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It is time to get fired up for 2023 and your 2023 goals and dreams. It is almost here. It is right around the corner. You are so ready for this. Today, I wanna spend some time really talking to you, giving you some introspective questions that are gonna guide you through creating the most intentional plan for your 2023. These questions will help you shape your New Year's resolutions, your goals, and the daily habits that you wanna take on this year.

Y'all know me, Erica Rooney. And today, I'm gonna walk you through getting your mind right and how to set fail proof goals. And my method will help you bust your glass ceiling, whatever that is for you. So let's start by taking a deep breath together. Let's clear our minds, let's set our focus, and let's move into 2023 with confidence. Confidence that we are spending our time on what matters most and letting go of the rest, letting go of the BS. Together, we're gonna break it all down and set intentional goals so that you could spend your time how you want to. Time is the only resource we can never get back. We can never make up.

So I want you to listen carefully. We are gonna do this a little differently than you've done it in the past. No more comparisons to other women. No more shoulds. You know, I should do this. I should do that. I should work her out every day. I should meal plan. We will only be focusing on what you want to be doing and those amazing things that will get you there. So go ahead, turn off all your other distractions. I want you to silence your phones, close your laptops unless you're using your laptop to work on your goals and dreams, of course, and clear your mind. This is your time to have complete focus on what you want your twenty twenty three to look like.

So for a high level overview, we have three pieces that we're gonna go through today. First, we're gonna start with that road map of 2023, then we're gonna work on breaking down the goals into specific measurable moments, and then we'll live it out.

So let's go ahead and get the road map going. First, we're gonna start by figuring out what matters to you. What brought you joy in 2022? What do you not wanna do anymore of? What do you wanna say goodbye to? What do you wanna leave behind in 2022? I also want you to think what excited you. What do you wanna see more of? What do you wanna cultivate more of? K. Start thinking through those questions. They'll help you build upon those goals for 2023. You can really start to hone in on where you wanna spend time this year when you ask those questions. Maybe you want to travel more and work less. Perhaps it's more outdoors time, maybe less time on the couch. It's really up to you.

When I asked myself these questions, family brought me joy, travel brought me joy, and so did hosting this podcast. What excited me was endless possibilities. Now y'all know I got a lot going on, and I love the progress that I've made on my twenty twenty two goals. So I wanna keep that focus going. I wanna do more reading, less social media. Oof. That is such a bad habit of mine. I wanna do more eating out at new restaurants. My husband and I tend to get stuck in the rut with the same old ones. I wanna do more family walks outside. So start to think about what you want to do more of and what you wanna say goodbye to.

Now let's talk about how we can break down the goals into specific measurable moments. This is the piece that is going to require the most intention and the most focus. I want you to be realistic. Remember, these goals are only guideposts. They are not stuck in cement. They can be modified at any time. Remember, goals grow when you go after progress, not perfection. If you struggle with this perfection piece of it, I encourage you to go back into one of my earlier podcasts. There are two really great episodes on perfection.

But I want you to approach 2023 as a work in progress. I don't wanna see any goals that are, I'm gonna work out three sixty five days a year, and I'm never gonna eat sugar. That's unrealistic and unattainable. I want you to focus on the big change. And with big change, I need you to understand that messy action is right alongside of that. Imperfect action, right alongside of it.

So we're gonna break our goals into three chunks. The first one I call BHAGS. You may have heard that term before. It stands for big, hairy, audacious goals, and these can be goals that take even more than the three hundred and sixty five days that we have to complete in 2023. Maybe you wanna go back to Sloan, get your MBA, launch your own business, work towards beefing up that savings account. Whatever that big goal is, if it is a longer timeline than three hundred and sixty five days, it's gonna jump in this bucket.

Then we're gonna have a second category of 2023 goals. So these can be BHags, but these are a shorter time span. They're gonna fit within the twenty twenty three year frame, the twelve months that we have. They are measurable, but they can be knocked out this year or 2023. It could be that you wanna read a certain number of books, run a marathon, or travel to Egypt. You get the picture.

And then from there, we're going to have our habits or the daily actions. And these are the steps that we have to take either daily or weekly to help us accomplish those 2023 goals and the BHAGS. This is where we take the BHAGs and the twenty twenty three goals, and we break them down. And then we break them down again, and then we break them down some more. And we break it down to their so tiny that the first step towards these goals makes it impossible not to do.

So if you guys wanna beef up your savings to a certain amount, it could be putting $2 in a jar that you'd normally spend on coffee at Starbucks. Okay. But let's be real. It's more like $7 if you're at Starbucks. Maybe it is your fitness goal to help you run a marathon. You can break down how many miles you need to be running and when. If a goal was more family time, maybe it's reading books to your small kids at the end of every day. Whatever it is, map it out. Think through what your goals are and how you can accomplish those goals by breaking them down into the bite sized chunks.

Last step, best step is living it out. Live on purpose. Watch your progress add up. No perfection required. Remember to pace yourselves. You don't wanna do all the things and make all the changes all the time. You need to be realistic on what you can accomplish and check off. For most people, it's not realistic to go back to school to get your MBA while having a new baby and joining board and taking a new job. That's too much. It might be realistic to choose one, maybe two of those things.

Day over day, week over week, month over month, you may not feel like you're making huge steps, and it's not going fast enough for you. But trust the process. Over time, consistency for showing up for those daily habits and those daily actions add up.

I am gonna add in one last step. Share your goals with me. Let me be your hype girl. When we have our community around us, we are more likely to hit those goals. So bookmark this episode, go back, listen to it again, and while you're working on mapping out those goals, just remember, you got this. 2023 is going to be an awesome and amazing year. Let's put in the work. Let's get those BHags on paper, and let's do this.

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