Join Anna Lundberg as she wraps up 2024, sharing tips on celebrating progress and setting intentions for 2025.
In this, the final episode of 2024, we’re closing out the year with an essential reminder to celebrate your wins, no matter how big or small. Whether you’re a solopreneur, coach, or consultant, it’s crucial to acknowledge your progress and achievements, both internal and external. Join me as I share insights on looking back over the year, setting intentions for 2025, and finding the right support to keep you motivated and fulfilled in your business journey. Let’s redefine success and build a business you love. Happy New Year!
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Key moments:
[00:00] Introduction and the final message for 2024
[00:52] Importance of celebrating your wins, regardless of their scale
[01:22] Reflecting on consistency and progress through journaling or review processes
[02:08] Achievements at different stages of your business journey
[03:04] Finding meaningful support and the impact of receiving genuine appreciation
[04:14] Various ways to celebrate progress, outcomes, and personal growth
[05:18] Setting intentions and themes for 2025
[06:04] Closing remarks and looking ahead to the New Year
Reimagining Success, episode 322. And it’s another mini episode for you with one final reminder as we close off 2024 and enter the new year 2025. Welcome to Reimagining Success, the podcast that helps you build a profitable business as an independent expert, one that works for you and your lifestyle. I’m your host, Anna Lumbog, former corporate insider turned business mentor, executive coach, and mum of two. Whether you’re a solopreneur, a coach, speaker, consultant, I’m here to guide you in creating a business that gives you freedom, flexibility, and the fulfilment you’re looking for, ready to redefine success and build a business that you love. Let’s get started. Hello. Hello.
Now, this really is the last episode of the year. I feel like I’ve been wrapping up for weeks. I said, we’re going to review the year and plan ahead, and then I’m going to wrap up before Christmas. Then I had a Christmas message and now I’m back. I promise you this will be the last message of 2024. And I have just a little reminder for you, I suppose, and that is to celebrate. Celebrate the wins. Small or big? Internal, external.
Meaningful to you, not meaningful to other people. Because otherwise, what are we doing all this work for? Right? The best way to do this is to look back on how far you’ve come. And the best way to do that, of course, is to have some kind of, whether it’s journaling or some formal review process each year to see what goals you’ve set and where you were this time last year. I find it hilarious sometimes both to see how consistent certain things are over the years, which is great. It means I’m doing the right thing. I’m building what I, you know, I still want what I thought I wanted a few years ago and. But also because the things, my goodness, I was worrying about, you know, either they’ve been shown to be unimportant or I have solved them. Boom, superhero I am.
Or, you know, I’ve, yeah, I’ve moved on, I’ve progressed. I’ve got new challenges because, let’s face it, every level of business has different and new and exciting challenges. But I really encourage you to look back over where you were. So if you’re right at the beginning, your wins can be anything, like deciding on your niche or putting your first post up or recording your first video or, you know, getting your first client. It doesn’t have to be huge, and that is huge for you anyway, if you’re further along. Of course, it could be hitting your next income target or having hired a new team member or restructured your team or added a new income stream, published the book, spoken on stage in Vegas, whatever it might be for you. So really, no judgement and forget about what everyone else is celebrating. This is an internal thing for you.
Now, I’ve said this to everybody for years and I’ve said it to myself and I very rarely do this, so I’m very sorry. It is hard to do it yourself. And so if necessary, and probably it is, get the support of others, but find someone who really cares. When I wrote my last book, and it’s already a couple of years ago now, I was really unwell and I was kind of putting it off and so on, and my amazing sister sent me a card and a gift, I think very generously to celebrate. And it was just. And I’ve got my card here, by the way, on my desk. She never listens to this podcast, so she will never know that I’m talking about her. But it was so meaningful to me.
It was. It was a huge achievement. Right. And by the way, she since published her own book, which is amazing as well, so huge congratulations to her. But if it’s someone who gets what it means to you and who really supports you, who won’t just go, why did you do that? Oh, right, well done. Doesn’t understand what goes into it, whether it’s the hard work you’ve put in or the things you’ve had to overcome, that’s not going to be a helpful support person for you. But if you can find someone who truly is in your corner, who supports you. It’s funny how many sports metaphors there are.
That’s the boxing one, I suppose. In your corner, then that is the best partner, right? So whether it’s going to a spa with a friend or just having an evening of taking care of yourself and doing whatever, your favourite thing to do is having a lunch with your partner, taking a trip away, depending on your financial circumstances, you know, it can go big, you can go small, but really acknowledge it. Well, I had, I think it was a coach years ago who told me that when she first started her, or even now, I think her. And that was 10 years ago, so maybe not anymore, but at the time, her mum would still send her a card every time she got a new client, which is very sweet and just reminds you however far you’ve come, it’s still a privilege, right? Every person who gives you money, every company that chooses to get you in to support, support them. Every conference that gets you to speak in front of their audience, etc, etc is something to be celebrated. And Whether it’s your first client or your 100th or your 1000th or whatever, still something very much to be proud of. So that is my reminder for you today. Celebrate your wins.
And above all, celebrate progress. Not just outcomes and not just the things that look impressive from the outside. It’s easy ish. Although I still don’t do it to celebrate books and, you know, the snazzy things that you can post on social media media. It’s much harder to celebrate and to pinpoint the nuances of, you know, I was present with my family, I overcame this fear that I had, you know, I had difficult conversations with my partner, whatever it was, right? So celebrate progress. Celebrate the little things that are not so little after all the internal things, the things that are really meaningful to you. And then, you know, without going into the detail again of planning for next year, just set yourself an intention. It’s, well, depending on you listening to this, it’s the 30th, I think, when this episode goes out.
So you’ve got a couple of days still set. An intention for stepping into 2025 and let’s face it, nothing miraculous will happen on the first. I’m not even going to be back to work for another few days after that. It doesn’t have to be that black and white, but nonetheless, a North Star, a guiding theme for yourself, an intention for how you want to show up in 2025. So when you do get back to work, you’ll be feeling confident and excited and all ready to go. So one more time from me, thank you so much for being part of this community. Thanks for everything this year. Goodbye 2024 and I will see you in 2025.
See you then. Happy New Year. If you are at a pivotal moment in your career, if you’re looking at that next level of success and you want more support to get you to where you want to be, then get in touch so we can have a conversation about where you are today and how I might be able to help. Apply for a free call@onestepoutside.com call. That’s onestepoutside.com call.
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