Latest / Overwhelmed Working Woman: Boost Productivity, Master Time Management, Overcome Overwhelm & Stop People Pleasing / #102| Less Overwhelm, More Productivity: A New Approach to Goal-Setting Step One
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- 0:19Michelle Gauthier: The overwhelm 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.
- 0:28Michelle Gauthier: Hi friends, thanks for joining today.
- 0:36Michelle Gauthier: Happy New Year to you.
- 0:36Michelle Gauthier: I'm so glad to have you with me on this first day of 2025.
- 0:41Michelle Gauthier: Not only am I doing a podcast today, but I'm doing one tomorrow, which is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and each day it's going to be a short mini episode that is going to help you start thinking about how to prepare for your 2025 goals.
- 0:58Michelle Gauthier: Next Tuesday not this Tuesday, but next Tuesday, January 7th, at noon central time, I'm offering an awesome workshop for $25, called Your Best Year 2025.
- 1:09Michelle Gauthier: And in that workshop, you will learn exactly how to create goals that you can really stick with.
- 1:17Michelle Gauthier: So I take a little bit of my super corporatey, data-driven, excel-loving self, and then the other side, which is this woo-woo life coach manifesting self, and I put those both together for a method that has been proven to work.
- 1:35Michelle Gauthier: At this point, I've had hundreds of clients who I've helped reach their goals, and I want to share it with you, too, so I want to invite you to join that class.
- 1:43Michelle Gauthier: The link is in the show notes and today, as well as the rest of this week, are episodes that are pre-work for that class.
- 1:50Michelle Gauthier: That will really just help get your mind moving in the direction of what you want to create and give yourself some ideas for the types of goals that you want to have in 2025.
- 2:00Michelle Gauthier: So I would absolutely love to have you.
- 2:04Michelle Gauthier: Today, we're going to focus specifically on the wins that you had in 2024.
- 2:09Michelle Gauthier: And the reason why I have you start off this way is because a lot of times, especially at the end of the year, our brain will tell us oh, can't wait to get started on a fresh new year, this one has been a disaster, nothing went right.
- 2:23Michelle Gauthier: And that is just never true, no matter what happened and so I think it's really important to take a minute and focus on wins.
- 2:31Michelle Gauthier: So there are a couple things I want you to do in order to jog your memory about some of the wins that you had.
- 2:37Michelle Gauthier: If you did create goals for 2024, and you wrote them down or have them somewhere notes in your phone or something take a look at those and see how you did on those.
- 2:46Michelle Gauthier: If you didn't fully complete a goal, but you made some progress on it, that is still a win.
- 2:51Michelle Gauthier: So, for example, one of my goals this year.
- 2:53Michelle Gauthier: I have been really trying to get better about lifting weights, and so one of my goals this year was to try to gain five pounds of muscle, and my gym has a fancy scale where it measures your muscle.
- 3:06Michelle Gauthier: So in the end, on my very last meeting with the trainer, I had gained 4.1 pounds of muscle.
- 3:12Michelle Gauthier: So am I going to call that a loss?
- 3:15Michelle Gauthier: No, I am not.
- 3:16Michelle Gauthier: I'm definitely calling that a win, and it's just a goal that I might have to keep doing for a little longer than I originally estimated.
- 3:24Michelle Gauthier: So, number one, look at your goals and see how you did on your goals from last year.
- 3:27Michelle Gauthier: Number two take a look at your calendar over the past year.
- 3:30Michelle Gauthier: It's fun to look back and see where you spent your time.
- 3:33Michelle Gauthier: It helps you remember big things, like maybe you went on a family vacation, but also small things.
- 3:39Michelle Gauthier: For example, when I looked back, I saw that there was a coffee date I had with a friend who I hadn't seen in a long time and I had forgotten about that.
- 3:47Michelle Gauthier: That really was a special, fun win for me for that year.
- 3:50Michelle Gauthier: Then take a look at the pictures on your phone.
- 3:54Michelle Gauthier: Just scroll back through the year.
- 3:55Michelle Gauthier: That also helps jog the memory for all of the fun things that you did and helps you mine for wins.
