Welcome to episode 19 of design, curious podcast and happy New
Year. It is finally the year 2023.
And here's to new beginnings, cheers to the New Year today.
Appropriately. We are talking about goals goal,
setting and how to appropriately make those goals become a
reality. I know it's kind of cliché to do
it around the new year. I don't really do any New Year's
Resolutions anymore unless you just call goal-setting
resolutions, but I definitely like to do goal-setting.
It's something that I do quarterly as I discuss in the
episode. And so it's, you know, it's only
natural that does happen for me in January, but it is a good
time to look at the whole year as a plan and then break it down
into quarters. Sometimes I think people might
shy away from making goals because They don't want to fail.
I don't know if the perfectionist out there are
frustrated by their goals because they have maybe been
ambitious sometimes and then they don't follow through our,
they aren't able to achieve it and then get frustrated by the
end of the year. So we'll talk about that today.
How to actually achieve the goals that you set out and how
to not limit yourself when you're dreaming about, where you
want to be 5 and 10 years out, let's get into today's episode.
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let's dig into today's episode. So, I was thinking the other
day, how it is actually possible to kind of accidentally fall
into interior design, people that have natural Talent are
often told, oh, you should do this for a living, you're great
at design. And so it's something that might
kind of develop slowly over time and you're like, well, maybe I
should do this, but I also was thinking about how you can't
accidentally fall into a profitable and successful
business. So while you might accidentally
fall into design, you can't fall into the profitable design
business, it takes intention, it takes goals.
And so that's what we're talking about today was goal, setting
and something that I definitely look at, at the end of, at the
beginning of each year, I'll be working on this year.
Starting to use a full Focus planner, which one of my coaches
has introduced to me and it's I think I can be really effective.
Active for me because it's going to help me link my personal and
professional goals and have them all in one place.
To keep it top of mind for me, I haven't had a physical planner
in many, many years. I use a lot of digital AIDS and
this I think will be really good for me to have it top of Mind.
Have my goals, have my core values there?
Right in front of me that I can look at every day and so I'm
excited to see how that's going to make a difference for me.
I thought I'd try it out for a year and this planner something
that it lasts for a quarter. And then I do it the next
quarter. So I transfer my goals and
everything so I'll be re-evaluating them all the time.
Simultaneously, I have another coach who is helping me with
quarterly business goals? So I have to go through this
90-day planning session and breaking down my goals every
quarter, so these things will work in tandem very well.
But I'm also excited about the prospect that I can focus a
little more on personal goals as well.
Because I think I put a lot of emphasis towards business goals
in the last couple of years, which is fine and has been
great, but personal goals have kind of Fallen by the wayside
because it gets a little bit blurred when you own your own
business. And so I think that's okay that
those can be in the same place, but I also want to have some
separate personal goals that I can develop over the year.
And I also think it's going to be great to be able to make sure
that they all align with my Horror values in my priorities,
which I will have written down and in front of me and able to
access all the time. So, I was looking back at what
I've accomplished this last year in 2022.
And so I looked into my reals and I saw that, I had six goals
set out for 2022, that I did accomplish.
And so, the first one was to launch.
My course, which I did back in April, of last year, it's called
shifting spaces. Change your room, change your
life, which I think, is a great course, for getting the most out
of your home. If there are spaces that aren't
being used properly, or if your home just isn't meeting your
needs. That's what this course is for.
I had next to launch my podcast, so I did that, obviously in
September. And here we are today, I had to
elevate that Rebecca Ward design client experience, which I did
spend a lot of time working on that last year and Can with
coaches, I heard a client services manager who is on
Porsches team that you heard from episode 16.
So that was really helpful in elevating my client experience.
But I also modified a lot of our processes and procedures for
onboarding, checking in with clients, following up with them
and things like that. My other goal was to nurture and
grow my team. So, I had team changeover.
We hired a new person and then I really spent some time
developing our team relationship.
