Don't Waste 2019! 7 Specific Things to Plan Next Year #Best Education Page #Online Earning

 Hey Team Flynn, Pat here.

It is almost the end of the year,

we're all enjoying the holidays right now,

I got my skinny fat grande blonde Americano

with five pumps of I don't know, it's just coffee

but what I wanted to do in this video

was just give you seven things

that you should be planning next year.

It doesn't matter what year this is,

maybe you're watching this in the future or something

but whenever it comes the turn of the next year,

some really important things to plan

and sometimes we forget some of these

so here are the seven things,

maybe you got some of them, maybe you got all of them,

hopefully at least one but here we go.

Alright, so number one, make sure you plan out your content.

Now you can't plan out your content for the whole year,

a lot of times we don't even know what's gonna happen

or the things we can talk about.

But in my business it's really important

that we get a little bit ahead of schedule

on the planning side of things

because really important number one,

it takes a lot of energy to figure out

kind of like what are the kinds of things

you wanna talk about or have on your podcast

or talk about on your blog or create videos about,

who you want to interview?

All those things are really important

to understand ahead of time.

But what we typically do is every quarter,

we think about the next quarter

so just recently the team came to town,

the last couple of weeks

and we just kind of put our heads together

and determined okay like what are we gonna be talking about

in the first quarter of 2019?

And we come up with ideas and we do a brain dump

and then we start picking and choosing

which ones would make sense.

And yes, there's obviously gonna be some things

that come up that you can then move things around for

but the reason it's important to think ahead of time

is because then you can batch process the ideation

and then later you can batch process the creation

where I don't want you to get stuck in

which is where I was for many years

which is as soon as you publish a piece of content,

you kind of hate yourself 'cause you have to go

oh my gosh like what am I gonna think about again?

Like what am I gonna write about?

I have no idea and you have to go

through that whole process of thinking about from scratch

what is it you're gonna produce again?

I did the same thing with my podcast,

it's never a good spot to be in.

That's called a hamster wheel of content of death

or something, I don't know,

some wheel and it's not very good.

But when you plan ahead, you can at least understand,

okay, at the moment, this one is published

or even before it's published,

you're already in the middle of starting

the production of another thing

because your team has a handle

or maybe you're in the editing process of another thing.

So just I want you to plan ahead

at least the first quarter of content

and again it doesn't have to be set in stone,

you don't even have to know the titles

of each of those pieces of content

but on your blog, your podcast, videos

or anything else that you might produce,

have an understanding of at least the topics

that you want to cover

so that your brain can start at least thinking about

what those things might be,

what the titles of those things might be,

who else might be involved,

what else you can read to research those kinds of things,

that sort of thing.

So number one, make sure you plan out your content

so you can be done with batch processing

the planning portion which is a different side of your brain

then the production portion.

So number two in addition to the content

that you're gonna be coming out with for the first quarter,

it would be really smart if you could think about

what it is that you wanna launch or promote

during the whole year, if possible,

or at least the first couple quarters?

That is any products that you have and you offer,

when are you gonna be launching those?

When are the big promotions for that?

What holidays are happening?

What do you wanna take advantage of?

Maybe your business takes advantage of the fact

that kids are out of school

and parents are at home with their families

so then that's when the vacation packages

come out for example

or maybe it's back to school related things

or maybe you know having a Cyber Monday

or Black Friday thing just even on the calendar

could at least start to frame your mind with okay like

amongst everything else that goes on

like this launch is gonna happen during that time.

So maybe that's for your own products.

I would also recommend thinking about

when you're gonna promote affiliate products as well,

that is products owned and operated by other people

or other companies and it doesn't necessarily mean

that they have to have a launch

like a big event on a specific day

with an affiliate contest or any of that stuff,

it just might simply mean that hey,

during this time of this particular month,

you're gonna be creating content

and supporting and promoting and sending emails out

and creating videos about perhaps that particular product.

For instance, one thing that we're gonna do next year

just to fill you in on a little bit

is we're gonna be talking about a new product

that I'm really excited to promote called RightMessage

by the guys over at RightMessage and Brennan Dunn

who's just the mastermind behind that.

So that's a tool that I'm using

in my website right now very successfully,

it's helping with our engagement with our audience,

it's helping increase the time

that people spend on the site,

it's helping increase our sales

and I wanna share that with everybody

so I know that there's gonna be a specific time

early next year where we're gonna be creating content

about that and promoting that

and perhaps we're even working with our team

for a special deal or something for you.

So it's really important

to think about those launches ahead of time

because a lot of times what people do is they just kind of,

just as they're going create these launches

and you know sometimes you forget that

well, you just recently did one

or you know a lot of times by not planning ahead

or even looking how the launches are spread out

amongst the whole year, you might suffer

because maybe two launches are really close to each other,

you need to also give your audience some breathing space

between those sort of heavier promotions

in addition to the sort of ongoing promotion

that you do maybe more casually or passively.

