How To Make This New Year Your Best Year Yet | Robin Sharma

Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Well, my team and I are tremendously almost blown away by the response to the blog. I recently did the 60 tips for a Stunningly Successful Life. I think in the first few days it was posted, we had close to 20,000 people share the blog. If you haven't seen the blog, go find the 60 tips. It's@robinsharma.com but here's what I want to do in this video blog. As you might know, I've had the privilege of working with a number of the world's top CEOs, wildly successful entrepreneurs, a number of billionaires. What I do is I help them become better leaders without titles. I help them grow their businesses to the next level of excellence, but I also help them restructure and reinvent their personal lives so they not only find success and financial mastery, but they also create meaningful, satisfied, fulfilled and healthy, important personal lives. And we're wrapping up the end of this year. We're moving into a new year and here's what I thought I'd do as a way to sincerely thank you for being a part of the Lead Without a Title community, for following my message, for living the ideas and the inspiration that I try to share, whether it's in the blogs or on the video blogs. I wanted to offer you the process that I teach to these super successful business people. And so really this is the five step process that I share with my one on one coaching clients to help them design their best years. I want you to go through these five steps as we wind down this year to help you prepare so that this coming new year is your absolute best year yet. So the first thing, step number one, I want you to celebrate. What I want you to do is pull out your journal, pull out a piece of paper, and I want you to record a few things. Number one, I want you to ask yourself this. What wins do I need to celebrate from the past 12 months? Or what things did I do that I need to appreciate myself for? What are your big achievements or your small achievements? Write them all down in this first step of celebration because the more you can start to record all the good things you did, all the wins, big and small, that you achieved, you will start to actually notice things you didn't notice. You will actually build a sense of confidence, you will actually build a sense of energy, you will actually create a sense of momentum and appreciation for all the good things that happened to you in the past 12 months. So the first thing is really write out an inventory of your successes, your wins Your achievements, even your special moments, maybe with your team, with your favorite client, with your family members, with your friends. Write them all down in this first step of celebration. Step number two, education. So step number two is where I have my CEO clients start to ask themselves, what did they learn from the past 12 months? Because with better awareness, you can make better choices in the new year. With better choices, you're bound to see better results. So step number two is education. Ask yourself these questions. What are the three best business lessons I learned for the past 12 months? Write them down. Write down your answers. Really reflect on them. Another question you can ask yourself at this second stage of education from last year. What are my three best life lessons that I learned or that the past 12 months taught me? So really get use last year or the past 12 months as an education. So it's almost a platform to make next year your absolute best year yet. Okay. Another question asked in the education phase of this process is what were you doing when you achieved your best results in the past 12 months? That's one of my favorite coaching questions. What were you doing? Or what was going on in your life? Or what were your best practices when you achieved your best results over the past 12 months? Okay. Number three. Clarification. Clarification. So step number three, if this design process so you build next year into your absolute best year yet, is really all about clarification because clarity precedes mastery. So here's what I want you to answer in this third phase. Number one, what are your big five for this new year? In other words, ask yourself what five things must happen between the beginning of the coming year and December 31st of the new year for this to have been the single best year of your life to date? What five things? These are called your big five for the new year. And you're going to look at these almost every day. You're going to. These are going to be almost your magnificent obsession. They're going to allow you to focus. They will energize you. They will prevent a seduction to distraction. So you create your absolute best year yet. Second thing I want you to ask yourself, what are going to be your top five values for the next 12 months? Because your values really drive your behavior. You really want to know your values. Otherwise, you'll live the media's values, or you'll live your neighbor's values, or you'll live your mother's values, but you won't be authentic and create your own values and a great source of energy over the coming 12 months. Is knowing that you're congruent with your values. Your values might be freedom. Your second value might be beauty. Your third value might be relationships. Your fourth value for the new year might be peak health. I don't know what your values are, but write those five values for the coming 12 months down. And then the final step of this third phase of this planning process is really ask yourself, what are your goals for the next 12 months? Write down your top 15 goals for the coming 12 months. These are the things that are. I mean, here's the formula I would give you as you write down your top 15 goals for the next 12 months. Creativity plus audacity equals mastery. So get a little creative, shake yourself up, ask yourself, what are my 15 important goals in the key areas of my life over the coming 12 months? Be a little audacious. In other words, dream, stretch yourself, challenge yourself. So you feel a little scared, a little uncomfortable, maybe a little nervous. And that will be the step of mastery. Okay, so so far, the phases we've gone through in this design process for your next 12 months, so they are your absolute best 12 months yet. Number one, celebration. Number two, education. Number three, clarification. Okay, number four is really.

Graduation. Graduation. Step number four is actually taking your goals, taking your values, taking your big five for the next 12 months. Step number four is graduating them into a plan. In other words, sequencing all of the things you want to do and all the values you want to live by putting, put them into a month by month plan graduation or sequencing them. So, you know, January, what you're going to do, February, what you're going to do, March, what you're going to do. And try to get them on a double sided page, in other words, one page, double sided. Your graduated plan of execution for the 12 months of the new year. Okay, and then the final element, the fifth element, pretty simple, is visualization. Now I want you to close your eyes. I want you to think about all of the things you want to achieve, you've committed to. Again, commitment is really important. So these are commitments for the new year. Close your eyes and start to emotionally engage with what your life will look like in the key areas of your life. Whether it's financial, work, family, health, personal life, inner life. Start to see with color, with vivid detail, with as much clarity as possible. Picture what your life will look like when you achieve all the things you've written down in this five step planning process. Now, with that picture, I want you to start to revisit it at least every few days. Because the more you can internalize that ideal vision or colorful picture of where you want to be December 31st of next year, the more consciously as well as subconsciously, your behavior will be aligned with that expectation. Because your performance or your behavior is always aligned with the images or the beliefs that you run through your brain. Okay, I'm going to review it all again. Number one, celebration. Write down an inventory of your wins, your achievements, your special moments from the past 12 months. Number two, education. What did you learn from last year? I mean, what did you learn from the past 12 months you've lived? How did they serve as an education or platform? So next year will be your best yet. In other words, your three best business lessons, your three best personal lessons, your best practices that kept you at your best. Step number three, clarification. This is where you articulate your big five for the new year, your top values, as well as your top 15 goals for the next 12 months. Step number four, graduation. Put them into a plan of execution on one page, two sides, so you know, January, what you need to achieve. February, all the way till next December. Again, you will have a sequence plan. And step number five, visualization. Few things are as powerful as sitting down quietly every single day and visualizing your life as you wish it to be. Be at the end of next year, December 31st of next year. That will imprint that vision and that expectation into your mind, which will then drive your behavior and your performance. I Wish the next 12 months are your absolute best year yet. I hope you've liked this process, really go deep into it. Have a fantastic new year from my team. And I keep leading without a title. And again, thank you for supporting my lead without a title message and being a part of our community.