9% of Americans who set New Year's resolutions felt successful in achieving them by the end
of the year 9% and from somebody who has embraced failure over the last couple of years I know that
that statistic is still super low and I think it could be really a lot higher than that New Year's
resolutions typically center around core topics like money Health relationships and whilst a lot
of people laugh at those who set those goals I think it's actually a harmless habit that you can
adopt every single year and embrace to go forward 76% of participants in a Michigan State study
found that when they set and wrote down goals actions and reviewed progress weekly with a friend
was successful in achieving their goals compared to those who didn't do any of that at a 43%
success rate so I want to show you in this video a process for adopting a month week and a tracking
system that is really going to set you instead for making better habits and New Year's resolutions in
the next year I'm also going to show you some ways that you can implement it in tools and other tools
that will be successful in your journey across this next year so welcome if you are new my
name is Franchesco we're going to dig right into this but if you haven't checked out tool finder
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we created to help you find the best tools for the job so go and check that out so the system
I'm going to show you today is called the annual renew and a lot of the systems at the end of the
year are called annual review well this renewal is a focus on the year ahead versus reflecting on the
year that's just been all you need for this is a notetaking application or even pen and paper to be
honest you can use this pretty much with anything you've got and I designed it as a way to just
simply break down a system and start going through it I'm going to show you the really B basic
structures of it so you can just go thrown in the deep end and if you actually wanted the template
for this I'll include in the next newsletter of tool digest linked below so what you can see here
is what we're going to do is actually first split the year up into months now obviously January to
December but one of the things you can do to make this a little bit more organized and structured is
actually keep it really simple j24 f24 M24 if you want to keep it super short titles although you
can have full titles if you want to as well we're going to take this same methodology into weeks as
well the way that I typically think about weeks is by 1 to 52 so the way that the best way to do
this is call them w124 or W1 2024 this is a great way to organize them because you can Google easily
what week it is of the year and really get back to it if you found that you drop out over there
a couple weeks which I'll explain later so this is going to be really important the month's area is
going to be more holistic the week area is going to help us plan more on the ground and help us
Journal as well across the year here we have some of the layout already structured for us you've got
weeks and months over here and now it's important to set your overarching goals now obviously one
of the things that many people will go to do is set 2024 goals of course we all want to set New
Year's resolutions but there's actually a book called 12we year that helped me rethink whether
that's something something too aggressive to do the reason being is because a lot of the time uh
we going to look very different by the end of the year and sometimes that's a great thing so setting
maybe thre month goals might be a better approach to it hence the title of the book 12 week year
and I think sometimes that can help you to review and improve your goals and really churn them out
better so if you're looking at this you can set 2024 goals that are going to overarch all of these
but I'd recommend setting thre month ones so when you look at your goals one of the biggest tips
and recommendations is to be very smart with them breaking them down into four to three to four key
areas can be really effective a little tip whilst I was at University I actually found that breaking
my time down into personal social professional and academic helped me to break down the core aspects
of my life and maybe you can do the same with personal health career and maybe something more
specific we want these goals to be smart Target based so we want them to have a metric in it and
we want them to have a relative time date so if you are focusing towards 3 months then look to set
a date at the end of the 3 months that you're setting okay so now we've got our overarching
goals what we can do is go into the months of the year and break down those goals based
on what month it is now if you're doing the three Monon process you're only going to be able to get
to March which is absolutely perfect because then you can go into a a big review stage in March to
set your next 3 months of goals but this system really does help you to set overarching monthly
goals and breaking down monthly goals is important because you get much more tangible that feed into
the weekly goals that you set so let's go back to the month view um obviously the week view is
a great way to plan those micro goals and micro targets across a week priorities that you're
going to be focusing in on we'll come back to that in a moment but for January for March um
for all of the months of the year what I'd like to do is actually break it down into wins losses and
lessons these are three areas I think are actually really beneficial to keep track of and can come in
helpful with the annual review later in the year wins is essentially just an area to keep track
of things that you've succeeded on even small goals small wins that you can write down losses
are things that you didn't do so well and lessons are the lessons you learned from either the win or
the losses as you go across a year so some good examples could be anything from personal life to
your little one achieving something in school all the way to um you achieving a bench press success
or something like that health related you get the idea keep them simple bullet pointed successes
and losses and write out your lessons just small amount of lessons each time and this reflection
will help you month on month to improve that and it allows you time at the end of the month
to keep this updated although I typically actually recommend you keeping the wins losses and lessons
updated in real time to keep you refreshed and updated so now we've got a grasp on our monthly
uh overview what we're going to use a week area for is really to set priorities reflect them as
monthly goals because we want to see what they move how we move the needle towards the month
goals and we also want to use this as a journal area so feel free to just bullet point things
across a week uh lessons that you've learned or maybe small things that you can transfer across
or things that you want to do better on so zooming out this is a system that I think is going to be
really really helpful it's called the annual renew and I think it's actually going to be
really really beneficial for you to consistently zoom out consistently track and track actions as
well thinking about that three-prong process to the success of those students that were doing that
study it found that doing and focusing on goals actions and weekly progress is a great progressing
forward now looking at apps that you can use to help do this notion is a typically a good one
but you can use any notetaking application but if you're looking for something super specific
there are actually apps like time stripe which are designed to set goals and align them in the future
there's actually sort of a structure to this and allows you to plan much further in advance they're
another the sponsor of this video but it's just something to note because this applic ation is
probably the most specific personal goal planner that I found but you can replicate this with any
to do the step that you do find and system that you want to implement with so let's look at some
of the key takeaways reflecting on your month breaking down your goals that have set either
three months or yearly into those months will help you to advance and they're crucial to improve how
you progress over the year the week view is a great way to constantly extract wins losses and
lessons as you go across your month zooming out and appreciating things will help you to achieve
an annual review that is a lot better at the end of the year so folks I really hoped you enjoyed
my system and of course um you can find it if you want the template that I've created here you can
sign up to Tool digest which will be linked below and I'll uh send it in the next newsl release
but it's been a pleasure helping you to set your news resolutions and if you're interested you can
subscribe to keep productive and check out tool finder if you're in the hunt for any productivity
tools happy New Year everyone and I hope that you achieve all of your goals this year see you
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