DaveCast #22: My Goals for 2012

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I am doing this episode of the #DaveCast with a bit of egg on my face. I had originally done a great episode of with Harrison Painter and Ricky Lee Potts on QR Codes, but some where in the sands of time and recesses of my hard drive. I lost the episode,

So, in an effort to keep my goal for 2012 and do a weekly show. I scrambled Wednesday night through together this goals episode at the last minute. I am sure you will find it informative.

I wanted to share with you all some of my Goals and Plan I have for 2012 and beyond. I am also adding on to my 11/1/11 #90Dave weight goals.

2011 was a real butt kicker for me, it seemed that every time I took two step forwards I fell back one. “Frustrating” would be the word of the year for me. I hate when a sports team uses the term “rebuilding year”. Well, that is what 2011 felt like to me.

A couple of days ago, I commented on Facebook that I never felt more prepared for any year than 2012.  You know how muck favors the prepared mind. I am going to be so lucky in 2012.

I have a more formal announcement coming in a week or so after I have my real estate license renewed and I am back in the MLS very early in 2012. Yes, you read that right I did say I am getting back into real estate, but this time as a real estate agent. If you are not looking over your shoulder you will be soon.

90 Day Challenge

#90Dave started back on 11/1/11

I tipped the scales at a fat 292lbs and two months later I getting compliments all over the place at 269lbs. I lost 23lbs in 2 months and those months had Thanksgiving and Holiday parties galore. Two of the hardest months of the year to lose weight. Also, to top it all off the Girl was home and the Mom made some of the best fudge she has ever made.

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I spoke more than a few times in 2011 from Chicago to Cincinnati to Indianapolis and South Bend on a variety of subjects from Local Social Marketing, Video Marketing and Social Media Marketing. I was even invited to be a panelist in New York at Inman Real Estate Connect, one of the biggest real estate conventions in the United States. So, in 2012, I set some big public speaking goals.

Goal

Speak 8 to 10 times.

The Podcast

Doing the #DaveCast has truly been an incredible experience for me. I have had some killer guests on the show in the last quarter of 2011 and I am building on that success for a great 2012. I have some great plans and guests lined up and the information that I hope to provide will knock your socks off. The problem with these goals for 2012 is that they just may be too easy

Goal

  • weekly show of 45 to 60 minutes

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  • 1 to 2 guests a month
  • get the show into the Top 10 on iTunes
  • I want to interview a couple of the guys I look up to like Todd Duncan and Andy Andrews

I know the 3rd and 4th goal will not be easy, but not all of your goals should be easy. The trick is that they should be attainable and realistically set high and they are all that. I am going to add a little wrinkle to the weekly podcast. I am going to add a bi-monthly, free and educational webinar with little to no selling like you do other sites.

Goal

  • do 6 to 9 webinars
  • free with little to no selling
  • offer a lot of great information

getUnoticed

I am keeping this one pretty close to the chest. In 2011, I had to do a major shift in strategy and to add insult to injury. I doubt I will ever take on another business partner without some sort of serious super air tight partner agreement not to mention a lot of pondering and prayer.

Currently, I have 10 active, traffic getting and lead generating local websites in several Indiana cities.

Goal

  • add 10 more site (3/12)
  • add 1 employee (8/12)

Blatant plug here for getUnoticed, to learn more about the Local Lead Generation and other services offered visit getUnoticed today or call us at (219)872-8000.

If you are thinking I have a lot of work to do? Well, you are right and you are wrong. What I like about what I do with DaveWoodson, the real estate and getUnoticed they all tend to feed off of each other. To learn about how I do it you will need to listen the #DaveCast and contact me how to consult and speak at your next event.

Some of my other goals for 2012 with no real time frame. I wanted to get them out there and written down as they are more than mere wishes and wants.

  1. do more videos (for myself and other businesses)
  2. read more and therefore learn more
  3. scheduling with these goals. I cannot afford to let any thing fall through the cracks.

I do not for a moment think that 2012 will be a piece of cake. However, I have tied some emotional value to all of my goals.

I have them all written down and aligned to my beliefs.

All my goals are mine and/or mutually agreed on with the Wife

All those goals are specific

they are measurable and attainable

they are realistically set high

And, they all have an end date and are set up a timetable.

So, all of my goals meet the “WAY SMART” way to set goals.

I am curious what some of your goals are for 2012?

Are you prepared to do what you need to do to meet them.

 

burning boats

Dave

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#DaveCast #21: Setting Your 2012 Goals the Right Way

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#DaveCast #21: Setting Your 2012 Goals the Right Way

A month or so ago, I sat down with Leanne Hoagland-Smith, Chief Results Officer at ADVANCED SYSTEMS and professional, while we talked about Local Social Mobile

@CoachLee

Marketing for small businesses in Northwest Indiana. It was then that she offered me a chance to take her coaching assessment. I jumped at the chance. I will admit to everyone that I have struggled since I shuttered my mortgage business in 2008 and left the industry in 2010.

I found ways to make money, but I struggled to find a footing or an attitude that best suited my needs. However, even after she sent me all that I needed to fill out which was essentially two pages and bout 10 to 15 questions. I dragged my feet. Well, within a few days, she had called me back to schedule a time for her to go over my assessment.

As we went over the assessment, I was literally floored. What I had always thought to be my strength was really a weakness and the reverse was true, and it brought a few things into a clearer view, which is helping me set my goals for the New Year. (She is offering a performance appraisal special to the listeners of the #davecast)

As the New Year approaches, most of us turn to create resolutions and set goals for the coming year. The New Year tends to kick in ideas of starting anew. Coach Lee talked about how some “do” their goals. We are taught or told to set goals and then we move right into action steps or developing a plan. We are not taught to “emotionalize” our goals, but without adding some sort of emotion to a goal. You have less of a chance of meeting your goal. The thought is that if we do not have a reason to achieve them; we will never achieve them.

We talked about the goals that we had made at the beginning of the year, and while I had not achieved all the goals that I set in beginning of 2011. I had made some great strides here in late 2011. She told that some goals do to longer for us to achieve. She had made a goal in 2010, but did see it come to fruition till late 2011 and will not happen and that was to speak internationally, and that is India at the Techniche Conference.

Several weeks ago, I did a video asking for accountability in helping me lose weight. I laid in bed one morning while my family was out doing some errands that I was not needed for. I tried to envision myself 20 years in the future at the Girl’s wedding, and I was not there. Well, not as fat diabetic man. So, I am tying in the emotion of possibly not being there for my family if I do not lose the weight.

Also, another component to keep your goals in 2012 is writing them down and posting them someplace that you see every day. I keep mine in two places, in my bathroom mirror and over my computer monitor. You need to visualize your goals, by seeing them every day and what you need to do to meet your goals.

Coach Lee shared with me her method of setting her goals, which is WAY SMART!

ready for 2012

Written down

Aligned to your passion, purpose and plan

Yours

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistically set high

Time frame

I believe that if you set your goals via this method. You will experience success in achieving your goals and success in 2012.

As for me, I am below 270lbs. for the first time since this Spring and with a very well envisioned goal of hitting 225lbs. by this Summer.

I hoped you enjoy this episode of #DaveCast. Please take the time to leave a review over at iTunes.

I wish you all the success in 2012.

For more information on the program that Coach Lee offers students visit the College Success Boot Camp program.

Please visit our new sponsor Simple Nexus and use the code “daver” for 10% off and for my weight loss system

I am burning boats in 2012

Dave

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