Welcome to episode 375 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.
Today on the show, we're gonna talk about change. Change is scary. But also, super like, gonna happen to everybody and every business and everything in your life. It changes, it evolves, it grows. And that's good. But I feel like this time of the year, November, we kind of see the end of the year ahead, or depending on maybe when you start your year, I know a lot of people do like, mid-year is kind of their start, so maybe you're at the halfway point of your "year," your reflection time, I feel like for me, though, I kind of run my year either ... I feel like I have a lot of these refresher times.
Like, the school year, I guess September I always feel kind of like, it's new. But definitely, as the number changes, so in December and November, when we're looking ahead, this year is 2018 and like, January/February ... you have this whole. It's like the first page of a notebook. You have this whole stretch of time ahead of you. And I try not to plan or get too caught up in massive time periods. I definitely have a general idea of what I want the next, honestly, three years of my business to look like, in a really general sense. Like, super general sense.
But now, in November, is definitely when I start looking at what's up for next year in a slightly less-general sense. I tend to get more, more, more detailed when we look at 12 week quarters. But I'm a big fan of mapping out things, like Backstage trainings for the year. I really like to put together a general sense of what my editorial calendar will be for the year, what my launch periods will be for the year because that helps me know ... when I get an opportunity to be an affiliate for something, if I have the space for that, or if ... I get some crazy, awesome new idea. Again, if I have the space for that.
Or, more often than not, what needs to be removed from my life so I can make the space for it. So, in November, I start looking at what do I need to change to hit my goals? I also like to look back at what's changed since the last time I looked, so over the course of 2017, what's changed in my business?
And so today I want to talk about why change is good, and how to look at that.
Before I jump in, I want to remind you, if you love this show, which I know you do, you need to join us Backstage. HitTheMicBackstage.com is the place to be. We are all about giving you what you need, right now, to help you with your digital marketing. This is the place to stay updated with what's happening on networks, to pay attention to what you want to focus on, because we have how-tos on all of the major networks.
And speaking of change, we have some change over the course of 2018 that'll happen, because we're always making that community better. That community is always changing in the sense that, in 2018, for the first time, the bulk of our trainings that I have laid out, are gonna be about strategy. We have an entire library of step by step, how-to use networks, and now we're gonna delve into some of the why's and the strategies that can help us grow and help us, you know, actually see results and stuff. Doesn't that sound lovely?
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