So number one was the content,

number two on top of that which obviously you can go back

and have the content support the launches as well

but think about how you want your launches

and the sort of bigger asks of your audience to be

throughout the next year.

Alright, next you want to consider what events

or conferences you might want to go to.

It's definitely something I recommend

you at least go once in 2019 to an event,

it's really important to meet with your community

or other people in your space, perhaps your audience,

your customers where they're at,

other influencers that you can meet

and develop relationships with.

You know sometimes the best way to build

and grow your online brand is to actually get offline,

that's what's gonna help you stand out and be remembered,

you get to build really special relationships

when you're with people in person.

So considering what events happen next year,

maybe it's Social Media Marketing World,

maybe it's FlynnCon, FlynnCon1.com

if you haven't gotten your ticket yet.

It's my first big event next year,

that's why I'm putting together an event

to bring the community together here as you can see,

I've got a lot of people in the audience

who have been helped in some way, shape or form over time

and I'd love to have a space

to bring all those people together,

so if you're looking for an idea

for an event to go to next year, perhaps FlynnCon,

FlynnCon1 'cause there's gonna be many more

but this is gonna be the first one.

I'd love for you to be a part of it,

FlynnCon1.com to get your tickets before they sell out,

if there are still any available.

Perhaps it's something like Podcast Movement

if you're a podcaster and you want to go

to something very specific

to that particular thing that you do.

FinCon is another one, not FlynnCon but FinCon,

The Financial Blogger conference

which is happening in Washington D.C. next year,

Podfest is another one,

there's all around the world, there's some great events.

The Youpreneur Summit over in London

that Chris Ducker puts on,

amazing event that I went to the first time it happened

and yeah so those kinds of things.

So planning out in your calendar again

amongst the content that you're creating,

amongst the launches and the promotions that you do,

where you're gonna be, that all plays a role

because then you're able to see okay,

well I'm gonna be you know traveling this week

so let's pull back the promotions during that week

so I'm not kind of doubling down

on my efforts during that time.

You can really focus on being present at that event

and meeting people and you know

perhaps you're speaking at some events as well,

obviously putting those things in the calendar

is really important.

So plan out for that, put them in the calendar,

and you'll have a better understanding

of how your next year is gonna go

even before the next year starts.

Alright so hold on.

In addition to all the things

that you're gonna be planning for your business,

it's really important to plan

when you're not gonna be doing business,

when especially when you're an entrepreneur,

it's really important to plan for that time off.

People like Michael Hyatt who I look up to

for a lot of how he lives his life,

how he works with his family,

and you know that's very inspiring to me,

one thing that he does is he takes a whole month off

where he and his wife go on a little sabbatical

and they kind of get offline and they do that thing,

you don't need to get to that extent

but it just is really admirable for somebody

with a very successful business like that

to see that he's still taking time out to be present

and to you know just kind of walk away

and remove himself from the craziness of business

which is really important.

We need to have time to breathe sometimes.

So basically what I'm saying

is you need to plan ahead of time,

or else it's never gonna happen

because we always overwork ourselves.

Plan time off and this is something

that's been in my business and in my life

the last few years as it's been really helpful.

Understanding which parts of the year

for instance August for me is typically a time of the year

where you know things are very slow

and I make sure that that's purposefully done

and strategically for me that's a good month

because it's gonna be after FlynnCon in July

but before the kids go back into school

so we're gonna be traveling during that time

and that's specifically time off

that I and my family can look forward to

but also it's gonna be a great spot

in the middle of the year where I can just take a breath

after something really important like FlynnCon

and before I get into a lot

of the end of the year promotion related things

that are gonna be happening.

So yeah, it's important to plan for time off,

maybe it's even just days of the month

where every once in a while

you just do something for yourself or you and your family

go on a little staycation or something,

planning that stuff is really important

and to see where it is and where it lies

amongst everything else that's happening

is really important too

because then you can begin to go okay well,

how is my head gonna be during this time?

Well I can't take a time off during this time

because this is in the middle of our big promotion here

so let's move that to the end of that

and have it be more of a reward or something like that.

But again, it's your life,

I want you to just understand

what's going on more than anything

and again, giving yourself time to breathe,

time off from the work that you do, really important.

Now there's many types of ways

that you can plan out your year and do all that stuff,

you can get a giant calendar

and you can get a wall calendar,

something that's really simple that we do

is we just use Post-it notes.

So as you can see over here on the board,

we have all the months of the year for next year,

you can see the black post notes are like blackout days.

These are days that we aren't supposed to schedule anything

and that kind of lives throughout the year

and there's gonna be more here,

we just haven't really filled this part of the year out yet.

But you can see the first part of the year

or the first couple quarters are very much planned out.

The sort of orange color

is when I'm traveling or doing speaking.

And then a lot of the sort of peach related colors

are kind of new things that are happening

that are launching as well.

And these pink ones are related to those mostly.

So I got a new book coming out, and then FlynnCon obviously,

these are in-person workshops,

the blue ones that we're doing.

