If you struggle and feel stressed, frazzled, or overwhelmed throughout the day because you don’t know what to work on and everything feels equally important in the moment, it’ll probably help you out to have some kind of planning practice in place. Planning and getting a bit more organized really helps free up your brain to focus.

Because we're all different, what works for one person might not work for the next person.

I'm sharing these planning ideas with you today, so that you can mix and match, tweak and refine things to create your own structure that allows you to shine and succeed – while having plenty of time over to be spontaneous.

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In this last part, you'll create a big picture view of your year. Mapping out your year  helps you have a sense of direction, know what to work towards each month, and remember important things to account for.

When you plan in a flexible, human-friendly way, you can feel more confident that your business isn’t gonna collapse if you have a day or week that doesn’t go as planned, because you still have your big picture to guide you *AND* you’ve got a plan for the most important activities you want to focus on.

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In part 4, you're going to decide how you'll support yourself throughout the year, and what the key activities are that you're going to focus on in your business.

When you have a plan that takes you and your key activities into account, business tends to become easier, you make steadier progress toward your goals, and you have more time, space, and energy for… everything.

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Now that you’ve got a clearer vision of what you’d like your work to look like and what success in your business means to you, you can start making decisions around how your business can support that vision.

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In part 2, you’re going to reconnect with what you'd like your life to look like as a business owner.

How do you want your business to support your life, how would you like your work to look and feel, and what does this mean in terms of salary and revenue needs?

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When we're busy with the day-to-day operations of business, we can lose perspective and drift off a bit from how we wanted our work to look and feel. Taking a regular step back to get a big picture view and to do some planning helps you simplify and prioritize,  so that you can free up time and space for the things you'd love to spend more of your time on.

In part 1, you’re going to review the past year. It’s important to reflect back on how things have been before we jump into making plans for the future. Learning from the past year helps you make more intentional decisions about how to move forward, and it allows you to refine what you already have in place.

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You might feel like it doesn’t make sense to do much planning for the next 12 months, because over the past couple of years, life hasn’t been exactly predictable. But planning is a very helpful thing you can do when it feels like everything's up in the air.

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Popping in to give you a heads up about my upcoming podcast series Your Impactful Year, so that you can block off some space in your schedule to get yourself and your business prepared for next year.

In the series, I’ll dive into things that you might want to consider and plan for in your business, so that you can focus on tasks that make an impact and spend time away from your desk.

It’s easy to get bogged down with the everyday to-dos and the distractions that pop up, so taking the time to reconnect with what you want your life to look like as a business owner is important.

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The series goes live Dec 6 - Dec 10, 2021.

We often think like we need to get more done, that we need to catch up – and THEN we’ll feel less overwhelmed and be able to take a break. It might feel like if you take a break, if you pause, you’ll end up getting less done. It feels counter-intuitive, but taking breaks can actually help you make progress faster.

In this episode I'm going to share four different types of pauses that business owners – and all humans, really – can benefit from.

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This is part 2 of thoughts and tips that I hope will help reduce the risk of business burnout, with emphasis on the engineering term "fatigue failure".

Just like in engineering there are ways to reduce the risk of fatigue failure, we can use good design in our lives and businesses to reduce the risk of lacking motivation, burnout, and quitting.

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