The Jen Lister Podcast - Sharing my 3 business goals for 2023 & some personal ones too

In this episode I'm unleashing my top three bold goals for 2023. Although it's a daunting task to share in public - here we go! It takes courage but success comes from taking risks. I hope to encourage others to also take that courageous step of writing down their dreams – with no fear!

Believing in the power of goal setting has enabled me to create a life beyond what I ever thought possible. For 10 years, I've committed myself to visualising my dreams and have achieved many successes along this journey—but one significant moment stands out for me personally: at 30, single with no children on the horizon, something miraculous happened after creating a vision board. I was able to manifest my ideal man and we have a beautiful daughter together.

Achieving success relies on setting meaningful goals and having a plan to achieve them. If you're not sure where to start, I'm more than happy to guide the way! Take some time for yourself; think about what's important in your life and business at this moment - if you could fast forward six months from now, what would be three accomplishments that mattered most? Get specific with why these successes are so vital: when we get clear on our motivations behind those ambitions it will all come into focus.

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Transcript

Hello, and welcome to the Jen Lister Podcast. Here I'll be chatting about life, business growth strategies and sharing my personal journeys along the way. And we'll also be interviewing some incredible guests who are experts in their field. See, it's my little black book of business. Hello, and welcome back to the journalist a podcast today is a really exciting episode that I am very passionate about releasing because it's all about goals. And I want to share with you my top three key goals for 2023. And just to be clear on this, this is scary like for me to be sharing this is really quite scary, because it's hard enough writing your goals down as it is, let alone it sharing it with anyone that wants to listen. Interestingly enough, if you're interested in analytics and statistics, my episode called my personal and business reflection on 2022 has been my most listened to episode so far. So clearly, you want to be hearing what's going on in my head in my life. And I thought I would continue that theme I got into goal setting about nearly 10 years ago now I started to understand the power of personal development and personal growth, I came across books that I had never even known existed before, like no one taught me at school, that you could work on yourself and know that you could improve yourself. And now I say that loosely because I want you to know that you are perfect just as you are. And there is no need to constantly strive to be better or improve or change. But the fact is we are always changing, our bodies are made up of cells, our cells in our body are always changing. So ultimately, we are evolving all the time. And goal setting is for some people and some people just don't want to do it or they don't get it or it's just not right for them. And I respect that. So if you're listening, just know that I love goal setting. I've been doing it very committed for the last like five to 10 years or so. And maybe one of the stories that I'm sure I should talk about more and I will talk about more is one of the reasons I do believe in it, which is when I was 30. And single and thought that I would never have a child, I had a vision board that my lovely brother and sister in law bought me it was this beautiful, beautiful framed vision board. And it was big. And I put it up in my spare room when I lived on my own flat. And in the middle of it. I put a picture of a guy that was my dream guy. And I was like, Yep, I want to fall in love. I really want to fall in love. And I don't know if it's going to happen. I was really scared because I was thinking maybe it would never happen. And I would never meet someone I'd never have a child. And I had all sorts of other stuff on that vision board, which I am not joking. So much of it came true. One of the things was about awards that I was going to be winning in the business that I'd set up. And that happened that there was just so much stuff on the vision board, I have to dig it out. And I have to put it on my socials for you to see at some point. But yeah, I met someone, I met someone and I fell in love. And we got married and I had a baby. And that will happen really quickly. And I was really embarrassed because I didn't want people to see my vision board because I was like, No, don't look at it. Don't see it as a man in the middle of it. But actually, there is so much magic in not only writing your goals down but turning your goals into a vision board. And it's something that I do every year, me and my family create our new vision board. And we haven't done it yet this year in 2023. But we will be doing it we've we've booked in to do it on a weekend. And it's going to be really fun because my daughter can hopefully get involved this time. So if you love goals like me, I would urge you to have three key goals for your year, just three like don't go crazy, you don't have to have loads. Today I'm going to be sharing with you my three business goals so you can have goals in other areas of your life. And I would say that's really important as well. Because you've got to think about your health, you've got to think about your wealth, you've got to think about lots of other areas, your relationships and how you're going to help them thrive. And I don't think there's any point in having an amazing business that you love and you're enjoying if you're neglecting other areas of your life. So let me show you my with you my three business goals and we'll see where we go from there. My first goal is around my client work and growing my business I have loved and I love doing my one to one client work. So I want to continue that. And I want to balance it with my strategy Growth Hub, which is my group programme. What I realised is with my group programme, I've got the ability to work with more people and help more people and impact more people. And I've created a really amazing what I think is amazing hybrid programme between one to one coaching and group coaching to help transform people's businesses to help people grow their businesses and focus on that revenue generation but also looking at the strategy the foundations of your business. So the reason that that is a really important goal for me to grow my strategy