Latest / Overwhelmed Working Woman: Boost Productivity, Master Time Management, Overcome Overwhelm & Stop People Pleasing / #103| Less Overwhelm, More Productivity: A New Approach to Goal-Setting Step 2
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- 0:04Michelle 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.
- 0:16Michelle 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.
- 0:28Michelle Gauthier: Hello, hello, happy second day of the new year.
- 0:37Michelle Gauthier: I'm glad you're here with me.
- 0:39Michelle Gauthier: I'm doing a podcast every day this week to help you lay the foundation for how to create a great 2025.
- 0:45Michelle Gauthier: I am teaching a class, a live workshop, not this Tuesday, but next Tuesday, January 7th, at noon, and on that class I will be telling you all the secrets to creating great goals that are not too many, not too big, exactly how to make them specific enough, how to know which areas to focus on, what kind of vision to create for your year.
- 1:10Michelle Gauthier: I'm going to teach you everything you need in order to lay the groundwork for a really successful 2025.
- 1:17Michelle Gauthier: To register for that class, the class is $25.
- 1:21Michelle Gauthier: You can click on the link in the show notes and sign up.
- 1:24Michelle Gauthier: As soon as you sign up, you'll get access to everything within the course, including the workbook.
- 1:30Michelle Gauthier: If you go and get the workbook right now, you can follow along with this podcast and answer the questions and fill them in on the workbook pages.
- 1:38Michelle Gauthier: If you aren't in a position to register right now and you want to do it later, that's fine.
- 1:43Michelle Gauthier: You can still listen to this podcast and really think through what you want to say and just even take notes in a regular blank journal.
- 1:50Michelle Gauthier: But I would absolutely love to have you join.
- 1:52Michelle Gauthier: Last year it was tons of fun.
- 1:54Michelle Gauthier: I think people got really great value out of it and were able to create some great goals for 2024.
- 2:00Michelle Gauthier: So let's keep that ball rolling.
- 2:02Michelle Gauthier: Today we're going to be focusing on what might be a little bit of a touchy subject, but it is very important for growth and that is what didn't go well this past year.
- 2:11Michelle Gauthier: When we take the time to assess the challenges and hardships we face, we usually can find out valuable lessons that help set us up better for better, more aligned goals going forward.
- 2:23Michelle Gauthier: For example, I had a client this past year who really wanted to take better care of her health and she joined this gym and she was all excited about it and she went to it and she hated it and she never, ever wanted to go, and so something important that we learned about her is that gym membership is not for her and that we needed to pivot and set up a walking program for her, and she absolutely loved it and stuck with it and walked with her friends, and it turned out to be a great goal for her.
- 2:53Michelle Gauthier: So it was very useful for her to fail quote unquote on the goal of going to the gym, because that really helped us figure out what it is that she needed, and I think that I want you to, as you're going through this, think about these from a neutral perspective.
- 3:10Michelle Gauthier: This happens sometimes.
- 3:11Michelle Gauthier: It can be very useful for us to find out why.
- 3:14Michelle Gauthier: So here are the questions that I want you to think about for yourself.
- 3:18Michelle Gauthier: T oday, just like yesterday, the worksheet has the Wheel of Life on it so that you can think about these questions, but think about them regarding different areas of your life.
- 3:28Michelle Gauthier: So what was the most difficult part of this year for you, and why so?
- 3:34Michelle Gauthier: Think about a specific challenge that sticks out for you.
- 3:36Michelle Gauthier: Maybe it was a work project, a family conflict, just managing your own energy.
- 3:42Michelle Gauthier: Something that I see a lot in my clients is balancing being able to balance work and family life.
- 3:48Michelle Gauthier: So what was the hardest part of this year for you, and why?
- 3:53Michelle Gauthier: Question number two is what consistently drained your energy or brought you stress?
- 3:57Michelle Gauthier: Was it a person or a certain task or a mindset?
- 4:03Michelle Gauthier: Sometimes we get drained by saying yes too much or taking on things that we don't actually want to do.
