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When you get to the end of 2024, what do you

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want to be saying thinking feeling about the year that's

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been? Okay, sorry, I know the year has hardly started and I'm

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already rushing to get to the end. But I do so we've intent

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because so often in January, we set our resolutions, maybe we've

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got a word that becomes our anchor for the year. And we get

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to these resolutions or words based on how we feel in the

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here. And now we focus on things to change, rather than outcomes,

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which is actually the key to keeping us motivated. We don't

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perhaps stress tests to see if that thing will still be

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important to us after 12 months of work. I'm Lee Griffith, a

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communications strategist, executive coach, and all round

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champion of leaders who shun the old school stereotypes. I'm here

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to help you get clear on your strategy, implement some self

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leadership and connect with those who serve through your

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serves. Visit Sandy spice.com To find out more. In this episode,

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I'm going to help you plan for 2024 to be your most impactful

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year yet. I'm going to share the tools I use and the questions I

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asked myself and my clients to help get clarity on what's

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important. So grab a cuppa and something to start noting down

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your thoughts and reflections. And let's dive in enjoy.

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Happy New Year. I know this is landing on the first of January

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and you may be listening with a bit of a hangover, maybe, maybe

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not. But you also know that the first day of the year,

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especially when it's a Monday is when we try and start with those

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good intentions. And so it felt important to me that I dropped

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an episode like normal because I don't want those good intentions

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to go to waste. Now we can't even begin thinking about 2024

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Without taking some time to reflect on how things have gone.

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In 2023. It's a chance to ask, Did I show up as the leader I

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wanted to be? Before I get too specific in my reflections, I

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always like to start with some broader questions to ask. So at

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the beginning of 2023, how did I feel about the year ahead? And

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what was important to me as a leader? What surprised me about

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last year? did I achieve what I set out to do? If yes, what

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contributed to that success? If no, what got in the way? When I

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felt I was leading? Well, this year, I was doing what? When I

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felt I wasn't showing up as leader, what was happening for

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me. I use these prompts these fill in the gaps sentences,

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however you want to frame them to understand what felt good for

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me, where I felt challenged, and to get a general sense of how

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the year panned out compared to perhaps what I'd hoped or

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expected at the start of the year. So you might want to hit

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pause now and take a bit of reflection again on those

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questions. Once you've done that, it's it's time to get a

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little bit more specific. If you can't know I'm a bit of a data

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and metrics nerd, I like to track things to see how it's all

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going. So at this point is where all my data comes out some

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really specific measures I track that's aligned to my priorities.

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Others are just interesting facts, I suppose that show me if

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the things I've been spending my time, attention and money on

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have been worth it. And I do this for my business, for my

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collaborations, and to some extent in my personal life. I

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mean, let's not get away, you know, run away with ourselves,

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or don't have personal KPIs per se. But I'm always quite clear

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on the measure of success. Actually, I think I've told lie

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cheat. But there is one personal KPI I set every year, which is

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the number of books I aim to read. And I did that a few years

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ago, because I'd realized that reading was one of my passions.

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And I'd gone a whole year and maybe read two books. And I felt

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really sad about that, and also really unfulfilled. So I think

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probably back in 2018, I came across Goodreads, the app

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website. And they always have a reading challenge every year.

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And you can set a target of how many books to read. And so I set

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my first target in 2018. And I smashed it and it felt really

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good to keep a track and to feel like there's some accountability

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for the number of books I read. And so every year it's something

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that I do now and I vary the number of books that I put as a

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target. Some years I've been super ambitious. And I've said

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right I'm going to have 55 books and then felt like I had to game

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a little bit to get that result. This year, I was easier on

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myself. So I'm going to read 35 books. I'm actually at the point

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of recording this at 56. I didn't feel any stress or

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pressure to read that I've read things, a mixture of fiction and

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nonfiction and stuff I've really enjoyed. But it's been nice to

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be able to keep a track and to see am I spending time reading

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because that's something that's really important to me. So I lie

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when I say I don't have personal KPIs, I do, apparently. But

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like, I don't have objectives. I don't sit down for an appraisal

