- Good morning, good life friends.
The temps are still hot, the ACs are still kicking on
and the leaves are not yet turning
and yet your summer is coming to a close.
Ay, you better be careful with that.
I'm not done with my book yet.
I'm sure it's a page turner, but just remember
it's about time to turn the page to September.
So when it comes to making plans
what makes September so special?
Oh, where to begin, first, now that everyone is well rested
from summer break, the back to school vibes are kicking in
for everyone and it's the best time of year to reset
and charge toward important goals, especially
because it's the lead up to the final quarter of the year.
What you do from this point forward will show how
your year shaped up and now that everyone's feeling good
from their various forms of summer lovin'
people are so much more agreeable and responsive.
It's a great time to get things done.
So let's make September your best month of the year.
I have a list of things to prioritize this month
so that you'll not only have the most productive September
but a fabulous one as well.
Family first, spending time with friends
and family is top quadrant stuff.
Just because summer fun is ending
doesn't mean this does too.
Let's make this your top calendar blocking priority.
It's really important to me that I don't let my friends
and family feel taken for granted.
It's easy to let looming tasks keep you
from staying in touch.
So what I like to do to start a month off
is just make a list of people that I have not talked
to in a while that I need to check in with.
My friend Sarah and I are really good
at voice messaging with each other.
It keeps us feeling really close when we don't
see each other very often
but what I would like to do is make sure
that we get on a video call this month.
And so I'm gonna make a point to schedule that with her.
I also need to touch base with my sister
another crazy busy entrepreneur
and I have to check in with Sam.
She's another new mom back in Ohio, friend of mine
and her anniversary is coming up
so I wanna see how she's doing.
Just having this list so that when you have a moment
and you know you're just sitting there
and there's an opportunity to either send a text
or just like drop somebody a calendar invite
I always find those to be the most fun.
Like, ooh, a calendar invite
from a friend or a family member.
It's like, "This must be important".
It just makes it feel
like you're taking it so much more seriously.
Another thing I like to do is just put things
on the calendar that I already know are going to happen
but just make me a bit more intentional
about how I'm gonna show up that day.
So for instance, Sundays are for family dinner
so we always go to my husband's mom's house to eat.
And so I just like to have that there to remember
that that is the focus of the day.
I publish videos every Sunday
but that really is the focus of the day
after that because it's time to spend with family.
So if I can think
of something nice to do that day, something nice to bring
it's more likely to happen if I've got it there.
And on Saturdays I really just like to put a place holder
especially in the mornings 'cause I wanna make sure
that we get back for nap time.
I'm just gonna put family activity here.
And then when it comes time
and I'm doing a weekly review of what's going on
and I see that we family activity is still empty
I might start looking at what the date is
and maybe Google events around me
or try to come up with ideas that can happen on that day
maybe places we've been meaning to go to
that we could potentially have that as a plan.
It seems redundant, but even
if you know something always happens
or you know you need to plan
for something on a consistent basis
it is good to put that intention in writing in front of you.
So you're more likely to fill that box
and mark it as complete, time with friends and family isn't
about checking a box, but when you are taking initiative
you can actually enjoy that time so much more.
The 50% milestone, review your annual list of goals
you're currently 66% of the way through the year
but because we usually start things
off slow and go faster toward the end
look for the projects that are at least 50% complete.
Maybe some of your annual goals
aren't going to make the cut
and we need to get them out of sight and
out of mind so that the ones that have the most promise
get across the finish line
decide which goals are going to be important
to your vision and are at least 50% complete
so that they become your biggest mission ahead.
To help you with this
I highly recommend that you check out one
of my recent videos on creating a massive action plan.
It's called How to Stay Focused and Get Things Done.
This'll help a ton with making sure you narrow
down to the most important goals and help you figure out
what needs to happen to help you get there.
Okay, so a few of these are doing pretty well
but I wanna make sure
that the most important get across the finish line.
So based on what I'm seeing here
I'm gonna go back to September
and I'm just gonna go straight to my monthly goals.
One that is absolutely more
than 50% complete is weekly videos on YouTube.
I wanna make sure that that continues to stay
on the up and up, subscribe so that that stays the case.
And so that's definitely gonna go
in my monthly focus and probably my monthly focus
for every month through the end of the year.
I'm also almost done maxing out my Roth
so get that across the finish line for sure.
Only a couple months left to do that.
And one more that I have been loving one spiritual
book per month.
This has been giving me new life
so I will not be dropping the ball on that.
So those are going to be the big ones.
It's not
that the other annual goals were not important to me, but
at a moment like this where you really have to focus
on what are you going to be making sure
that you set aside time for through the rest
of the year to fill your cup and reach your goals.
These are gonna be the big ones for me.
This one requires so much creative
and career space for me, it's gonna consume a lot.
This is a byproduct of great work
and this is what makes me really, really happy.
The stuff in the relationships has been going pretty good
and as long as I outline the time like I did
in family first, it should stay that way.
And my health mindset and legacy are also in a good place
I think as a byproduct of these as well.
So focus on the most important.
Don't tell yourself a different story.
Just because you have 50 million fields to fill in
does not mean that you need to fill them in.
Focus on what is most important
and get it done through the end of the year.
Morning mastery.
Block time every morning
for your mastery time.
This is your time to focus
on the most important work toward your biggest annual goals.
When you knock out your most important work first
you move it forward much faster
and can handle the curve balls the rest of the day.
You'll also be much more present for your friends
and family when you've outlined the time for this as well.