Growth Hub, I want to have at least Five people that I'm working with on my Growth Hub each time, and I don't know what that number feels like to you. But personally, I need to be able to connect and be close to my clients. So that's where I get a lot of joy. And that's why I love my one to one clients. I love working one to one with clients, because I get to know their businesses so much, and I genuinely care about how they're doing. And I'm their biggest cheerleader. I want to keep that connection. So I want to keep doing my one to one clients. And I want to complement that with my group work. The reason is important to me, because it's so important for you to be clear on what is the point of this goal? Like, let's not just put a goal out there. Let's actually be clear, why is this goal important to you. So it's important to me, because I want to impact and inspire more business owners. It's important to me because I want to leverage my time more. Some of you might know this, but I only work two or three days a week. This week is a massive exception, because I've basically worked every single day. It's a Thursday today, I'm recording this, and I'm working tomorrow as well. And this is completely unheard of. And I don't intend to make a habit of it. But it has been a really fun and busy week, I want to leverage my time more, I want to make sure that I'm impacting more people and I've making the most of my time, and I still get to spend my time with my family, because that's really important to me. So my second goal is around my speaking business. If you hadn't guessed, I love speaking. I set up my podcast because I love speaking. I love connecting with people. I remember when I was young, I spent hours and hours speaking on the phone to my friends, because I just love chatting. So basically, I want to do more and more speaking, and how do I want to do that. So not only do I want to speak myself, I want to help others to speak. And it sounds it sounds strange, because I'm sure you will know how to speak. But get your story out there speak on stages, elevate yourselves. That's what I want to be doing. I don't know exactly how this is going to look in my business. But I'm going to share with you some ideas and some goals that I've got. So the reason I want to speak is because I have had this as a goal, like forever and ever. So I think since I was like in my early 20s, I've always wanted to speak on stages and get my message out there, I just get such a buzz from it. I love it. I love connecting with people, I love feeling the love back from my audience. And I remember I did a talk to a really big group of people like when I was in my late 20s. And it would just felt amazing. And I just want that feeling again and again and again. And I had this realisation like a year or two ago that if I want to be a speaker, that's my decision, I don't need to wait for other people to decide that I'm a speaker or to decide to put me on their stages. I can do this all by myself, which is one of the reasons I set up a podcast. But yeah, in the last year or so to be honest, more than that probably the last four or five years, I have spoke at national conferences, I've spoke at networking events, I have spoke more and more through different forums. And I really, really love it. And I love hearing other people speak like that. For me, there's nothing better than going to an event and seeing someone that inspires you speak onstage and making you inspired. So I want to be around that I want to surround myself by things that I love, and that inspire me and give me energy. And that is one of those things. So I hope you're sold. I hope you understand why I love that as my goal so much. So one of the things I want to bring into my business this year, is I want to do some speaker coaching. So I want to help some people. And I've actually got someone in mind who might be listening. And so I want to mentor some people to help them develop their speaking proposition and help them develop their speaking. And I've done an amazing course with someone called Andy Harrington. So he's got a public speakers University. And I did that quite a long time going out. And I invested quite a lot of money. And that's really helped me learn about speaking and understand more about it. And I continue to now I watch people speak a lot on video, and I do a lot of courses. And I understand a lot about speaking that I want to share with people ultimately. So I also want to create a stage where other people can speak as well, because I think at the end of the day facts tell and stories sell like that's a quote that I've heard before. I can't tell you who said it. But I know that people just love hearing other people's personal stories, personal stories of growth, personal stories of survival, overcoming struggles and difficulties. At the end of the day. There is lots of lots of challenges in life, but you can really turn your challenges into a positive by sharing your story with others being vulnerable isn't something that's easy to do. And if you listen to my episode around my personal and business reflection, you'll know one of the really difficult things that I went through in 2022 and talking about that was really hard. I never knew if I should or I shouldn't but it came out and I left it in at the end of the day. So if you want to check that episode out, you're welcome to but speaking is what I think connects us relationships. I'm obsessed With relationships and connecting with other people through words,
I think is so powerful. So yeah, so my second goal, in my business is about speaking, I want to speak more. I want to grow my podcast, I want to build up my reviews on my podcast. So if anyone's listening, that has listened to multiple podcasts and has enjoyed my podcasts, I would be so grateful for that, I'd love you to send me a message. If you do do one, because I really want to thank you and be really grateful for that. So it's at journalists to coaching on Instagram and LinkedIn. So yes, speaking more and networking events, speaking more on podcast speaking more on stages, if you've been following me recently, you'll know that I did a really awesome workshop in November for Black Friday. And I've literally just come off the back of doing a workshop yesterday with people all around strategy and setting up your business goals in 2023. So I want to be speaking more and more, because I love the connection that I get the feedback that I get, the way that I can help more people in one go. Okay, so that's my second goal. So my third goal in my business, and to be