the bossbabe podcast - 266. BBS: Your End Of Year Guide To A Stress-Free + Fulfilled New Year

Episode Date: December 27, 2022

The year is finally coming to a close.. but where has the time gone? You want to head into 2023 recharged and focused, but still have that nagging feeling you haven’t done enough to truly set yourself up for success. Trust me, we’ve been there. What if this year instead of trying to wrap up everything at once or putting off your to-dos entirely, you set aside a few moments for yourself to prepare for your best year yet? It’s the perfect time of year to review what’s worked, what hasn’t + get laser focused on your vision of success – not just in business, but all areas of your life. Tune in for this quick-but-actionable episode of the bossbabe business school to check in with Danielle on setting your end-of-year intention and heading into the new year clear, fulfilled + less stressed. Highlights: 5 simple steps to closing out your year on top! The secret to eliminating unnecessary stress and feeling more accomplished. Learn game-changing practices that will get you closer to your 2023 goals. Links: Get our free End Of Year Guide — Our simple guide to clarify your priorities + refocus your attention to what really moves the needle in your business. The Société — Join our private, online community of female entrepreneurs for exclusive access to our 2023 Vision Board Workshop. Follow: bossbabe: @bossbabe.inc Danielle Canty: @daniellecanty

A Boss Babe is unapologetically ambitious and paves the way for herself and other women to rise, keep going and fighting on. She is on a mission to be her best self in all areas. It's just believing in yourself. Confidently stepping outside her comfort zone to create her own vision of success. Welcome back you guys to another episode of the Boss Babe Podcast, the place where we share with you the real behind the scenes of building successful businesses, achieving big performance, and learning how to balance it all. I'm Danielle, your host for today's episode, but I'm not hosting anyone else. It is a solo because it is the Boss Babe Business

School episode. And today, I'm just going to give it real. I am recording this on a few days leading up to Christmas. And it's a shock to me that Christmas is next week. I'm just going to give it real. I am recording this on a few days leading up to Christmas and it's a shock to me that Christmas is next week. I'm like, what? I am not ready. So kudos to you for those of you who have got Christmas presents wrapped, they are under the tree, you've got the turkey ordered or the vegan alternative, whatever you're having for Christmas dinner or not even having for Christmas dinner. Maybe you celebrate, maybe you don't, but I'm just sharing with you that sometimes we are really organized in our lives. And sometimes, you know, things just go away a little bit. And either is okay.

I feel like we get really hard on ourselves in this time of year. And so I want to hold space for us all just trying our best, us all just getting through it and taking things off. And speaking of taking things off, this is exactly what this episode is about. This is your end of year in review. And I have got some tricks and tips up my sleeve to help you along. Practices that Natalie and I have been doing for absolutely years, and they are game changers for you and your life and your business. And we've put them through the test and we really, really feel they work. But before I get started on that, I need to say two things. One, I hope you're enjoying the holiday season and you are getting some rest.

And if you have been organized, great. This is going to air on the 27th of December. So I want to make sure that you are feeling good about where you are and that you have had some rest and that you are using this weird time between Christmas and New Year to really just close things out. I feel like this is abandoned time quite often. And it can either get railroaded by playing games and time with friends and family, which you really, really enjoy. Or it can go the complete opposite way where you veg out, watch far too much TV and really eat things that are not good for you. So whichever way, I do think it's really important that you find space to complete the end of year review, because it's going to set you up for the most success as we head into 2023.

So before you start listening to this, in the show notes is a downloadable PDF, which I highly recommend you going to grab now. Within five to 10 minutes, it's going to email you a PDF template that you can utilize during this podcast, or you can come to later. But either way, go there now, download it so you have our end of year guide. And before we get started, it's probably just good to tell you why Natalie and I started doing this. So basically, in the first few years of entrepreneurship, we kept getting to the end of our year and wondering like, where had all this time gone during the year? And we had like lots of little random things to check off our to-do list. And we being a Capricorn and a Virgo

felt like when we took these things into the next year, into January the following year, it kind of slowed us down. It didn't feel like the clean slate that we wanted. So we really got into practice of using these days between Christmas and New Year to check easy things off our list, to complete tasks and bring a kind of like, what about feeling of fulfillment to it all? Like, oh my goodness, I completed this and I'm proud of myself. And sometimes you have these things that are hanging over you that make you feel like you're further behind than you actually are. So it was a great game changer for us. It made us feel less stressed. It made us feel more accomplished and it set us up

