Breaking Down Big Dreams into Achievable Business Goals
Holy shit, we're getting ORGANISED! Today we're diving into the mind-blowing concept of setting 100 smaller goals for your business (yes, you read that right - one hundred fucking goals!).
Between Dotty the cat's attempts to steal the show and our usual shenanigans, we're breaking down how to turn those overwhelming "holy fuck, how will I ever do this" business dreams into bite-sized, achievable goals.
We're sharing the real shit about our own goal-setting adventures - from fancy café planning dates (because who doesn't love plotting world domination over coffee?) to our love affair with journals and planners. Plus, we're sharing our favourite tools, podcasts, and books that actually help get shit done.
And because we know you can't crush those goals if you're running on empty, we're talking about why self-care isn't just some woo-woo bullshit but actually crucial for your success.
Number of fucks given in this episode: 22
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Transcript
Rah: Welcome to the fuck around and find out podcast, a podcast for finding your way through owning your own business. I'm rah,
Emily: I'm Chris and I'm Emily.
Rah: Insert the banter, which I put How are we, lady? We're actually inserting
Christine: banter. There's no, no
Rah: banter. Let's move on.
Christine: Yeah, I think, um, I think we'll do it. All right.
Rah: Before we move on, I think we need to mention the first.
Christine: Yes. Yes. Yes. So we've got a co host, um, Dotty Dot, uh, black and white, you know, roaming, roaming podcast. Yeah, that's right.
Rah: You set up for 2025. And, uh, yep, Dottie decided he wanted to sit on my lap.
Emily: Yep, that's right. So, did you hear any purring? Is Mike out?
Yes.
Rah: Okay, you're in my arms. Yes. And he's looking at you like, why?
Emily: Are you not loving me? He's like, this is,
Rah: this is how you meant to love me. Half his body weight and
Emily: hair is coming off. And you're going
Rah: to be coated in hair. And I'm going to be in so much trouble when I get home. Cody is going to be like, you fucking bitch.
Oh my god, yep. Who's this? Who's this?
Christine: Yeah.
Rah: Mog will hiss at me. It's going to be a whole vibe. Yeah. You must record that for us. Yes. Oh, I will. I'll film it. Yeah. It's all content. No, do that. So, what are we talking about today, Gay?
Christine: Well, you know what, we thought we might have a little bit of a conversation about setting some goals.
Um, and it's, and, you know, it's a perfect time, it's the beginning of the year. Beginning of a great new year that's got great potential and a new month in a few days. Um, but it's not just setting goals around, um, business. Um, I thought we would have a conversation about setting goals around balance and boundaries and self care.
Um, you know, and why it's just fucking essential to do this. Um, I, I saw the other day, I do the headway thing. I've started doing headway, listening to. Okay. The um, the key points from books and stuff, first thing in the morning. And of course, you know that thing about happiness won't, um, buy you money, doesn't buy you happiness.
We all know that. But that thing about, but, um, happiness can bring more money, um, and everything. Um, this thing around goals, like, you know, the self-care goals, um, the boundary goals, those sort of things are very important to reach your business goals.
Rah: A hundred percent. And I think when you two first mentioned this as part of planning that business planning day.
Yes. I've said the word planning many times in this sentence already. The new fuck count. Yep. Planning, planning, planning, planning. Hashtag all the planning. The thought of the 100 things freaked me out and I was like, how the fuck am I doing a hundred things? Yep. But when you explained it, it made a lot more sense because these are more smaller incremental things so that you can still get your little dopamine hit.
You
Christine: know what? Absolutely. And you know, you can only achieve some things when you chunk it down. And I agree with you that when I looked at that first list, I thought, fuck. You know, here's some work for me to do to think about some stuff. Yeah. Thanks babe. Um, but yeah, break it down and it's easier because it's, you know, depending on what kind of theme we're looking at, I mean, it might be 10 things
Rah: with all
Christine: boundaries, but it might be 15 for balance, but it's so much better.
And if it's self care oriented goals, how awesome is that? Okay.
Rah: So I knocked off a goal this morning. One of my new things that I've decided I wanted to do My Christmas present to myself from my business was to get my big new iPad. It's really
Christine: exciting. Yes. Of course. But it's free, doesn't matter.
Rah: Gorgeous. Yeah. I spent all that money, and you know what? I went and bought a cover from Amazon. Yep. Because it was purple. Right. Does a better job than the Apple one that I got. Yep.
Emily: You know what? Amazon quality is so
Rah: fucking good. I know. It's really good. So how does it fit with your keyboard? Oh, see that's the problem, so it doesn't have a keyboard.
But I use my iPad more so for the pencil element, for my note taking. Yes, it's
Emily: my um, my tiny human. The tiniest of my tiny humans has adamantly told me, I must have a pencil for my iPad now too, it's more fun to play games with.
Rah: Oh, 100 percent it is. I'd agree on that
Emily: front. Yeah, just that. I'm not buying you a 200 pencil to play with.
Yeah,
Rah: do you see how much they cost kids? So I've got the keyboard there, which has been great, because then it's like a little extra laptop. Yep. But I found that when I'm out and about and using it for note taking, I don't use the keyboard. Ah. Whereas if I want to, I can grab it out of, off my desk and then use it.
So, um. But anyway, back onto my story, so my little tricks, I've got, um, some of my friends who I refer to a bit too often, probably on the podcast and my friends over in the UK, one of the ladies, um, they've listened to the. They've listened to the episode where I talked about them. Oh, fabulous. Yes. God lover.
Hi Harriet. Made everyone listen to it. Cause I'm like, it's not relevant. You guys don't have your own businesses. You're teachers. Like you're employees. You don't need it. And then Harriet's like, no, you've got to listen to the first six minutes cause Rob bangs on about us. Oh, that's awesome. So if we start to see a spike, it's because of that.
Um, but two of them, I think in particular, um, are really good with going to a cafe and Planning what they're gonna do, either, whether it's for the week, like a reset on the Sunday or for the month or for the year, that kind of thing. Right? Say that again. They're
Emily: doing,
Rah: they go to like, they go to cafe or sit.
