More Than A Side Hustle
More Than A Side Hustle
How to Create Your Gameplan For This Year Ahead
This episode focuses on effective goal setting and the strategies to achieve them, drawing lessons from personal experiences and past challenges. We explore the importance of environment, structure, and regular reflection in maintaining focus and accountability throughout the year.
• Importance of changing environments in goal setting
• Overview of our journey from nine-to-five to entrepreneurship
• Introduction of the five pillars guiding our goals
• Emphasis on reflecting on past achievements
• Importance of trust and will for family security
• Utility of tracking net worth for financial health
• Maintaining focus through a 'word of the year'
• Systems versus goals: creating actionable strategies
• Intentional actions lead to greater success and fulfillment
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What's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the more than a side hustle podcast, where we help nine-to-fives create more impact, income and influence outside their jobs.
Speaker 1:And my name is Anthony and I'm Janoka and we are happy to be back. I'm laughing because the last time we did episodes we said we're back.
Speaker 2:I don't know how long ago that was, and we really weren't back.
Speaker 1:Are we back this time? We're back this time. This time we're speaking about goal setting. Right, we're speaking about not necessarily just our goals, but how to goal set and what we did and maybe this can help you as well, no matter when you listen to this and we'll speak about the goals of the podcast as well.
Speaker 2:We'll figure out by the end of this podcast if we are back or we just kind of sit out back, or we're just doing things.
Speaker 1:But this time you know that we weren't as consistent, because the last review let's tell people who we are.
Speaker 2:So if you are, if you are a first-time listener, if you guys don't know, we are two technically former nine-to-fivers. We built multiple seven-figure businesses outside of our jobs and now we help others do the same, the same um, whether it's a in person, whether it's a digital, physical product.
Speaker 1:So we continue to share our story and share our impact as you said that this would be my first year as, my first full year as a nine-to-fiver if I last the full year, what do you mean? I mean as a, not a nine-to-fiver, excuse me my first full year as an entrepreneur, as a full-time entrepreneur, as a full-time entrepreneur, because, um, previous episode, go back, the last one we said we spoke about, uh, me losing my job in august. So this will be the first full year of full-time entrepreneurship for me. You are going on to your fourth year of doing it, which sounds absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1:Exactly so anyways, before I think we should speak about, do we want to speak about the goals of the podcast before we jump in or just intertwine it in?
Speaker 2:No, we're intertwining it in because, well, happy new year everyone.
Speaker 1:Always the question when do you stop saying it? When do you stop saying? When do you stop?
Speaker 2:I don't know, somebody's like the second week and then also, if you listen to this, it might be the third or fourth week of january, depending when we release this. Technically national quitters day has passed. So if you had a goal or you had something you want to accomplish and you're no longer doing it, most people stop doing it by the second week, which is where you also realize the second week of the gym kind of calms down.
Speaker 1:People stop going to the gym.
Speaker 2:They're like you know what. So by the second week if you're still here by the second week of January, that means you made it past most people's goals of the year.
Speaker 1:But so goal setting is something that's very important to us. If you've been around for a few years, it tends to look the same. We first started goal setting with um going to somewhere special. So like usually we're doing a steakhouse, we're bringing a computer, ipad, all of the things to plan out our night, to plan our year. Sorry, and the reason we did that was to get away from the noise. At that time, when we started, the noise was just our dog blue. We just wanted a different setting. But, as you know, we have two kids now and we still that's how we did it the previous years going to our fancy restaurant, planning it out, recapping our previous year and then planning the next year. Last year was a little different. It was a bit more stiffy. What did you decide to do?
Speaker 2:so. And when she said, when she says, get away from the noise, it's just change of environment, and I think that's super important. So I changed the environment again and I booked a conference room. And the way I would. I booked a conference room, we had a whiteboard, we bought our laptops, we had a screen, we were able to display what the notes were. So it was more of a formalized meeting, what the notes were. So it was more of a formalized meeting. And between the steakhouse and between the formalized office setting, what do you feel like you enjoyed more out of those two?
Speaker 1:Well, the office, see the office setting. We were in there for eight hours.
Speaker 2:The steakhouse.