for a better next year. Okay. So that's why I wanted to choose this podcast to keep it really, really simple, really, really easy, but ensure that you are carving time out this week to complete things and giving you a little bit of structure so that you can do it. So now that you have a download that PDF, I'm going to talk you through it. So when you open it up, it's like my 2022 end of year plan. And it's making sure that we are, like I said, rounding out really, really strong. We're writing down our goals. This is going to be our one place of things that need to be accomplished for us to set in and head into a really successful 2023. So I want you to write down your end of year intention. And so for example, my end of year intention is to finalize and close out tasks that will help me accomplish my major projects of 2022 and help me start 2023 with

space for other new projects. So you can see here, my intention for these days is to choose the tasks that will actually help me close and complete certain bigger projects. I'm not trying to start brand new things off. I'm really trying to close things. So let's say I have major projects happening in my business or my personal, I'm getting these to finish and complete. So I have space of brand new goals and ideas and brand new projects in 2023. So let me dive into this a little bit more. So when you open up the PDF, you're going to see four, the page split into four quadrants, business and personal at the top. And then we're giving you space for two others underneath. Personally, because of the projects that I've had

on my docket this year, I'm actually choosing finances and health for my bottom two. Let's take a quick pause to talk about my new favorite all-in-one platform, Kajabi. You know, I've been singing their praises lately because they have helped our business run so much smoother and with way less complexity which I love. Not to mention our team couldn't be happier because now everything is in one place so it makes collecting data, creating pages, collecting payment, all the things so much simpler. One of our mottos at Boss Babe is simplify to amplify and Kajabi has really helped us do that this year. So of course I needed to share it here with you. It's the perfect time of year to do a bit of spring cleaning in your business, you know,

get rid of the complexity and instead really focus on getting organized and making things as smooth as possible. I definitely recommend Kajabi to all of my clients and students. So if you're listening and haven't checked out Kajabi yet, now is the perfect time to do so because they are offering Boss Babe listeners a 30-day free trial. Go to kajabi.com slash Boss Babe to claim your 30-day free trial. That's kajabi.com slash Boss Babe. So let me start with the first one with business. So I like to take this time to really close out and choose tasks, like I said, that are helping me round out some of the projects that I've had over the years. So recently throughout Q4, we've been

working on the society funnel. If you are in the society, you are a member of our amazing community of boss babes in there growing and building their businesses. If you're not, you're going to absolutely love it. We've actually really working on some of the messaging. We've done a lot of surveying of the people in there so far, learning what they're really enjoying and learning what really speaks to their souls and then incorporating that not only in the content that we're creating, but also that messaging to new people that are coming into our boss babe community. So that's one of the things that I'm closing up there. Another example is on my personal side. I've been doing a lot of revamping in my home. I've been learning about feng shui in my home. And I moved in here in April. And I've been really

wanting to make it feel more homely. I have a few areas that are so close to finishing and some I haven't started. So for example, I haven't started on my office yet. So my task is not to finish my office, but I'm halfway through my bedroom. So a couple of tasks on my personal goals in this time is to close out ordering my bedding, ordering a stand to go at the end of my bed. Now you might be thinking, well, hang on, why are you doing these personal things? And your boss paper is all about a business. No, we do business differently here. It's a holistic approach. And I know that when my home is tranquil, my home is organized, my home is set up, my mind is clear and I function so, so much better. So that's why for me on personal, I always have things that are probably normally to do with organization stuff around the home,

because that actually allows me to think really clearly and I get to close out some of those projects. So like I said, you can see what I'm doing here. I'm not going, oh my goodness, all of a sudden in the next four days, I'm going to design my office and order some stuff for it because that to me would be overwhelming to start that project. I would rather close out the bedroom and then have the space of January to do my office. A couple of other examples I have is, like I said, my finance ones, just making sure all my tax returns, everything, I'm already partway through that. I like to keep my QuickBooks up to date before the end of the year because that way I can make any edits and just make sure I'm not closing out the year with potential that I could have done things that would have saved me money. And so I always

start having my conversations with my tax experts in November and the beginning of December. And so I always start having my conversations, my tax experts in November, in the beginning of December, and then really in the end of December, I'm just closing out those last few things. If you haven't already, go and listen to my episode with Tommy from Prime Corporate Services talking about taxes, because you can also gain access to a free consultation with Prime Corporate Services if you're in the US to set up your business and help you support with the taxes. That's what I'll be closing out in the finance section. There's a couple of other miscellaneous tasks within finances that I'll be adding onto mine personally. Then I also am choosing health. I really like to just be setting myself up to hit my goals in January. So it'll be like, oh, subscribing to a new gym. It might be ordering. I want to drink more water. So I want to order one of those big