We spent some time with a coach to go over our individual disc
assessments, and then learning how to communicate properly with
each other advocating, for our needs.
And just spend a lot of time working on our company culture,
and then my other goal was to connect with amazing and
inspiring people. I definitely did that last year
and then I had Rock. Money to which I think I did.
So, so I did set out and to accomplish all the goals that I
had written down, which I thought was great, but that
definitely doesn't happen by accident.
So, I want to talk a little bit about when you go to set goals,
kind of how to do that whether it's personal or for your
business, if you have one, so you start by looking, maybe five
to 10 years out and kind of see where it is.
You want to be, what are you doing for work?
What? Is your lifestyle, what are the
vacations that you're having was the car that you're driving and
this is kind of like your dream area.
What you're wanting your life to be.
How are you going to manifest that?
And then we kind of hold back and look at three years out and
say like, oh I'm on track for meeting those five to ten year
goals because at three years I'm doing this, it's just far enough
out to have that dream aspect of like there's still an attainable
goal out there. I Can Dream for but close enough
Be realistic. So then you're going to pull
back again. And look at the one, your goal
and say, like, okay well what do I want to accomplish within the
next 365 days that I have and break that out into quarters?
And so this is what I do with one of my business coaches.
And then we set up a 12-week grid and say like K weeks, one,
two, three, four, five. And what am I doing that week to
achieve these three goals that I've set out for that quarter.
It's like so say I have, you know, six Six things for the
year, I might try to accomplish two or three of those per
quarter and then what are the actual Noble steps?
I need to take during that quarter to achieve that goal.
And I found that was really strategic really helpful and
actually being able to check off those goals by the end of the
year and then it breaks it down for you.
So it's not such a giant gold, looming out there that it's a
step-by-step process more, that you're just kind of turning it
into a task and You've never heard this before creating smart
goals. I'll kind of break it down for
you here. That's something that, you know,
I only heard about in the last couple of years as I've gotten
coaching, it's something that coaches like to refer to.
When you're setting goals, coaches are always asking you
about your goals, so a smart goal.
Well, I've heard smart and smarter, so let's all go over
both. So, smart goal is an acronym, it
is spelling out specific. Durable actionable risky and
time-bound goals. And then to be a smarter, it
also adds exciting and relevant. So every goal that you make
needs to have these aspects to it.
Making sure that it's measurable especially and specific
actionable, as I was making smart goals.
This last year, I found that there was areas that I kind of
would gloss over in the past like, especially measurable.
Calls like, I will know that I have achieved this goal by such
and such measurement so that's what a smart goal is.
So as you are looking at setting goals for 2020 3, this year, I
encourage you to kind of use that format to outline and
achieve the dreams that you have in your life.
If you are considering interior design as Courier at a
transition point. It's really important to be
clear. And concise about your dreams
and goals and says, a great exercise to do, take some time
to to write it down and write it down physically pen to paper
because that really brings it home in your brain to make that
become a reality and to be able to manifest to what it is that
you're dreaming. And do allow yourself to dream,
big be creative. I mean you are a creative
person. So allow yourself to be creative
with your goals. This method will just give you
some structure around that because, as, you know, sometimes
creative types have a harder time being structured.
So if you're looking for some accountability on those goals,
feel free to send them to me and I will Circle back with you
periodically this year to see how you are getting on with
those goals. Feel free to reach out to me
podcast at our war design.com. You can find all the show notes
on my website are War designed.com for / podcast and
you can find me on Instagram. I hang out there a lot so you
can send me messages about your goals.
But yeah, I could feel Feel free to share it.
I feel like a goal is more likely to happen if you're
sharing it with other people who can hold you accountable.
Often people need that accountability to kind of give
them the kick in the pants. If there are slacking or falling
behind on what their goals are. So, I hope you're inspired to
start 20:23 out, right? And we will see you next episode
for a great interview and discover if interior design is
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