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with the husband or anything like that. But there are a few

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things that I know will show me if I've had a successful year or

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not. And I do across my personal and my business life, because

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all of these things are important to me. And I know they

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will have an impact on each other. And I also know that in

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the year ahead, if I'm going to make a change in one of those

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areas, I need to be clear on what it's going to mean in terms

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of impact in other areas. So outcome stats, have a bit of a

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review. I mean, I'm tracking as the year goes by, I kinda know

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month or month, how I'm doing. And there might be new metrics

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I've introduced mid year, I've been working with some some

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different experts this year that have got me a bit more focused

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on the types of things I should be tracking when it comes to my

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business, which has been really helpful. But that with the

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general reflection questions at the beginning, start to give me

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a sense of how I'm feeling and how I did in and out of my

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business for the year. And then once I've done all that, I use

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my own SLC framework as a further lens to review and do

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that check in. So looking at my personal leadership strategy, my

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approach to self leadership and my communications was eye clear

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in my personal leadership strategy. I think in 2023, I got

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the clarity I've probably been searching for since I first

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started the business. So I really honed in on who I

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support, and how I help leaders. This also meant I became much

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clearer in the type of support I needed myself, I stopped wasting

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money on courses I never completed. And I can tell you,

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there's been a lot of money wasted over the last couple of

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years. And I started investing in experts who feel a genuine

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gap for me. Plus, and this was a biggie for me, I started finally

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to pay for behind the scenes support, rather than trying to

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be a hero and do everything myself. And this was a

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breakthrough that actually came quite late in the year for me.

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And it was after I attended a business retreat with one of the

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kinds of new experts that came into my world this year. And I

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realized I was really uncomfortable with the concept

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of spending money, particularly as my business is still quite

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new. But the question that just kind of came out of nowhere

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after spending a couple of days on this retreat was not can I

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afford to do this, but actually, can I afford not to do this? And

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the honest answer was no. There were certain things in my

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business that I bought attention to that I realized that were

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draining my time and my energy. And it meant that I couldn't

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focus on the things that were most important to my business.

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And so something had to change. And I made that investment. And

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yeah, it's still a work in progress. But I feel so much

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better in terms of that being a strategic move for me. I also

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felt really more comfortable in shedding that corporate persona.

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And I recognize that I wasn't a woman either. And I didn't need

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to be one to be a good coach. And I think that's something

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that I'd grappled with in the first couple of years. Because

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particularly if you look up on the socials, there's a lot of

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people that are really lean into the woowoo space. And I've got

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no judgment against any of that. But it wasn't necessarily

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feeling authentic to me. So I stopped trying to lean into that

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myself, and it felt really freeing. I also felt I lived my

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integrity value. Welders share, I stepped away from spaces and

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from people who just weren't serving me very well. I still

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need to work on letting them take up too much airtime in my

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head. I haven't quite done the whole unfollow on socials that I

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probably need to do and that will be something that will show

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my growth in 2024. But I felt pleased that my clarity in my

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personal strategy was allowing me to make more informed choices

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over the past year. Did I lead myself well in 2023

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I think I did a solid seven out of 10 on this one. I've

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definitely been better at setting and sticking to clear

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boundaries. I've one of my big focuses over the past year has

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been investing in my well being and my fitness. I feel so much

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stronger for doing that. I've also simplified my business

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process. As I've utilized some new systems, and that all links

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to the previous point about being more strategic in the

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support I get. But I didn't realize all my personal goals.

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So I often found myself working or doing life admin on a Friday,

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instead of spending the time on personal projects, which was my

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intent in not working on Fridays, I found time to read a

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lot as I say, I smashed my reading goal for the year. But

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also, I spent way too much time in front of the TV watching

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their trash. Now sometimes that's great. And it's a great

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way to switch off. But I did realize I was getting pretty

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frustrated with that point. I know, and it meant I wasn't

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doing the Crafty type stuff that I really enjoy. So it tells me

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that I didn't always align my priorities in the best way. And

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did I communicate and engage Well, this year, again, I'd give

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myself a seven out of 10. I think finding clarity in my

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leadership strategy allowed me to get rid of all that

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complicated offers that I felt I had to be talking about all the

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time, I spent way less time online, if you follow me on

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Instagram, in particular, you probably might have gone off she

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she disappeared, because it just don't show up there as much as I

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was. And as a new business owner, I definitely fell into

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that trap in the first couple of years of feeling like I had to

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be on socials 24/7 If I was going to be noticed, and I

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remember at one point in 2022, I was posting something like three

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times a day, because I'd heard that this is what you needed to

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do to gain the algorithm and to stay relevant in people's minds.

