Evolving My Business: A New Focus for the Year Ahead
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What is the focus of this podcast episode?
Hello, and welcome to the UCAN podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Jolly Jarvis. And today we're going to be talking around business evolution and prioritizing what matters. And this fits in really well with last week's episode where we were talking about your yearly plans and the fact that actually, you know, I shared with you during that, that I had. sort of entered into my yearly planning session expecting a nice tidy neat set of actions and next steps and milestones and all that kind of stuff and actually it left me to start off with an awful lot more questions and answers and so I wanted to do sort of share with you a little bit more on that because that's the point of this podcast it's to share the sort of reality of business and
and the decisions that we make sometimes in decisions that are easier than others. This was not an easy decision. It definitely won't go into that category for some time. And I don't know at this stage, whether it's the right decision, but it's a sort of a way, an avenue that I want to explore a little bit more. And therefore I have to weigh up my pros and cons, but
How do I know it's time to pivot my business?
Let me just recap first on my own yearly planning and how I got to this point of getting clarity or facing up to the reality that I do need to sleep. I do have other commitments outside of work. And if I wanted to get projects done, then things had to have a bit of a reshuffle. So some of the questions that I asked myself you know where do I want to be a year from now you know that's pretty standard really I often say to clients if you know if it was New Year's Eve um and which always sounds like I do something really exciting at New Year's Eve normally I'm at home um often I do actually see the new year in as in I see watch the fireworks on the tv or whatever um but it's not like I'm at parties and you know I'm down in the champagne or anything but um
A year from now, at the end of the year, at the end of this year, where do you want to be when you're having that meal or you're sitting down and having a bit of reflection, which we do do and I enjoy doing. Where do you want to be? What do you want to think you've achieved? So what's working at the moment? What's not working? Where are things progressing? Where are things stalling? What's getting in the way? what's giving you energy and what's draining your energy. And I think the giving and the draining of energy is a really important one for me. Um, sounds really like old, but as I've got older, um, that's become more important to me. It hasn't just been about the financial returns or the, um, the areas where, you know, you've got the most results or anything like that.
It actually comes down much more to the emotion side of stuff, which has been something that I've worked on that hasn't come naturally, but actually has been really fulfilling.
What questions should I ask during yearly planning?
And so the sort of the answers that I came up with were an awful lot around projects that I wanted to take on and develop further projects that some of which are in their infancy, some of which are a bit more established, where I'm not just using my business skills to sell my business skills, if that makes sense. I think, you know, it's really easy when you are in that position, when you're imparting your knowledge and skills onto other people that you end up using those core skills purely to market yourself and those pure skills. And actually those can be adapted to anything. You can be focusing them onto all sorts of different projects to do good. And so there's a few projects that we've got going on at the moment.
A couple that I can't really share with you and one that I am going to go into a little more detail with you today on. So that was kind of really important to me when I looked at whether I want to be here a year from now. It was actually about my sort of side projects, one of which is a joint venture, one of which is got an element of property involved with it. And another one which focuses in on supporting people and supporting families who have children with special educational needs and families.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of this podcast episode?
0:06–1:08
2
How do I know it's time to pivot my business?
1:08–2:46
3
What questions should I ask during yearly planning?
2:46–6:08
4
How can personal commitments influence business decisions?
6:08–7:00
5
What projects is Sarah excited about in her business?
7:00–8:23
6
How can I better support families with special educational needs?
8:23–9:37
7
What changes are coming in Sarah's business?
9:37–11:29
8
How can I align my business with my lifestyle?
11:29–15:33
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