If you’ve not done the 100 Day Goal before you should really give it a go! Every one who gives it a try gets something very extraordinary out of it. Have a quick read of these snippets, and you’ll see why!

🌸 SOME PEOPLE REACH THEIR GOALS + ACHIEVE AMAZING SUCCESS 🌸

“I have absolutely nailed this and cannot believe how much I am achieving. My business has done a complete 180!”

“I’m about to turn 50 and this 100 Day Goal has completely turned my life around”

“My goal was to double my clients and income. I reached my goal by day 85! It’s been a wonderful motivation and I’ve learnt many things…about business and about myself! I will keep working and planning like I have been, setting new goals and making small positive steps everyday to keep my business successful”

“It’s been a fantastic 100 days, my goal was to double the number of orders that I got this same time period last year and I smashed it!”

“I set myself a sales target this time. It was very useful to have something easily measurable and it was very easy to track the numbers. After reading something from Julia I set myself quite a challenge by doubling the sales figure that I’d made this time last year, and then following her advice I stretched it a bit further. I’ll be honest and admit that I didn’t think I’d make it. However, having the target as a reminder, tracking the figures as I went along, and trying out new ideas suggested has meant that 2 weeks from the end of the goal, I achieved what I thought was unachievable!”

“I aimed very high and it has paid off I couldn’t imagine not doing the 100 day challenge because it keeps me focussed on what I need to do without getting too distracted.”

“This is the 4th time that I’ve done the 100 Day Goal, and I am now so committed to having a plan at the beginning and completing daily actions. I’ve increased my revenue by almost three times as much over this same period last year.”

“This has been a brilliant 100 days – I have learnt so much! I really didn’t know which way to go with my photography at the start of the year and this process has given me focus and direction!”

🌸 SOME PEOPLE GET UNEXPECTED RESULTS! 🌸

“I suffer with many issues but one of them is Chronic fatigue.. I spend hours in bed and never feel rested. If I am awake all day I have to sleep the next. It was a big step taking this challenge, I was prepared for my goal to take 200 days due to my ailments. But the 100 Day Goal has cast a spell on me! You see I started off with the best of intentions, but fully expecting to get maybe one week in, finding it too much and then slowly fizzling into the background. But! I’ve worked every day solid and I’ve done a minimum of 2 hours work a day upto a massive 8 hour day.! Unheard of! And when I plan a day off to rest.. I rest.. Then at daft o’clock in the evening I ‘goto work’ . I am absolutely gobsmacked at the concept and support that’s happened to keep me going day to day… I’m under a spell!”

🌸 IT’S GIVEN SOME PEOPLE ROUTINE + PURPOSE DURING TRICKY TIMES 🌸

“I am so grateful for the encouraging 100 Day Goal. My Mum has been in hospital and most days I can only do the 100 day microactions I have set. But you know what ,with all the mire that is going on I feel a sense of peace, calm and stability, and most of all I feel I am achieving something.”

🌸 IT’S HELPED LOTS OF PEOPLE RISE OUT OF THE DAY-TO-DAY AND WORK ON STUFF THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE🌸

“I just love the 100 day goal system. So simple but so effective! It helps me focus on the importance of all the little things that I can do to move forward in my business. Instead of just ‘getting the work done’ my attitude has shifted to ‘How can I help myself and my business be EVEN BETTER!’. It’s refreshing and exciting, and I just love seeing what comes out of each round of 100 days! (It’s always bigger and better than I dreamed it would be!)”

🌸 IT’S HELPED PEOPLE MAKE PROGRESS IN A DOABLE WAY🌸

“This whole concept is so worthwhile…I have found so much motivation, the 100 goals came along at a perfect time and in a week I feel so different and ready to tackle my goals”

“It helps me not only goal-set, but makes it possible to get there without that feeling of overwhelm!”

“This is my second round of the 100 day goal. I honestly believe that I would not be where I am today without the focus that actually writing down the 100 micro-actions gave me. The daily reminders and support from the Facebook group also provides me the positive pressure needed to keep going!

