Your Year, Your Intent

Power of She Invites You to Level Up Your Goals in 2025!

When asked “What do you do” or “How’s your work / business going?”  Is your typical response vague, boastful, or uncertain?  Let's improve your introduction with your goal and intention in mind.
Power of She's JANUARY event was led by Jill Morrison of Bee Memorable Marketing where together we worked through our:
- Declaration of Intent: Transform your goals into a concise, inspiring statement.
-  Personal Mission Statement: Develop a guiding "lane for your life" to align with your decisions.
-  Accountability Plan: Identify strategies and support systems to stay on track throughout the year.

Do you incorporate your goals for the year into your introductions?
What is your goal ?
Who you want to meet?
What do you want to accomplish?
How do you weave this into a short, concise and focused intro?
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Convert your goals into declarations of intent to kick off YOUR YEAR, with Your Intent.

​How do you weave your BIG Goals into daily and weekly focused priorities? If you don't have a specific target, it's important that you have identified a lane for your life. All decisions and ACTIONS should align with your Personal Mission Statement. 

​Translate your mission to a concise introduction for a focused intent to get what you need.

Who holds you accountable right now for your daily / monthly goals? 
If you miss your target, who knows that you missed? 😏
Vulnerable, transparent accountability is vital to staying on-track when the road gets tough.  
Identify untapped accountability opportunities.  How could a little extra (PoShe) accountability help you to meet that stretch goal for your 2025?

Whether your 2025 Goal is to grow your business with new clients, to overcome challenges to expand your business, or for new opportunities outside your current scope, Jill Morrison's guide will help you to consolidate a focused introduction with YOUR GOAL in mind to leave you feeling prepared, focused, and ready to crush your goals in 2025!
Let’s kickstart your year with purpose and clarity.

​Let’s start with your goals for the year. 
​What is your clear goal for 2025? If you are working on a couple projects, we need to identify one to focus on at a time. So let’s start with your goal for the first quarter of 2025. What would you like to accomplish in the first quarter of this year? Remember to keep it SMART - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely.  

Next, let’s give it a number.  It is much easier to know if you objectively accomplished the goal when you make it black and white.  You had a goal of selling 10 products per month - did you reach that goal?  As a recovering perfectionist, I would like to take a moment to say that missing your goal isn’t the worst thing.  If you don’t hit your goal for the month, you now know objectively that your current activities won’t reach that goal.  You might need to make a few more sales calls going forward or you might need to adjust your expectations (maybe it takes longer to close the sale and the results will come later than expected).  The sooner you know that, the sooner you can make the necessary adjustments for success.

Once we have a clear goal, then we need to finesse it into a declaration of intent. Too often we don’t include our goals in our networking commercials - why is that? Check your gut. Is it because you aren’t sure how?  We will make a plan today! Is it because you hadn’t thought to?  Officially changed. Is it because you don’t have a clear goal?  Officially changed.
Is it because you feel uncomfortable telling people your goal?  Sort through why that is and address it.  It is entirely normal to tell people your goals for the year.

Quick word of caution before we continue.
There are quite a few articles that say not to tell people your goals. It releases dopamine for a goal that has not been completed.  It actually gives you the “hit” of completing it without doing the work.  This can be dangerous, if you don’t have a plan in place to complete that goal.  That is why we set our SMART goals.  We are not making a plan to lose 150 pounds in 2025.  We are not announcing that we will launch a business with 5 thriving branches.  While you might eventually do those things, we are going to instead focus on our achievable goals for this year or this quarter.  Keep them realistic and meaningful.  AKA keep them reasonable enough that they can be accomplished within the confines of your availability and still big enough that they mean something to your overall well-being.  If we do that, then bringing people along for the ride does create accountability.

Alright, let’s get back on track.
Let’s turn our goals into a statement that works. Here are a few examples: “I have a goal to help 24 families this year either buy or sell real estate.” “I have a goal to sell 5 products this quarter.” “I have a goal to write 2,500 words per month.”

It’s time to bring in accountability. 
Power of She can be your accountability partners!
In the book Tribe of Millionaires they illustrate what true accountability looks like. The author describes a group of men who meet annually to assess the progress of their goals.  They each stand up in front of the group and go through their “one sheet.”  From this sheet they announce their financial data (income, net worth, how much was given to charity and how much they made in passive income), their physical data (body fat, muscle mass, exercise levels) and their personal life (happiness rating and relationship with spouse). They provide a number for each and a year-over-year change.  The guy in the book (let’s call him Bob) announced he signed up for 4 marathons in the upcoming year and that was an increase from the 2 he did in the year prior.  While going through his numbers, Bob also mentioned that his life satisfaction rating had remained the same year-over-year.  One of the other guys in the group asked if the extra marathons would improve Bob’s health more than the 2 he did the year prior? No.  Could he cancel one or two of them and reallocate that time to doing something fun?  Yes. Bob requested help holding him accountable to doing something fun each week.  Another guy agreed to text him every Tuesday to touch base throughout the year and see how that is going. 

Who do you have truly holding you accountable to your goals? 
Is there someone in Power of She? Is there someone in your network? 
True vulnerability is essential to real accountability. 

Now let’s take some time to work on our mission for the year. 
Have you ever done the exercise where you are asked to write your own eulogy?  Let’s do that now.  What would you like people to say about you in your eulogy? Take a moment and think about what you would like them to say.  How would you like for them to describe you?  What adjectives would you like for them to say about you? What would you hope people would say about you? How would you like to be remembered? What will be your impact on the world?

As you take a moment to do that, what are the first few words that pop into your head?  What descriptors did you select for yourself? Those are your core values.  That is how you should live your life.  That is the standard you have chosen for yourself.  Make your decisions about your resources (time and money) in alignment with these values and only these values.

​You can write the end of the story and make sure that it goes the way you planned.