Yeah. Sometimes it's done on a Sunday. Sometimes it's monthly or by term because someone's gonna teach. Or these two, I'm thinking of the teachers. Yeah. But like that idea, it's that little date with yourself and you get a nice little pastry and a coffee or whatever. I do
Christine: actually like that. I
Emily: actually did read somewhere, um, it was probably, again, more of the big motivational.
I was reading something in this last week or two. And it said to do that, that self care, to go and be happy and live with yourself. Go and have a coffee, go and see a movie on your own, go and, you know, have that quiet. It's just you. Yes. And it really helps kind of reset life itself. Yeah. No, it doesn't.
Sorry to report, Dotty has left the
Rah: pod.
Emily: He's had enough. Bye Dot. That's also, it's a clever, it's a clever idea to do that. Yeah. And so I
Rah: had that idea last night when I was avoiding going to bed by watching a million TikToks. But I thought, Oh, well I'll just go and sit at the cafe, hello to the local tart outside my office.
And thought, I will just go and sit in there and have my coffee and I bought a toastie. Got the iPad out and I wrote down whole contents of my brain and my inbox and trying to work out. You know, my things, I was like, Oh, this is quite nice. So by the time I got to my desk, I'd already had that kind of morning moment and it had that separation.
Christine: Yeah.
Rah: So, um.
Christine: But also, you know, sets you up for the week, you know, what you want to try and achieve. Exactly. It's no guarantee that everything's going to get done. Oh God, it never does. Next Monday you go, okay, well, you know, whatever. But the fact is that it sets you up where, you know, rather than trying to do that every day.
I'm going to show
Emily: and tell for a minute, and I have yet to do it this week, and my last week was a bit dodgy because of being in Tasmania. Yes. Um, but I've got my, I'm going to,
Rah: I'm going to try and film this on my phone.
Emily: My Steph phase planner, shout out to is a pretty fun one, yep. Um, and it's a big chunky bar file sort of thing.
I'm trying to keep your face out of it
It goes week by week and at the beginning of each week you have a page where it's like, what is this week's focus? Yeah. What are the projects and ideas? What are your top four priorities? You know, what's due? What social media posts you want to do? What are your weekly habits?
Christine: Yep.
Emily: And then every single day you've got your schedule, your top three priorities, your to do list for the day and some notes for the day.
I've clearly done a lot this week. Yeah. It's all blank. Yep. It's all blank. Um, cause in my defense, I've just come back from Tasmania and I haven't got my shit sorted. So, I'm getting there, but I'm trying to force myself to do this daily for that same thing. What is due today? Cause I think, you know, I know I get really bogged in.
I'm like, oh my god, this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this. Oh, totally. It's like, well, I actually know what's relevant. So, you know, for this specific time. Hmm. Yeah. And like take, and the only thing is, I mean, I love this, but it's a bit of a mother of a thing to be carrying around like a 10 years.
And I'm not going to lie, I get put off by the
Rah: spiral. Yeah.
Christine: That's a bit too overwhelming
Rah: to you. When I want to write on the left. Oh. Yeah, no, but then when you flip it and you're writing on the, that side of the book and then your wrist touches. Okay. The spirals and you can't get to the end of the. I just don't go the whole way.
But I've now discovered, allegedly fake, but I'm going to ignore the professional advice. I hold my hand like a person with ADHD. So I think that would be. Why? Did I say that correctly? I hold my pen in my hand like someone. But I think I might check this
Emily: too, so at the front of the, at the front of it before it cracks into the months.
You've got, you know, public holidays, you've got like stuff you can fill in like business plans. So think back to the
Rah: school journals and diaries that you used to get. Oh yeah. It's kind of fun. And
Emily: you know, here's a 2025 snapshot I started writing shit in that I know is coming. And then it's got literally a yearly planner and I've just put in when I'm more things in.
Rah: Because that's when you can put school holidays. Like I know we did that. We've done it already. At the end of last year for our three way stuff. Yes.
Emily: Reflect and refocus pages. My business, marketing, social media, budgets, admin, and it's things like what impact would you like your business to make, questions to make you think.
Yeah, and then the next stage is I haven't written in because I wanted us to do it together. Yeah, they've literally left ten sections for these goals. Yes, right, so you can go through yeah, I'm sorry I'm 12. Well, that's
Christine: cool. Cause I've did a few, um, in preparation for the planning day. So I've got some ready for that.
Emily: And this is an a four size document to full blank pages to write down business ideas.
Christine: Yep.
Emily: Which is good. Cause it's important to have a brain dump
Christine: place.
Emily: Marketing ideas for each month, whichever I'm getting from
Rah: mom. I'm
Emily: going to get mine. Um, this is what I like. And I wanted to write this down before I forget social media stats.
Yes. I'm like, I know I run analytics for other people on, but I don't look at my own. And that
Rah: came up in the Leonie Dawson book that I used at the end of, Oh no, between Christmas and New Year, I went through that
Christine: entire
Rah: book and it included the stats. And I was like, I don't know what they were last year, but I was like, I better write them down.
So at least I got those numbers. It's
Emily: got literally Instagram, Facebook, Tik TOK, website, email lists, and it shows you can track your yearly growth. So you can. It's not, obviously you can track multiple levels of stats, but for this I'm going to track following specifically. Yep. And write my following here.
The next bit down, it's got the social media challenge, so you can create a challenge to try and engage yourself to do better in social media. Oh,
Christine: yes. Yes. This
Emily: one whole page. I need to be involved in that. A bit of like a budget clean up. Yep. It's like a challenge.
Christine: Yep.
Emily: Yep. You know, to try and get you in the right place.
And then it's got a resources section. And it's all done in this cute little way that you can write and like pretend like a journalist. And
Rah: it's nice. I like it. And it allows for play
Emily: talk. Yeah. And if you don't even have like, you can just write it like, they're still into the writing, but it's graphical.
Yeah. Right. And it came with all of these digital products. Hey, which you can then load into your iPad, which I have downloadable and pop it in our Google
Christine: Drive.