🌸 IT’S HELPED PEOPLE MAKE BIG CHANGES 🌸

“The 100 day goal saw me completely change direction and embrace what I should have done years ago.”

“I remembered something Julia said in one of the first emails on this journey. She said…’your goals may change along the way and that is fine.’ Well mine certainly did! My original 100 Day Goal was to learn a volume of music, but it changed to ending my unhealthy marriage. It’s been incredibly challenging but I believe I’ve reached a tremendous milestone that was set forth in motion with the 100 Day Goal.”

🌸 SOMETIMES THE UNIVERSE CONSPIRES TO HELP!🌸

“My goal and problems were massive – I have Lyme Disease and was degenerating badly, plus I was running a Hair & Beauty Salon and Spa that was only 2yrs old, and struggling after having to remove my business partner a year in. My goal was simple ‘Breakthrough in success, health and happiness’ – I was literally sick of slow growth and slow improvement. I wrote the micro-actions and they helped to make sure that when it came to the business decisions I only did things that would get us onto safer ground, which slowly but surely it did over the 100 days. How I was going to improve health wise, I just didn’t know. But I knew the concept of focussing on the what, not the how, so every morning and evening I looked at my little card in my bathroom cabinet and told myself I was going to have a breakthrough. Miraculously a month ago it happened!”

🌸 And it even works for sceptics!🌸

“When I started this challenge I thought it was going to be ridiculous and wasn’t going to change anything. I`ve done personal growth for year and never made any progress. It all changed in the last 100 Days. One of my goals was personal and when I started I thought I was crazy to add it to this challenge and that I would never actually reach it. Not only did I fully achieve the goal, I went over and beyond my goal. I changed physical habits, financial habits and career habits. I got the wedding of my dreams, bought my husband and I a new car, and got a new job in a career field that feels like the perfect fit for me. “

We’d love you to join us! It’s all FREE and starts again on 1 September.

If you want to get a BIG something done, doing a little bit every day makes it easy! But you need to get into the HABIT of doing it every day to make it really work. And that isn’t as simple as it sounds!

If you’ve ever tried to do something EVERY day, you’ll know it’s easier said than done! Some days are busy, some days you just don’t feel like it, some days you forget… But if you can keep up your daily-thing for about a month, it becomes a habit. And when it becomes a habit it DOES become easy. Really!

From the experience of more than 50,000 people doing the 100 Day Goal I absolutely know that the  best way to reach your 100 Day Goal is to work on it, a little bit, every day.

But because it’s not easy to do it every day until you’ve kinda done it every-day–for-a- while, you need some tools to make  “daily” happen.

Here are four that help!

1 You need to WANT to do it

If you really, really, really want to reach your 100 Day Goal you’ll find it surprisingly easy to work on it every day. It’s amazing how when we totally 100% absolutely want something we can find the time and energy to make it happen.

Not sure your goal makes you feel this way? Read this and this.

2 You need Daily Reminders

I originally started sending daily emails out to 100 Day Goalers because it reminded ME to do my 100 Day Goal. I couldn’t very well send a daily email out to everyone else and not do the work myself!

While it worked for me it worked for YOU too! Not only as encouragement but also as a bit of a NAG! Yes, sometimes the emails are annoying. They remind you that you haven’t done your “thing”. They make you feel a bit guilty. But they also prod you to go and do it. And we all need that kinda prod now and again, don’t we!

[If you’re not getting the daily email, you should. It’s way more than a prod! Lots of helpful tips TOO! Just sign up here or email me JuliaATthebusinessbakery.com.au]

3 You need a Reward!

Obviously the best reward for doing your daily ‘thing’ every day, is reaching your goal. But that’s 100 days away and it might be nice to have something to look forward to along the way!

• Some 100 Day Goalers give themselves a weekly reward – 7 days of consecutive microactions
• A friend of mine puts $5 in a jar every day that she does a microaction and when she does ten on the trot she takes it out and spends it!

What’s your reward?

