“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire!” 

If you read our previous post you hopefully took the time to make a list of trips, adventures, and other activities you want to accomplish in 2023. I know that I’m excited, are you? Next to do though, is to plan out your business goals for 2023. 

Once that NYE’s ball drops, it’s game time! You’ll have 365 days to achieve those professional goals and propel yourself to success. So let’s start planning now so that when January 1st hits, you are ready to roll. 

Big Why & Setting Goals: 

Before we take action we must first know where we want to end up. So grab that dream book and let’s get to work!!

Think about your BIG WHY- this is your purpose, mission, need, what fuels you with focus and energy, it’s the reason you are excited to get up in the morning. 

• Now reflect on 2022:
  • Think about where you are at right now and what do you wish you accomplished in your business this year? Was it more sales? More leverage? Better connections? Hiring? Firing? What feels unfinished? 
• Now think about the future:
  • In exactly one year, what are you hoping to accomplish in your business? Five Years? Someday?  

**Don’t edit, just write**

• Now from your list you created, choose a few of your favorites and really think through what they’ll look like and write about what you are visualizing. Add a timeline to when you’d like to accomplish them.
• Lastly, break down each of those four goals into actionable items down to the right NOW task. I love this helpful image from the book, The One Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan to help you do this:  

Achieving That Goal & Accountability: 

Great job, you have your goals written out, woohoo! Now what? They’re no good if you don’t take action AND track them to ensure you are going to achieve them. 

• It’s easy to be fired up when thinking about your goals, but it’s not so easy to stay fired up with the mundane every day tasks needed to achieve them. That’s where accountability comes in. And let’s be honest, being accountable to ourselves rarely works. So I’d love you to take the time right now to write a list of people you could enroll to be an accountability partner. Some great examples are: parents (they always want to see you succeed), spouses (they’ll want your income too ;)), someone else in your industry or another industry, COACHES! Heck, enlist your kids, they’ll love it and it’s a great bonding/parenting activity. 
• Now list out how you’ll track whether you are hitting your goal. You need measurable numbers throughout the process, not just numbers at the end, but something measurable throughout so that you know monthly or even weekly if you are on track, ahead, or behind.
  • If you are a Realtor, I have a great resource on how to break this down to achieve the net income you want. Message me today and I’ll happily share it! 
• Then setup a time with your new accountability partner to meet monthly to go over your numbers. And YOU should be meeting weekly with yourself to gather those numbers and review them. 

Here’s a graphic from Keller Williams Business Planning Clinic that I love that you could use with your accountability partner: 

Thoughts to Ponder: 

• Have you heard of the rule of 80/20? If not, a quick summary is 80% of your results comes from 20% of your actions. So hopefully your actionable items you created are your 20% and then you turn those into your “HAVE-to-do-list”.
  • We all have a to-do list. But the most successful people make sure to achieve the items on their “Have-to-do-list”. So make sure you add your actionable items to that and each day work on this list first, then you work on your other to-do lists. 
• Remember, results are not immediate, so have patience, don’t get distracted, and keep grinding! It will be worth it in the end!
• Lastly, share those goals! On Social media, with a vision board (vision board parties are the best), whatever it may be, share them because: Individuals with written goals are 42.1% more likely to achieve them. Individuals with accountability are 77.6% more likely to achieve them. Thanks Gail Matthews for doing the research to figure these stats out. 🙂 

We hope this has helped you visualize your professional goals, write out actionable items and/or helped you in any way towards a successful 2023. We’d love you to email us today what your business goals are and more importantly if there is any way we can help you achieve those! Working together is better!