So as you can see, we're just using Post-it notes

to keep it simple so we can get an understanding.

Even just doing this exercise alone,

if you were in here when we were creating this,

you would see that like wow

like July was super stacked with a bunch of stuff

but we needed to move things out of that

to make room for FlynnCon in our head space

and all that stuff.

But then you can see here August

like boom, all blacked out now

to sort of buffer what happens in July.

And then you know making sure there's workshops

where I'm meeting with people in person

who wanna come to San Diego

whether that's FlynnCon which is the big one

or some of these other auxiliary courses.

They're spread out so that everybody can have breathing room

and have a time of the year where they can come.

So yeah that's kind of how it works

and so you don't to make this complicated.

I think we always try to over-complicate things, don't we?

But let's keep it simple

and just see and plan out your year in that way.

Now I got three more things for you

that you can plan out

that you may or may not have thought about

so let's get into that.

So number five, I also think in addition

to giving yourself some time off during the year,

I think it's important to do some things personally

that can help you sort of live a more fulfilled life

outside of the business.

Meaning you should have something that you're working toward

on a more personal level,

a goal that you can have personally.

For me for example, a goal that I have next year

and I've, actually rewind a little bit,

a couple years prior I've had the goal

of jumping high enough to touch the rim

of a regulation height basketball hoop

and that was a really fun goal.

I did not reach that goal so to speak

but working out to achieve that goal

has allowed for as a byproduct

many other great things to happen physically for me

which is really cool.

So anyway, just having some personal goals

that you can work toward is really important.

If you haven't thought about what your big personal goal is,

even if it's just one for 2019 yet

or whatever in the next year is when you're watching this.

I think it's really important.

For me for the next year it is playing guitar.

And again, this is something personal that you can enjoy

that you just love and it can help you escape

and it's just something that can help you

just you know do something fun.

So for me, I wanna play guitar and I wanna play so well

that I can play Johnny B. Goode

which is the song that Marty McFly plays

at the Enchantment Under The Sea dance

in Back to the Future one and also two.

Anyway, so that that's my goal and that's, you know,

I have a guitar and I'm taking lessons

and that sort of thing,

I think it's really important for you to think about.

Okay well, what are you gonna do?

Like what's gonna fulfill your life?

What's gonna make you happy outside of the work

and the business that you do?

So thinking and planning for that can be really cool

and if you don't have a coach

or anybody to help you with that,

well there's YouTube, there's many other places

where you can go and learn a lot of these skills

to again, just do something for yourself personally.

Okay and then related to your goals,

here, give me this really quick.

So related to your goals, thanks Caleb,

can you wave hi?

Hey.

Caleb behind the scenes, awesome.

One thing that you could do

is start to think about what habits

you want to form too.

That can support you and the business that you wanna create

or perhaps this personal goal that you have.

So one habit that I wanna start creating for next year

is getting behind the camera like in this fashion,

going live on camera a little bit more

and doing more vlog style related things

and just getting more comfortable

and building that habit of being open

to just turning the camera on and starting to speak

and going a little bit behind the scenes more often

just like this.

So that's a habit that I'm gonna be starting to form,

I'm gonna be doing this weekly on a live show

that may or may not be called The Income Stream, right?

Get it, we'll see, I don't know.

But hey, we have to plan that out a little bit later but--

- I like the name. - I like the name too,

yeah it's pretty cool, The Income Stream with Pat Flynn.

But anyway, I'm gonna be forming that habit

and that's something that I'm planning for

and I think it's really important to do that

because a lot of times these habits that you create

can support the goals that you have

and the lifestyle that you want to live.

So what habits are you gonna start forming for yourself?

If just one.

Number seven, the final thing here to plan

which isn't really anything you have to plan

but it's more of a play on words.

I want you to plan and this is more a mindset thing,

I want you to plan to succeed,

I want you to plan to have fun,

I want you to plan to be happy.

This is approaching the next year with confidence,

that's really important

because if you don't think you can do these things

that you're planning for, then guess what?

Then you're very likely to not accomplish it.

I think it was Henry Ford who said,

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right."

So a lot of the success that you're gonna have next year

is gonna be related to your mindset.

So I want you to plan for success

and plan and approach it as if you will achieve those goals

because you will and you know what?

You're gonna aim high and even if you miss your mark,

you're gonna still you know reach your mark

which is a quote I saw on a calendar recently

that may or may not be great.

But basically what I'm saying is aim high,

plan for success and you're gonna give yourself

the best chance to succeed.

Now going back to the personal goal thing,

I wanna know in the comment section below

before we finish this video,

type in what your big personal goal is

for 2019 or even next year,

whatever the next year might be for you.

So not that we're living in different times

and you know we're in DeLoreans and stuff like that

but I mean like whatever year this is now,

the next year, what is your big goal?

what is your big personal goal?

For me was play Johnny B. Goode on guitar,

what is it for you?

Team Flynn, I wanna hear from you.

I wanna wish you all the best into the next year

and let you know that I'm here for you.

Team Flynn for the win.

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