Sarah Jolly Jarvis

Hello, and welcome to the You Can Podcast, where we dive into strategies and stories to help you start, grow, and scale your business. I'm Sarah Jolly Jarvis, I'm your host, and today we're gonna be talking around something that can feel both inspiring and overwhelming all at the same time, and that is yearly planning. So this year's yearly planning session for me didn't go quite as expected.

Hello, and welcome to the You Can Podcast, where we dive into strategies and stories to help you start, grow, and scale your business. I'm Sarah Jolly Jarvis, I'm your host, and today we're gonna be talking around something that can feel both inspiring and overwhelming all at the same time, and that is yearly planning. So this year's yearly planning session for me didn't go quite as expected.

Hello, and welcome to the You Can Podcast, where we dive into strategies and stories to help you start, grow, and scale your business. I'm Sarah Jolly Jarvis, I'm your host, and today we're gonna be talking around something that can feel both inspiring and overwhelming all at the same time, and that is yearly planning. So this year's yearly planning session for me didn't go quite as expected.

Instead of clarity, I ended up with an awful lot more questions than answers. But you know what, that turned out to be a really good thing, and that's what I'm gonna be talking around today. Let's talk about, first of all, why yearly planning is so important. Well, planning forces you to get real.

Instead of clarity, I ended up with an awful lot more questions than answers. But you know what, that turned out to be a really good thing, and that's what I'm gonna be talking around today. Let's talk about, first of all, why yearly planning is so important. Well, planning forces you to get real.

Instead of clarity, I ended up with an awful lot more questions than answers. But you know what, that turned out to be a really good thing, and that's what I'm gonna be talking around today. Let's talk about, first of all, why yearly planning is so important. Well, planning forces you to get real.

It gets you to really think about what you want to achieve, how much time you've got to achieve it, and what sort of time that achieving will... For me, this year's session was a real eye-opener. I realised I was trying to take on way too much. And honestly, that realisation was invaluable.

It gets you to really think about what you want to achieve, how much time you've got to achieve it, and what sort of time that achieving will... For me, this year's session was a real eye-opener. I realised I was trying to take on way too much. And honestly, that realisation was invaluable.

It gets you to really think about what you want to achieve, how much time you've got to achieve it, and what sort of time that achieving will... For me, this year's session was a real eye-opener. I realised I was trying to take on way too much. And honestly, that realisation was invaluable.

It saved me from trying to buy all those bits off all at once and to get partway through the year and realise that I hadn't made as much ground as I'd hoped to. I hadn't made as much progress.

It saved me from trying to buy all those bits off all at once and to get partway through the year and realise that I hadn't made as much ground as I'd hoped to. I hadn't made as much progress.

It saved me from trying to buy all those bits off all at once and to get partway through the year and realise that I hadn't made as much ground as I'd hoped to. I hadn't made as much progress.

And that's the thing here is when you water yourself down too much, you end up feeling like, you know what, I'm not achieving anything because your energies and your efforts are just diluted so much that you're not able to make a really strong impact.

And that's the thing here is when you water yourself down too much, you end up feeling like, you know what, I'm not achieving anything because your energies and your efforts are just diluted so much that you're not able to make a really strong impact.

And that's the thing here is when you water yourself down too much, you end up feeling like, you know what, I'm not achieving anything because your energies and your efforts are just diluted so much that you're not able to make a really strong impact.

So instead of creating a neat list of goals and then calling it a day at that and feeling really chuffed with myself and just having a bit of lunch, I had to face that misalignment between my ambitions and the reality of the time that reality was going to take, that time those ambitions were going to take and how long I really had to work on these various projects.

So instead of creating a neat list of goals and then calling it a day at that and feeling really chuffed with myself and just having a bit of lunch, I had to face that misalignment between my ambitions and the reality of the time that reality was going to take, that time those ambitions were going to take and how long I really had to work on these various projects.

So instead of creating a neat list of goals and then calling it a day at that and feeling really chuffed with myself and just having a bit of lunch, I had to face that misalignment between my ambitions and the reality of the time that reality was going to take, that time those ambitions were going to take and how long I really had to work on these various projects.

It wasn't just about making a roadmap for the year. It was about confronting what wasn't working. So a lot less clean, a lot less enjoyable. But let's be clear, planning doesn't mean everything will go smoothly. It just means that you'll start that year with clarity, with that intention. and that process will feel less messy. You'll have a better understanding of what's going to go on.

It wasn't just about making a roadmap for the year. It was about confronting what wasn't working. So a lot less clean, a lot less enjoyable. But let's be clear, planning doesn't mean everything will go smoothly. It just means that you'll start that year with clarity, with that intention. and that process will feel less messy. You'll have a better understanding of what's going to go on.