{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Planning For The New Year BEFORE The New Year: Quick but Effective Hacks & Brilliant\/Actionable Strategies For Having Your Best Year Ever","description":"So this week we\u2019re going to review some simple but highly effective little hacks as well as some really well thought out and proven higher level strategies and tactics for getting the very most out of a new year.  This will be jam packed because it\u2019s a quick review of many past shows on how to achieve more and to be more.   So be sure to listen to the podcast for our shows on OODA Loop, Setting Better Goals, and Goals vs. Systems for more in depth discussions of each. And we\u2019re doing this four weeks ahead for a reason. No matter what you\u2019re doing, it pays to plan ahead but with deadlines.  So that the time doesn\u2019t expand to fill the entire period. STRATEGY:  Block Time To Do This And Other Things That Matter While Avoiding Time Creep TACTIC: So we\u2019re going to start by getting you to get out your calendar right now\u2026or make a note so that as soon as the show is over you\u2019ll block the time to do three things BEFORE the end of the year and for a few after the start.   https:\/\/www.successtechnologies.com\/2014\/08\/success-through-respect-for-time-the-magic-of-triggering-the-valuable-time-meta-program\/ BEFORE year end\u2026block time to do some high level thinking and a few exercises we\u2019re going to give you. You\u2019ll need at least an hour for the first.  A half an hour for the second, and a half an hour for the third. Does that feel like too much time?   Well, if you can\u2019t invest two hour this month in getting the very most out of next year in your business and in your life than you\u2019re probably going to have real problems. You have to make higher level thinking a priority and you have to diary and block time and then defends it. So commit right now to that.  It will make an amazing difference. Now for after the new year\u2026 Block at least two hours each week to do something that you want to do.  Block it now.  You\u2019re going to need to defend it\u2026  Why? Now and in the next three sessions on your own: What do I really want? Business and Life Who would I need to be to have that? Business\/Life What resources do I need to make it inevitable that I\u2019d have that or more by the date selected or sooner? Business\/Life STRATEGY:  Know who your best clients really are, what they fear and value.  How they communicate, the language that they use and where they go for trusted information Tactics:  Ask them more and more often.  Make them more offers that match and are in alignment. STRATEGY:  Being Open To Being Wrong Or To Something Better: What evidence would I need to see, hear or feel in order to know that I might be wrong? Start with the end in mind\u2026recipe for success or dismal failure Tactic:  X or better by Y or sooner STRATEGY: Alignment with Vision, Values (permanent or largely unchanging)and Mission (will change through time as you summit the peak and look to the next level)   Tactics:  Measurement and OODA Loop Decide on mission metrics and have a to do and a not to do list with KPIs and regular monitoring. Tactics:  Define them in time blocks provided and then refine them Tactics:  Binary decision making, rating and removing the number 7 on a scale of one to ten. Strategy:  Systems vs. Goals Strategy:  Upsells increase margins AND satisfaction\/experience Tactics:  More and in more ways Strategy:  Referrals of more and better Develop Trust, eliminate risk, and create self improving systems https:\/\/www.successtechnologies.com\/2017\/03\/why-trust-is-essential-part-4-of-4-building-trust-bonus-materials\/ Strategy:  Reactivation and Retention Strategy:  Market to your team and up your game with recruiting, hiring and on boarding\/training Tactics Strategy:  Do more speaking and writing with less anxiety Hack:  Use and minimize anxiety   The Anxiety Performance Enhancer Hack Have you ever felt extremely anxious before speaking, taking a test, and or engaging an important activity? Many people do even when they are experienced and professional.  What\u2019s more, many of us feel that it interferes with our very best performance. I\u2019m an experienced meditator, and use deep breathing to relax and to get past the anxiety.  But then I often have to ramp my enthusiasm back up. So what if I could show you a quick but proven\/effective hack that works for me and has some great science behind it?  Will you use it?  See and experience it for yourself? It\u2019s called the \u201cI feel excited\u201d hack.  And it uses the fact that anxiety and excitement are biochemically very much the same thing viewed through two different mental filters. So watch this quick video and enjoy getting past anxiety and actually making ti work for you.       https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rRgElTeIqE   ","author_name":"In Top Form Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.intopform.tv","html":"