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How To Set Goals for Your Creator Business in The New Year | Free Worksheet Included! #232 · Influencer Confidential

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Influencer Confidential by Sidewalker Daily. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Nina Zeta and I will be your host. I love
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  Speaker 1: working with brands and influencers on all things business strategy.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to learn what it takes to work
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  Speaker 1: in this influencer industry and see behind the curtain? Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's jump in. I cannot believe how fast this year
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  Speaker 1: has come and gone. It seems just like yesterday, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four was just starting and here we are at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year. And really, what I want
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  Speaker 1: to do with you guys is a transformative practice that's
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  Speaker 1: going to help you reflect on your wins and what
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  Speaker 1: could have gone a little bit better in your creator
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  Speaker 1: journey so that you can start twenty twenty five with
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  Speaker 1: clarity and confidence. Because here's the thing. When you start
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  Speaker 1: to reflect on things, both the good and the things
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  Speaker 1: that need improvement, it helps you not only celebrate yourself
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  Speaker 1: but also see areas of improvement, which we all kind
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  Speaker 1: of need to do. I'm a big believer in reflection,
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  Speaker 1: So grab yourself a cozy little drink. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to download the worksheet that I've put together for today,
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  Speaker 1: you can go ahead and download it right away. It's
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  Speaker 1: an exercise we're going to actually do together in today's video,
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  Speaker 1: So feel free to pause as we go if you
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  Speaker 1: need to, or if you prefer to download this sheet
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  Speaker 1: and do it at your own time, that works as well.
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  Speaker 1: What we're about to do is one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: end of year practices and I think it's something that
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  Speaker 1: creators should do way more of because again, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to help you start that year fresh. So this practice
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  Speaker 1: is a four part practice and the first area we
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  Speaker 1: are going to start with is called the Liked section.
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  Speaker 1: Liked is in celebrating your wins. So what I want
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  Speaker 1: you to do in this part, again, if you need
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  Speaker 1: to pause after I explain, please do. But what I
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  Speaker 1: want you to do in this part is ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what are certain activities you did this year that made
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  Speaker 1: you come alive? What are the special projects or people
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  Speaker 1: that brought out the best in you? Was there like
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  Speaker 1: a specific moment that you're like, oh my gosh, this
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  Speaker 1: is why I do what I do. Something that may
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  Speaker 1: have happened that really confirmed that you are on the
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  Speaker 1: right path. And this liked section and want you to
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  Speaker 1: really reflect on your achievements, your wins, things and people
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  Speaker 1: that light you up so that you can really take
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  Speaker 1: a moment to pause on what you are most proud
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  Speaker 1: of this year, because I'm sure there's areas that you
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  Speaker 1: grew in and doing this exercise right now may help
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  Speaker 1: you remember things you may have forgotten about now. The
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  Speaker 1: reason I love the liked section of today's practice is
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of creators suffer from immense imposter syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: We go through ups and downs in the creator journey.
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  Speaker 1: There's sometimes around top of the world, and there's sometimes
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  Speaker 1: that we want to feel like giving up and writing
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  Speaker 1: this section out will actually give you a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of gratitude for your business maybe instead of that resentfulness
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  Speaker 1: that you may feel. And funny enough, when that imposter
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  Speaker 1: syndrome comes knocking on your door, you can always go
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  Speaker 1: back to your liked section and be like, yeah, actually, no,
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  Speaker 1: look at all the good things that happen this year,
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  Speaker 1: or these are the people that really helped me in
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  Speaker 1: the moments that made me come alive, because that is
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  Speaker 1: going to be your guiding star for starting twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: ELPs strongly. So now that we got through Liked, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you did hit pause and we're able to get those
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  Speaker 1: finished now that we hit finished the like section, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to go over into the learned section. Learned What
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  Speaker 1: did we learn this year? What did this year teach us?
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  Speaker 1: What were the lessons that the universe was trying to
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  Speaker 1: show us in twenty twenty four? What were the biggest
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  Speaker 1: ways you grew? Maybe learning to say no. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big lesson, right, saying no to partnerships or people or
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  Speaker 1: things that don't align with your values. Maybe was stepping
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  Speaker 1: outside of your comfort zone or doing a totally new
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing in your niche. I really want you
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  Speaker 1: to think about, what are the lessons that you learned
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  Speaker 1: this year? What did you know? What are those new
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  Speaker 1: perspectives that we can carry with us in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I know, for us here at Sidewalker Daily, one of
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  Speaker 1: our biggest lessons was the importance of focus, importance of
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  Speaker 1: being really really laser focused and not letting all these
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  Speaker 1: creative ideas sway us. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: creators and entrepreneurs struggle from this. You know, we see
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  Speaker 1: ideas and we see things and we always want to
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  Speaker 1: do them. But I've been talking more and more with
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  Speaker 1: the creators in my community, my inner circle community, that's
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  Speaker 1: the membership community I have for creators. We meet every week.
