S2E256 Clear Desk, Clear Mind
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A surefire way to have a great new year is to do an in-depth review of the past 12 months, wipe the slate clean and then get planning! In this episode, Brian shares the Magic Meeting process he undertakes every December to set him up for success in the year ahead.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why you should celebrate your accomplishments.
· How you can identify what needs improving.
· Why you must formulate ideas for the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E119 Get Out of Debt Forever
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Starting with what you've accomplished is the key.” – Brian Buffini
“Celebrate the wins and learn from the losses.” – Brian Buffini
“Where you spend your money shows your priorities.” – Brian Buffini
“Set your budget and then try to beat it.” – Brian Buffini
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” – Napoleon Hill
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing yourself and your |
| 0:08.7 | business. Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:17.6 | Well, the top of the morning, T.N., welcome to It's a Good Life. I hope you had a great |
| 0:21.7 | holiday season. This is our last podcast of the year. And I'm going to let you into a little |
| 0:25.9 | routine, a little ritual I have every year. I do this at the end of every year and it really |
| 0:32.7 | sets me up for success for the coming year. You know, this is the time of year when the sports shows are all |
| 0:40.0 | doing their year in review for each individual sport. Hollywood will do a year in review. The news |
| 0:46.0 | will do a year in review. And so I always do a year in review. And I highly recommend this to you. |
| 0:52.8 | It's very, very powerful exercise. You want to take in |
| 0:56.4 | everything that you've accomplished this year, especially if it's been a tough year and you feel |
| 1:01.0 | like you haven't accomplished much or you're feeling like you're between a rock and a hard spot |
| 1:06.0 | and all you're focused on is the problems. It's very important to know what you got to accomplish this year. |
| 1:12.3 | Then what you do is you throw out the old and bring in the new. But starting with what you've |
| 1:17.2 | accomplished is the key. And my team know when I'm in prep mode for the break over the holidays, |
| 1:22.5 | I take a few days to go through, I mean all the papers and articles and emails and letters so that I can |
| 1:30.0 | jumpstart the year. I have a number of people in my life. They have that blue icon for email with |
| 1:34.4 | 20,000 red dots on it. And I don't. That's not my style. And so what I do is as I clean house. And so I have |
| 1:44.0 | no dots. I have no messages. Everything's cleaned out. I go through my |
| 1:48.9 | voicemails that I've saved on my iPhone. And I clean those out and only keep the ones that are pertinent. |
| 1:56.3 | So when I say a clean house, I clean house. And I know that's not everyone's natural tendency. |
| 2:01.6 | However, there is no doubt that we all benefit that once the slate is clean, we can actually begin pre-planning. |
| 2:08.7 | And so that's what this is all about. |
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