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Hey guys, on this week's episode of the RISE podcast, I wanted to talk to you about the new year.

My intention with RISE was always to offer wisdom and advice and tips and tricks to any of you who own small businesses or who are building a career.

I'm really proud of being a woman in the business space, and I'd like to help other women to grow and change their lives through their work.

So this week, since we're at the beginning of a brand new year, and also at the beginning of my absolute favorite time of the year, I thought I'd take you through how I do a review of my year, and then set my goals and expectations, how I create the vision board, how I do, all of the things to make sure that I keep growing my business every new year.

So if you don't already have a plan for how you're going to go set in 2019 for your business or your career, man, this is the episode for you.

And if you do already have a plan, well, maybe listen in and get a few new ideas.

Welcome to the RISE podcast. I'm Rachel Hollis, and I've built a multi-million dollar media company with a high school diploma and a Google search bar.

Each week will be sharing tangible direct advice or inspiring interviews with the same intention. These are the tools to change your life.

The first thing that I do at the end of every year, I am obsessed with this, and I looked forward to it like it's like the nerdiest thing in the whole world, is I do an audit of the previous year's calendar.

It is worth saying that I did not come up with this idea. I actually got this from John Maxwell.

John Maxwell has a book called 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, which y'all know I've talked about ad nauseam. You're like, please stop mentioning that book.

But it is such a great book if you're getting into personal development and you kind of want to dip your toe in the water and understand what it's all about. I always recommend that one.

But John talks about the idea that he sits down every year, the week between Christmas and New Year's. It's a slower time of year in business. Many people have it off.

Many people have the kids or maybe out of school or you're out of school. You just have the time to kind of give yourself some space and dream a little.

But he audits his calendar. So he goes through his calendar and he looks at every single appointment that he had the year before.

And in the book he explains how he does the process. But I read that and really wanted to come up with my own way to audit my calendar.

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