Happy New Year!

Fiscal year end is ONE time for setting goals for the new year in your business. January or other times when there is energy in the air of taking stock and refreshing goals are great times too for a refresh.

Use the energy! Don’t be cynical that everyone is jumping on this time and many will fall off. You are not everyone. You are entrepreneur! You are used to doing things differently. You see things differently. Use this time as just one time in the year that you refresh things. Your team are individuals that feel the energy of a new year so leverage it for the energy and grow, grow, grow!

Happy new year! Here’s to a refreshed, new insights, new growth year :)

A new identity for a new stage

Do you remember the day when you knew you were an entrepreneur?

It’s probably blurry. You likely always knew you were an entrepreneur however it took time and actions for you to be confident in identifying as an entrepreneur.

Now, you know you are an entrepreneur! 100%

What is that next identity that you are waffling in? That next identity for this next stage of growth in your business?

If you aren’t clear or don’t have a name for it, write/journal/brainstorm on paper on it for 15 mins. A name may come to mind. If not, the image of it will. Just like when you were an early entrepreneur, you took more and more actions to live being an entrepreneur, you are doing the same thing now. Live it more! Simplify and let go of work that keeps you an old roles. Carve out time to be more in this role.

Get started by making a note in your Google Calendar, weekly work agenda/planner or wherever you look every week (or everyday) on this new identity that you are becoming more and more. It will remind you who you are and it will trigger the deep felt why you need to do this. Every week, you will let go of some things, enable people on your team and make new decisions. It’s an exciting time to see yourself in a new way and make new decisions. Your business needs you to and your mission needs you to :)

Simplify to focus on this stage

Fast-growing companies successfully transition from their current stage of business to the next more quickly than others. It’s that simple. That’s the common thread. During my MBA, I took a class specifically on fast-growing companies. It was fascinating! The big takeaway for me was knowing what stage you are in in your business and being relentless in the owner spending time on the right things to lead to the ship.

Getting out of the details and the noise of what is happening today enables future growth. We all know. We’ve all been there when someone cuts through the noise and we just go

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Sometimes we are able to do it for ourself and other times we need a little help. This month’s newsletter gives a few steps for doing this. Consider this month’s newsletter, my little nudge to reset. ;)

Finding simplicity

It’s hard to see the simplicity when we’re so close to the details.

I love being that person for others to help them see the simplicity so they can move forward with the right solutions for them. And I am so grateful for people, like my assistant, that hep me see the simplicity in my own work. Every season needs help from the right people.

When it comes to that next stage of your business’s growth, it’s not about pulling all the million details together. It can actually be about simplifying to what’s most important for this stage.

What is most important to your current stage of growth? How can you dig deeper into that area? Who can you reach out to to help sort through the details to find the simplicity?

Power for your people - Checklists

Checklists get a bad rap.

Checklists are used by pilots, surgeons, extravagant event planners and more.

It’s not about being admin focused, it’s about how important it is that all the things get done to deliver results. To deliver results, a checklist can focus on actions that when consistently done lead to insights and the desired results.

When building accountability with a team, encouraging them to do checklists for the activities they need to do can do a couple things for them:

• Clarify critical actions (by having a list of what to do)

• Build accountability (by having a record of what was done)

• Increase confidence (by seeing the progressing they are making)

Checklists are a tool. They can take different forms at different stages. Don’t underestimate the value of a simplified checklist to clarify actions, build accountability and increase confidence.