by Hope
This subsequent month goes to fly by. I’ve sufficient work to pay January’s payments which supplies me some respiration room to chase new ongoing work. Final December I used to be struggling on each degree, each plan I had for 2023 had been quashed the by sudden finish of my 5 yr relationship and engagement, to not point out the continued job debacle. Nevertheless it was actually my private life that threw 2023 for a loop. I didn’t begin the brand new yr in headspace in any respect.
And it has been a tough climb out of that each one yr. However I’m again.
My coronary heart is usually healed. I’ve reconnected some very particular individuals from my highschool years which has been very empowering. And I’ve grown accustomed to the brand new actuality of being a principally empty nester.
The world, this new yr is all mine. So I will probably be utilizing December to make plans and lists and setting objectives for 2024.
Targets by Week
I’ve determined one of the simplest ways to maintain me on monitor is to make a listing of weekly objectives and put up it right here. This fashion, the BAD group can preserve me accountable. I do know you all will probably be wonderful at that. Final week, I made a listing of issues I wanted to or needed to get finished earlier than Christmas.
Then I added all of them to my Job Record that syncs with my calendar. I gained’t lavatory down this put up with all the things, however the finance/work associated duties, right here they’re. (Let me know if I’ve missed something.)
Week 1 – December 3
- Create a $2,500 price range
- Record/re-list sellable gadgets which may do higher throughout this Christmas season (jewellery, previous laptop, and so on.)
- Analysis promoting digital merchandise on-line, make a listing of steps and associated assets
Week 2 – December 10
- Create a grasp listing from the enterprise playing cards I’ve collected during the last couple of months
- Create one digital product utilizing Canva based mostly on analysis finished in Week 1
- Do preliminary digital evaluate of 6 from the listing created in #1 this week and compose considerably standardize communication to ship them
Week 3 – December 17
- Arrange digital product (Step #2 earlier week) to promote – Stripe, Printify, Etsy, touchdown web page, and so on? (These are usually not affiliate hyperlinks, simply instruments I’m exploring.)
- Do preliminary digital evaluate of 6 extra from the listing created in #1 earlier week and compose considerably standardize communication to ship them
Be aware: Brief week for the reason that children begin arriving on December twenty first so don’t wish to over commit.
Week 4 – December 24
- Create advertising plan for my new digital product and schedule it to start within the new yr.
- Create second digital product? Perhaps.
- Do preliminary digital evaluate of 6 extra from the listing created in #1 in the course of the second week and compose considerably standardize communication to ship them
Be aware: One other quick week for the reason that children will probably be on the town till December twenty seventh so don’t wish to over commit.
Week 5 – December 31
- Kick off advertising of my digital product #1.
- Kick off preliminary contacts to my listing of small companies I’ve been engaged on.
Ongoing Work
All through all of this, I’ll proceed to use for native work and apply to company jobs with the completely different revisions to my resume that I’ve been engaged on. These objectives are outdoors of these ongoing duties that I work on just about each day in a single type or one other.

Hope is a digital advertising supervisor and foster/adoptive single mother to 5 children. She has run her personal consulting firm for over 15 years and took a leap of religion returning to the company world in 2021 to a job and staff she loves! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD group within the Spring of 2015 and looks like she has lastly mastered the steadiness between household first and smart monetary selections.