The Day You Designed Your Best Year

Welcome to Lesson 06 of The Purposeful Performer!

Up to this point, we’ve been zooming out to look at the bigger picture—your performance last year, your career, your life, your ambitions. Now, it’s time to put these insights to practical use.

Today’s lesson is a dead-simple way to plan your best year ever by embracing our core principle: “Human first, professional second.”

Total points up for grabs: 20

A more purposeful way to plan the year ahead

Today, we’ll explore how to intentionally design your year around the things that spark joy and create memories and then work backwards to fill in the gaps for only the highly valuable work.

This will be a natural filter against the low-value activities and distractions that can creep in, erode your performance, and deliver mediocre results.

It's a double whammy: Happy human + productive professional.

The exercise in today’s Mission will instantly upgrade your year and free you up to produce your best work ever.

Why does it matter for a Level II Revenue Generator?

99% of strategic sellers I first start coaching get annual planning wrong. They are "time blind" (something exacerbated for those with ADHD), which results in two unfortunate outcomes:

1. Missing or barely hitting their number, while...

2. Sacrificing the important events and people in their lives

To tackle the "time blindness" trap and enter the top 1%:

• Build your personal calendar for the year first

• Bring it to life with things that will create lasting memories

• Use the open blocks on it to then fill in your professional work

When you prioritize “human first, professional second,” you're not giving up work for fun. Instead, you're designing your calendar purposefully to focus only on the most important tasks while also making time for what truly matters to you personally.

Below, I will walk you through how to do this in three simple steps, including a helpful tool and a guided plan (which you can unlock in the Mission). Heads up though—there are a few “must-haves” to ensure your annual calendar is complete.

Let’s dive in!

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