December – The Month of Preparation

by Hope

This subsequent month goes to fly by. I’ve sufficient work to pay January’s payments which supplies me some respiration room to chase new ongoing work. Final December I used to be struggling on each degree, each plan I had for 2023 had been quashed the by sudden finish of my 5 yr relationship and engagement, to not point out the continuing job debacle. Nevertheless it was actually my private life that threw 2023 for a loop. I didn’t begin the brand new yr in a very good headspace in any respect.

And it has been a tough climb out of that every one yr. However I’m again.

My coronary heart is usually healed. I’ve reconnected some very particular individuals from my highschool years which has been very empowering. And I’ve grown accustomed to the brand new actuality of being a largely empty nester.

The world, this new yr is all mine. So I might be utilizing December to make plans and lists and setting objectives for 2024.

Objectives by Week

I’ve determined the easiest way to maintain me on monitor is to make an inventory of weekly objectives and submit it right here. This manner, the BAD group can maintain me accountable. I do know you all might be wonderful at that. Final week, I made an inventory of issues I wanted to or needed to get performed earlier than Christmas.

Then I added all of them to my Job Listing that syncs with my calendar. I received’t lavatory down this submit with every thing, however the finance/work associated duties, right here they’re. (Let me know if I’ve missed something.)

Week 1 – December 3

1. Create a $2,500 price range
2. Listing/re-list sellable gadgets which may do higher throughout this Christmas season (jewellery, outdated pc, and many others.)
3. Analysis promoting digital merchandise on-line, make an inventory of steps and associated assets

Week 2 – December 10

1. Create a grasp record from the enterprise playing cards I’ve collected during the last couple of months
2. Create one digital product utilizing Canva primarily based on analysis performed in Week 1
3. Do preliminary digital assessment of 6 from the record created in #1 this week and compose considerably standardize communication to ship them

Week 3 – December 17

1. Arrange digital product (Step #2 earlier week) to promote – Stripe, Printify, Etsy, touchdown web page, and many others? (These usually are not affiliate hyperlinks, simply instruments I’m exploring.)
2. Do preliminary digital assessment of 6 extra from the record created in #1 earlier week and compose considerably standardize communication to ship them

Notice: Quick week because the youngsters begin arriving on December twenty first so don’t need to over commit.

Week 4 – December 24

1. Create advertising plan for my new digital product and schedule it to start within the new yr.
2. Create second digital product? Possibly.
3. Do preliminary digital assessment of 6 extra from the record created in #1 through the second week and compose considerably standardize communication to ship them

Notice: One other brief week because the youngsters might be on the town till December twenty seventh so don’t need to over commit.

Week 5 – December 31

1. Kick off advertising of my digital product #1.
2. Kick off preliminary contacts to my record of small companies I’ve been engaged on.

Ongoing Work

All through all of this, I’ll proceed to use for native work and apply to company jobs with the totally different revisions to my resume that I’ve been engaged on. These objectives are outdoors of these ongoing duties that I work on just about every day in a single kind or one other.

Hope is a digital advertising supervisor and foster/adoptive single mother to 5 youngsters. She has run her personal consulting firm for over 15 years and took a leap of religion returning to the company world in 2021 to a job and staff she loves! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD group within the Spring of 2015 and seems like she has lastly mastered the steadiness between household first and sensible monetary choices.