year today. 

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Appropriately. 
We are talking about goals goal,

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setting and how to appropriately
make those goals become a 

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reality. 
I know it's kind of cliché to do

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it around the new year. 
I don't really do any New Year's

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Resolutions anymore unless you 
just call goal-setting 

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resolutions, but I definitely 
like to do goal-setting. 

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It's something that I do 
quarterly as I discuss in the 

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episode. 
And so it's, you know, it's only

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natural that does happen for me 
in January, but it is a good 

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time to look at the whole year 
as a plan and then break it down

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into quarters. 
Sometimes I think people might 

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shy away from making goals 
because They don't want to fail.

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I don't know if the 
perfectionist out there are 

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frustrated by their goals 
because they have maybe been 

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ambitious sometimes and then 
they don't follow through our, 

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they aren't able to achieve it 
and then get frustrated by the 

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end of the year. 
So we'll talk about that today. 

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How to actually achieve the 
goals that you set out and how 

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to not limit yourself when 
you're dreaming about, where you

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want to be 5 and 10 years out, 
let's get into today's episode. 

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You're now listening to design, 
curious a place where you 

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creative one are here to learn 
about what it really is. 

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Like, to be an interior designer
and I'm your host and Mentor 

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Rebecca, Ward, if you're worried
about how to succeed in a 

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creative career, if you're ready
to learn your next steps to 

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become an Interior Designer. 
And if you want the satisfaction

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of doing something you love 
every day, You are in the right 

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place. 
Grab a coffee, a notebook, and 

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let's dig into today's episode. 
So, I was thinking the other 

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day, how it is actually possible
to kind of accidentally fall 

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into interior design, people 
that have natural Talent are 

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often told, oh, you should do 
this for a living, you're great 

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at design. 
And so it's something that might

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kind of develop slowly over time
and you're like, well, maybe I 

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should do this, but I also was 
thinking about how you can't 

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accidentally fall into a 
profitable and successful 

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business. 
So while you might accidentally 

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fall into design, you can't fall
into the profitable design 

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business, it takes intention, it
takes goals. 

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And so that's what we're talking
about today was goal, setting 

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and something that I definitely 
look at, at the end of, at the 

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beginning of each year, I'll be 
working on this year. 

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Starting to use a full Focus 
planner, which one of my coaches

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has introduced to me and it's I 
think I can be really effective.

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Active for me because it's going
to help me link my personal and 

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professional goals and have them
all in one place. 

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To keep it top of mind for me, I
haven't had a physical planner 

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in many, many years. 
I use a lot of digital AIDS and 

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this I think will be really good
for me to have it top of Mind. 

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Have my goals, have my core 
values there? 

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Right in front of me that I can 
look at every day and so I'm 

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excited to see how that's going 
to make a difference for me. 

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I thought I'd try it out for a 
year and this planner something 

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that it lasts for a quarter. 
And then I do it the next 

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quarter. 
So I transfer my goals and 

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everything so I'll be 
re-evaluating them all the time.

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Simultaneously, I have another 
coach who is helping me with 

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quarterly business goals? 
So I have to go through this 

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90-day planning session and 
breaking down my goals every 

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quarter, so these things will 
work in tandem very well. 

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But I'm also excited about the 
prospect that I can focus a 

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little more on personal goals as
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Because I think I put a lot of 
emphasis towards business goals 

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in the last couple of years, 
which is fine and has been 

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great, but personal goals have 
kind of Fallen by the wayside 

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because it gets a little bit 
blurred when you own your own 

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business. 
And so I think that's okay that 

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those can be in the same place, 
but I also want to have some 

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separate personal goals that I 
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And I also think it's going to 
be great to be able to make sure

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that they all align with my 
Horror values in my priorities, 

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which I will have written down 
and in front of me and able to 

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access all the time. 
So, I was looking back at what 

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I've accomplished this last year
in 2022. 

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And so I looked into my reals 
and I saw that, I had six goals 

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set out for 2022, that I did 
accomplish. 

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And so, the first one was to 
launch. 

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My course, which I did back in 
April, of last year, it's called

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shifting spaces. 
Change your room, change your 

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life, which I think, is a great 
course, for getting the most out

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of your home. 
If there are spaces that aren't 

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being used properly, or if your 
home just isn't meeting your 

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needs. 
That's what this course is for. 

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I had next to launch my podcast,
so I did that, obviously in 

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September. 
And here we are today, I had to 

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elevate that Rebecca Ward design
client experience, which I did 

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spend a lot of time working on 
that last year and Can with 

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coaches, I heard a client 
services manager who is on 

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Porsches team that you heard 
from episode 16. 

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So that was really helpful in 
elevating my client experience. 

