GOAL SETTING SIMPLIFIED! Have you made a list of your big and small personal and professional WINS in 2023? Then plan for your WINS for 2024 with an ACTION PLAN to GET IT DONE! In Episode 57 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show titled, ARE YOU A GOAL GETTER? Please meet the amazing Debra Eckerling founder of the D*E*B METHOD® and award-winning author of Your Goal

Guide. We talk about goal setting, achievement, success with real corporate training tools and tips. Determine your vision, Explore your Options and Set yourself up for your success! Deb says, “As you close out 2023 for the holidays and prepare to welcome in the new year in 2024 – set an appointment with yourself and plan to set and make your goals. Come listen, download, share and review this episode to help lift you up into the new year.

Mentioned Resources

Website: https://thedebmethod.com   

Email: info@thedebmethod.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Goal-Guide-Planning-Achieving/dp/1642501506  

Social links: 

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDEBMethod

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Podcasts

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Taste Buds with Deb: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taste-buds-with-deb/id1683615807

About the guest Goal strategist - Debra Eckerling is on a mission to change goal culture in and out of the workplace. She is the award-winning author of Your GoalGuide and founder of the D*E*B METHOD® system of goal-setting simplified. A speaker, consultant, and workshop leader, Debra offers personal and professional planning, content development, event strategy, and team building for executives, entrepreneurs, consultants, and companies. Debra has spoken on stages for TEDx, Innovation Women, SCORE LA, and more, and is the host of #GoalChatLive aka The DEB Show and the Taste Buds with Deb podcast. Connect with Deb on LinkedIn or learn more about her at TheDEBMethod.com.

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

Show. Oh my god, we're coming up to year and I have a really

important show. And amazing friend and guest, Deb Eckerling

Welcome. How are you?

Oh, well, I get to hang out with you. And I get

to talk about goals. So I mean, really? How can I not be awesome

today? Thank you so much for having me on.

I'm so glad. We've been trying to get schedules to

work. And now we're doing it. So let me tell people about you a

little bit. And then I got a little a little question for you

after this. So gold strategist Deb Eckerling is on a mission to

change gold culture, in and out of the workplace. She is an

award winning author of your gold guide, and founder of the

DEB method, DEB method, trademark system of goal setting

simplified. You're a speaker, consultant, a workshop leader,

you offer personal and professional planning for

content development and event strategy and team building for

executives, entrepreneurs, consultants and companies. Deb

has spoken on stages for TEDx, innovation, women, score LA and

so many more, you are the host of gold chat live, I've been on

a bunch of times, the Deb Show, and you now actually have the

taste buds with Deb podcast, and can connect with you at on

LinkedIn and learn more at the Dev method.com. So you are a

amazing friend and woman and you are actually helping

corporations. You know, and people move forward because goal

setting is the starting point in the foundation. So we're going

to talk a lot about this. So first, the the question is, is

that something new going on or something that we may not know

about you? Sure?

Well you kind of teased it with my taste buds

with them podcast, but the thing not a lot of people know is that

I am a reformed non cook. Oh, I used to think cooking was too

time consuming. It was so much easier to go out for dinner. And

then once I got an instant pot, this was 2017 I realised that

you could put in ingredients, and then go do things and then

you're rewarded with a yummy meal. So somehow, over the last

six and a half years, I've gone from a non cook to a food

writer, and food podcast are and I have to tell you I am I'm

having so much fun because first of all food. But second of all,

there's so many more benefits to cooking than I ever thought

imaginable. It's great for creativity, meditation, and it

goes so hand in hand with goal setting and goal getting so I'm

I'm I invite anyone everyone if you love, it's all about their

bite size conversations about food, cooking, and community.

That's my tag for tastebuds with Deb what you can subscribe on

iTunes or your favourite podcast platform. Or you can even watch

the apps on my social including my LinkedIn which is at the debt

method. Oh, I'm sorry, including my YouTube app, the debt method.