Speaker 1:You can't do that because obviously it's a restaurant, so you can't be there that long and so maybe sometimes you don't even need that long. But because we had the time, we used it, we used the time. It's not like it was dead space, but we actually did use this. I don't know which one I liked more than the other, it was just different. It just was different. Yeah, I don't know at this point of the way that goals are growing and different things are changing, I don't know that a restaurant is the setting for us either, though I do feel we need a bit more time, a bit more space, a bit more. You know, it's a little weird having a laptop at a steakhouse asking for their Wi-Fi. It is a little bizarre. You got your laptop, you got your iPad, you got your notepad.
Speaker 2:We want you guys to think about just changing your environment, if you haven't already. I was actually listening to a podcast and they were like listen, I'm not really focused on the new year until the second month of the year. It's like the clock strikes 12 and it's a new month, it's a new year, but that doesn't mean you have to get up and do everything then, and that's something that we've always tried to be intentional about. It's like by the time the new year comes, we want to have our goals and everything in alignment. If you listen to the last podcast, it was a solo episode I did and I talked about, instead of creating goals, create systems. We'll talk about some of those systems as well, but that's one of the things we wanted to get away from is just that um, stuffy environment. But then also we knew that we couldn't just go to the steakhouse, so we did change it up again this year and we'll talk about the format. So how do we change it up again this year?
Speaker 1:So, this year we went to Mexico it didn't start there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to get to it.
Speaker 1:So it actually started with us putting notes down and we put it as notes for the meeting.
Speaker 1:And we did that in the house, like on a random night, of things that we wanted to make sure we touched on in the goal meeting. Because it's kind of like you want to plan before you get there, cause you have a lot of ideas, things that may be running through your head and it is a lot to recap the previous year, plan that year then. Oh yeah, I remember this. So we kind of pre-planned for the meeting, basically, and we started writing notes for the meeting and, um, setting it up, if you will like, how we wanted it to look. We did some of that preliminary stuff so that when we actually sat down for the meeting it was like, boom, like these are were a bit more consistent and didn't need the eight hours in our office. Yeah, we had an agenda going into it, some things we started on, but mostly the heavy, heavy work, I would say, got done in Mexico. So it was a two part meeting, which is the first time ever as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so having that preliminary agenda and I'll go through this so that they know at least the framework of I'll just go through the five pillars. So the five pillars of every goal setting, just even meetings that we have with our family, is five pillars. Five pillars which is number one, family, number two, faith, number three, finances, number four, fitness and number five is freedom. Yeah, five pillars are, and I got this from a guy named jamal king. He talks about the same thing.
Speaker 1:I think we had three pillars at one point yeah, but just to break down a bit further, like you say, family is like well, what falls on the family? Somebody may not know um, and, for example, some things that fall on the family, maybe like travel, like where, what's our travels this year? What do we plan to do or hope to do? Maybe we don't make all of them um, also, right now we're in a phase of looking for more caretakers for our children, so, like setting the goals of when we're gonna find a nanny or a babysitter or things like that.
Speaker 1:Those are some of the um, trying to see if there's any more but, those are some of the things that would fall under family for us yeah, just to help you out.
Speaker 2:That could be you want to find a man, or you want to find a wife, or you want to start dating more going out more. Those are things that you could put like. Date nights is something that we put would put on the family.
Speaker 1:So those are a few um examples of that any big family events we have that we want to plan. So all of that goes on.
Speaker 2:Next one would be faith. So going back to church, things like that, finances, budgeting, paying off debt, whatever you guys want to do, fitness, that could be. I want to start working out more. What does that system look like for you? And then freedom is what's the freedom one? Freedom could also be traveling, too.
Speaker 1:It could be, but we also sometimes put our businesses under freedom, because our businesses allow us freedom. So it may not exactly fall under that. If somebody was to ask but that's how we do it, because you know, but each of them we break it down further, so it's not just like so okay, I want to get a nanny. Like by when? Like when are you going to do this by? Is it by the end of quarter one? How do you plan to do it? Same thing with losing weight. Like I put a hefty goal of losing 20 pounds for the year and so I broke it down of every quarter. How much pounds do I want to lose? I think I put like the most in the first quarter, because after that summer comes in the holidays. So like that's how I broke it down. So just making sure you're breaking it down why 20 pounds, though?
