Strategic Planning Series Part 2 of 4: Celebrating Wins and Looking Ahead to 2024

Our clients’ successes, big or small, help fuel our team at Tap the Potential. We have supported business owners in 2023 through some very challenging circumstances, and I want to brag about our clients who have been resilient in achieving major wins this year. If the end of 2023 finds you still in the struggle, I hope today’s show inspires and encourages you. You can absolutely have a profitable and growing business in 2024—-AND a great quality of life!

Our clients have reached major revenue milestones this year while paying down large sums of debt and increasing their owners’ pay. Many business owners have embraced leadership roles to feel pride in the culture they have created by upgrading their teams with A-players. Most significantly of all, they have created a great quality of life by setting priorities that make time for what matters most in their lives.

The end of the year is a great opportunity to stop, reflect, plan, and design for the year ahead. In Part 1 of this series, I guided you through some powerful questions to support you in strengthening resilience, along with the habits of highly resilient people. Today, I want you to pause, take inventory of your well-being as an entrepreneur, and check in on the strength of your business. Take our Better Business Better Life Assessment to learn which systems to strengthen in 2024 so that your business is stronger and healthier. Begin by downloading your copy of the Strategic Planning Workbook and refer to it as you listen to today’s show. Let’s get on track to celebrate YOUR wins in 2024!

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Show Highlights:

  • How to use the “Gift to Yourself” and the “Wheel of Life” exercises (Strategic Planning Workbook, p. 7 and 9)
    • Use a list to own the wins and successes of 2023 and acknowledge the losses, disappointments, and breakdowns.
    • Create a list of what you want to see in 2024 from the perspective of “these things have already happened;” give yourself space for the learning that needs to happen with a realistic timeline.
    • Go through each area on the “Wheel of Life” and identify your current level of fulfillment. (Take the Better Business Better Life Assessment to identify areas of burnout!)
  • How to focus on your “Veggies First” by prioritizing sleep, exercise, good nutrition, energy-gaining activities, and living in alignment with your core values
  • The most impactful, powerful question to ask yourself as an inquiry
  • Why our businesses need to play a smaller role in our lives for optimal health and life
  • Where to start in improving your quality of life:
    • Take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free, signed paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Read the book!
    • Stop work at a set time each day.
    • Take weekends off and unplug from work–completely.
    • Have ongoing conversations with team members about your commitments to healthy boundaries for everyone.

Links and Resources:

Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️.

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About The Author

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Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

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