Emily: And then it goes into a monthly overview. So you start with a monthly overview and you get your monthly calendar, which I've already then went through.
Nice work with your markers. Yep. And I was channeling Chris when I was trying to do the little ordering things.
Rah: Chris would be so proud of you.
Emily: Yeah. Every
Rah: day.
Emily: And then it's like, and then you crack into the brain dump for the month. And you can split it up into whatever you want it to be, and then you crack it in two weeks.
So it's got all this pre stuff, and then at the very end, you've got um, extras, and it's given you like a year in review page, it's got important dates for 2026, and folders to hold
Rah: receipts, and a whole bunch
Emily: of notes, and note sections and shit. So, I mean, aside from the fact that it's hard to take when I travel.
Yes. Yes. This is like, going to be 7 or 8 kilos on its own, so I wasn't going to take this with me. That's not 8 kilos,
Christine: is it? It just feels like it, it's a substantial.
Emily: It's got some weight to it. Yeah. I think that's about as much as Cody. Yeah. It's about the same as a laptop. Like, it's not a lot. It's heavier than my iPad.
Oh, holy fuck. Yeah. Oh my god. But the paper is nice. It's a good quality. Yeah. Oh no. It can move a lot. So yeah,
Christine: so you've got that, which is an awesome planning, reflection. I just buy all the templates off Etsy
Emily: because it reminds me to take the time to write in it. Which is why I haven't done it this week.
No, no, no. That's fair enough. Because
Christine: life gets in the way. But you've
Emily: got to remember to do it. Yeah. And then I'm like. For others
Christine: you could, uh, potentially go to, um, and download. Yeah. Um, our 2025 Yes. Planning. Exactly. Notebook, resource notebook. Mm. I'm also
Emily: writing in that too. Oh, well that's good. Well, I'm
Christine: rewriting mine.
I uploaded it to the remarkable yay. And then I writing in there, which is good because. Um, you know, my headspace at that particular time is different to what it was, is now. Um, and so it's actually nice to look at what I was writing and the differences I am writing and the language I'm using when I'm writing.
Emily: The other things I'm trying, I mean there's two other things I'm trying to force myself into, not force, but like remind myself to get the behaviour right. Get into a habit,
Christine: yep.
Emily: This year is journaling and I have Yeah. How's that going? You've mentioned that. Every single day this month so far. And it's Well done.
How long do you do it for?
It doesn't take long at all. It's, and it's the tracking thing that I was telling you about. So Yeah. That's the
Rah: part I want to get into. I
Emily: follow this girl on TikTok. Her name is Little Birdie Canada. Um, she sells her on her Etsy store, these beautiful templates. That she has created for journaling and it's interactive colouring in journaling, which is why I like it because it's fun and I've got my beautiful markers and I can come up with my colour combinations and I can colour in my pages and it's really fun.
So you know, I've, I've got all that going, but she's got things like anxiety trackers and she's got things like, you know, even the temperature and the weather and like, you know, what do you, how do you rate your day? One to five and at the end there's yearly ones and then there's monthly sets. So then at the end of the year, you can go back and based on the way it looks visually.
Yep. Oh, well, this was a shit year. Or this was a really good year. Or my anxiety was really horrendous during this period of time. Or, you know, so I like the idea of having that visual representation.
Rah: I always love the people that have got those, you know, a color for every day of the year based on moods.
And I'm like, I love that idea. But the
Emily: thing she also does is every day in the monthly bits, she's got, um, like obviously the monthly calendar and then you put a highlight for every single day. So it's forcing you to actually think of something per day. And then she's also got a mood tracker, so you can then color that in.
So at the end of the month, you can go, Oh, fuck, I was not having a good time. Or, you know, I was more, I was really tired this month based on how many times I marked tired, but she's themed it. So like January for, um, Australia and she's made Australian and Southern Hemisphere ones too. Oh my God, these people know that we exist.
She's very clever. And I think that that's also why I liked it. And so she made the Australian ones and all of the theme for January is like sea life. It's summer and it's a beach and February's all love hearts and stuff and I'm getting so excited I want to pre colour in almost my months and I have to remind myself to stop because it's my excitement for the next month.
But it's like, it's, I'm really enjoying that but I'm also trying to um, stop. I'm also trying to force myself to just normal journal. Yeah.
Rah: Download your feelings. And I did that this morning too actually, yeah.
Emily: I feel like it needs to be out. You know, to try and process that shit as well. And that's, you know, they're my mindset attempts at behavioural changes.
I'm trying to do this this year.
Christine: Yeah. No, but it's all good and it all lends in, um, you know, to this prioritising these goals and that is a good goal. Like, you know, we have to, um, form new habits to or give a good go at attempting to reach a
Emily: goal. Um, make changes. If you want different. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.
Progress
Rah: and progress over perfection. That's what my coach keeps drilling into me,
Christine: but it's so important. You know, that practice makes perfect saying is so obsolete. It really is practice makes progress. That's all it is. And um, you know, and there's just that one step. Absolutely.
Rah: And like, um, kind of harks as well to, uh, I think it was her first book, wasn't it?
Mel Robbins, The Five Second Rule.
Christine: Yep.
Rah: Which I always thought was just about eating food off the floor, but no, it's also about counting and doing the shit that you think is too hard to do. So it all kind of fits. Yeah. Doesn't it? Yeah.
Christine: It is. I'm really trying to take that on when I'm, I need to go for a walk in the morning and I haven't.
And that's my, exactly. That is totally my next thing. Um, especially yesterday morning I woke up at four and back to sleep and you know, then I felt completely sick with tiredness come seven o'clock and I got out of bed. So you, you know, it's like, yes, I need to channel mail and um, get the fuck out of bed and take the dog for a walk.
Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I'm
Emily: waiting for my kids to go back to school so I can get that going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I absolutely want to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Because the other thing I'm trying to do is make sure I'm stretching every single night. Yep. And, um, also really forcing myself to do my proper skincare routine as well.
And like, wash my face and, you know, do the whole thing. Because it's like, I'm, I know how lazy I can get. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't.
