314: Your 2025 Success Plan: Year-End Audit Essentials

[00:00:00] This is our last Thrive in 5 episode of the year. And it's going to be something that requires maybe just a tiny bit more work than the last few weeks quick wins have been. The first thing it's going to require you is to go to thrive together. blog slash report and download your free copy of our CEO report.

[00:00:26] So that way you can follow along and fill it out yourself, use it on your iPad, print it out, write it down, whatever you want to do, but you're going to want to walk through this end of the report. before January 1st, because I don't want you to just end this year and say on to the next, let's go keep rolling and stay on that content creation hamster wheel without learning from what we have gone through.

[00:00:53] This is something that I actually do every single month with you guys inside of BoldFluents. We do this during our planning party. So in our planning party, I send everybody a doc to work through together. And in that doc, we really analyze what worked really well last month. What did we not get to? What do we want to take with us into the next month before we start like actual pen to paper of content planning?

[00:01:21] Because if we don't look and see what's performed, what did we forget about and do an audit of things, then we're going to stay on that content creation hamster wheel and which can lead to burnout. Right. And we know that we don't want that. We don't want that for 2025. We are not going to deal with burnout in 2025.

[00:01:42] Right. I'm going to say that a million times to myself. Okay. So. I'm going to walk you through real quick what is inside this report. If you want a full breakdown of the report, I have an episode, episode 170. It's about 23 minutes long and that really walks you through in depth how to do the report and you can listen to that.

[00:02:06] Hit pause. Hit pause. As you're going through it and then keep going, but for an high level in this episode, what is in the report? So you're going to first look at the data. So you're going to look at how certain platforms are working and look at the income generated from those platforms. So that way you can make really smart decisions on what needs your attention in the future.

[00:02:29] I know that whenever I do this, I'm like, Oh yeah, I said I wanted to grow this. And then I. Didn't actually dedicate any time to it. So, and then the next thing that we're going to do after we dive into the data and there's like five questions in that, that in each section, there's several questions. So like I said, it's going to take you more than just like a quick 20, 30 minute win.

[00:02:54] Like these last thriving five episodes have been, but this is going to be, let's say an hour of your time to really set yourself up for success for 2025. Step two is reflecting. So you're going to look at previous goals and intentions and understand how the business performed. So that way you're going to double down on what worked and break patterns that are maybe holding you back or draining resources that aren't necessary.

[00:03:24] Step three of the report is to look at opportunities. So you're going to see what are those ideas and opportunities that are around you. So you can strategically decide what's going to get your attention next year. So once you've evaluated the data and the past year's goals, look at what opportunities await in the new year and what you want to include in the strategic plans for your business.

[00:03:48] Step four is life goals. Because it is so important to understand how our lives and the happiness that we experience day to day affect our business. Maybe you have a big life changing event that is going to be happening next year that you already know, so you need to plan accordingly. But then also asking yourself questions like how have you felt mentally this past year?

[00:04:10] How you felt physically? How are you going to take care of yourself in the new year versus how you did this past year? All of those things affect how our business runs, because when we are drained physically or mentally, we are not able to pour as much as we need to into our business. Step five is vision casting.

[00:04:32] This is really fun where you get to dream and intentionally craft a vision for your life and your business that is going to set the stage for impactful business growth and strategy. It's so easy for us to just jump into like, The tasks, right? And jump into that creation and just keep running. But before we do that, we really need to set the stage.

[00:04:55] So talking about success, talking about what you want this time next year to look like, talking about what might be holding you back. And then finally, in this report, it's giving you a section to write a letter to your future self. That might sound a little woo or whatever, but I have found that wishing something well for yourself or talking to yourself and giving yourself a pep talk is sometimes something we just do in our head.

[00:05:27] But there's something deeper that happens when we really pause to write it down and write this letter to ourselves. So, like I said, there are probably uh, Five to six questions in each of those sections. That's why I want you to go and download the report. It is a hundred percent free thrive together.

[00:05:45] blogslash report, share it with a friend, maybe do it together if you want. And that way you're going to be set up for success in the new year. So thrive together. blogslash report, or click the link in the description below. That's it. That is the last Thriving Five episode for the year. That's your goal is to finish that report before the next Thriving Five episode comes out in 2025.

[00:06:14] All right, I'll see you guys then.