That's incredible. Oh my god. So you got it. That's

great. So that foodie, I am like to cook barbecue, but I love to

eat so. Oh, that's cool. So and there's so many angles to it.

It's really cool.

Well, did you ever notice that you could have

a conversation about food and or cooking with just about anyone,

even if they don't like to cook? It's another conversation. I was

talking to someone last week just like oh, my husband's the

cook. I don't cook. And she went into the reasons why cuz she had

a y from her childhood. She never wanted to cook. I mean,

it's it's it's so intriguing. But the other thing that I love

about my show is it is a mixture of some our cookbook authors,

some are chefs. Some have just written things to do with food.

I have Mitch album on because he's got to food philanthropies

I know you're another Michigan guy. So it everybody has a

connection to food in some way shape or form. And I just love

that exploration. And then I get to learn all these fun tips. The

other thing is to growing up, I was always in charge of like the

platters the plating would have company so it was the veggie

trays or the crackers or the whatever I like I'm not

artistic, but I'm great at designing platters. And then as

an adult, I'm like, you know, it'd be fun to plate food. But

now I have to cook it too. Okay, so you know, all these elements

kind of come together. But the thing that I love the most about

the cooking process is you can't be on your computer. You can't

be going through emails or just obsessively watching the news.

When you're cooking. You're in that moment and that is the

perfect downtime that you can Use for figuring things out or

just meditating or, and I love it. So sometimes if I'm writing

an article and I'm like, Oh, I'm stuck, okay, I'm gonna go cook

something. And then by the time I'm back at my computer, I'm

figuring it out, and I'm ready to go. So

I love it. Because I talked about it a little bit

different terms, I see find your happy place, like I find the

basketball court, you found cooking, find art, find

meditation, find hiking, find music, but you found your happy

place. And I can tell because you're lighting up all about it.

Food does make the world go round. So it's incredible. So

let's, let's talk about something that I will tell you

that many people struggle with. I know that people say I want to

get in shape, I want to lose weight into the new year that's

coming up. And they sign up for a gym membership, and you sign

up for a trainer. And like a month later, you're not doing

it. That's a goal gone back Girl Gone Bad. And so tell me just

give me a little history. How did you get into, you know why

goal setting became such a pursuit and such an expertise

for you?

Well in so I've lived in LA, it's going on 26

years. It's I moved here, the end of 19th thing is seven. Oh

my goodness feels like such a million years ago. So back when

I lived in Chicago, one of my first jobs out of college was

doing events for Barnes and Noble. And I would always hang

out in the cafe because it was a community bookstore. So I wanted

events for the community. In one day, one of my regulars came in

and he said W start a writer support group. And I said if you

think people will show up, let's give it a try. And not only was

it a hit, but I saw the power of goal setting firsthand because I

would never ask anybody to do anything I wasn't prepared to do

myself. So it was okay. What did you accomplish? What are you

working on? What resources do you need? What are your goals

for next time. And I would set and achieve my goals. And we it

was such a wonderful community effort. It was great. So fast

forward, moved to LA I always talked about this wonderful

group restarted here. And over the years it evolved. So

originally it was writer support group. Now it's for writers,

creatives, and entrepreneurs, because if you're one, you're

you're really all three because we've got to have that

creativity that writing that entrepreneurial spirit, it all

kind of goes hand in hand. And so it was a live group that it

was a hybrid, online, only a hybrid again, and now obviously

it is a very active Facebook group. So every day it's a

different post about Monday is what are your networking goals

for the week? Tuesdays? What are your goals for the week,

Wednesday, blog share day, Thursdays, toot your horn, and

then Friday is photo Friday, and then we can plan. So in this

virtual land I've taken I think I've gone in a couple of

different circles. But that's okay, I know you can follow me.