Christine: But also, a good um, night time routine is instrumental to a really good sleep. To get you sleepy,
Rah: yeah.
Christine: Um, absolutely. You know what my
Rah: really good bedtime routine is? Think about doing skincare, not do skin skincare most of the time.
Go to bed, watch TikTok for at least an hour. Yep. Yeah. And then listen to a podcast or you know, okay. A video. But have it just audio. Like audio only. And it falls like I'm about that bad
Emily: too as
Rah: well. Like I'm terrible, but it works. Yeah.
Christine: Beautiful friend of mine gave me a um, oil diffuser. for my bedside bedroom.
And, um, and so it's got a lovely glow in my room and it lets out this lovely, um, it's an indota spa. Oh yeah. And it lets out lovely oils, um, into the room and I'm loving. So my bedtime routine is now go put that on and then I will go clean my teeth, do my face. And that real, like, separation between whether or not I've couch potatoed, um Sorry, I've just sent you a Slack message.
I'm getting behind the scenes. Um, yes, I completely lost my train of thought. Sorry, I'm ruining it now. Now I'm just sending them for fun. Hey! Excuse Chris, this computer's got volume on it still.
Rah: Sorry, computer.
Christine: Well, I wasn't expecting, you know, this kind of stuff.
So if setting goals around balance and boundaries, self care, inspiration, motivation is essential. We can't even boundary our own conversation. I'm just going to send you a million slack messages. Oh my God. People. So it promotes wellbeing, enhances productivity. Encourages personal growth, might improve a relationship or two, foster a bit of creativity, could potentially
Rah: build some resilience.
Actually and you know what, that's actually the one that I'm using it for at the moment. My hopeful benefit is
Christine: increased satisfaction and it all leads into long term success by incorporating lots of these elements or elephants elements into your life. Oh my God. Absolutely. Um, so yeah, so what could be an example of a goal that somebody might like to, well,
Rah: if I think back to one of my goals from last year, which sounded It's a little bit counterintuitive, but it was to stop working with clients who didn't fit my vibe slash portfolio slash whatever you wanted to call it.
And even if like some of the decisions were quite hard because I enjoyed working with the person. Yes. But. It's not quite the right fit for where I see myself going and I need to put my energy into the right places. Yeah, absolutely. That's huge stuff. Yeah. Really huge. Yeah. Um, and I had to learn to trust that doing that, even though there would be hopefully not long, but a bit of money drop.
But it did, it made room for the right things to come along.
Christine: And that's it. It's about opening up your energy, um, and your time, um, to let the new stuff come in. And, you know, I find that, um, sometimes when you're so bogged down in the stuff that's not really bringing you joy, not aligned and just seriously unenjoyable hard work, doesn't let you jump easily onto the new stuff.
You know, it's like I'll get to it and often you get missed and I'm, my thing, um, I want to really focus on this year is like being really onto it. So we got an inquiry last year, dropped the ball because it got a bit busy. We're very fortunate the client is really chomping at the bit. So they're fans of you, which is great.
Quote done, apologies made. Um, she had a couple of questions, but had said we're going to go ahead. So I drafted up the agreement. It's sitting there waiting for the last final little bits and pieces. So it can be on top of it really quickly. Yeah. Um, and I just find when you're lost in everything else, it's hard to be on top of that.
Rah: Yeah. And I like the idea of having a hundred of these fuckers on your, you know, list for the year as well. Yeah. It gives you an idea of how small they can be. Yes. But it's also
Emily: the concept of quick wins versus long term goals as well. Which for me, now I'm
Rah: understanding the lack of dopamine my brain doesn't have, that, oh, well that's going to work.
I
Emily: think people need, you need to have quick wins, because then you feel good about what you've done. Yeah. You feel like you've accomplished something. It's like
Christine: a to do list, where you put the little thing and you, as soon as you tick off three things, because it took you five minutes, it's like, woo! I've done my day of work.
I'm out. No, no, no.
Rah: You write your to do list and the first item is write the to do list. Oh, chic. Yes. Go to the bathroom. Yeah. Brush your teeth. Things that are easy that you've already done. Absolutely.
Emily: But it's also the concept of some days are gonna suck and you're gonna wake up. Yep. Yep. You just want to stay in bed all day.
It's not going to work. That's okay. But if you find that chase, then you
Rah: know, you bet you, you'll hopefully end up having more positive days.
Emily: Some days it'd be like, fuck, I'm not going to be
Rah: able to do this.
Emily: And then boom, you'll achieve so much. Yeah.
Rah: And so Chris, I really liked the doc that you prepared.
For this discussion because it was interesting really good list of things that a lot of them. I wouldn't Specifically do no, but it's giving me an idea that's related to well that and that's the thing
Christine: and sometimes I think you need to Read something and then that just spawns a different idea in your head.
It's also a manifestation.
Emily: Thank you. Yeah, it's you know you
Christine: yeah
Emily: By writing it down, you are, like, we've all experienced shit we've put out to the universe and gone. Yeah. You know, because we've manifested it. Yeah. And it plays it in, like we just talked about, the same concept as journaling to get your head sorted or get your feelings out or whatever it might be for.
That same concept. Is what a list is. Is what writing a list out is. You're putting things out there to see what happens and to what, you know, might come from it. And it helps you give you some direction and so you're not just doing the same old same old. No, well
Christine: that's right. And it's like, okay, well this year I'm going to try that.
And then when you get to the end of the year and you go, did it work? No, it didn't. Not going to try it again. Or, no, it did work, so I'm going to do it differently, but again. Yeah. That kind of thing. It just all lends into, you know, that goal setting thing. And we all want to and need to grow. The businesses have to grow, but you actually have to personally grow.
Yes. Um, I know, I'm sorry about that. You know, and it's not got anything to do with adulting, right? You know, it's just that, you know, we all need to grow personally. In this journey of ours. Yeah. Um, and not be where you were and
Rah: I five years. And I just, but I do, um, no, restart that sentence. I'm a big supporter of that whole life.
