Latest / Overwhelmed Working Woman: Boost Productivity, Master Time Management, Overcome Overwhelm & Stop People Pleasing / #105| Less Overwhelm, More Productivity: A New Approach to Goal-Setting Step 4
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- 0:05Michelle Gauthier: You're listening to Overwhelmed Working Woman, the podcast that helps you be more calm and more productive by doing less.
- 0:12Michelle Gauthier: I'm your host, Michelle Gauthier, a former overwhelmed working woman and current life coach.
- 0:17Michelle Gauthier: On this show, we unpack the stress and pressure that today's working woman experiences and in each episode you'll get a strategy to bring more calm, ease and relaxation to your life.
- 0:29Michelle Gauthier: Hey friend, thanks for joining the fourth and final day of the your Best Year Foundation series.
- 0:41Michelle Gauthier: Today we are going to be talking about thinking big, and one of the things that we'll talk about a lot in the workshop is creating an anchor word, so a specific word, and it can be a feeling or an action that you want to take that acts as your anchor for the year.
- 0:57Michelle Gauthier: So today, the things that we talk about are going to help you start thinking big so that you can work towards choosing your word of the year.
- 1:06Michelle Gauthier: If you have not already registered for the your Best Year workshop and that is the workshop, the one hour long workshop on Tuesday that all of this pre-work from today, as well as yesterday and the two days prior, is connected to, registration is required.
- 1:23Michelle Gauthier: The course is $25.
- 1:25Michelle Gauthier: It's a one-hour live workshop where I will be teaching you how to create your best 2025.
- 1:32Michelle Gauthier: I'll give you my five tips on how to create goals that you actually stick with and that will work, and we will also do some live coaching.
- 1:43Michelle Gauthier: I'll answer questions, all those things.
- 1:45Michelle Gauthier: So sign up in the show notes.
- 1:47Michelle Gauthier: There's a link there.
- 1:50Michelle Gauthier: So let's talk about what we're going to cover today.
- 1:52Michelle Gauthier: What we're going to do is we are going to think big.
- 1:55Michelle Gauthier: So I truly believe that in order to get the goals that you want in the year, you have to have a big overall vision.
- 2:02Michelle Gauthier: That is kind of the umbrella over all of the goals that you create.
- 2:06Michelle Gauthier: So today, I'm going to pose three questions for you.
- 2:09Michelle Gauthier: These three questions will help you think big, and later on in the workshop, we're going to get into thinking smaller, about specific goals and specific ideas, but for now, I want you to think big about your year overall.
- 2:22Michelle Gauthier: So here's the first question that I want you to ponder.
- 2:25Michelle Gauthier: Number one is picture yourself at the end of 2025.
- 2:31Michelle Gauthier: So the year is already almost complete.
- 2:34Michelle Gauthier: If someone wrote an article about your 2025 at the end of the year, what would the headline say?
- 2:40Michelle Gauthier: What would you want the headline to say?
- 2:42Michelle Gauthier: I'll give you some examples.
- 2:44Michelle Gauthier: So maybe your headline will be Simplify, Streamline, Succeed.
- 2:48Michelle Gauthier: She Created Space for What Matters Most.
- 2:53Michelle Gauthier: 2025 Was the Year She Found Freedom Mentally, Financially and Emotionally.
- 2:59Michelle Gauthier: Her Year of Connection.
- 3:00Michelle Gauthier: She Strengthened Relationships and Found Joy in the Everyday.
- 3:04Michelle Gauthier: 2025, the Year She Let Go of Perfectionism and Started Living an Authentic Life.
- 3:10Michelle Gauthier: So just pretend that someone wants to write a story about the amazing things that you did in 2025 and imagine what that might be.
- 3:21Michelle Gauthier: Okay, the next question to ponder is, if you could wake up every morning in 2025 feeling a certain way, what would that feeling be?
- 3:29Michelle Gauthier: And if you think about it, let's just say you choose the word calm.
- 3:34Michelle Gauthier: So you wake up every morning and you just feel calm.
- 3:37Michelle Gauthier: Think about what kind of day that would create.
- 3:40Michelle Gauthier: And if you have that every day, think about what kind of week and month and year that that would create.
- 3:45Michelle Gauthier: Or maybe the way that you'd like to feel is energized or organized or butt kicking.
- 3:52Michelle Gauthier: Is that a feeling?
- 3:53Michelle Gauthier: I don't know if that's a feeling.
- 3:54Michelle Gauthier: Anyway, think about if you could choose one feeling and dial it in and wake up feeling that way every morning, what would it be?
- 4:04Michelle Gauthier: And the third and final question is thinking about all of the areas in your life.
- 4:08Michelle Gauthier: So when we use the Wheel of Life, which we did in sections one and two, we looked at all the different areas and maybe even some that aren't listed on there.
- 4:16Michelle Gauthier: But there's parenting, there's career, there's money, there's fun and adventure all those things.
- 4:21Michelle Gauthier: If you could just choose one of those areas where you would have a lot of success in this next year, what would it be?
- 4:29Michelle Gauthier: What slice of the pie is the one that you would most like to have a lot of growth?
- 4:34Michelle Gauthier: Just take a few minutes journaling on each one of these questions and see what you come up with.
- 4:39Michelle Gauthier: This is your chance to set a big vision for 2025 that excites you.
- 4:44Michelle Gauthier: So dream big, imagine that anything is possible, think bold, and when we're in the workshop, we'll talk about specifically choosing your word of the year.
- 4:53Michelle Gauthier: So this is just getting you started on thinking about that.
- 4:58Michelle Gauthier: Okay, that is a wrap on the pre-work for the Your Best Year workshop.
- 5:02Michelle Gauthier: Again, register for that.
- 5:03Michelle Gauthier: The link is in the show notes.
- 5:05Michelle Gauthier: I hope that you have enjoyed these past four days of going through and finding interesting patterns, that you have looking at your successes, maybe what didn't go as well in 2024, and then today, really thinking big about what you want to create for 2025.
- 5:20Michelle Gauthier: I don't know about you, but I'm super excited about this year and I am really passionate about helping all of you create the kind of year that you want to have to be able to get the goals that you want, feel the way that you want to feel, because I truly believe that that is possible for anyone.
- 5:37Michelle Gauthier: I will see you on the workshop next Tuesday.
- 5:40Michelle Gauthier: Thank you for listening to the Overwhelmed Working Woman podcast.
- 5:48Michelle Gauthier: If you want to learn more about my work, head over to my website at michellegauthiercom.
- 5:54Michelle Gauthier: See you next week.