Planning For The New Year BEFORE The New Year: Quick but Effective Hacks & Brilliant/Actionable Strategies For Having Your Best Year Ever

So this week we’re going to review some simple but highly effective little hacks as well as some really well thought out and proven higher level strategies and tactics for getting the very most out of a new year. This will be jam packed because it’s a quick review of many past shows on how to achieve more and to be more.

So be sure to listen to the podcast for our shows on OODA Loop, Setting Better Goals, and Goals vs. Systems for more in depth discussions of each.

And we’re doing this four weeks ahead for a reason.

No matter what you’re doing, it pays to plan ahead but with deadlines. So that the time doesn’t expand to fill the entire period.

STRATEGY: Block Time To Do This And Other Things That Matter While Avoiding Time Creep

TACTIC:

So we’re going to start by getting you to get out your calendar right now...or make a note so that as soon as the show is over you’ll block the time to do three things BEFORE the end of the year and for a few after the start.

https://www.successtechnologies.com/2014/08/success-through-respect-for-time-the-magic-of-triggering-the-valuable-time-meta-program/

BEFORE year end...block time to do some high level thinking and a few exercises we’re going to give you.

You’ll need at least an hour for the first. A half an hour for the second, and a half an hour for the third.

Does that feel like too much time?

Well, if you can’t invest two hour this month in getting the very most out of next year in your business and in your life than you’re probably going to have real problems.

You have to make higher level thinking a priority and you have to diary and block time and then defends it.

So commit right now to that. It will make an amazing difference.

Now for after the new year...

Block at least two hours each week to do something that you want to do. Block it now. You’re going to need to defend it... Why?

Now and in the next three sessions on your own:

What do I really want? Business and Life

Who would I need to be to have that? Business/Life

What resources do I need to make it inevitable that I’d have that or more by the date selected or sooner? Business/Life

STRATEGY: Know who your best clients really are, what they fear and value. How they communicate, the language that they use and where they go for trusted information

Tactics: Ask them more and more often. Make them more offers that match and are in alignment.

STRATEGY: Being Open To Being Wrong Or To Something Better:

What evidence would I need to see, hear or feel in order to know that I might be wrong?

Start with the end in mind...recipe for success or dismal failure

Tactic: X or better by Y or sooner

STRATEGY: Alignment with Vision, Values (permanent or largely unchanging)and Mission (will change through time as you summit the peak and look to the next level)

Tactics: Measurement and OODA Loop

Decide on mission metrics and have a to do and a not to do list with KPIs and regular monitoring.

Tactics: Define them in time blocks provided and then refine them

Tactics: Binary decision making, rating and removing the number 7 on a scale of one to ten.

Strategy: Systems vs. Goals

Strategy: Upsells increase margins AND satisfaction/experience

Tactics: More and in more ways

Strategy: Referrals of more and better

Develop Trust, eliminate risk, and create self improving systems

https://www.successtechnologies.com/2017/03/why-trust-is-essential-part-4-of-4-building-trust-bonus-materials/

Strategy: Reactivation and Retention

Strategy: Market to your team and up your game with recruiting, hiring and on boarding/training

Tactics

Strategy: Do more speaking and writing with less anxiety

Hack: Use and minimize anxiety

The Anxiety Performance Enhancer Hack

Have you ever felt extremely anxious before speaking, taking a test, and or engaging an important activity?

Many people do even when they are experienced and professional. What’s more, many of us feel that it interferes with our very best performance.

I’m an experienced meditator, and use deep breathing to relax and to get past the anxiety. But then I often have to ramp my enthusiasm back up.

So what if I could show you a quick but proven/effective hack that works for me and has some great science behind it? Will you use it? See and experience it for yourself?

It’s called the “I feel excited” hack. And it uses the fact that anxiety and excitement are biochemically very much the same thing vie...