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  Speaker 1: Those are all the students of my Pitching the Brand's
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  Speaker 1: master course. So we're constantly working and growing together. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I realize, and we talk
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  Speaker 1: about this too, is that creativity can be a curse,
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  Speaker 1: like too many ideas can be a curse. It can
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  Speaker 1: be a distraction. Yes, it's also your biggest gift in blessing,
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  Speaker 1: but it can also stop you from getting things done.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a big lesson we learned here at
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  Speaker 1: Sidewalker Daily is the importance of leaning in and focusing
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  Speaker 1: instead of kind of being, you know, trying a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of new things and letting these ideas distract you from
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  Speaker 1: your end goal. So I want you to write down
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  Speaker 1: different lessons and how they impacted you. That's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the next step. If you need to press pause,
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  Speaker 1: this would be a time to do so. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: third bucket of today's practice is lacked. Lacked in the
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  Speaker 1: sense of what did we miss out on this year?
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  Speaker 1: What did we lack And this again is not from
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  Speaker 1: a place of judgment, but from a place of reflection.
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  Speaker 1: I want you guys to use this as an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to create growth for yourself, not to judge yourself for
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  Speaker 1: what you did do. This is the area that I
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  Speaker 1: want you to think about. What could you have done differently?
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  Speaker 1: What are some missed opportunities that you may have missed
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  Speaker 1: out on. What did you not have enough of this year?
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  Speaker 1: Was it time? Was it focus? Was it certain relationships?
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  Speaker 1: What didn't you have enough of? When I was doing
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  Speaker 1: this practice with our inner circle, creator set to me,
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  Speaker 1: I did not have enough time. I need to work
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  Speaker 1: more on boundary setting. And that was one of the
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  Speaker 1: goals that she didn't even realize was a goal for
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five that she's bringing in with her because
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  Speaker 1: many of us think of goals related to things around
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  Speaker 1: making money, and yes, that is important, but having boundaries
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  Speaker 1: and learning how to set those boundaries are also things
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  Speaker 1: that and skills that we want to bring with us.
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  Speaker 1: So that was something that a creator shared with us,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that it was a good one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: learning that lack of time and lack of time with
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  Speaker 1: her family really met her having to draw some boundaries
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  Speaker 1: around certain brand partners and really putting her foot down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a creator that would benefit from having a
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  Speaker 1: community of other creators. Our Inner Circle membership is only
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  Speaker 1: open to pitching to brand's master corese students. If you're
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  Speaker 1: pitching a brand's master Course student, definitely email us over
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  Speaker 1: a team at Sidewalker daily and we can let you
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  Speaker 1: guys know how you can enroll. And if you're not
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  Speaker 1: a pitching a brand's master Course student and you want
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  Speaker 1: to actively pitch brands in the new year, then I
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  Speaker 1: would definitely suggest you guys go ahead and check out
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  Speaker 1: our signature program here at Sidewalker. It is a game
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  Speaker 1: changer and a life changer for many creators that want
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  Speaker 1: to successfully pitch brand deals. So I will leave the
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  Speaker 1: link below, and once you enroll in that program, you
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  Speaker 1: can always reach out to us to learn about our membership.
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  Speaker 1: So when we talk about the lack section, it's really
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  Speaker 1: about identifying gaps and asking yourself what are the areas
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  Speaker 1: that we want to improve in twenty twenty five. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth section of this exercise is long for what
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  Speaker 1: are you looking forward to in twenty twenty five? What
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  Speaker 1: are some of the things you have your site set on.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want more of, what do you want
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  Speaker 1: less of? What are some of the areas that you
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  Speaker 1: are longing for. This is where I want you to
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  Speaker 1: think about, if you can make one change, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be professionally or personally, what would you do One of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite ways of feeling this section out or doing
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  Speaker 1: more like visualization exercises, kind of you know, really having
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  Speaker 1: some quiet time. Maybe it's again early morning when you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling out this worksheet, or just being really intentional and visualizing.
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  Speaker 1: What do I want twenty twenty five to look like?
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  Speaker 1: What would be a perfect day next year? How do
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  Speaker 1: I want my business to look? What does it feel like?
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  Speaker 1: What's different about it? Right? So for me, I'll share
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  Speaker 1: this with you guys, twenty twenty five is the year
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  Speaker 1: that I want my team to be in person. I
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  Speaker 1: envision us having team meetings in person. I envision us
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  Speaker 1: getting a coffee and having agenda meetings where we're all
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  Speaker 1: kind of together or dressing, you know, having them days
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  Speaker 1: at the office and really creating those bonds of friendship
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  Speaker 1: within our team and also working in person. That's what
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  Speaker 1: a perfect day with me would look like, professionally, not
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  Speaker 1: remote work. So I wanted to share that with us
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  Speaker 1: because that's something that we're actually hoping to achieve in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five fingers crossed that our team will all
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  Speaker 1: come together and be in person. But when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: these visualization exercise, ask yourself what that perfect ideal day
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  Speaker 1: look like. Take some time, write it out and ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: why is it different than a normal day this year?
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  Speaker 1: So I hope you guys enjoyed this exercise. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you it's one of my favorite tried and true exercises
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  Speaker 1: I do at the end of every year. I remember
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  Speaker 1: it is liked, learned, lacked, and longed for before LS.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you a quick little something that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: I have this worksheet available for you guys, so you
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  Speaker 1: guys can download it, print it. You can do it
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  Speaker 1: with a friend, you can do it with your partner.
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  Speaker 1: You guys can share. It's a really, really sweet, but
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  Speaker 1: also transformative and profound reflection exercise to help you start
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  Speaker 1: your new year off wonderfully and with intention, clarity, and focus.
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