April Garcia's PivotMe

In this episode you will learn:

• How to create your 4 Big Rocks
• How to get leverage on them, dramatically increasing your success
• 4 Powerful tips for achieving them and creating your best year

Tips:

1. KISS and Pain & Pleasure. Keep it simple and use Pain & Pleasure to get leverage on your goals.
2. Your WHY. Connecting to your WHY, the reason behind the goal, supercharges your efforts. With a big enough WHY, the HOW becomes the easy part.
3. Language matters. Don't say- "I hope to" OR "I'd like to". Hope is not a strategy! And Likes are something you do on Facebook. Make it a MUST, so your brain gets onboard.
4. Manage your body. Make your brain and your body believe you. Throw your shoulders back, speak with authority, and find your Wonder Woman Pose.

Follow up:

How are you going to set yourself up for success in the next 323 hours? Tell us!!

Tag @theaprilgarcia in your Big 4 Rocks and use the hashtag #my4rocks

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• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

Get Money for Investment in YOU

• In today's episode we are going to be talking about… the investment you have made into YOU!
• I'm going to give you a new way to think about the time and financial commitments you've made into developing yourself and skills, and how to monetize them.

You are worth more money to your partners, to your employees, bosses, to everyone because you invest in yourself. You add more value.

You are better this month, because of the investment you made last month. Your value went up! And the value you bring to the marketplace, plus confidence directly affects the amount of money you should command.

And I don't care what you charged last month. Stop using the old you as a benchmark! Stop using your old skillset, your old value, hell—your old confidence, as a benchmark of what you should get paid.

If you are a designer and you were charging $100/hour at the beginning of the year— so WHAT? It's about the value you bring to the marketplace NOW. Not about the value you brought to the marketplace at the beginning of the year. You should be paid more, you should command more income after you've invested a ton in yourself and your business.

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

In this episode we review: your calendar 1 month back and 1 month forward and ask some probing questions on if our priorities are lining up.

This calendar audit is rooted in the concept of: Show me your calendar and bank account and I can tell what is important to you. This concept can sting a bit. We could argue that – just because we don't see our priorities on our schedule, doesn't mean they aren't important to us! Or does it…

Time to do the (re)balancing act. April walks us through our calendar and helps us seek out our priorities and scoff at unnecessary obligations. Before we wrap up this year, let's reflect on what we've done up until this point—and be intentional on how we wrap up this decade. New Decade New You!

Action Steps: Answer these powerful questions: 1. Does your schedule really reflect your priorities? 2. Of the things you see in your calendar, which were stuff you wanted to do vs. the priorities of others? 3. Reflecting on the goals you had at the beginning of this year, how many were scheduled into your calendar?

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

In this episode, you will learn:

• What "E3" means and what the three "E"s are
• How these three "E"s are key to your personal and professional development
• Ways to start incorporating E3 into your life every day

This podcast is all about PivotMe's Do You E3 movement. If you're a long-time listener or a lurker you've probably heard April Garcia talk about E3. In this episode, April explains the entire concept and what it really means.

E3 stands for three "E"s: Educate, Elevate and Execute. These three concepts are the foundation of PivotMe. You have to educate yourself and then go out and educate others. You need to elevate your own expectations and then lift others up. Finally, you must execute, execute, execute—that's the key to success.

Keep listening to learn more about the "E"s. At the end of the episode, you'll be able to answer the question "Do You E3?"

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

In this episode, you will learn:

• What horses can teach us about leadership
• How constantly checking in on tasks and people can slow you down
• Why strong leaders run their own race and set their own pace

Even though horses can't speak (Mr. Ed excluded, of course), they can offer many valuable insights into self-awareness, collaboration, and leadership.

In this episode, April shares her experience of visiting EQ Insight http://equusinsight.com/ This Northern Nevada based organization uses horse-led training to build authentic and effective leaders and team members, so they can make a positive impact on their businesses, communities, and families.

While learning to lead a horse, April also learns about her own leadership style and starts asking some critical questions about how this experience could apply more broadly.

Tune in to hear how these lessons and questions can also apply to you and your leadership skills and style.

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

EPS 20: Goal Setting In A 12 Week Year

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why 12 weeks is a better time frame to achieve your goals than 12 months
• How you can leverage urgency and your "whys" to get to the next level
• Tools that can help you, such as S.M.A.R.T goals and visualization

If you want to achieve your dreams, 12 months is too long to do that. Instead, 12 weeks is the perfect amount of time to go after your goals and get them done.

Top performers recognize that working in shorter periods of time brings greater urgency and focus. Periodization, a technique that isolates achieving one skill or goal in less time, works in business and in life.

What if we viewed our business and our personal lives in quarters, 12-week periods, instead of 12 months? If we break things down into quarters, we can achieve as much in 12 weeks as many achieve 12 months. Having a narrow focus, an urgent time period and consistent execution will get you extraordinary results.

In this episode, you'll learn how to get leverage on yourself and create an urgency that will propel you to new heights. To support you, we'll talk about tools that can help, such as S.M.A.R.T goals and visualization. By the end of the episode, you'll have identified your two goals for the next 12 weeks and how you're going to go after them.

Action Steps:

1. 18:15 - Identify two S.M.A.R.T goals you want to achieve in the next 12 weeks
2. 19:15 - Identify two actions that will get you to each of those goals

Resources:

• "The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months," By Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
• "Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds," By David Goggins

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia