Bringing Your Year Into Focus (themes, goals, & motivations) – Episode 079 - a podcast by Brandi Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we have a great conversation about all our themes, goals, and motivations for the coming year and the benefits of reflection. Happy 2019, cheers to new things!



Takeaways:



* Keep track of your goals and themes. Write them in your calendar so you know what to reflect on at the end of this year.

* It’s never too late to write down your goals and themes for the year!

* Taking the time to look at how you spend your time and how you want to spend your time will make every other minute that you spend much better.



Talking about Themes, Goals, and Motivations 

Michelle’s theme:

focus.

She has noticed that she has a bad habit of focusing on things she doesn’t need to be, so she decided to reflect on something that she can constantly take with her wherever she goes, whatever she is doing.

Michelle’s practical motivation:

Creating an actual process for how she gets things done at work. A travesty, she does not have a process.  

Brandi’s theme:

finish (imperfectly).

“I was thinking about the word completion, but I realized I didn’t have to be all fancy, so I just stuck with the word finish.”

In the book “Finish” by Jon Acuff.  One line that really stood out to me was, “the less people aim for perfect, the more productive they become.”

“I don’t think I realized how that idea of perfect paralyzed me until I read that in the book. I’ve also realized that I’ve developed a problem for finishing things even though I’m great at starting them.”

As for my personal theme, it’s “patience”. I don’t know what that means yet, but I’ll see how it unfolds as the year goes on. 

 

 

Brandi’s business-y goals:



* Design 6 to 12 book covers classics or not, I don’t know yet.

* Craft a doable social media plan where I can have something to post every day and not like wonder what I’m going to post.

* Design 5 to 10 posters. I don’t know of what.

* Figure out a MailChimp newsletter.

* Get sponsors and affiliate marketing for the blog and the podcast.

* A Honey and the Bug Kickstarter campaign for Jasmine in February. I wrote a date, so I have a goal.

* Book more workshops and speaking gigs.

* Write for blog and podcast two times a month.

* I want to paint, screenprint, and do some wood burning.

* My beauty commentary project that I’ve been wanting to do forever, where I do, you know, for those of you who don’t know what this is, I want to do lettering on women’s faces about beauty and take pictures and do something with it. I haven’t fully fleshed out.

* Launch Patreon, that’s done. By the time you hear this podcast will be able to go onto our Patreon and search Design Speaks and be able to support us.

* The last two are like sort of these would be nice but not 100 percent necessary because I’m very ambitious and there may be too many things on this list already, but

* Develop a course and maybe figure out some other sort of passive income. Whether it’s like downloads or some sort of workshop that people can like just watch.

* And lastly, update my website. 



 

Tips that can make a difference in helping you reach your goals:



* Physically write down your goals.



* Then, hang those written goals somewhere where you will see them regularly so you have the satisfaction of checking them off





* Share your goals with somebody.



* They can encourage you to finish those goals n...

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