Welcome to episode 369 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.
All right, so today I wanna talk about the three things you need to know for October. Yes, it's October, straight up, month one of Q4, holy macaroni. I can't believe it, where did this year go? It's a crazy month for me, I'm doing a lot, a lot, a lot of traveling, which, I'll be honest, I'm pretty excited about. I've got some vacation time planned, yay. I've got a business trip planned. It's gonna be a good month. So, I wanted to jump in and I wanted to give you guys the stuff for October right at the start of the moth, so you can make the most of your time this month, no matter what's going on.
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Let's jump into this month's three things you need to know, right?
It's gonna be really easy, in the next four to six weeks, to start thinking about Q1 of next year. And so, what I really encourage you to do, is take some time today, or this week, and reevaluate your Q4 plans. Maybe you don't have any, maybe you totally rocked the 12 week year, or 90 day planning, or whatever you call it, and you are working on building your Q4 plan because that's your next 12 weeks. Fantastic, you're right on mark.
But maybe you're one of those people who, at the beginning of the year you set up a plan for the whole 12 months. And, now is the time to check in and make sure that your Q4 plans that you came up with in January of this year, or honestly Q4 of last year, so October, November, December of last year, are still relevant. And not because you screwed up planning; if 12 month planning works for you, do it. Whatever works for you, that's what I want you to do. But, sometimes, and I know this is especially true for me, and I've talked to a couple clients about this and that's why I wanted to bring it up, maybe you've learned some things about your business this year, or your clients this year, or yourself this year, and you want to change something.
Maybe you had planned on launching something that you're not gonna launch, but you still have
