From Carrie Green, founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association and author of She Means Business.

Hello lovely and Happy New Year!

I’m writing this from my home office as we’re currently in lockdown #3 here in the UK. 2020 was a year that made us all realise that sometimes we have very little control over what happens to us and our businesses.

It was a scary and challenging year, but one thing I know for sure is that now more than ever, we need to get intentional about our vision for success and making a plan for how we can be more resilient, more resourceful and more relentless in the pursuit of our dreams than ever before.

While 2021 might be off to a weird start thanks to COVID and political events around the world, we still have a say about how we want this year to go for ourselves.

We still have the power to get intentional about what we want, to step into the best version of ourselves and to give ourselves the ability to seek out the amazing opportunities that are available to us right now.

But, it all starts with getting complete clarity around what you want… the problem is, most people don’t know how to do this properly. So let’s talk about it.

A Harvard Business study once revealed that people who set goals are 10x more successful than those without goals! But that’s not all, of the people who set goals, the people who wrote their goals down were 3 times more successful than the people who had unwritten goals. 

The bottom line is that if you want to become more successful you need to write down your goals. 

But the thing is, most people are never taught how to set goals, more specifically how to set business goals. 

In fact, when it comes to planning out the year people might set a few goals, but the majority of people don’t know how to truly plan for success.

They don’t know...

• What questions to ask themselves.
• What’s realistic and unrealistic.
• What areas they need to focus on to maximise their chance of success.
• Which goals they should even be focusing on and when.
• How to take their goals and break them down into a doable plan. 

So many people go to plan out their year and end up staring at a blank screen and just don’t know where to begin.

But here’s the thing:

Success is not an accident.
Success is something we make happen on purpose.

That means we have to have a vision for our success and we have to have a plan for our success. 

When you have these two things you’re so much more likely to succeed.
When I started my own business I noticed a pattern that occurred:

When I had a focused plan...

💗 I felt more inspired
💗 I felt more productive
💗 I felt more accomplished

And I produced better results.

VS

When I didn’t have a focused plan…

😞 I lacked motivation
😞 I felt stuck
😞 I felt frustrated

And I didn’t accomplish much at all. 

I hated the feeling of not accomplishing anything. I hated feeling stuck. I hated feeling unmotivated and so I went on a mission to find out how to not only get amazing at creating a focused plan, but how I could integrate important rituals and habits into my plan so I could get the most out of myself.

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that things can happen that we have zero control over. While we can plan for success, it doesn’t mean to say things aren’t going to pop up that derail us. 

This is why it’s not just about setting goals and planning… it’s also about getting intentional about who you want to be and the habits you want to have for yourself. 

It’s these things that make all the difference when we face challenges. It’s what helps you to swim, not sink. 

So not only do you need to set goals and plan for success, you also need daily, weekly and monthly success rituals and habits to keep YOU on track. 

Over the years I’ve refined my goal setting and planning strategies and the rituals and habits I need in place to be the most successful version of myself and it’s completely changed my life…

With my focused plans I’ve been able to:

• Write a bestselling book, She Means Business
• Take my business from just an idea in my head to a multiple 7-figure business 
• Grow a huge following on social media and through my email list 
• Overcome challenges and spot the opportunities
• And so much more

But those results have enabled me to turn some of my dreams into reality like:

• Being able to spend more time with my two children
• Traveling to incredible places
• Building the office of my dreams
• Getting to speak on stages all over the world
• And so much more!

I remember back in 2011 coming across a quote by Tony Robbins. He said,

“In 10 years from now you’ll surely arrive. The question is, where?”

Back then I didn’t know the answer to that question and realised that if I didn’t know the answer then I was seriously impacting my chance of living my BEST life. 

When we get intentional about the life we want to live, the kind of person we want to be, the business success we want to have then we are FAR more likely to create the business and life of our dreams.

Everything in this world starts with a vision and a plan, so my question to you is - do you have yours? Is it thorough enough? 

If you think it’s not or would love help to create the most incredible business and life plan for 2021 then I’ve got something for you…