“Roadmap Your Goals: A Business Plan for Your Life | Aspire with Emma Grede”

By Mia Sandoval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_2UP23Rfh0

British business woman, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, Emma Grede shares on a podcast segment step by step how she has personally mapped out her own life and goals and how you can too. Highlighting the importance of planning, reflecting on our failures, prioritizing goals, and simply time!

When Emma gets more into the importance of planning, she shares how she starts on her birthday but that there is also a significance in when you start that plan, a day with meaning as she described it.

More into the segment you come across questions that you may just want to ask yourself each year. Those questions being goals you had but were unable to fulfill, what do you wish you had done more of, what are you scared of or avoiding, what would you like to learn, and lastly what boundaries do you want to set and what habits do you want to establish.

Another piece of advice that Grede gives is the importance of prioritizing goals. She gave the example of not knowing how to swim, that being she’s a mom with young children. She would end up trading a workout session with a swimming class. She shared a hack, saying while her kids swim, she swims. She calls this habit stacking, stacking her habits above theirs. She says, “this works because you're not relying on will power just expanding a habit loop that’s already hard wired”.

Being reflective of our failures is also a part of the process, asking ourselves what is stopping us and what happens to be a recurring factor. Which leads into how to keep track of any progress we make. Grede advises to not obsess over perfection, but on the bigger picture. Ways that help to track progress is using a habit tracking app, note app, calendar, but making sure it is something that we will be able to see constantly. Creating a plan is a step forward to the life you strive for.

The last 5 takeaways of the segment, which Grede spoke on herself, were to first pick a great day to start, second, asking ourselves the hard questions, third, putting a limit on the number of goals, fourth, writing down specific goals, and lastly breaking down those goals into small weekly and daily tasks. I personally can relate to this in a sense because I do that, I make a list of things I want to accomplish in the week and check them off as I go. I feel a sense of satisfaction, relief, and accomplishment once every single to-do or ‘goal’ is checked off.