But it's just a way for people to connect with one another

share their wins and get encouraged along. So let me back

up because I realised I skipped a very important part. So I

started this group in LA. And people would come up to me

You're good at this. I've been trying to write my book for

years, can I hire you? We got it done in three months, or you're

good at this, we you speak at my event. So that's where it came

in. My professional background is project management and

communication. So all those little things come together as

well. And then in 2018, my main communications client was going

away. And I took that as an opportunity to really fully step

into what I believe I was meant to do, which is help people

figure out what they want and how to get it. And my name

worked with the system that I had been teaching for years. So

that's a How did that method came about? Um, I that's a

really long answer. But that's okay. Not everything

you did you read but now you left us and teased

us because people want to what is the Deb Deb method? Hey, take

us to the next step. What is the Okay, so

I believe and I said this before to get what you

want, you need to know what that is. So Deb is all about setting

the foundation for your goals. So D is determine your mission

to get what you want. You need to know what that is, is explore

your options. Okay, you've got this vision for what you want

your life to be. It's the research phase so you can

explore different avenues and see how you want to make that

mission into your reality. And then brainstorm your path is

divide and conquer you know, what are all the things that you

need to do to get to your happy place. So determine explore our

brain Storm. And when you set the foundation for your goals,

you set yourself up for success.

Love it, I love it. It's really funny that

because I have your book, and I've known you for a while, and

I'm going through it, it's not difficult, but it's definitely

intentional. And we were talking in the green room before coming

on that I wrote, you go, did you write your, your your wins down,

and I did. And I've accomplished a lot. And you're like, Well,

next, right. Next, you got to put your wins planning for 24.

So that's my next step. So I love the way that it just takes

you through. And it holds you accountable. And that's really

important. I think that the biggest thing with making goals

is being held accountable to make your goals. And so people

slip all the time. Well, they

slip all the time. But the other thing is,

they're not gifting themselves, the time and the energy to

figure out, you know, a year from now, what do you want to be

celebrating? Great. Now, what do you need to do to get there? And

it really is. So my motto is goal setting, simplify because

it is challenging to change your life. So I just made the

instructions really, really easy. So in the wind factor,

it's huge, because goals take a long time. But if you're

counting your wins, either daily or weekly or monthly, then at

the end of the year, you're like, Okay, these are my top 10

things that I did. Great. It's all in service of that mission.

You know, the motto? I mean, you're shining brightly, I mean,

it's all over the place for you, right? So whatever it is that

you're all about, use that as your your compass, and then find

different ways to get that out into the world.

I agree. But let's let's even break it down

further. Okay, let's go. First step, what do they need to do?

You know, just just to get started, because most of the

time getting started is where it is like you with cooking,

getting started. And then it started to the wheels are moving

now on you. But so so what's the first step that someone should

take? Well

determine your mission. If you do if you do

nothing else, but do everything else. But really, that is the

key. Because again, to get what you want, you need to know what

it is I know I repeat myself, but it's so important. But the

first phase and determine your mission is visualisation. When

you think about the life you want, what does that look like?

Are you a best selling author? Are you speaking to millions of

people on the TED stage or TEDx stage? Is your product in this

big store? Are you listed in the 40s? The Forbes 50, under 50, or

50, over 50? What is going to be that pinnacle for you? What are

you working towards. And once you have it, maybe it's a well

balanced life, it's you on vacation with your family,

whatever it is that you want to create, either personally or

professionally, think about it, and then create some sort of

visual representation. So if the goal is to be a best selling

author, you take a copy of The New York Times bestseller list,

scratch out number one and put your name and your book title.

I've got my version of that on my board next to me. If it's to

be on one of those to hop lists in your field, get the current

list and then put your picture in your bio over it and then

print it out or put it as your screensaver, whatever it is that

you want to create, create like something to keep your eye on

the prize that you can look at that will keep you motivated and

moving forward.

I think it's really important. What do you

think some of the reasons are that stop people from, you know,

achieving their goals.