Learn. Oh, life. Lifelong. Lifelong learning. Totally. I am in any Yeah. Part of your life, work or otherwise. Yeah. If you think you know everything,
Christine: you're fucking delusional. Oh my god, yeah, you can't possibly, and if you think you know it all, go find rooms where you are the dumbest person in that room and learn from other people.
Exactly. That's the most important. If you're the smartest, you're in the wrong room. No, you are totally in the wrong room. Also, it's
Emily: so exciting to learn. I know. Yeah. It's funny how we all used to hate it when we were at school. Yeah. Having, like, being forced to do it. Oh god,
Rah: yeah.
Emily: But it's, I
Rah: used to do assignments on weekends for fun.
That's what a nerd I was. I
Christine: mean, I wasn't quite that nerd. It was just about special topics. Like there's probably signs of early autism, probably.
Emily: But it's the concept of something you're passionate about when you really love something. I
Christine: wrote in my planning thing, like, you know, it asks you how you want to feel in business.
And so I find that I'm, I'm chronically tired and that's a phase of life I'm in, unfortunately, but I want to be fucking tired because I've had the best day and the best week and we've done a thousand things or what feels like a thousand things and I want to be that kind of tired. Yeah. Yeah. Not just because I woke up at 4am.
Yep. And I've had jobs like that and I would skip
Rah: down the George Street and buy, you know, fancy blue suit. Like I
Christine: loved it. Yeah. Oh God, yeah. And I've had moments, don't get me wrong, but I just want that to come back, um, you know, this year and forget. I don't, I want to actually saying, stop saying. Yeah.
Emily: Yeah. I don't think I'm ever going to be able to stop saying it because
Christine: I think it's further No, you've
Emily: got children, so. But it's also, um, It's for me, it's the ability, like the passion to do what I want, when I want to do it and not actually make it feel like it's work.
Christine: Yeah, exactly. Well,
Emily: like, you know, what does
Rah: it do what you love and you never work it down the line.
Which is the biggest wank in the world, however, because you're not going to love everything.
Emily: I loved baking cakes and having a cake, and now I don't even want to go in the kitchen and shut my business down. Yeah, exactly.
Rah: I love plane spotting, but if I sit there for too long, I'm just like, Oh, I'd rather be on TikTok.
Thanks. Yeah.
Emily: So there's pros and cons, but the stuff that we love doing and we're passionate about doing, it comes more easily.
Rah: Yeah.
Emily: Well, it does. It does.
Rah: Yeah.
Emily: So then again, we go back to the a hundred goals, right? So one of the topics on this list that we will make as a downloadable for people is business achievements.
And I think that's something when it comes to business and it's why I always continually hop on about goal setting. Yep. Is. You don't want to continue doing the same on same old, you need to have an idea of where you want to go and what you want to achieve and it can be as little or as big as you want it to be.
Like we heard from David last week in his podcast episode
Christine: about
Emily: figure out what the amount of money you want. And so you can work it backwards to work out how you achieve that. And that's where your business achievements can be. So we've got a beautiful list here of things that we will share by download.
Um, and then there's a whole category of things that can be business development on business
Christine: achievements. Yep.
Emily: There's also personal development and self care, which we've obviously talked to extent at because we all own that you two
Rah: with your business goal for the, or boundaries being your thing for the year.
Yeah. You could do a whole category on boundaries. Oh, huge. And all the little things that you could do. Yeah. Yeah. We've,
Emily: we've been definitely learning a lot since we've decided to do that. But also it's family and community as well, you know, there are things that as much as we like to separate our lives.
From business and personal. Oh, it does. As many of my friends
Rah: know because I just talk to them about work type stuff. Yeah. To the point where, talking about Hamilton one last time. So at the final show, I was talking to their publicity people. I was like, Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like work related type things.
And I was like, Wait, this is like Saturday. No, sorry. Stop me.
Emily: Yeah. My dishwasher is finished.
Rah: Oh, cool. Great. Thank you. Bing, bing. At least you've got a fucking dishwasher. I am the ride on dishwasher at home.
Emily: The ride on dishwasher.
Rah: You've never heard that before?
Oh, dear lord. Um, but yeah, like, I'm, I struggle to separate. Thinking about work to only work hours.
Christine: Yeah. Know's. And I don't think that's a
Emily: reality, to be honest. No. Like I was saying, I was saying to Chris and the girls this morning that I was literally sitting in bed the other night and my version of gonna bed is once I'm in bed, I like to play games on my iPad until I either like hitting myself in the face with it or I just decide to put it down.
Um, but I was sitting there and thinking about something with work. Chris is
Rah: cing herself over here getting
Emily: so anxious over what I was thinking about work. That I was like trying to distract myself and literally in my mind going in my brain because I couldn't stop myself from thinking about it and how to stop.
And I was trying to like focus on other things to try and, you know, and it's, you can't always stop yourself from thinking about work. It's always there. No, you can't. But
Christine: it's nice if it can be like the exception to the rule, you know, you know, we're not
Emily: regular. Yeah.
Christine: Yeah. Exactly. So yeah, we do have a nice list.
And as, um, the girls said, we're going to make it available as a downloadable because we've got some great suggestions there, but we'll also have, it'll also have some sections where you can actually write. Your own goals under those things, because we're not saying you have to do these exact 100 things.
These are just kind of like inspirational suggestions. Although,
Rah: thing 100, I've just scrolled right down to the bottom, establish a legacy, build a business that impacts and lasts beyond your tenure. I know. How? I don't, I don't think that's, that's a very big one thing, but it gives you an idea. Like I would be.
Finding something that I would consider a legacy and making that one of my 100 things.
Emily: But I think, I think there is something to be said for that, right? Like we look at the concept of full time work, which I always hate is that we're just a number. We kill ourselves to have a career and you, you fight for a career path through this business.
And then, you know, you could literally kill everyone, die and they'd just step over you and put someone else in over the top. So you're not, you're very replaceable, but when in a business like all of ours, Let's say hypothetically we get to the point where we're all like fucking done and dusted with it and don't want to do it anymore.