Amazon bottles. I want to make sure that my Amazon food order, I was ordering my food online. So I want to have a favorites list. So that's really easy for me to go in there and repeat some of those orders and have my assistant or even my partner at times order some of those foods when I might not have the capacity to do so. So I'm using this time to just really get a little bit more organized there with some systems that I know are going to support my health. So I'm going to end up probably by the end of this with at least eight or nine tasks in each. They'll all be in one place, which is really, really going to help me. Now, if you have more tasks than this, or you're feeling that eight or nine tasks in each of these four quadrants is going to be overwhelming, then I really, really want you to make sure that you are doing what I call next,

the to-do, the to-don't, and the delegate. Quite often, you might catch yourself adding stuff to your list, which you perhaps don't need to do. So I really encourage once you've made the list, to then put them in priority order. I like to put them in priority order, what feels the most important for me to execute on, what feels the most urgent for me to execute on, and then work through that step by step. I can then come to a point where if it's in the top third, it's likely it really needs to get done. And I can look at that, does it need to get done by me? Are there members of my family that could support me with this? In which case I can delegate it. Or maybe there's someone in my team that could support. Maybe it's in which case I can delegate it. Or maybe there's someone in my

team that could support. Maybe it's not actually in the business section. Maybe I don't have to do it all. And I could be selling that to my team members or my assistant or whichever help or support. Maybe if you have a full-time job, you could send it to other people that are working alongside. And then likewise with delegate, also let's say I'm in the personal section, it might be things that I'm choosing to do around the house that actually other members of the family or other people that I'm living with could actually be taking responsibility for. I'm always using this time as well to reevaluate what I am doing and what I can be delegating to. Then again, what I'm coming to, if I've gone through that, I've done my to-do, I'm seeing the top priorities,

I'm delegating some of those, I'm really going to assess it with a fine-tooth comb whether I actually need some of these things on my list. Are some of them actually just clutters and they're nice to have versus actually needs to do? I think that's always a really good reframe for a lot of people. We add these things onto our list and quite frankly, sometimes we're not actually double-checking ourselves whether that's still relevant to the direction that we're wanting to move our lives in, whether that's relevant for the goals that we're trying to achieve in this set year, or whether actually we're just doing it because we had it on there and we've not really questioned it. I always talk about this in the business. Don't do things because they've been done that

way for a long time before. Always look for new ways to innovate and always question that thing is still moving the needle or still needs to get done. Just some good reflections for you guys to help finish the year strong, to make sure, like I said, that you are closing out certain projects and making space for brand new exciting things as we head into January. And speaking of January, actually, if you are not already in the society, you are absolutely going to want to be because we are doing a vision board session. It is the third week of January. We are really, really excited about it. It's going to be a full hour immersive experience. We're going to be assessing every aspect of your life using our Boss Babe framework. We're going to get you to put numbers scoring against it.

And then we're also going to be breaking down what you envisage for each aspect of your life, whether it's personal, whether it's business, whether it's your health, whether it's your finances, whether it's your relationships and it's your love life. Whatever aspect it is, it's not just about business. We will be doing a full vision boarding session. Natalie and I are obsessed with our vision boards. I've had my friends over already this year. They're actually coming again over on Sunday to finish our vision boards. We are going to be doing that with you live in the course. So if you're a society member, do not miss that. It's the third Wednesday of January. And if you are not a member,

you are going to want to get in because that is the only time that we're doing this. It is so, so powerful to set your goals and dreams as you go into 2023. I am a big believer in setting the dreams because you don't vision, you don't know what you're creating, and then you are at the mercy of everyone else around you. So it's so, so important to own your desires, own your loves, and to take full control of that. So if you are a member, I'll see you there. If you're not, I'm going to put a link in the show notes as well. You can also find us at bossbabe.com forward slash membership. That's where you can join for the BitVision boarding class, which is going to be on the third week of January. So I hope to see you there.

And I also hope you've enjoyed filling out your end of year guide. I will see you in 2023. Thank you so much for listening. And if you enjoyed this episode on the Boss Babe podcast, then I'd absolutely love it if you leave us a review. As a thank you, we'll send you our side hustle success kit. Your simple, no BS guide to keeping track of everything that you need to do to start and grow your business. To access this freebie, all you need to do is leave us a review, then share a screenshot of your review with contact at bossbabe.com and we'll send this must-have kit straight to your inbox. Outro Music