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Your 2027 Starts Now: One 90-Day Goal to Carry Into the New Year · Profitable Christian Business

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  Most people are already waiting for January.
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  They have decided, without ever saying it out loud, that this year is done.
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  The holidays are coming, the calendar is crowded, and they will start fresh in January.
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  New year, new plan, new energy.
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  Here's the problem with that.
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  There are still about two months left in this year.
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  Two months is not a leftover.
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  Two months is a full season of business.
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  Waiting for January does not save those weeks.
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  It spends them on drift.
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  And drift is expensive.
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  Not just in revenue, it costs you confidence.
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  When you coast for two months, you do not arrive in January, rested and ready.
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  You arrive in January needing momentum, you do not have.
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  Because momentum does not come from a date on the calendar.
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  It comes from reps.
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  So I want to challenge you with a different way to think about the rest of this year.
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  Your 2027 does not start in January.
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  It starts now with one 90-day goal.
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  Let me explain why 90 days, because the math matters.
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  A 90-day goal you set today does not end on December 31st.
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  It runs through the holidays and lands around the end of January,
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  right as next year is getting started.
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  And that is exactly the point.
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  While everyone else is starting from zero in January,
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  you will already be two-thirds of the way to a finished goal,
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  with real momentum behind you.
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  You are not cramming a 90-day goal into the weeks left this year.
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  You are using those weeks to get ahead of next year.
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  Now, how do you actually do it?
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  This is the same framework I teach inside Goal Getting,
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  and it has four steps.
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  Step one, get clear on one goal.
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  Not five, not a list.
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  One, ask yourself, if I could only move one thing forward in the next 90 days,
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  what would change my business the most?
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  Write it down in one sentence.
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  Make it specific enough that on day 90,
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  you can look at it and know whether you hit it or not.
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  Most people skip this step, because choosing one goal means saying no to the others.
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  But unclear goals are why so many plans die by February.
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  Clarity first, effort second.
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  Step two, make sure it is truly a 90-day goal.
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  This is where most people slip.
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  They either pick something so big it needs a year,
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  or something so small it is really just a task.
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  A good 90-day goal is uncomfortable but finishable.
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  If you cannot finish it in 90 days,
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  cut it down until you can.
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  A smaller goal you complete beats a big goal you abandon in week three.
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  Step three, choose your weekly needle movers.
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  A 90-day goal does not get done in a heroic final week.
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  It gets done in ordinary weeks.
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  So every week, decide on the two or three actions that actually move the goal,
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  not busywork.
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  Needle movers, if the goal is 20 new clients,
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  a needle mover is the number of real conversations you will have this week,
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  not redesigning your website.
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  Step four, review every week.
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  I do this on Fridays.
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  It takes about 30 minutes.
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  Look at the goal, score the week honestly.
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  Did you do the needle movers or not?
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  Then set next week's.
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  No guilt, no drama, just an honest look, and a fresh plan.
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  And plan around the holidays instead of pretending they will not happen.
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  A week with Thanksgiving in it needs smaller needle movers,
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  and that is fine.
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  The rhythm is what matters.
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  That weekly rhythm is what carries a goal through the busiest stretch of the year
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  when everything around you is pulling you off track.
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  Now let me say a word about the faith side of this because it matters to me.
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  Psalm 90 says, teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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  That verse is not about anxiety.
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  It is about stewardship.
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  God gave you this season.
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  These actual weeks, the crowded ones, the distracted ones,
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  treating the end of the year like it does not count is not humility and it is not rest.
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  It is just waste.
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  Rest is biblical.
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  Drift is not the same thing as rest.
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  So here is my ask.
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  Before this week ends, take 30 minutes, write down one 90 day goal in one sentence.
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  Put the finish date on it sometime around the end of January.
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  Then write down this week's two or three needle movers and do the first one tomorrow.
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  Do not wait for January.
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  January does not have anything you do not already have right now,
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  except a different date on the calendar.
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  If you want help working this framework, that is exactly what Goal Getting is built for.
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  Go to goalgetting .app and start there.
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  And if this episode was useful, share it with one business owner who is already
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  coasting toward January.
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  Your 2027 starts now.
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  Go get it.