Speaker 2:how'd you come up with that? We never.
Speaker 1:We didn't speak about that how did I come up with 20? That brings me back to kind of where I usually am status quo. Right now I'm about 20 pounds above where I usually am. Wow, okay, yeah, I know I don't know how I got here. Yeah, so I do know how I got here, but still so preliminary notes before the meeting.
Speaker 2:So, like I said, we had those five pillars. We would just jot some notes down so we know what we're walking to the meeting with.
Speaker 1:So another big thing is just making sure you recap the previous year.
Speaker 1:That was a big thing for us because we felt like last year wasn't, as let's say, big, because you know you had you set these goals and if you don't hit all of them, you're like, oh, I didn't do so. Well, um, but being able and that's why it's big to write it down, being able to actually go back and check back like, oh wow, we actually did do this, we actually did do these things, uh, that was helpful. And even looking back to previous years, because we've been doing this since 2021 maybe, I'm not sure, I think 2021 or 2020, we've been doing these specific goals, writing it down, these exact things.
Speaker 1:So going back to see exactly what we've done, exactly how far we've come, can also be, I would say, a big booster, a boost to your confidence. That is not also bad, even if it doesn't feel like I didn't hit this hefty goal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've been documenting our progress in terms of goals since 2020. I actually went back to my phone and actually some of it's in 2019.
Speaker 2:But one of the things we did one of the things we started the meeting with was going back. Did we do the photos or did we do the trust first? The trust was before too Okay. So the first part of the meeting we sat down, like you said we did. We had the agenda items of what we would talk about, or at least different pieces of it, but we knew the general is like at the top of year, we got to do our trust.
Speaker 2:We got to do our will um, and you want to go through that yeah.
Speaker 1:So we do have a trust and will in place, and if you don't, you absolutely should especially have a wife or kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, some people are like, well, I'm single, it doesn't matter. I think it does, especially if you have a wife or kids. Yeah, I know some people are like, well, I'm single, it doesn't matter. I think it does, especially if you have family around. But, even more important, if you are a spouse and have children, you should have a trust and a will. It's really simple to do. A lot of companies can help you, assist it. You don't have to come up with it on your own. So that was something we set that in place.
Speaker 2:I think We'll put a link in the show notes with the company that we used, will we, because am I getting a kickback for that?
Speaker 1:If it helps people, why not? You are money hungry sometimes, sometimes, but I'm not just promoting anything. Maybe there's another company I could promote. Anyway, what?
Speaker 2:was I saying.
Speaker 1:Estate planning. So we put it in place around when we had Alani. So back in 2022, I want to say, is when we officially got everything done. But, as they say, you should be updating it yearly and we didn't do it as frequently so before the year and then like we need to update it. As you know, we've had two major life changes in that we had another child and the loss of a family member. But the way that you set it up can kind of cover those things. You don't have to change things drastically but but just going through it, making sure that it still makes sense, making sure that people's names that you put down make sense of taking care of your children, taking over the will.
Speaker 1:Um, some spots we saw that were empty. Like they have information in there where you can put your what is this like? Social media and email, all that type of password and that type of stuff so people can get into it. Some of that was empty for us. Deciding what happens when you pass. All of those things are in there and I think it's important just to review it yearly, and that's something that we were. I put it on the calendar. I'm like, no, we're going to sit down and do this, and we got that done first before anything. That was about like two, three weeks before we started doing any of that. So start there If you have one, if you don't have one. It will be a bit of a process, but you need to start it now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I want to talk to the single people for a second too, because when my youngest brother passed away last year and we're going through and we're discovering things like he had outstanding parking tickets and he had this over here and this over here nothing bad that you can't find, but it just creates more of a headache when you have to dive through certain things. So I know at some point we think about. You know we're too young to think about these things. You know he was barely touching 30, so I want you guys to think about those things. I'm an especially important. This is the second time we're going through this. My best friend passed and he had this stuff a little bit more in order, but it still was difficult for his mom to find those things. So if you got some time, write down some things. Right, you know? Share your phone password with somebody. Share your email password. Share your bank account passwords which?
