One Key to Your Successful Vision in 2024 and Beyond
The Key to Reaching Your Full Potential as an Entrepreneur: The Power of Planning
Are you an entrepreneur seeking to elevate your success to new heights? As a seasoned business coach and successful entrepreneur with almost a decade of coaching experience, I’ve witnessed one key factor that most entrepreneurs overlook, and it’s holding them back from achieving their true potential. In this week’s episode of the Soulful Entrepreneurs Club podcast, I want to shed light on the transformative power of planning and why it’s crucial for your business growth and personal development.
Defining Your Own Success
Before diving into the importance of planning, it’s vital to emphasize the significance of defining success on your own terms. Success isn’t one-size-fits-all. It’s about aligning your business goals with your true purpose and values. It’s about confidently shining your light without the overwhelm, stress, or burnout. By determining what success means to you, you pave the way for intentional and fulfilling entrepreneurship.
The Missing Ingredient: Planning
As entrepreneurs, we often get caught up in the day-to-day hustle of running our businesses. We focus on marketing strategies, client interactions, and administrative tasks, but we tend to neglect one crucial aspect: planning. Planning isn’t just about organizing your day; it extends to your week, month, quarter, and year. It involves assessing your progress, identifying what’s working, and making necessary changes or improvements.
The Resistance to Planning
Many entrepreneurs shy away from planning, believing it detracts from actively working on their businesses. However, without a structured planning process, you may be missing out on unlocking your business’s true potential. By dedicating time to plan, you’re investing in the long-term sustainability and growth of your business.
Creating a Planning Framework
Developing a consistent planning framework is essential. It allows you to evaluate your marketing efforts, assess your time management, and make informed decisions to propel your business forward. This involves conducting a time audit of your past activities, determining what’s yielding positive results, and identifying areas for improvement.
Looking Ahead: Your Yearly Plan
Rather than waiting for the new year to set resolutions and goals, it’s advantageous to plan ahead. By taking the time to strategize and set your intentions for the coming year, you’re setting the stage for a purpose-driven and impactful business journey. It’s about aligning your time and marketing strategies with your overarching vision for success.
Join the Planning Journey
If you’re ready to delve into the transformative power of planning and create a solid roadmap for your business, I invite you to join me on December 1st for an exclusive planning event. It’s an opportunity to collaborate, gain insights, and craft a personalized plan for the upcoming year. Alternatively, if you prefer a more independent approach, I’ll provide three actionable steps for you to kickstart your planning journey.
The Time for Transformation is Now
As a solopreneur, taking the time to plan is not only beneficial for your business but also vital for your personal growth and mindset. Embracing planning as an essential part of your entrepreneurial journey will undoubtedly lead to sustained growth and success as both a business owner and an individual. The time for you to step into your unique purpose and shine is now.
In conclusion, planning is the missing puzzle piece for many entrepreneurs striving for success. It’s time to carve out space for intentional planning, reflection, and strategizing. Whether you choose to embark on this journey independently or as part of a community event, the rewards of planning are boundless. Are you ready to take the next step in your entrepreneurial journey? Together, let’s plan for an opulent and purposeful year ahead.
Until next week, take good care and embrace the transformative power of planning.
With abundance and purpose,
Kavita Melwani
Key Topics for This Episode: One Key to Your Successful Vision in 2024 and Beyond
Primary Topic: Introduction
- Introduction of Kavita Melwani
- Vision of the Soulful Entrepreneurs Club podcast
Primary Topic: Defining Success - Importance of defining success on your own terms
- Determining your own definition of success
- Link to related podcast episode about defining success
Primary Topic: Importance of Planning - Planning on various levels – daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly
- Need for a systematic process for assessing and planning
- The difficulty and importance of planning
- Encouragement to start a planning process
- Personal experiences with planning for success
- Announcement of a planning event on December 1
- Steps to start planning on your own
Primary Topic: Invitation to Planning Event - Details about the planning event on December 1
- Benefits of participating in the planning event
- Registration link for the planning event
Primary Topic: Steps for Planning on Your Own - Detailed three-step process for planning the year ahead
- Emphasis on the simplicity but not ease of the planning process
- Encouragement to follow the provided format or attend the planning event
Primary Topic: Conclusion - Brief summary of the importance of planning
- Encouragement to take time for planning
- Closing remarks and invitation to plan the year ahead or attend the planning event
Analogy for this Episode: One Key to Your Successful Vision in 2024 and Beyond
Sure! Planning for success as an entrepreneur is like taking a road trip. Imagine you’re setting out on a journey to a new and exciting destination. Before hitting the road, you need to plan your route, decide on stops along the way, and make sure your car is in good working condition. Similarly, in business, you need to plan your path to success, decide on milestones and goals, and ensure that your business strategies are effective. Just as a road trip can be more enjoyable and successful with careful planning, your entrepreneurial journey can be more fulfilling and fruitful with thoughtful and regular planning sessions.
Transcript for This Episode
Kavita Melwani [00:00:00]:
Hello.
