Hey Reader

Before we get into this week's newsletter, I just wanted to give you an invitation to the challenge we're running at the moment 😈

We've been calling it "3 Months to Change Your Life" (or I've just been calling it CYL for short 😂) but the long-story-short is every participant has picked at least one thing they want to work on or improve over July - September that will have a positive impact on their life.

For more information about the challenge and how to get involved, either head over to the intro video or you can grab the details in written form here.

It's been so great to see people already having positive results even though we've only been going for 4-5 days.

We’re only a few days in at this point which means there are still over 12 weeks to make genuine, meaningful progress toward the life you want to create.

Whether you want to focus on health, wealth, relationships, or any other area of your life, this challenge is here to get you creating momentum 💪

We'd love to have you with us!

Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast 😝

One of the biggest things that holds me back in my goal-getting is feeling like I don't have enough information.

As a person who loves planning, I all too readily fall into the mindset of needing the perfect plan for a goal before I take any action.

I want every single step planned out in full so that I can make perfect, linear progress towards my goal.

But honestly, when I finally finish my supposedly perfect plan and get started on the goal, usually the reality of working on it looks a lot different 😂

That's assuming I finish the perfect plan at all!

So many goals get stuck in the planning stage and never see meaningful progress.

That's not going to be us any more though, so what are we going to do differently? 👀

The idea - You don't need all the information to get started

While research and information can be hugely helpful for planning our goals, feeling like we need all of it can stop us from really getting started.

Typically, this isn't where we want our goal-getting to end. There's another, much better outcome we have in mind.

When we convince ourselves we need to know everything before we can begin, “research” starts getting used as a form of procrastination.

Oftentimes this comes from the fear of messing up (or what I like to call FOMU).

We tell ourselves we’re being productive researching to make our "perfect plan" when really we’re just avoiding the scarier part 🫢 taking action.

Rather than getting perfect clarity on how we're going to achieve something, what we actually need is:

1. Clarity on the outcome we're striving for, and
2. Enough information to take an informed next step

By getting clear about the outcome we want from our goal, it helps to safeguard us from wasting our time on actions that aren't taking us in the right direction.

Combining this with doing only enough research to plan the next 1 or 2 action steps will get us way closer to that outcome than obsessing over a perfect plan would.

I call this the "minimum viable research" approach; essentially only allowing your goal-related research to extend as far as helping you plan your next action step 💪

Plus, as we actually start to work on our goals, we're going to learn from experience rather than learning based on expectations. Any plans we make after taking some action are going to be better informed because of it.

All this to say, we don't need to start with a perfect plan to make progress on our goals possible.

Let's take action

If you have a goal you feel like you've stalled out on, ask yourself whether this is because you feel like you don't have enough information to get started.

The challenge here is to take only 5 - 10 minutes of dedicated research to plan what your next action step is going to be.

Make sure it's a step that isn't just more research! We want to end up with tangible progress towards your goal.

Once you've taken that step though, then it's just a rinse and repeat process of doing the minimum viable research and taking another action step.

Goal-getting isn't a solo sport

If you wanted extra accountability and support on your goal planning and action taking, come join us over in the EPIC Goals Club 😄

We hold work-along sessions and set accountability plans with each other every week to make sure we're taking action on the things that matter.

Until next time!

- Jess

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