Speaker 1:which are beneficiaries, on your bank on your account, right we? Went. I think we had an episode on this we did things we learned from his funeral, and the banking house was one of them that if somebody is not on there then no one can access it. I don't know, do we have a whole episode on that? We did.
Speaker 2:Okay, we might we try to link that. I need some show notes for the show notes right now, so we'll try to link that episode. But that Started it by going through our trust, our will, we update the documents, make sure little girl was on it, medium-sized girl was on it and everything was good.
Speaker 1:Medium-sized girl, that's a lot Amaya.
Speaker 2:You're the big girl, little girl. What? You're the big girl, medium, little. Okay, all right. So the next exercise we did was this one, right, yeah, so we are you talking? Ooh, yep, so we are you talking?
Speaker 1:Oh, yep, this one here, yeah the game.
Speaker 2:So I was listening to a podcast.
Speaker 1:No, you didn't get the game for a podcast, get it from my Instagram. I sent you. But he's funny, he did the same thing he did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, good Maybe he saw the Instagram, but go ahead. So you told you about the game, got it? That's that. Yeah, we send each other Instagrams all the time. Reels sorry, that's the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 1:This couple said they sat down and they went through their phone every single month and sat down with a timer and wrote down everything that kind of stood out during that month and it was separate, like Janoka had her own, tony had his own and three-minute timer and you went through January, through December, things that stood out for you as you looked through your camera. No, the camera was supposed to help you because you could just do it based off of the things you remember in your head, but if you're like me, I don't remember anything. So the camera, I needed my phone for every single thing to remember what we did each month. And it was a fun exercise because we were like, oh, I didn't even remember that. Or yeah, I had done the same exact thing for that month. It was just something different that wasn't. Yeah, I had down the same exact thing for that month.
Speaker 1:It was just something different that wasn't, and that's that wasn't ever necessarily just focusing on goals, but still a way to reflect back, uh, reflection on the previous good, bad things that happened and it was just funny just going through it as well, like things that you remembered versus me and like, oh, I didn't remember, we went there what was, what was the most shocking thing about going through that meeting, that part of the meeting, because I had a good time doing it. You were like. You were like oh, I don't know how you remember anything that's not in your camera.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, and I'm like I don't know that just I just remembered that, oh, maybe like travel or I can't remember. There were some things that you're like.
Speaker 2:I don't know how you even remember so I'll take a lot of photos, photos. So when we did this exercise, you set the three-minute timer and everyone goes, and even if you're single, you don't got someone to go through. You should do this as well, just so you can kind of reflect on the year that you had. So I think Miles was in my notes or something.
Speaker 1:No, we shared it. We shared it.
Speaker 2:I don't see it, but you go through your notes and I think everyone should do this exercise just to see how the year was. And the reason that this actually made sense is because you might have thought you had an absolutely terrible shitty, you know, last year. And the funny thing is, I asked Janoko a question. You remember the question I asked you?
Speaker 1:No, what was it? Oh you asked me do you remember what we did in 2023? And I started listing some things and I mentioned South Africa. You was like I didn me. Do you remember what we did in 2023? And I started listing some things and I mentioned south africa. He was like I didn't even remember that yeah.
Speaker 2:So going back to not 2024 we started the meeting in 2024. I said what did we do last year? And that shows you and she remembered like you normally remember the biggest highlight and the biggest low. So it would probably be a death, a promotion or a big trip you made, and that's the whole year summarized for most people. So when you're going back and you're doing this exercise, you could actually say like, oh yeah, most of the time we think about 2024. And it's funny because a lot of people said 2024 was one of their worst years that they've ever had, and I'll probably say we had a pretty bad 2024 too, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I don't want to say bad. It was highs and lows Difficult.
