Introduction

Do you ever have that moment where something unexpected comes up that completely throws your plans into Welcome to our final episode of the coaching hive podcast for 2021. I cannot believe we are here, and I am so excited to jump into our planning conversation for 2022.

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I'm Dr. Moira, and this is the Coaching Hive podcast.

Overview

As a reminder, as this series has been focused on getting your plan for 2022 in line. Now in the past few weeks, we have been talking about the concept of what are your three big pillars. What things do you want to focus on in the new year? And sometimes when we take this step back, we look at three big pillars instead of all of these big goals, and I have this and that and that to do, just identifying a few pillars where you'd like to focus your energy and your attention can simplify everything so much.

And then what we did was we got a little bit zoomed in just a little bit further and started thinking about what would it look like to work on these pillars? What would it look like to explore even on a quarterly basis, what you might do to work toward these pillar ideas? And the reason we look at that quarterly approach and a pillar concept is because life happens,

things are going to change. You can plan out every single week of next year and two weeks in something might shift and it throws the rest of your plan out of whack, right?

When you take a look at the three big pillars that you'd like to focus on, this can sometimes keep things a little bit more flexible, a little bit more free flowing while still allowing you to make progress in your coaching business so that you can better serve your clients.

Taking it a Step Further

We started with those three pillars, and then we kind of zoomed in just a little bit and started thinking about on a quarterly basis, maybe even just the first quarter, maybe that's all you're looking at right now to keep that flexibility in play.

Maybe you look at that first quarter and you say, okay, I know that I want to focus on pillar one this first quarter. I'm not going to worry about pillars two and three. They're not as important right now. You can start ordering your pillars. So quarter one, maybe you're focusing on pillar one, let's make it easy. And as you think about pillar one, you start to explore what are some things that you could work toward that move pillar one forward. This was still a pretty picture, wasn't it? And we talked about the fact that that's okay. You can, if you're ready, take that approach and zoom in a little bit more. And even, maybe look at the three months of the first quarter, if that feels too much right now, you're not alone. In fact, I was talking with someone earlier this week, who said, I have made plans every single year. I create a vision. I create my plan for the year and it never works. And it feels like I'm failing. And so we talked for a little while and thought about this concept of let's just start with three pillars. Not just start there, let them settle, see how they feel. What do you think about them?

Keep in mind what you've accomplished in the last year where you'd like to grow and what you can use from this past year to support the pillars moving forward. And what she came back with was in 15 minutes, she said, well, I have my three pillars. This feels so much easier. It feels lighter. Then coming up with this big plan, this big vision. And I do advocate for coming up with a vision of course, for your business, but it doesn't always have to be complicated. And it doesn't each moment doesn't have to be complicated. And that's kind of where we're focusing as we wrap up 2021 is keeping things simple.

You have your pillars, you are building on things that you've already been successful with, or you're using those strengths that you used in the past to grow those pillars