Doug Morneau - tips

Start out with review and the past year. How did 2017 go?

You should write your goals in stone, and then write your plans in sand.

You have to give up some good things to receive some great things.

What if all the barriers are imaginary?

Well, welcome back to another episode of Real Marketing, Real Fast. Today we're gonna take a slightly different approach. I've got a couple topics I wanna cover. So, I wanna start with a BIG "Thank You" to all you listeners and subscribers of my podcast.

Just a recap, I launched this podcast on September 19th, 2017, so just a couple months ago, and it went live on the 20th.

So far, we've produced and released 25 episodes.

We release an episode every Tuesday and every Thursday.

There have been 5,864 downloads in 53 countries.

So, I just want to say thank you for listening and thank you for your feedback. Also, I want to say thank you to the many guests that have joined me in this studio and that have been part of the show.

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I'd like to ask you for a favor.  - If you'd use the contact form on the Doug Morneau website, and tell me what type of guest you'd like to see coming up on an upcoming podcast, or maybe a different type of marketing or topic that we haven't covered yet. So, if you'll share a suggestion of one thing that you believe I can do better to serve you here on the podcast, and then also share one item that you really like. So again, I'd like to say thank you for listening so far, and I'm excited to be going into the conclusion of this year, and getting ready, and planning for next year.

So, with that, that brings me to my next topic, and that is goal-setting for 2018. So, I'm hoping to spend some time with you here on this episode and just share with you a little bit ... Goal-setting, and get you thinking in that direction, and give you some tips, and maybe walk you through some of the stuff that I do that I find helpful and has been helpful in my business as an entrepreneur for the last 26 years.

So, it hasn't always been that way, but it has for the last probably 15 years or so, where I have an annual event. And my annual goal-setting event isn't the only time that I set goals during the year, but it's the time of year that I find I can slow down a little bit. So, between Christmas and New Years', we normally have a week or so off, and so I will take that time, and I will spend a little bit of time every day just thinking and reflecting on what I would like to see happen in this up-and-coming year.

So, it always starts with review and reflection. I look at this as a great time to sit down and look at ... How was 2017? What went well? What didn't go well? What was helpful? Who was a distraction? What tasks held me back that took more time than they should? Which tasks were repeated, and should be delegated to staff, or maybe even eliminated altogether? What habits was I following that prevented me from working at optimal levels of performance?

So, again, I just look back as a self-reflection. It's not a discussion with anybody else. And I would just suggest that you may find this helpful just to look at your last year, and think of ... What does a workday look like for you? What does the week look like for you? What are the things that cause you frustration? What are the things that you're spending time on, and you know deep down inside that they're not moving you're business forward? So, maybe that's really a way of procrastinating from working on your goals, or for me, working on my goals, by doing other stuff that's really not related to our business.

You know that I'm a marketing guy,