Speaker 2:It was pretty difficult 2024. And it's funny that's like the theme of the year right now having a bad 2024. But what was I saying? Oh yeah, so you set all these goals and plans and then, a year later or two years after, you don't even remember what they were. So the highs and the lows are absolutely gone for the entire year. So let's say, 2024 was a bad year for you. You go back in 2025, 2026, and actually what happened in 2024? You're going to remember a death, you're going to remember a birth and you're going to remember one more thing, which may be a travel, it might be Disney for us. So those are going to be the highlights of the entire 24, whether it was good, bad or different. One year more, one year later, you won't even remember what happened for that entire year. So the point of me telling you that was to don't put so much pressure on you having a good or a bad year. It's just another year in the books and let's just push forward and make sure you get it done.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so we wrote out those things and it was fun just to see what we remember, what we didn't remember. You didn't have nothing for this month. What happened in august for you? Oh no, you're here. So some months it was way longer than the other person had way longer than the other person. But yeah, it's just a good exercise. We thought it was fun too. You can still do it now. Go ahead and do it. Um, we're not the inventors of it, but just letting you know. So after we did the trust and will, after we did the exercise that we just spoke about with the pitchers, after we did a preliminary meeting to prepare, for the meeting.
Speaker 1:before the meeting before the meeting we also something we also did that we haven't done in a while was update our net worth.
Speaker 2:That was something you use, a system or yeah, I use personal finance for that, so that's just an app and you should be going through that pretty frequently. We had a spreadsheet because personal finance stopped accepting updates after a while for some reason, so glitchy. Yeah, it was like very, it's called empower, now um, but they weren't accepting certain accounts.
Speaker 2:I'll just stop using it, but anyway, we went through and updated our network happy to say that we're still above a millionaire status, so but yeah, you should download the app, empower, go through and just update your bank accounts. I net worth happy to say that we're still above a millionaire status, so but yeah, you should download the app and power, go through and just update your bank accounts, your assets, your debits, things like that.
Speaker 1:Everything's 401ks, um, I don't know, cars, jewelry, everything that's considered an asset can can go on there, um, so we did all that. And then we got to Mexico. So we did all that and then we got to Mexico. So we were going to Mexico. It was a friends slash family trip going to Mexico and we decided to fly in a day earlier Because one we realized before the chaos Because you know, with friends things are hectic but also we realized the last time we did any type of trip without the kids was June 2023.
Speaker 1:Was the last time we did a trip without the kids and even that was a friend's group to go see Usher in Vegas. So we're like let's just go a day by ourselves, let's finish our goal setting meeting and kind of go like that and that was a great idea. Actually, just traveling in January was just. I think you should kick off your year that way if you can. Every time it just feels like, feels good. I don't know what to say about it, just feels like I should be here every year january on a beach or somewhere, not in my regular setting oh yeah, and what that?
Speaker 2:what that allows you to do is, especially when you get out somewhere warm and you get an ocean, or if you like mountains and you want to see the mountains, or if you're in a city whatever you enjoy doing what you like to see. It allows you to I don't know how to describe it it allows you to like see the bigger picture of life, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:So normally you're sitting, we do our. You might do it at home, you might do it in the office with your goals, or you might do it in a restaurant, but being out and traveling and being in a new country gives you another oomph. You're like oh, wow. Now your goals are getting a little bit bigger, your energy is higher and you're not sitting around in a stuffy conference room like we did last year or the year before last.
Speaker 1:So it just felt good. You have the sun is shining in water, you hear the music outside, and that's where we did the bulk of the work that was from.
Speaker 2:I think we started at like 12, 11, 30.
Speaker 1:That was about four, four and a half hours of goal setting. You're probably like what the hell are you guys talking about Now? We may have more things than the typical person because we have multiple businesses, we have multiple kids, so it may not be the same for you. It's not like you need a time, a specific time, but we're combing through everything that we kind of prepared for, making sure we close out 2024 as much as we can and really preparing for the new year, and different years look differently, right, and I think it's important as well when you're goal setting, like sometimes there are certain goals, like I just stopped writing reading a book a quarter, or reading a book.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that was super important because I have like a list of probably 30 books in my notes that I want to read, that I've seen people rave about, and I don't read, I don't read. So it's kind of like stop putting it there, like if you end up doing it, great, but I stopped putting like that's just an example of something that I I think that's the only thing that I stopped putting down, cause I'm like I'm'm not, I'm not reaching that goal. So that's important as well, to reflect on what exactly is be realistic with yourself.