Kavita Melwani [00:00:00]:
My name is Kavita Melwani and I’m a master certified success and business coach with two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and almost a decade as a coach. I want to personally welcome you to the Soulful Entrepreneurs Club podcast where my vision is to empower as many spiritually led businesses to run purposeful and profitable businesses aligned with true selves. I want you to confidently and opulently shine your light without the overwhelm, the stress or the burnout. Together, we will explore challenges that soulful entrepreneurs face and real, implementable solutions so you can step into your unique purpose and shine. It is possible to bridge the success you already have with the truest, soulful, mystical parts of yourself. Are you ready to rise up as the leader you were born to be? Then join me, my soulful friends. The time is now for you to rise up and shine your light. The world needs you.
Kavita Melwani [00:01:08]:
Hello, soulful entrepreneurs. Welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast. So this week I want to talk about something that most of you don’t do that is stopping you from reaching your levels of success, the levels of success that are possible for you. And that, by the way, if you haven’t listened to my episode on determining what is your definition of success and why that’s important, I will have that link in the show notes. Because success needs to be defined on your own terms, not what other people tell you is success. So, first, what is the type of success that you’re looking for? How do you define success for yourself? So, once you have that in mind and you want to move forward, most of the time as entrepreneurs, we are working our business. We’re working on our marketing. We’re maybe learning, we’re trying to learn newest trends and strategies.
Kavita Melwani [00:02:14]:
We are maybe attending in person events, online events. We are connecting with other people and working on the administrative stuff, the financial stuff, all the things that it takes to run a business. And we often neglect this one thing, which is about really planning. Now, when I talk about planning, I’m not just talking about planning your day. I’m talking about planning your week, your month, your quarter, your year, and having a process that you follow to assess, to take a look at what you have done and what changes you need to make moving forward, if any. And sometimes it’s not actually a change that’s external, it’s an internal change, right? A lot of times that’s the case. But if you’re not doing this on a regular basis, if you’re not planning, if you’re not looking at what you have done and what worked for you and things you want to change and having your success vision, then you are missing out on reaching the level of success that you desire. And so planning is really important.
Kavita Melwani [00:03:32]:
It’s very difficult to do on your own. Most people don’t want to spend time on this because they feel like they’re taking away from their business. Right. I could be marketing, I could be talking to other people, I could be working with clients. I could be doing all these other things instead of being, working away from my business, really looking at what I’m doing and making it better. If you don’t have a process that you follow, I’m going to encourage you to start, start today with something small. Maybe you look at your week, maybe you look at your month, maybe you look at every time you do something that has to do with marketing and do some kind of assessment for that. Look at one aspect of your business and start to examine that aspect and see what can be done differently.
Kavita Melwani [00:04:31]:
And then create a system for yourself where you’re visiting that every week, every month, every time the event happens, something that is regular. So planning for the year ahead is also important. Most people wait till the new year to set the resolutions and then the year gets started and we get busy. Okay. So I have attended in the past events that help me plan for my year ahead. Whenever I’ve done that, I have a much better year. So this time, if you want to do a planning with me, I am going to have an event on December 1. That is exactly that.
Kavita Melwani [00:05:15]:
It is about you looking at your business and making plans for the year ahead, how to spend your time, and what kind of marketing makes sense for you. And so that way you can start the year off with a plan in place. Okay. And sometimes if you do that ahead of time, then you can start to put the pieces in place so that you can start the year off doing what you need to do. Okay? So if that’s something that interests you, you would like to do it in a community. It’s more fun. You can have the energy of other people. I’m going to have this on December 1.
Kavita Melwani [00:05:52]:
There’ll be a registration link in the show notes. I’d love for you to join me. If you don’t want to do it in an event format, then I will give you three steps that you can do on your own right now. So first, I want you to take a look at your year, or maybe even the last two to three years in your business and do a time audit of how you’ve been spending your time, how you’ve been marketing, and then connect with those things. Step two, and see what is working for you. And working could be based on the results that you’re receiving from those, or it could also be things that you are enjoying and you’re receiving something that may not be as tangible from those activities. Assessing all of that, and then the third part of it is deciding what you will continue next year, where the gaps are, if you’re going to let go of some things where the gaps are, or what are some things that you’re going to continue but you can improve, and then how you can improve that and then set into place a plan for yourself for the year ahead. Now, it sounds simple.
Kavita Melwani [00:07:06]:
It is simple, but it’s not always easy. So you can follow that format if you like, or you can come to my planning day so that we can work together and create this for you. It’s completely up to you. And all I’m saying is, as a solopreneur, planning is essential. Taking this time away from your business so that you can look at it and improve as an owner, improve your mindset, improve your activities, improve how you spend your time. You will continue to grow as a spiritual entrepreneur and as an individual. So it’s a short episode this week. I just wanted to come to you and suggest that you take some time to plan.
Kavita Melwani [00:07:52]:
And again, if you want to attend the event, you can do that. Either way, it’s time to go plan your year ahead. Until next week, take good care. Bye.