We would hope that you've gotten the business to a point in which you could on sell it. Yep. Clients, everything, infrastructure. It's different for every industry that you're in. Systems, processes. You know, we know so many people that sell their businesses on, but that is a legacy in a sense. Absolutely.
You know, you're creating or, you know, if you've got the kind of business that you could franchise or expand on, you create a brand, you create, you know, that is your legacy. And that is what you can build on. And I think, yes, it's a huge, it's a huge goal. It's a very, very big goal and it's going to
Rah: take some time and all of that stuff.
But if you plant those seeds, then it's putting you in the right direction. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. Um, and yeah, so the list I found really helpful to go, Oh, that's an option. Cause some of the things that are on this list, I've already got,
Christine: Oh yes. And I mean, we can read a book every X often. Well, that's right.
You know, this is really for anybody who hasn't even thought or done any kind of goal setting or maybe you actually haven't got out of bed yet. So, um, yeah, I've done that, but oh no, I haven't done the next one on the list. And that's the great thing. It's just, it's just food for thought and suggestions because there's far more than a hundred things to do.
Uh, yes. Yeah. There really is. Yeah.
Emily: There's so many.
Christine: Oh my God. Yes. And really somebody might come in and go, okay, well create a legacy is number a hundred, but I could create 20 things to do out of that one super goal. Yeah. And that could be what somebody might actually do.
Emily: And also they're always not, they're not always going to be relevant.
for what you're doing currently. Right. So there's things that a lot, like, as much as I absolutely detest the concept of a five and 10 year plan, because I think the world ends in different times. And COVID guys. COVID. If you say five years, I mean, COVID is all I'm gonna say about you. It fucks with things.
Things happen. So, you know, but you have things that are much of a longer term goal and they can sit there and just nurture and things that take groundwork and what else. But you've got stuff that can be, you know, Oh, I want to achieve that and I can put on the
Christine: next week. Yeah, absolutely. And if anyone who needs any extra help, they can refer to a couple of episodes we've had previously, um, which, um, might be of some assistance and give a few ideas.
You know, we've got, um, episode 11, the one about mental health. And so there'll be some, um, goals and suggestions in that episode. Do you want a quick side note about
Rah: that episode? Yes. That episode where we recorded, um, at DM studios in Bulamalu, the prime minister was interviewed for a podcast in the same space.
Oh my gosh. Here we are. We're trendsetting.
Christine: Oh, we are. They must And then we've got the one about self care practices, which was episode 15. And of course, who can't forget the backup plan episode number nine. That came right at
Rah: the time when we were really quite up shit crate. Yep.
Christine: Yep. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Rah: So yeah. What's something that your. What are you going to put on your 100 list, Chris? And then Em, be prepared because I'll ask you next.
Christine: What's something I'm going to have on my 100, um, list? Stop working after 9pm? Yeah, yeah.
Rah: I've got a feeling that's something Em might like, but
Christine: you've
Rah: got to work with what works for you.
Christine: No, you certainly do. I mean, I have a great sleep. Pre sleep routine, it's the time that needs work, and it's a constant.
I think I've been going on about my bloody bedtime, actual time problem for a long time. I think it's a universal, yeah. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, but I have to say I've done less of that, um, lately, and I tend to panic. I tend to panic if I've been behind on something. Oh, that's the thing. Once it kicks up a notch anxiety wise.
I did something this week, um, that reminded me not to be working at stupid o'clock. So I was, thought I was sending. An email to Emily with my thoughts on something. Oh no. Oh yeah, no. You sent it to the Prime Minister? No, well close. I sent it back to the client.
Rah: Oh shit, I've done that. Yes. Yes. Well I sent that to my boss back in the day.
Yeah, yeah. I've been there at some point. Oh yeah, no,
Christine: absolutely. But, um, that was a very good reminder of, you know what Chris? I know. It wasn't urgent either. No. It could have waited another two days. Yeah, but
Rah: it's that whole, my old boss, she refers to it as closing the loop in your brain.
Christine: I needed to. Yeah.
Emily: But you know, we're lucky because the client is also a fabulously beautiful person. Oh, absolutely.
Christine: I said one of those grovels, please delete. I'm embarrassed. I'm going to vomit. You know, that kind of thing. Please, please, please. You just have to own it. Yeah. Yeah, I did. And I'm happy to own it. And there you go.
It was just, it wasn't, the content wasn't horrible, but you know, in the workings of our business, don't, don't do panic work late at night.
Rah: Well, I can give you an equivalent story of me rushing, thinking, Oh, I'm going to do all these things and realize I was like, Oh, while I'm in Canberra, I'm going to get some more business cards printed, which I used to as my earring cards for my earrings.
Oh, I'm going to quickly do that. Oh, but while I'm here, I'm going to do something a little bit different because I would like it. Then you know what I did? Didn't realize until it said it was shipped this morning. I sent it to my address, but in Bondi. I don't live in Bondi. No, you don't. No. And I'm like, the only thing that's wrong, the address is correct except for suburb and my name.
And I'm like, they're not going to return that. No. So then I've just ordered again. Oh bugger. There's a 29 lesson. You not get it. I mean, I might get it, but then I'll just get 200 like, what am I going to do when I'm going to join a Bondi Facebook group and go, Hey, who lives at this address? Yeah. That's right.
Can I come and wait? Can I wait for the postie to bring me, bring a box? Yeah.
Emily: I love that.
Rah: Have you got
Christine: my box? Yeah. Oh, you're going to get so many people responding to that. Oh God. Yeah. Especially in Bondi. So I think, um, I think that's a pretty good, um, chin wag. Yes. Yeah. Well, no, hang on. Now I've got to go to you, Em.
What's your, what's your, one of your things? I do that often, don't I? I think we're finished. Um, love you Em. I would have been like, all right,
Emily: let's go. No, I'm medicated now. Um, one of my, one of my things, I mean. Like, I think I've already said them really, to be honest, my, my, my intentions for this year are to journal and, and try and do all my shit I already spoke about, and also walk every day.