4 You need to Track your Progress!

There’s nothing that keeps you going more than seeing how far you’ve come! You can track your Goal progress or your Daily progress.

If you want to track your Daily progress, you could grab one of these Goal Trackers [Hello Blossom, You’re a Star, It’s a Piece of Cake] and simply colour in a swirl, every day. This is my one! [Well, it is only Day 3!]

You can get the Goal Trackers for just $3 (£1.80) each here.

YOU

Are you feeling committed to doing something every day?!

– X-

How to get it all done when you’re a business of ONE!

If you feel like you have too much to do and wondering if you can ever make your solo business successful without working 24/7 , you’ll love our new guide“How to get it all done when you’re a business of ONE” . You totally CAN do it! More deets here if you fancy.

Some more helpful stuff about GOALS! Because half the battle is getting the goal right, RIGHT?! 

The best type of GOAL

The best type of goal is a RESULTS goal, which means it’s something that happens as a result of all your hard work. Your work is your ACTIONS.

A businessy example of a RESULTS goal is $10,000 in sales. The sales are a result of all the activities you did to make those sales (attending markets, publishing your blog, partnering with another small business)

A personal example of a RESULTS  goal is getting to a size 12  from a size 16. The size loss is a result of  the activities you did, like going for walks or swapping to healthy food.

Actions don’t make good goals

Sometimes you might be tempted to set your ACTIONS themselves as a goal. For example you might want to set your goal as posting twice a day to Instagram for 100 days.

The trouble with “Action”  goals like this though, is that they often doesn’t get us to where we actually want to be.

So maybe you decide to set your goal as posting twice a day to Instagram for 100 days in the hope that you’ll get more online sales. But the half way through the 100 days you find that it’s not working. It’s not getting you (m)any sales. 

Or, even worse, you get the WHOLE way through the 100 Day and realise it didn’t work.

Gah! This OFTEN happens with “action” goals.

ACTION goals are really Strategies

Most ‘action’ goals are really strategies. Strategies are a WAY to reach the goal rather than the goal itself.

So if you want to make 50 online sales in the next 100 days, your strategies might include things like:

• Get big on Instagram
• Maintain presence on FB
• Start getting active on Pinterest

(these are totes made up!)

So rather than pick an “Action” goal, pick a “Result”s goal and then include your “”Action” as one of your strategies to help you get there.

Strategies into Micro-actions

Once you’ve got your  Goal and your Strategies, you can then work out what Microactions you need to do for each Strategy. Microactions are the little activities you do to reach your goal.

If you’ve been struggling to come up with your list of microactions, try starting with a list of your Strategies. I think you’ll find it easier! 

If you’re in the 100 Day Goal group, see this is what Mandy Munro has done. Her seven Master Action sheets are the Strategies.

Some strategies don’t work, that’s fine

Once you get going you’ll find that some of your strategies don’t seem to be getting you towards your goal. Frustrating, but that’s life.

Maybe you put your heart and soul into your Facebook page but didn’t get any sales. That’s fine. Dump the Facebook strategy and do more on the others (Instagram, for instance). But stick to your goal. You still want to make more online sales, you’re just not going to do it with Facebook.

Picking your goals!

Picking the right goal is super-important. We’ve had more than 25,000 people do the 100 Day Goal over the past (almost) three years and the number ONE reason people give for not achieving the goal is that they picked the wrong goal! More tips here and here on picking your goal, but remember: make it a RESULTS goal not an ACTION goal.

Goal HELP!

Gosh, I have had LOTS of requests for help on setting your goals. Y’know I would absolutely love to be able to help you all individually, but I just don’t have enough time! Last night I burned the dinner because I was sooo busy chatting on email about GOALS!

So from now on – and it kills me to say this – but I can’t really chat on email/messenger about your goals. I’m hoping that this post (and the others I linked to, plus the Workbook) will help.

BUT, I can still help in a small way! If you would still like some goal advice  I am going to do (I think ten) private half- hour Skype sessions. These will be paying sessions but at a much discounted rate. Details here. xx