- 4:09Michelle Gauthier: So being able to identify those energy drains or energy leaks is very beneficial, because next year you can set a goal to no longer do those things.
- 4:19Michelle Gauthier: Something that used to really drain me in my business was when I had to do all the behind the scenes work in addition to seeing my clients, and I hired someone, the magical Kari, to help me.
- 4:30Michelle Gauthier: And now that I have her with me, I'm able to focus on the goals that I love to do and that are very important to me, and she takes care of all the details, which I am not good at.
- 4:42Michelle Gauthier: Question number three is were there any projects or goals that you didn't achieve?
- 4:47Michelle Gauthier: And the really important part of this is why?
- 4:51Michelle Gauthier: So, again, this isn't about beating yourself up.
- 4:53Michelle Gauthier: It's about getting curious, like what got in your way?
- 4:56Michelle Gauthier: Was it a lack of time or motivation or clarity, or did you set yourself up for too many goals and you just never got to this one?
- 5:04Michelle Gauthier: Sometimes not hitting a goal means we just cross the line for the next year.
- 5:10Michelle Gauthier: Sometimes we pivot a little bit and make that goal something different.
- 5:13Michelle Gauthier: So just dig into the why, if there are any goals or projects that you did not achieve this year that you wanted to.
- 5:20Michelle Gauthier: And question number four, I love this one, when did you waste time or feel disorganized and sometimes it's both on those.
- 5:28Michelle Gauthier: So is there a time waster that you have in your life?
- 5:31Michelle Gauthier: I'll tell you a big one that I identified when I did this work.
- 5:34Michelle Gauthier: I waste so much time shopping online and then returning things.
- 5:40Michelle Gauthier: So I'm shopping online but I'm not even keeping the things, so I'm just wasting my time by looking at stuff and buying it and then being like, oh yeah, this is really cruddy material and I actually don't really want this, and then I have to make the time to return it.
- 5:54Michelle Gauthier: So that was a place where I wasted a lot of time.
- 5:56Michelle Gauthier: I also waste time on my phone, sometimes at night when I'm going to bed and that helped me realize.
- 6:03Michelle Gauthier: Oh, I actually want to replace that with reading.
- 6:05Michelle Gauthier: There's something about wasting time on my phone after a certain amount of time.
- 6:09Michelle Gauthier: I like scrolling and stuff, but after a certain amount of time it starts to make me feel just yucky.
- 6:16Michelle Gauthier: Where did you feel disorganized this year?
- 6:18Michelle Gauthier: So is there a physical spot somewhere in your house, your car, your office, your life that feels really disorganized, or did you feel disorganized in your brain about certain things?
- 6:28Michelle Gauthier: Jotting that down can really be a great place to think about a goal that you might want to create for yourself in 2025.
- 6:36Michelle Gauthier: That is it for today.
- 6:38Michelle Gauthier: So, again, nothing negative about this.
- 6:41Michelle Gauthier: Just be curious, notice what didn't go well, and reflecting on this really helps you learn and grow and set better goals for this year.
- 6:51Michelle Gauthier: That's a wrap for today.
- 6:52Michelle Gauthier: Thank you so much for joining.
- 6:53Michelle Gauthier: So what we're going to do tomorrow is we are going to take a look at what we learned on Monday, where we looked at what went well.
- 7:01Michelle Gauthier: Then we're going to take a look at what you found out today, what didn't go so well, and then we're going to try to find some common themes and patterns in those things.
- 7:10Michelle Gauthier: That will give you some clues about how to make it easier this year for you to get your goals, to get the things that you want in 2025.
- 7:19Michelle Gauthier: I'll see you tomorrow.
- 7:21Michelle Gauthier: Thank you for listening to the Overwhelmed Working Woman podcast.
- 7:29Michelle Gauthier: If you want to learn more about my work, head over to my website at michellegauthier.
- 7:33Michelle Gauthier: com.
- 7:35Michelle Gauthier: See you next week.