I would like to hit 10, 000 steps. So my, my goals this year are really more centered around my health and well being. Yeah. And the importance of that. And that will
Christine: bring balance and success in business really. I mean,
Emily: and in doing that, I mean, we're both probably on the health and well being kick. Yeah.
And if we can look after ourselves, we can look after everything else and we can get a bit more things. Absolutely. I think, you know, but also I spent last year so, so, so sick. You do. And every year since fucking COVID, there has been something, I know, there's been something, but I feel like everyone has had something since then.
Yeah. And I'm adamantly going to tell there's something that whatever's going to present itself this year to fuck off because I'm not having it this year. We'll sage this
Rah: fucking house if we have to. Yeah.
Emily: I need to be, I need to just not be panicked all the time and I need to not feel anxious about things.
And if I need to sleep for a week, I need to sleep for a week, but I will make it work in a way that. Yeah. That's my, you know, my thing. I need to just feel better about myself and that's what I'm working
Rah: on. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. All right. What about you? Well, I'm, I've got some things that are part of the, like my 100 list, but they're more like, Like you are walking every day type thing.
So I'm now decided based on the success of this morning, I wanna have one cafe planning date a week. Yeah.
Emily: I is a great idea. Yeah, I think
Rah: it's great. I might borrow that.
Emily: Actually, one of the things I said to Chris lately, mm. And I, I reckon everyone should do it, is one Friday off a month.
Rah: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's when we can finally do our Paul Pauler Clay on one of those days.
Oh, have played it. Yeah. You know. Yeah.
Emily: Uh, you know, you did the tattoo day the other day and I went and had a massage and got my nails done. Yep. And then, that was fucking lovely. And I was pinging off the walls. I was feeling so good. Oh, that's another one I could do. But having, having one, one Friday or whatever day of the week suited to you, off a month.
Cause you need to breathe. Yep. I was talking to someone yesterday who's going through so much of their own, in their own business. Oh, sorry, their own work that they work for. And they're like, Oh, maybe I need to take a sick day. I don't know. I just need to breathe. And I'm like, you need a mental health day.
Oh my God. Yeah. My mom used to take me home from school randomly. I've got no problem stopping stuff. For mental health days. Yeah. Yeah. I'd wake up one morning and she'd be like, you want a mental health day? And I was like, yes. I
Christine: did work for an event center in my, um, former life. Um, and the boss is the bonus.
We got a bonus one year and the bonus was three mental health days.
Emily: And it was
Christine: the best bonus ever.
Emily: I mean, let's be real at any given time, whether you are a parent or not a parent, most women are juggling 65, 000. And we never often get a date to just
Rah: do for ourselves. Like, I only get a small snapshot of what it's like being a parent in amongst trying to work full time or run your own business and it does my head in.
And then when I've gone through like big things, like when mum was really sick and needing to go into a nursing home and end of life, those sorts of things, you're just like, how am I supposed to function?
Emily: Yeah. And that shit catches you off guard. Yeah. And you need to have, and I know the crux and the key for this is also time management, making sure your time management's on point so you
Rah: don't let anything slip.
Well, I'm, I'm going to try a new app for that. I'll report back in a few episodes and let you know. Oh, good. Yeah, well,
Emily: I'll be very interested. But it's also, it's making sure you do it and knowing that it's there, the stuff tomorrow still, she's not going to, as long as she's not melting down.
Rah: So, I've got three things now on the list because you just inspired me to add another one. Okay. So, so yeah, cafe planning date once per
Christine: week,
Rah: um, bare minimum read or listen to one business book per month. Yes. Um, so I'm listening to the e myth at the moment, so it's almost the end of the month, so I've got a.
Quick sticks.
Emily: Get
Rah: that done. Pull your finger out. Yep. So by the time everyone's listening to this, hopefully I've finished this book.
Emily: I feel like you can tell you're on drugs if you're still working through a book.
Rah: Mate, you're lucky that I can read a book at this point. Like, I've not had the capacity to read a book in a very long
Emily: time.
I don't know, you're always
Rah: reading.
Emily: But I have that same goal, but it's like just a book in general. Like, I just wanted to read one. See, I don't read for fun. So I wanted to read one once a month, because I do like, I do like my reading. And I wanted to read one book a month. I did it last year as well. And I, I might hit my goal last year, but that's, but I didn't read for four months, five months, because I read so many.
This month alone, I'm on six books.
Rah: Mate, you've been on holiday around family and you're like, I would rather read.
Christine: Yeah,
Rah: but I've got, so, um, but I also will sit down and
Emily: I've literally picked up a book and finish it within the afternoon. Yeah. I'm a quick reader. What I did,
Rah: babysitters club books, I would knock them in two hours.
It's been years since I've done an over and over. If anyone
Emily: likes my book recommendations, please let me know because I have so many and I'm sobs. I have been on my own personal IGs, but I'll post it on everyone else's on our podcast line. Cause and I have so many things to say, especially about. Oh, yeah.
I've been reading. I've missed the books now. And now I'm angry. Yeah, right. They should not have cast her in that movie.
Rah: Oh, okay. Anyway. Good to know. That's alright. So, um. What's the
Christine: third?
Rah: Third one is to see at least one musical per month.
Emily: Okay.
Rah: Because. So it's the woman who's seen
Emily: Hamilton like what, 40 times?
32. I didn't hit
Rah: 40. I finished on the weekend with 32. Still. I'm very proud of myself. No. Which technically. Was it once a month? No, probably. How many musicals are, what was your schedule? Oh, well, I saw it three, four times in the final week. Yeah, but what did you want to hit this year? Oh, my goal was 30.
Christine: Yeah, so you
Rah: did it. So I hit the goal. You did it. And technically I nailed it. Technically I nailed it. Nailed it. Because I saw it twice in London. So 30 in Australia. I was very
Christine: proud of myself. Oh, you did nail it, babe. I know.
Rah: I know. Look at me go. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. Um, yeah, but I've now. I've been joking that I need to find a new personality now that this one's, you know, been shipped out the door for the next 10 years or whatever.