Speaker 2:Essentially, be realistic with yourself so reflecting yeah, reflecting on your goals. It doesn't have to. It doesn't have to wait until the end of the year. So if you're going through it and you're seeing every single month, this is not even getting nudged, it needs to be removed because it's not that important to you. Yeah, so for, like me, I was like I'm gonna make sure I'm reading a book a quarter. So I got my book first book of the year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you read so dan martell uh, buy back your time. I don't know if you guys could see that. There do we have another book by him. I feel like I heard that name before um no, I might have bought the same book twice.
Speaker 1:Okay, no.
Speaker 2:But anyway, that's the first Ann.
Speaker 1:Sullivan is who now Ann Sullivan?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the reason I wanted to. That's just one of the goals, but the system behind it is like reading five pages a day, like waking up, reading five pages a day. That's literally the system, so that I know I can read a book a quarter. And the reason I'm reading that book is because that's one of the things that I realized this past year is that I'm still very much ingrained in the businesses with the baby and the death. It was like those were just two hits back to back. So I want to be able to buy back our time and get unstuck, reclaim your freedom and build your empire.
Speaker 1:So and just along those lines of setting these goals and reviewing it. I think it's important to note so last year we had recognized, when we were doing our 2024 goals, we recognized in 2023. We didn't really look back at it um visit our goals as frequently as we once did. So what we did was put on the calendar monthly family meetings, like put an alert, you know, every um one friday of the month. We put that on there and then we said we'll do quarterly meetings as well. We did one yep so we didn't.
Speaker 1:We weren't consistent with this. So this year now we're like okay, we have these goals, we're spending so much time on it, how can we make sure that it's important to us? So for like, at least for me we set this. I don't have the date, but I think we did the goals exactly on january 9th, like we finished it. Since then I probably reviewed it at least five times. Since then I've just been looking back at it to remember. Like, what do we say? What do we say?
Speaker 1:Most of the goals that we've set is quarterly based, but in order for you to get there, you have to know what you're working towards. You have to you know. So I think, reviewing it more, we also put the monthly meeting at the end of the month because I think we had just picked a Friday. So now it's at the end of the month and we really are just going to have to be consistent about making sure we get it done. Does that mean we have a babysitter here that's going to be here for us for the hour, two hours for us to review? But we are being very intentional. Like you said, you set these goals. You don't remember it being very intentional to make sure that we are at least reviewing it. It may not hit everything, but at least reviewing it on a frequent basis. It doesn't have to be as frequent as me, but I forget things. So I am looking after this meeting, I'm probably going to look at it again and to make sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of the things we going back to 2019 when we had these. I think we were both we had, we both worked in the same office.
Speaker 1:So we had a little whiteboard behind us and you saw the goals every single day. And the same office was our second bedroom, by the way. Yeah, the second bedroom.
Speaker 2:So she worked in there, I worked in there. It was like back to back, right.
Speaker 1:Literally, you were behind me. Yeah, I was behind you. We had the goals on the board.
Speaker 2:But now, the only bedroom we're both in at the same time is our bedroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the living room.
Speaker 2:you can't really put your goals in the living room. Yeah, like I want to make a thousand million finity dollars in this living room Just makes it kind of weird, but the office was like the place we both were at this space here. You're kind of in it sometimes, but 90% of the time I'm in here. So I think us having a. But also, we bought, we bought. We bought this thing called Big.
Speaker 1:Ass Calendar. You might have seen it. If you're on TikTok, you've definitely seen it. This is from who is it from? Jesse, I don't remember his last name, but he's the husband. That's what I'm. I'm sure he's retired of being called this, but he is the husband of the lady. What's her name? Because I follow her that invented Spanx. I can't remember if I don't remember her name, but I do follow her.
Speaker 2:Yes, amazing story.
Speaker 1:And his name is Jesse, something I don't. His name is Jesse. Let's go with that Itzler Itzler.
Speaker 2:It doesn't say his last name often, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's literally a big ass calendar and it plans out the entire year man super excited to get this started.