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And to be honest, it was really, really exhausting, super

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overwhelming, and gave me very little return. And I got into

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this spiral of thinking what was I doing wrong? Why is it not

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working? For me? My realisation in 2023 was actually I need to

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communicate less with people. And I need to try different

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things to communicate with people who are most likely to be

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interested in the services I offer. And they just weren't in

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places that I was perhaps showing up. I had to battle with

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some guilt around that I did feel pretty guilty stepping away

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from the socials, what signals that shown to other people that

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am I going to be judged that I'm not showing up are people going

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to forget who I am. But again, once I got that clarity in my

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personal strategy, and I had the right advisors supporting me, I

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realized it was a no brainer. And to be honest, it has been a

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game changer this year not having to spend so much time

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thinking about social media. And it's allowed me to do stuff that

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I just wouldn't have made the time to do previously. I mean,

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2023 was the year I launched this podcast, I wouldn't have

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done that if I was still trying to keep up with a schedule of

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three times a day on Instagram. My other podcast how to take the

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lead was also shortlisted for a national award. So both of those

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have been really important to my development and to my business's

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development. And it's allowed me to explore topics relevant to my

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business, to continue to campaign and prove it's possible

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to do leadership in a different way. So I think from that

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communications and engagement, I've got really clear on what my

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messaging is who I'm trying to connect with, and to communicate

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some of my personal strategy and my self leadership as well. But

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it is still only a seven out of 10. Because I think my focus for

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next year needs to be consistency, particularly in my

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outreach, keeping in touch with people and my corporate

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newsletter production. But I'm going to come on to that in a

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little bit. So once I've gone through my review of the year,

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and I've put it through the lens of my SLC framework, I generally

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have a pretty good idea about what I therefore want to achieve

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in the coming year. And so I asked myself a couple of

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questions to help me with that last bit of clarity. How would I

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like to feel in 2024? When I get to the end of the year, and I

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look back, what's the feeling I want to be having at that time?

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What's going to be important for me to remember this year, so my

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big learning from 2023? How is that going to help shape the

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year ahead? What will I focus on in 2024? And I mean that

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personally and professionally, if I'm making the impact I want?

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How will a typical day and week look like? And importantly, what

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might I need to change to make that happen?

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And I do think this is question I asked my clients a lot because

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we can overload ourselves with new ideas and new things. And

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it's just this and just that and I just need to do something. But

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there's always a gear. And sometimes it's our own approach.

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Sometimes we've we've overwhelmed ourselves with staff

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or sometimes it might just be our way of working but there's

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usually something that we've got to change for us to progress.

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And so I asked myself that question as much as I asked my

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clients that my reflections against those questions all go

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back through the lens of My SLC framework again. So what's going

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to be my leadership strategy in 2024? How am I going to

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demonstrate self leadership? And what will that mean for how I

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communicate and engage? For me, having got that clarity in 2023,

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my words for 2024 are persistency. And consistency,

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easy for me to say, I know that that needs to be foundational in

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whatever I'm doing. And I think the check I will do when I'm

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thinking of introducing anything new or starting a new project

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is, will I be able to maintain this and do this with

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persistence and consistency. My strategies gonna mean, I will be

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talking to more CEOs and senior leaders about showing up with

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impact and what that might look and feel like to them. I've

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really enjoyed holding one to one strategy days with leaders

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in the past year. And I want to do more of that. My

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collaboration through how to take lead also included some

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paid work in 2023. And so I want to explore how else we can

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support organizations to tackle some of the leadership myths and

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stereotypes that are at play. Myself leadership will be to

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continue on my health and wellbeing journey, I can't

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believe I've actually used that word, but I can't think of a

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better one, to be honest with you. I've been pleased with the

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results I've seen this year. And so I want to extend that feeling

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and continue to get stronger, I feel like I've got more energy.