honest, this is the one that scares me the most, which you're probably going to look at and go, doesn't sound that scary. But my third goal is to invest in myself and invest in my training and development. I want to build my skill set, I want to grow my business, I want to grow my confidence, and I want to help my clients even more. So I am looking. And I honestly don't know what this is going to look like. But I'm looking to invest in a course perhaps a master's, perhaps a qualification. I don't know exactly what it's going to look like my quarter one task for this, because if anyone's done, my workshop will know that I always split my year into quarters, my quarter one task list for this is to do research, I have no idea what it's gonna look like. But I need to do some research, I need to figure out what I want to do to invest in myself like what direction I want to go in, what is the extra investment that I want to make in myself going to look like what how I want to help my clients in the future. Ultimately, what I want to be doing so I don't have loads to say on that goal. Because I don't have much meat on the bone at this stage. I need to do some research. But I will endeavour to be keeping people up to date on my journey and my goals. So there you have it, there are my three goals for 2023. In my business, the first one is to grow my business, my one to one clients, and my strategy Growth Hub, which is my group programme, help more people inspire more people and help them to create a business that is profitable, that they love. My second goal is around speaking, speaking more, and helping other people speak elevating other people. And my third goal is around investing in myself investing in my own training and development. I have got so many other goals in my life in terms of personal life. So I'll just share some of them with you. So one of the things I love is being out in nature with my family when I reflected on 2022 Some of my best days were very impromptu days out cycling or going out and just being in nature and going paddleboarding and all things like that. I want to keep it up, because that's something that serves me and just brings me joy in my life. We love a park run, like me and my family on a Saturday morning. We don't do it every week. But generally speaking, we do a park run on a Saturday morning. And I love that so much. I think it is the most amazing community spirit event. And I was getting emotional at the start, which is just ridiculous. But I do for some reason. And I just love it. I love love, love it. And I love doing it with my daughter and having her in the pram and running around pushing her even though it's really bloody hard. So yeah, so these are some of my life mini goals, things that I've already been doing in 2022. But I just want to maintain, I want to keep doing it. Some of the other things that we've got going on in our life is I have today and I'm actually going to share this because it's literally today, today I have become a property investor. So we are building our portfolio of properties so that we can have a passive income ultimately. So yeah, today, I literally just got an email to say that it has completed one of our one of our investment properties is completed and I'm like, oh my goodness, it's really exciting day for me. And hopefully you can hear that in my voice. And that's going to quickly increase because we've got another one going through in the next few weeks. So it's very exciting. I'm so grateful because it just gives us more choices and more freedom in our life. So yeah, I would love to hear your goals. If you are not sure where to start, please drop me a message because I'm more than happy to have a little chat with you. And we can figure out a really mini kind of plan for your goals. I love, love, love hearing people's goals and helping people achieve them as well. So when you do set your own goals, just think about what is it that's important to you in your business and in your life at the moment. If you could fast forward to the end of the year, what would be the three things that you'd want to have achieved and try and start with why are they important to you dig deeper and ask yourself why is this thing really important to me? Because when you've got clear on your why it's important, it will all click into place. Because there's no point in just having a goal for the sake of it. Because it sounds good or because other people are doing it or because you think you should do something. And actually, someone that was on my workshop yesterday said that she'd got this goal for the last four years, and she had not done it. And I felt like that about my podcast, I had thought about launching my podcast for like, a good two or three years, and I hadn't done it. I was so nervous. I had impostor syndrome, I was like, why would anyone want to listen to me, I definitely know that people have downloaded my podcast and are listening. So I can say that that is completely debunked, and not true. But what I would also say is, maybe you weren't ready to launch that podcast two years ago, Gen. Or maybe you weren't ready to launch that thing. Four years ago, whatever it may be. So if you've got a goal, and you don't achieve it, it doesn't matter. Like it really doesn't matter. Like if I don't achieve one of those three goals, or any of those three goals this year, it doesn't really matter. I'm sure no one's really gonna care or going to tell me off or hold me to account like I'm holding myself to account. So it's just me that really needs to own that and needs to move forward with that. And also your goals will change in the year things are going to happen, right? It's January at the moment, things are going to change throughout the year. So don't worry if that goal disappears, or if you need to scribble it out and write a new goal. Or if you don't achieve any of them, it really doesn't matter. So long as you own it, and that you're okay with where you're at. That's the main thing. So there you have it. They are my three goals for 2023 in my business, and a few little personal ones thrown in there as well. I hope you enjoy your goal setting process. I love it. I love it. I love it. And if you ever want to ask me any questions or any tips on goal setting, you know where I am. Have a great day. Thanks, guys. Thank you so much for listening to the Jennie Lister podcast. I truly appreciate every single one of you. If you'd like to leave me a review on your podcast app, I would love that. And if you'd like to follow me on social media, it's @jenlistercoaching on Instagram and LinkedIn