- 4:01Michelle Gauthier: I'll tell you what I found on mine which cracked me up is I took a ton of pictures of my plants.
- 4:05Michelle Gauthier: Apparently, I was very into my plants this year, especially my money tree in my kitchen.
- 4:11Michelle Gauthier: I took probably 30 pictures of it over the year, but it doubled in size and I'm definitely putting that as one of my wins because I got an A plus in plant care this year and that is important.
- 4:23Michelle Gauthier: And then the third thing to do is just think about, did you have any big mind shifts?
- 4:27Michelle Gauthier: For me, I like to read a lot of self-help books, listen to podcasts, I watch documentaries.
- 4:33Michelle Gauthier: I feel like I'm always trying to learn something.
- 4:35Michelle Gauthier: So was there something big and new that you learned this year that impacted your life in a positive way?
- 4:41Michelle Gauthier: So those are three things that can just kind of get your memory flowing about where you had wins.
- 4:47Michelle Gauthier: And then these are the questions that I want you to ask yourself.
- 4:49Michelle Gauthier: You can see on the worksheet pages that I've broken it down into the wheel of life and there are different areas of life, so it's helpful to look at these, because when you hear a question, you might think, oh, I don't know if I had any wins in that.
- 5:02Michelle Gauthier: But then if you think, well, I'm really focusing on parenting, I guess I did have a win there.
- 5:07Michelle Gauthier: So here are the questions what goals did I set in 2024 and how did I do with them?
- 5:13Michelle Gauthier: If you set no goals in 2024, that's totally fine.
- 5:16Michelle Gauthier: You can still answer these next questions because even if you didn't set goals, you still have wins last year.
- 5:21Michelle Gauthier: What went well this year?
- 5:23Michelle Gauthier: Note, here this is a really good place to go around the wheel of life.
- 5:27Michelle Gauthier: Make yourself write down at least one thing for each area on the wheel, but expect that your brain will point out what didn't go well instead.
- 5:36Michelle Gauthier: But resist that.
- 5:37Michelle Gauthier: Resist going down that path.
- 5:39Michelle Gauthier: Today, we are only focusing on wins and things that went well.
- 5:42Michelle Gauthier: Don't worry, the very next thing we're going to talk about is things that didn't go well.
- 5:46Michelle Gauthier: So there will be time and space for that as well, but for this particular exercise, just focus on the wins.
- 5:51Michelle Gauthier: And then, what am I proud of, even if it wasn't tied to a specific goal?
- 5:56Michelle Gauthier: So I told you about my plant growth that I'm really excited about.
- 5:59Michelle Gauthier: I didn't have a goal to take great care of my plants or to try to get one to double in size, but it just happened and I'm really excited about it.
- 6:07Michelle Gauthier: Who or what made a positive impact on my life?
- 6:10Michelle Gauthier: This is such a fun question because a lot of times we don't stop to recognize - oh my gosh, I met people in 2024, it doesn't have to be somebody new in your life, but I met people in 2024, I've been working with a podcasting coach and they have just helped me so much, and I am now - there are three people who work at that company who I would now consider friends that I didn't even know in 2023.
- 6:34Michelle Gauthier: So when you think back on people who had a positive influence on you, I also think of the trainers at my gym.
- 6:40Michelle Gauthier: I think of my clients, people who I didn't know last year.
- 6:43Michelle Gauthier: Think about who that was for you and how that's such a win.
- 6:47Michelle Gauthier: So look through your calendar, look through your pictures, remember what books and things that you read, answer those questions and by the end, you should be feeling pretty darn good about your year.
- 7:00Michelle Gauthier: I hope you're patting yourself on the back right now for all of the wins that you just remembered that you had, and I truly hope you take the time to register for the class, get the worksheets, write this down, because you will really set yourself up for success in 2025.
- 7:18Michelle Gauthier: The link is in the show notes and I'd love to have you join the class.
- 7:21Michelle Gauthier: I will see you tomorrow.
- 7:23Michelle Gauthier: Thank you for listening to the Overwhelmed Working Woman podcast.
- 7:32Michelle Gauthier: If you want to learn more about my work, head over to my website at michellegauthier.
- 7:36Michelle Gauthier: com.