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As a woman approaching a certain time in life, I know looking

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after myself is going to be really important. And so I kind

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of want to get a step on that already. I know I can do more

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with my boundaries. In particular, when I work days and

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hours. As important as it is to find ways to make sure I'm not

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always thinking about work stuff, which is can be really

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hard when you're running your own business from your home. I

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know that I can do more with my boundaries in particularly the

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hours and the days I work. And an important part of that is

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finding ways to make sure I'm not always thinking about the

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work staff, which can be hard when you run your business from

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your home. And I have found at points this year, I've been

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waking up thinking about a proposal I'm writing or thinking

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about the to do list of stuff I need to do around the podcast or

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an event I'm going to so I know I'm taking my business into my

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personal life. And as a business owner, that's fine to some

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extent. But it's I had a really good conversation with a client

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earlier this year. And we got to when is it productive thinking

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and when is it disruptive thinking and I think that was a

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really good takeaway for me as well as them. I also need to

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prioritize time for my crafty pursuits as I call them. Because

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I know for me that is a guaranteed brain clear, it's

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where I can just zone out of everything else. And usually, in

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zoning out, I do come back with a renewed clarity in the thing

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that I was trying to tackle. So I definitely need to build in

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more time to do that. And from my communications point of view,

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I'm going to continue to be on the socials less. I've enjoyed

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not having that pressure this year. And I don't see any reason

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to change that going into 2024. Instead, I'm going to be

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investing more time in the leaders of impact podcast, I've

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got some great guests coming up in the coming year, I definitely

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want to be speaking with more chief execs, leaders who can

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prove it's possible to do stuff differently. And I'm going to be

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focusing on my newsletter for corporate leaders as well. I

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also want to do more with trade media and talk about leadership

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issues that matter. You keep seeing the same voices and the

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same opinions. And I don't always think that that's helpful

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in changing the narrative. So I'm thinking what can I do to

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help be part of that change? And I think living my values will

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mean call it out that leadership BS I see even more than I have

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done. And for me, that means making time to have proper

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conversations about things that matter is to help inform me

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inform the work I'm doing to challenge and stimulate and help

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in my growth and development as well as those of my clients. I'm

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going to be honest with you, I don't like New Year's

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resolutions because to me they feel woolly and aimless.

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Probably you'll agree with this. If you're being honest. You

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rarely stick to something when it is that obtuse, but a plan I

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can get behind with timescales with measures to show I've

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achieved the outcome. So once I've got clarity on my themes

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for 2024 I put it through the lens of my SLC model. I get real

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specific. I don't leave it there. I if I can put a measure

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against it. I will. I certainly put timescales I break things

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down by quarter so that I can make sure I'm being realistic. I

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can make sure that my activities are aligned and that I'm not

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overwhelming myself by wanting to achieve so much straightaway,

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which can definitely be a problem for me. Having a plan

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gives me that reality check that accountability and that marker

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that shows that I'm making progress as I check in on a

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monthly basis, all of which is really motivating to me. Now,

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you might not need to be that granular. But certainly when it

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comes to showing up as an organizational leader, if you

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lack clarity, it can really affect the impact you have. So I

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would recommend you give it some thought to be more than just a

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resolution or cross your fingers and hope you achieve it. Anyway,

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I hope these prompts have been useful, you might want to move

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them over for a few days and revisit I certainly always find

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moving to a different space helps me get different thinking.

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If this has helped you to get some clarity for your year

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ahead. I'd love to know just drop me a line, and I'm looking

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forward to seeing what impact you can make in 2024. If you've

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listened to this episode, and decided that 2024 is the year

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you're going to get serious about your leadership, then my

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one day intensive is a great starting point. This is a full

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day just you and me unpacking and reconstructing what you want

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to achieve as a leader. It's the perfect way to kickstart your

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year and you'll come away with clarity and a plan of action.

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