Goal Setting – Episode 011 – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

In this podcast, Kia interviews Matt about goal setting. He compares goal setting to creating a road map so you know what opportunities to take throughout the year. He recommends brainstorming everything you want to accomplish for 5 minutes, dreaming huge and small. Think about where you want to be 3 months, 3 years, and a lifetime from now to give you short term and long term goals. Listen in to learn more about SMART goals. Matt also has specific questions he uses to reflect on the past to help shape the future; you’ll want to take notes! Then Matt explains how he turns his goals into action plans so he can accomplish them. Resources - Questions Matt uses to reflect What was the best part of 2018? What was the lesson learned from that? What was the most challenging part of 2018? What was the lesson learned from that? Who & How did you positively influence someone in 2018? Who made you laugh most in 2018? Who or what were you most grateful for in 2018? What still feels incomplete to you? What will you do to handle it? What would you change about how you managed your stress in 2018? What do you wish you would have done differently this year? What are you most proud of in regards to your finances in 2018? Where did you find the most peace and calm in 2018? What advice would you give yourself at the beginning of 2018? What will you do less of in 2019? What important relationship do you want to improve the most next year? What do I most want to be thankful for 1 year from now? What do I want to become an expert in the next year? What are you most excited about for the next year? Read Full Transcript Transcription was done by Temi.com which means it’s an AI generated transcript. The transcript may contain spelling, grammar and other errors, and is not a substitute for watching the video. Speaker 1: 00:01 Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer's podcast with Matt and Kia where each week they talk to photographers about what is working in their business now so you can swipe those ideas and grow your business faster. Hello everyone. Kia: 00:18 Welcome to from nothing to profit. Today is our goal setting show and I'm Kia bonderant and I am going to be interviewing Matt Hoagland about how he sets the goals throughout the year and I'm super excited because I have some ways that I do goal setting, but it's not my main thing that I do where we have our new year's show. We talked about word of the year and that's really my way of starting the year. So Matt, I'm super excited to hear what you have to say about goal setting. Matt: 00:50 Yeah, it's really fun. This is something I felt like I kind of thrive in. I would love to know what my wife and employees think, whether I thrive in it or not, but it definitely helps me a lot and I feel like it moves our business forward in a major way. So yeah, I'm excited to share what I have to offer. Kia: 01:06 Okay. So tell us about like what you do when you set goals. Matt: 01:10 Yeah, so I think it's important to set goals every year because it's kind of like, for me it's like a roadmap, you know, it's really hard to know where you're going unless you have a map to kind of tell you where to go. So it, it goal setting starts as the start of the process of figuring out what the roadmap is for the year. But, and part of the reason that happens in the roadmap happens is because you're establishing priorities as soon as you say these are my goals and there's actually I think a bigger part than goals which is called, which I call an action plan, but we'll get to that in a second. But it establishes your priorities so that you can start looking at the world, your business, whatever it is, through a certain lens and decide like, okay, all this stuff coming at me. Like what actually, what do I need to pay attention to? Because you know, as you get a million opportunities in the, in any given year to, you know,