So if you've never heard me talk about mastery before
it's one of the three morning moments that I love to go
on about because I wrote a book about it.
"Good Morning, Good Life."
Check it out if you've missed it.
But movement, mindfulness
and mastery are the three things that I believe.
If you do something
in each of these categories every morning
you'll be starting the day on your terms, mastery.
People get a little tripped up
by this about what it actually means.
Your mastery moment is that time where you've decided
that your priorities
the things that you're most excited about
the projects that make you want to keep doing things
on your terms, in your way, your creative space
your big plans for your life, whatever it is
it's usually really big and really daunting
but also gets you excited at the possibility.
If you could just eat the frog in the morning
if you've not heard that phrase before
just take a big bite outta something kind of hard
to start the day.
It's much more likely to go your way that, A,
your plans come to fruition, your big project
your exciting thing become real in your life
but also it makes you feel better throughout the rest
of the day that the curve balls are gonna come
people are gonna come knocking on your door.
There's going to be a disaster at some point
and you're going to have to figure it out
but at least you made time
in the morning to do the most important thing.
So there's a spot in the planner where
you can brainstorm what are different things I can consider
for movement and mindfulness and mastery.
And I do recommend that you brainstorm this
but it shouldn't have that many things in it.
There should be very specific tasks that help you
inch it forward, or maybe it's the same task.
So for instance, if you're gonna write a book
then writing every morning would be in that mastery block.
And then when you're planning each day
you know you have that mastery block
of time that you need to fill
and that it is for a specific period of time.
For me, it is
from nine to 10:00 AM.
This will always be my mastery block.
It is when everyone has left
and I have had my time to sit down and focus
and during that mastery block I'm going to write.
I'm usually writing a YouTube video idea.
Maybe you're writing your book, maybe you have
something completely different for your mastery moment.
And so if you do the same thing
you can just literally copy it
across the board and you know what you need to
be doing every day of that time.
But if it's different, then you can just go in
and make adjustments where necessary.
Starting the day on your terms means working
on something that matters to you.
Holiday customs checklist.
If you're not ready
for the most wonderful time of the year yet, no worries.
Instead of giving yourself a list of things to do
take this time to create your holiday customs checklist.
This is a list of things you usually do during the holidays.
Now it's not a list of things to do yet
but it does make you feel more like you've got
your life together when you see this plan ready to go
when you're ready to pick it up and run with it.
No, we're not ready to hit the December button, but yes
we are going to make sure we get ahead on this stuff.
So let's just make the list of things that we usually think
about around that time of year.
One thing that's top of mind, the holiday family card
and I'm very glad I'm writing this down
because now when I think about reverse engineering it
we're gonna have to schedule photography to happen
in the next couple of months
if we're gonna get these printed on time.
So that is something that's gonna pop up
on the list sooner than later.
Of course, we gotta shop for gifts at some point.
Let's pick out the tree.
I've gotta take my wreaths out.
Oh, and I want new wrapping paper,
some nice stuff this year.
Now it's just a list of things that I could be
thinking about, but not quite yet.
But maybe there's a step that we can take right now
to make sure we stay ahead, schedule the photographer.
So now I'm actually gonna go back to this month
and because it's a great time to get things done
especially with rested and responsive people
we're gonna put this as a monthly goal,
schedule holiday photo shoot.
Let's just make sure that gets done this month.
So it's on the books.
Another thing that you might wanna do here is
start making your list of people that you typically
buy gifts for so that you have that in front of you.
Anytime you see something
you should be snagging it so you don't fall behind and
find you're buying things for people at the last minute.
Nobody wants the last minute junk at Target, okay?
So make your list of friends, family members
the most important people that you like to gift for.
I think it's really important to not put everybody
under the sun on this list
but everyone's family size is different.
And just have it in the back
of your mind that you're now looking
for the perfect gifts for people to find their way to you.
Reflection habit.
The reason we drive ourselves crazy is
that we keep too much in our minds.
Schedule a weekly reflection habit.
This is when you'll go over those things
stuff that you achieved in the last week
what you need to make time for the following week
and an overall review
of outstanding items to make sure they're all still relevant
and worth your organizational space.
I have a great video you can reference
on this called My Weekly Reflection Habit.
It's been serving me for years
and I think you'll find it really helpful as well
to give you ideas on what to do during your reflection time.
It's actually amazing how much we try to keep
in our minds all the time and every time you decide to
make a conscious decision to leave something in here
whether it's something that you just thought
of a task or even a new idea, like, "Oh, that's really good"
and you leave the responsibility
on your brain to manage that information
you're putting undue expectations on yourself.
You are not meant to manage all kinds
of information in your brain.
You are just meant to use it.
To get creative and find possibilities,
so that is why in this planner,
I have so many spaces for you to reflect.
It just looks like empty space, but there's so much here.
There's never enough room because
of how much you have going on here.
The opportunity to try to make sense of it
and at least just dump it out is so big
for making you feel a little bit better in your life.
The anxiety, the sadness, the depression, it all comes
from getting it all figured out in your brain.
When you just try to activate in a way that is productive
for what makes you feel good, like getting your ideas
on paper or on screen, you're gonna be so much better off.
So let loose in this weekly reflection section
and then do it again in the next week
in the next week, the week after that.
And of course, at the end of the month
use this space however you see fit.
Maybe you're adding things here
throughout a month every day that just help you feel
like you have a place to put the things that you
know are weighing heavy on you, the current realities.
Give them an outlet, write them down
and at least let your mind think
that that task is complete because you gave it an outlet.
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as they finish out their year.
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