No time, no energy, not gifting themselves,

that and that's a big thing that people get. They go to school

for one thing. They think this is what their life is going to

be and then they're miserable. And they're like, Well, I put in

all the time and energy, or they've been working at a

company for years and years. And it's not what it once was. But

they've done their time, then, you know, they're just like

biding time. I'm not that and that's a big reason why I do

what I do is I believe everybody deserves to feel happy, feel

fulfilled in some, if not all of their life. So let's say you

can't leave the job. What's something you can do on the

side? That's going to bring you joy? What's a good side hustle

or passion project? Whether or not is even for money? Maybe you

always wanted to write a book. But what is that one thing that

you could dedicate a little bit of time each day or each week,

to build to create something that's going to bring more joy

and fulfilment into your Life.

Yeah, I would say that also accountability, self

accountability or team accountability. So when you go

into a corporation, you know, you're talking to individual

performers as well as they're part of teams. So I do think

that there and I'd love your opinion on this individual goals

versus the team goals. They can be overlapping, but they can

also be different, correct. They

can in one of my fit, and this is what I

generally do for companies is I go, and I do my goal setting

simplified workshop, for if it's a small company, the company, or

if it's a team, if it's a larger company, the team, and we go

through depth. And it's, we talk about the personal as well as

the professional goals. In this was a big thing. During the

pandemic, a lot of people learn new skills. So maybe their job

is doing one thing, but they learned social media, and they

really would be better served in the marketing department. But

they're not going to the boss isn't going to know that because

it's something that they're doing on the site. So by

bringing people together in this workshop environment, it and

I've done it with a boss, and also without the boss, and you

know, really depends on the company culture. But what I'm

doing is I'm asking the questions that people don't

normally ask, you know, what, what is your goal, what is your

mission in life, as it relates to work, but also as it relates

to who you are, I mean, your goals may change, but who you

aren't in your intention, that's not going to change, you know,

shining brightly. In yours, you are a really good example. It

can apply to anything and everything that you're doing.

And that really is your motto, in so I said before, the first

step is visualisation. And then you do the current bio future

bio, mission and motto. So that's what makes up determining

your mission. When you look at everything that you're doing

through that lens, of your mission, and motto, it makes it

really easy to stay on track. So if we're doing this workshop, or

when we're doing this workshop, saying, Okay, what is your goal

in the company, maybe somebody wants management opportunities,

but was never seen as a leader before, it's an opportunity for

people to get in touch with who they are, what their best skills

are, and how they can benefit the company, but also benefit

themselves for a richer, more fulfilled life.

Yeah, absolutely. And I actually think that, you

know, because I'm tracking you that you going in and talking to

corporations at the annual review process, because you're

really taking stock of what you've accomplished and what

you're going to accomplish moving forward. I think that's a

really cool timing that you they bring you in before the review

process. I think that's the timing of that is stunning,

because it's really that. And again, we take stock of

ourselves, but year end and into the New Years, when everyone's

trying to take stock, right? Everything can be fresh.

Hopefully you have a you know, a nice vision board for what's

going on there. And so what how are people going to set

themselves up for success? We're living in a really complex

world, there's lots of politics and and wars and some a lot of

negativity going on. AI has changed a lot. I mean, it's,

it's, it's screen time is up. But I will tell you, coming out

of the pandemic, most people were lonely and depressed. And

so what, how are we going to set people up for success moving

forward?

