Day 100 - Inventory

Today's the day!! Are you excited? There are exactly 100 days left in 2018. What are you going to do with them? What if you took these last 100 days and focused with great intention to improve your life and achieve the goals you most likely established at the first of the year?

The first thing I recommend is that you review what's happened in 2018 so far. Look back at your New Year's resolutions you set at the start of the year. Which are still unfinished? What prevented you from accomplishing those? Write down the lessons you've learned - what worked, what didn't work and why. Also, look at what you did accomplish. What pushed you to accomplish those goals? What support did you have to make it happen? What lessons/behaviors can you apply to other goals to replicate that success?

For the remainder of the year, set one or two end-of-the-year goals and make them a priority - do all you can to accomplish them. Don’t let fear or procrastination hold you back. Find whatever it is that keeps you motivated, committed to moving in the direction of accomplishment.

Take out your planner, open your Outlook Calendar, your Google Calendar, your phone calendar or whatever it is that you use and set a reminder that your deadline of December 31st for achieving your goals. I took out my planner, flipped to December and marked off the last 100 days.  I wrote 1 on December 31st and worked my way back to September until I hit 100. By noting them on my calendar, it'll help me with a visual countdown until my deadline.

I'm going to focus on these 4 areas:
  💹FINANCIAL
  🔬HEALTH
  📚ORGANIZATION
  💝SPIRITUAL

When choosing your goals, make sure it's a goal or goals that are truly meaningful to you.

First things first though! Take an inventory of exactly where you are. You have to know exactly where you currently stand to make a plan for how to get to where you want to be.

For example, for my financial and health goals, I spent a few hours yesterday devising a financial budget. I noted due dates, interest rates, account balances, etc. I used a program called Everydollar.

Today I went through the pantry and wrote out an inventory of everything in it along with the expiration dates and cleared out anything expired.  Now I just need to do the Fridge and Freezers along with the spices, etc.

Both of these items will help with my financial, health and organizational goals!  A triple whammy! Yay, for forward progress.

I'll provide updates on other items and will share ideas of lessons learned along the way. What baby steps can you take today to move you towards a strong finish to the year?

View these last days of 2018 as a gift - a second chance to dust off some of your goals and really focus on them. Don’t allow yourself to go on autopilot. Instead, choose to be intentional about making these last days count. When you’re overwhelmed and there are a million things to do, remember to focus on what really matters. Where can your actions make the greatest impact to your life?

Here's to #FinishingStrong in #100DaysToGreat

#100DaysToGreat #FinishingStrong

So I'm dusting off this old blog of mine to work on an idea I've been kicking around for awhile called #100DaysToGreat #FinishingStrong 

Often times during the last quarter of the year, we get super lax in how we do things. We get overwhelmed by the holidays, lose focus and totally stress. We lose all of our productivity and backslide on things. What would happen, if instead, we used these last days of 2018 to push ourselves to our strongest finish line? What if we all reset our focus for the last 100 days of the year?  What if we pushed to see what we could truly accomplish, so that when we start the New Year, our habits and lives are already in motion rather than waiting until January 1st to kick off goals? 

During these last days, let's approach the end of the year just like successful companies do. Think about it! At the first of the year, they established their goals/focus and plan for the expected results for their Board, Shareholders and Customers. We, as individuals, do this with our New Year Resolutions. During the year, most companies and people experience victories as well as setbacks. It's in how companies address those items that determine their success. They don't have one failure then simply throw in the towel and stop what they are doing. They don't get towards the end of the year and just say, "Eh, let's wait until Jan 1 to do anything." Instead, they remain agile and shift their focus. There may be a product or a line of business that isn’t growing as projected, so they look for alternative ways to push growth so that they end the year on an uptick. During these evaluations, they may discover things that are performing better than anticipated, so they evaluate those items to see how those successes can fuel success in other areas. For the last quarter or last 100 days, they will evaluate where they are, where they need to be and then make changes and push where necessary.

September 23 is the start of the last 100 days of 2018.  Are you ready?  Let's make sure we are #FinishingStrong in our #100DaysToGreat 

Topics we'll be focusing on:

💹FINANCIAL

• Budgeting - Finishing Financially Strong, Envelope methods

• Meal Planning - Inventory Pantry, Fridge,  Freezer

• Spending Freeze - Help get your budgeting back

• Couponing/Apps - How to get more for your $$s, Challenge what you can save during the holidays

• Gifts/Black Friday - What's Important, Small purchases now

• StOCkTOBER - Getting goods on sale during the holidays for your use later

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) - Use it or Lose it

• Medical/Dental - Deductibles and Maximums reset

🔬HEALTH

• Exercise- Feeling better about yourself during the holidays

• Treating your body better and giving it what it needs

• Annual physicals and Dental Check-ups

📚ORGANIZATION

• Cleaning/Winterizing - Fall leaves/Letting Go/Fruit drops from the tree when it's ready

• Planners - Blocking out your Time

💝SPIRITUAL

• Meditation/Gratitude - Destress and appreciation

• Time with Family/Friends - What's important to you

• Unplugging and refocusing on things that bring you pleasure 

• Reading/Hobbies - Reading List, Crafts, etc

• Journaling - Documenting your progress
• Brain Dumping

• Giving/Charity - Get out of your head, out of your drama and give back

• Taking Time Off - Vacation time that can be subject to Use it or Lose it

• Dana-isms - Going to share some of my stories and experiences