Every year I try to get myself better organized, better at following through with my plans, better at making things happen. Every year I’m partially successful. I’m making way. That’s progress.

The price of making way [progress]

This past year I spent a lot of time and money learning things that I felt were important to help me reach my entrepreneurship goals – the main goal being that I will have a side gig that is bringing in income. It’s been a dream for so long … I can’t remember ever not dreaming about being my own boss. So, I’ve been trying to get focused on my plan and focused on getting started while still gainfully employed. 

It is hard. Now I really believe that self-employment is never easy, but trying to launch and build a side-gig that will eventually become my main-gig while still employed full-time is really really hard. Really. Hard. Excruciating at times. 

It takes a little to make a lot

I am feeling much more prepared now, but have still not moved ahead. I’d like to have something up and running and some results to review before another 12 months have gone by. I will have the opportunity to re-do much of the training I did this year. I want to have made at least a little progress before I begin – so that I can then make a lot of progress. 

A year of change

2018 has been a year of change – the last big year of change was in 2015. This year, I invested in training that included an in-person bonus training in San Diego. I turned it into a little vacation and really enjoyed everything about both trainings AND my trip. I then purchased and completed an additional course that got into the specifics of one type of program I want to be running. I feel prepared, but with a lot more work to do.

So, now I want to put this first side-gig component into practise. I lost a bit of momentum leading up to and throughout the holidays. Now I’m looking for my mojo again. 

Finding my mojo

I am doing some of my annual planning to reflect that, but the planning isn’t done. And I’m not going to let that stop me from taking the steps that I plan to take in January. I will finish my planning, but it’s now a week in and I already have things I am committed to completing! Including this post. So… the rest of 2019 planning will have to work around my January priorities. That’s making way, even if not perfect.

How do you keep yourself motivated? Are you an annual planner? Do you plan out your priorities and schedule them so they don’t get pushed aside by new projects? How do you ensure that your own plans take precedence over others’ in your life?

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