Speaker 2:Maybe we'll tag them. I don't know. We got a lot of people to tag. Oh now, we got a lot of people to tag. Literally. If you guys are watching this on YouTube, I'm opening up the calendar. Oh, this is cool and maybe I'll do a YouTube live while we're starting it. There's a whole YouTube on here.
Speaker 1:I'm covering up all the cameras, what the hell.
Speaker 2:Well, he's covering himself himself, but it literally is the entire year 365 you plan out your entire year on this thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you plan out your year. You got markers, you got all this stuff they make it fun stickies and everything for different colors, for different things, like a color for kids activities, a color for travel, like. So we've never we planned out our year in this way that we wrote it down, bulleted, but never on a calendar. So this will be something new for us to see. Do we like it? Do we love it? Are we sticking to it? Are we not? Is it something new? We'll see. That's something else that we're kind of putting into um our goals. We're big about our goals this year. I mean, we've always been big about it, but I think even more now, just being more intentional about it is something that we're we're making sure that we tackle essentially, and I think the last thing we could go into is the word of the year so we had started doing.
Speaker 1:I don't know where did I get that from somewhere? Did I just say we need to wear that one time? I just said we need a word of the year and I've seen people actually talk about it recently, but we've had the only one I can remember right now is like elevate, but we're like what is going to be our word of the year, the word. I think it sets the tone of the theme of your year, um, and most of the things will fall on under it. So what's our word of the year?
Speaker 2:so how we came to the word of the year was we looked at our goals and then I put into chat gbt, that's it.
Speaker 2:We're trying to find a word of the year that describes our goals and I also put some setbacks. And also you can't just put it in the chat GBT, and say, hey, spit this out for me. So it's going to give you a bunch of words, but we went based off of where we felt we were last year, where we want to be this year, and the word we chose of this year was breakthrough. So we know there's some things we want to do, like Janoka's going to get into her content bag. Like breaking through the ceiling of us doing everything together. We'll still have the podcast, right? I'm going to be doing, probably doing some solo episodes by myself. Janoka might decide to do her episodes by herself. She's on TikTok. If they don't ban it, if you guys watching this, if you still got TikTok, they ain't banning it yet I put up a vlog. So those are just a few of the things. We might also go into some other, like start educating people on social media and content creation and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Don't keep a glass ceiling.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So that's like breaking through where we've been and figuring out what that next step is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's our word of the year, but some of what we've been speaking about we spoke about just changing your setting to do your goal setting, pre-planning for that. Don't just sit down and say, all right, let's do it, because you will be there for hours, trust and will, if you do not have one, setting something up. I think you also spoke about net worth. If that's something that you want to do, you mentioned the app Empower or the website Empower, and that's what you can do. The big-ass calendar we can't really speak on it yet, but we're going to try it. So maybe there'll be episodes specifically on how that went and how it goes, and I think, coming up with a word whatever your word of the year is going to be and put it somewhere and tell people, mention it.
Speaker 1:Oh, also sorry, making sure you review your goals. You put it in place on January or whatever. Make sure you review it frequently so that you're hitting these goals and making sure they're still attainable. You know, if an injury happens and maybe the 20 pounds ain't for me this year, like. So making sure you're updating all of those things. Seeing the needle move is helpful as well. So, yeah, that is, that is our goal setting of 2025.
Speaker 2:So setting the systems that allow you to hit the goal. So a system is a predictable flowing outcome and if something changes in that system, the end result is going to change. A goal is just a cog in that system. So you have a bunch of systems in it, you have a bunch of systems in the uh you're messing me up here, sorry, I said one thing.
Speaker 1:You have a bunch of systems.
Speaker 2:At the end of this system, it creates a goal for you. So if the goal is to get 20 pounds, you have a system where you're doing this, this, this, this and this and the goal is 20 pounds. If something changes in that system, the goal is going to change and that's totally fine. You got to be okay with that. You got to review the systems time and time again throughout the year. Um, so hopefully you guys have an amazing 2025. We are a couple weeks into the year, but we are still here for you guys.
Speaker 1:So oh, we didn't, yeah.
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Speaker 1:Yes, we will See you next week Maybe have a good one.