Okay, well, the first thing I want anybody who

is listening or watching to do is to go into your calendar and

set an appointment for yourself, it can be a half an hour can be

an hour, the rule is you can move the appointment, but you

can't delete it. So look at some time in the coming week. And I

want to do what what you and I discussed before, start by

writing out 10 wins from this year. And then decide what 10

wins you want to be touting at the end of 2024. I like to start

the new year in depth December, because it's and you can start

it's great. You got like this overlap month where you can

celebrate the end of December, the wins for the year but you're

also get a running start into the new year. And think about

what do you want to be saying about yourself this time next

year? What things do you need to put in place? And if you don't

know your mission, you don't know your motto. Give yourself

the time to figure out what's going to drive you to where you

want to go and let's say If you don't love your job, you don't

know if changing your job as an option. But think about maybe

there are other opportunities at the company where your skills

can be better utilised, or what kind of side hustle, can you

start, whether it's for profit or not, it's going to bring you

joy. But really, like I said, gift yourself this half hour

this hour, where you're going to take stock of your wins and plan

a wins for the next year. That is the first step.

I love it. So self appointment 10 wins and where

you're going to be next year, easy, you should be able to do

that. And it is Deb December, and now we know what it means.

Any last, you know, favourite goal setting tunes or tips and

maybe another one you want to share? Well,

the other it's just like you set that

appointment for you know, taking stock of where you are now and

where you want to go. Give yourself an ongoing appointment,

whether it's once a week or twice a week. And let that be

your time. Your goal time, where maybe it's um, you want I always

have a tonne of examples. And now I'm like, they're all in my

head at once. Let's say you want to live a healthier lifestyle.

One of those appointments, you're going to brainstorm out,

okay, what are all the different things that you need to do? I

need to exercise more, I need to cook more, eat out less plan my

meals, plan my exercise, find an exercise I enjoy. You make that

big list, and then you schedule the time in your calendar to do

the things on that list. Yeah,

I think so I would say add maybe a accountability

buddy, that walking buddy, that workout buddy. Sometimes when

you you can't let that other person down, you got to show up.

So I think that's important if someone else potentially can go

with you as well. So I think that's amazing. All right. So

this is the part of the show that my favourite part is that

we're gonna shine brightly on you. So the sun is shining on

you in LA, and you're gonna tell us the best ways to get in touch

with you. You've got lots of goodies. But what do you want to

share with us today? And then just take us to some inspiration

and then kick the show back to me to close out.

Okay, well, I first of all, thank you so much

this then a lot of fun time goes so quickly when we're hanging

out. It doesn't it does, I would say I am at the dev method

everywhere on social media, you can find you can learn more

about me at the debt method.com. And you can email me info at

that method.com If you're on LinkedIn, and if you're not,

that should be another goal. Please find me connect with me

and say that this is where we met. And if you want to be part

of I've got two communities on Facebook, I've got right on

online, which is for goal setting productivity and

community. So it's facebook.com/group/write on

online, or, and or if you're a foodie like me, please join at

his buds with Deb on Facebook. So facebook.com/group/his

friends with Deb, and you can subscribe to both the Dev Show

and he spots, WhatsApp wherever you get your podcasts.

Yeah, I'll include them all in the notes and on the

social media links in the comments and all that as well.

So bring us some inspiration.

i It's the new year, this is exciting, you get

this clean slate. So I would say when you give yourself the time

and energy first to figure out you know what you want, and make

a plan to get it, you have all the power in the world to turn

that life you want into reality. So schedule the time. Don't Oh,

very important. When you make these appointments with

yourself, you need to treat them as if they're an appointment

with anybody else. You know, when you value, the time you

spend on you, you do the work, you will get to where you want

to go. So go for it. Because we know you can do it.

I love it. I just companies individuals join the

networks, contact Deb by her book. Really, it's you made it

simple and digestible and to move forward. So goal settings a

big deal for everyone, as far as individually and part of team.

So what a great show. So thank you again for being here. So I'm

Howard Brown. This is theSshining Brightly Podcast

Show. And we bring you real important stuff that you can

actually take action on and shine your own light. And it's

important so you can reach me at shining brightly.com You can

look all about what I do on the podcast as well as my speaking

and the book and my advocacy work. And just if we all just

shine brightly, a little bit more for ourselves, for each

other and for others and for our neighbours in our communities,

the world will become a better place. So thanks again. Deb

loved having you It's always great to see you thank you