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But I also modified a lot of our
processes and procedures for 

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onboarding, checking in with 
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and things like that. 
My other goal was to nurture and

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grow my team. 
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We hired a new person and then I
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developing our team 
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We spent some time with a coach 
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assessments, and then learning 
how to communicate properly with

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each other advocating, for our 
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And just spend a lot of time 
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and then my other goal was to 
connect with amazing and 

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inspiring people. 
I definitely did that last year 

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and then I had Rock. 
Money to which I think I did. 

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So, so I did set out and to 
accomplish all the goals that I 

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had written down, which I 
thought was great, but that 

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definitely doesn't happen by 
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So, I want to talk a little bit 
about when you go to set goals, 

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kind of how to do that whether 
it's personal or for your 

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business, if you have one, so 
you start by looking, maybe five

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to 10 years out and kind of see 
where it is. 

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You want to be, what are you 
doing for work? 

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What? 
Is your lifestyle, what are the 

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vacations that you're having was
the car that you're driving and 

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this is kind of like your dream 
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What you're wanting your life to
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How are you going to manifest 
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And then we kind of hold back 
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say like, oh I'm on track for 
meeting those five to ten year 

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goals because at three years I'm
doing this, it's just far enough

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out to have that dream aspect of
like there's still an attainable

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goal out there. 
I Can Dream for but close enough

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Be realistic. 
So then you're going to pull 

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back again. 
And look at the one, your goal 

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and say, like, okay well what do
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next 365 days that I have and 
break that out into quarters? 

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And so this is what I do with 
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And then we set up a 12-week 
grid and say like K weeks, one, 

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two, three, four, five. 
And what am I doing that week to

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achieve these three goals that 
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It's like so say I have, you 
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year, I might try to accomplish 
two or three of those per 

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quarter and then what are the 
actual Noble steps? 

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I need to take during that 
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And I found that was really 
strategic really helpful and 

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actually being able to check off
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year and then it breaks it down 
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So it's not such a giant gold, 
looming out there that it's a 

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step-by-step process more, that 
you're just kind of turning it 

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into a task and You've never 
heard this before creating smart

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goals. 
I'll kind of break it down for 

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you here. 
That's something that, you know,

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I only heard about in the last 
couple of years as I've gotten 

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coaching, it's something that 
coaches like to refer to. 

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When you're setting goals, 
coaches are always asking you 

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about your goals, so a smart 
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Well, I've heard smart and 
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both. 
So, smart goal is an acronym, it

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is spelling out specific. 
Durable actionable risky and 

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time-bound goals. 
And then to be a smarter, it 

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also adds exciting and relevant.
So every goal that you make 

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needs to have these aspects to 
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Making sure that it's measurable
especially and specific 

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actionable, as I was making 
smart goals. 

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This last year, I found that 
there was areas that I kind of 

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would gloss over in the past 
like, especially measurable. 

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Calls like, I will know that I 
have achieved this goal by such 

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and such measurement so that's 
what a smart goal is. 

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So as you are looking at setting
goals for 2020 3, this year, I 

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encourage you to kind of use 
that format to outline and 

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achieve the dreams that you have
in your life. 

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If you are considering interior 
design as Courier at a 

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transition point. 
It's really important to be 

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clear. 
And concise about your dreams 

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and goals and says, a great 
exercise to do, take some time 

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to to write it down and write it
down physically pen to paper 

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because that really brings it 
home in your brain to make that 

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become a reality and to be able 
to manifest to what it is that 

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you're dreaming. 
And do allow yourself to dream, 

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big be creative. 
I mean you are a creative 

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person. 
So allow yourself to be creative

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with your goals. 
This method will just give you 

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some structure around that 
because, as, you know, sometimes

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creative types have a harder 
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So if you're looking for some 
accountability on those goals, 

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feel free to send them to me and
I will Circle back with you 

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periodically this year to see 
how you are getting on with 

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those goals. 
Feel free to reach out to me 

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podcast at our war design.com. 
You can find all the show notes 

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on my website are War 
designed.com for / podcast and 

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you can find me on Instagram. 
I hang out there a lot so you 

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can send me messages about your 
goals. 

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But yeah, I could feel Feel free
to share it. 

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I feel like a goal is more 
likely to happen if you're 

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sharing it with other people who
can hold you accountable. 

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Often people need that 
accountability to kind of give 

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them the kick in the pants. 
If there are slacking or falling

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behind on what their goals are. 
So, I hope you're inspired to 

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start 20:23 out, right? 
And we will see you next episode

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for a great interview and 
discover if interior design is 

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the career for you, Until then 
stay creative. 

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Thanks for listening. 
If you loved this episode, 

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please leave a rating and a 
review. 

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This helps me reach other 
curious creatives. 

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Like you, if you have a topic 
request or like to contact me 

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