Okay, all
Christine: right. Don't change too much. You know, I'll work something out. Um,
Rah: but my next jaunt I launched on a whim within like 20 minutes the other night, which is another Facebook community for another musical that's playing in Sydney at the moment called Titanic, which I can't wait to take you to too.
I feel like I've seen
Emily: that you post about this recently. Yes,
Rah: and so someone happened to mention in passing on Instagram DM's like one night when I was doing tiktoks and they said, I can't believe there isn't a Facebook group for Titanic. One moment please. And then created it. Watch how fast I make this happen.
Like, I'm like, bitch, I know this shit copied everything from the other ones that I've got. So now I've got three Facebook groups based on musicals. Um, cause I realized I did some research and my Hamilton group is my biggest with 11, almost 11 and a half thousand. That seemed phenomenal. Generic for lack of a better term, just general musicals fans in Australia group has.
Seven thousand. Okay. And I had a look at some of the others and they've got, uh, maybe two thousand. Oh, JC, you're way
Emily: up there, but it also helps that you actually do this for a living.
Rah: It's my little passion project. Yeah. So it tends to help. So yeah. So then I saw someone comment saying, Oh, there's not a musical about this group.
And I was like, shut up, don't, don't give me any ideas. Let's just draw a line. But with Titanic, it's quite fun because there's lots of. It's going to be a lot more fun to have that community, um, but as part of that, I've realized just how much I enjoy going out to see live, but I don't have a ton of money because hashtag work for myself.
Um. Yeah. But, I need to just get out that little bit more, and because I'm a nerd, I'm quite happy going my own. Some people don't like going to those things. Oh
Christine: my god, no. And I go do things solo quite a bit, because if you sit around waiting, you won't get out there and do it. You know? You can't wait on other people.
Honestly,
Rah: 25 year old me would be mortified. I wouldn't even go to the movies on my own at 25, what a
Emily: bitch.
Rah: Yeah,
Christine: no, I feel like I've been quite On my own for a long time
Emily: point in your life where you're like, I'm actually Yeah, yeah the idea of it's the people thing that becomes really hard yeah, yeah Just get and you know, I'm saying this as someone who Loves a social setting, can talk underwater, and as a Gemini, very much like the person we just described each other, um, in that one breath, but fuck it's hard sometimes.
It's
Rah: draining. It takes away all of your spoons.
Emily: And you have to be ready to like, you've got to mentally prepare for it.
Rah: Yep. Like, I look through the peephole at our front door to make sure there's no one in the common area of our stale bowl before I go out to
Emily: do laundry. I check to make sure our neighbours are
Rah: not
Emily: outside
Rah: as well.
Because I don't have that capacity.
Emily: Also, like, honestly, we went to the supermarket the other day and Harry saw a boy from school but he will, like, my kids think they're friends with everyone on the planet. And I think this kid was older than him from the looks of it and I was there the whole time being like.
Don't Harry, don't do it, don't do it, like, just look, just let it be, just look away. And they're both like staring down this kid and I'm like, Jez, look away, please. Do not pay attention to the child. Do not make eye contact. Oh my
Christine: god.
Emily: It's like when you make eye contact with a cat and he's like, bitch, I'm coming over for a snuggle.
Constantly make eye contact. Yeah. And like, please don't do it. Please don't go down this path. I can't do it. Don't ever do me. Exactly. Honestly, that's why I wear headphones. Does anyone else wear headphones? Bye. Yeah. When you're at their shops. I can't. I have headphones. Yeah. If I'm on my own at the shops, I've got headphones in and I'll have music playing or at least or even if I don't.
I will sometimes have music playing. I just turn them on and leave them so that they're in noise cancelling mode. Yeah. And I do not want people talking to me. And I have really been looking at that, that thing called loop. Have you seen that?
Rah: Yeah. I've got friends in the UK. Oh my God. I'm talking about them again.
Who swear by them. Yeah. I think they have. Someone's told me that they swear by them.
Emily: Cause I've been really like, um, I've been looking into it going, Oh, I wonder cause they just take away noise. And like, you know, like I get really flustered in, um, in like a very public setting. Like, I'm going to use the Easter show as an example because it's to my mind.
When there's that many people around, it like overwhelms me. Like, I find it really hard to focus properly and I get a bit dizzy and it's to take away that background. Like, you just slide them in and just,
Rah: you just
Emily: take away that background. Here we go. Hot off
Rah: the press. Harriet. Hello, our favorite Scotswoman.
Yes. Hi Harriet. She's got the experience loop. She said they're designed for loud events, which is great. Cause that's literally her job. Um, and, uh, Oh, Jen as well. So she works, um, in theater, but she's got the experience ones as well. So
Emily: there
Rah: you go. They're the ones to get.
Emily: I have heard they're quite good.
Rah: I get the ads everywhere. I imagine their ad spend
Christine: must be massive. Oh, it would be huge because it is everywhere. I think I could have done them with them over the weekend. I love music in a car and I'm a person who has music up at high volume, but of course, sun and airs. Um, and it's not that I don't know half the songs, but a lot, you know, a lot of, um, stuff was just a bit on repeat and a bit noisy.
And so every so often I did that really, I did that old mother thing and just turn the volume down, you know, it's like, Oh, I just. Just need a bit of quiet.
Emily: I can't hear myself. It's, it's like when we can't park because you gotta turn the volume down. Yep.
Christine: Mm.
Emily: Sorry. If anyone can hear my son, uh, singing Bruno Mars in the background, he's not
Rah: singing the new Bruno song, is he?
Or be careful about the new one.
Christine: That might be a sign of Bruno, a sign for us. Yeah. Okay. So, um,
Rah: thanks for listening. Yeah. Absolutely. Links to all the things in the show notes.
Christine: Yeah, absolutely. And of course, yes, we're going to make this a, a downloadable, um, resource for everybody. This illustrious 100 list.
Installed onto your remarkable, onto your iPad.
Rah: And give away.
Christine: And get riding away. Yes. Yes. All right. Thanks for listening. Thanks for
Rah: listening. And we'll, um, see you on the flip side, as Em would say. That's right. Bye. Cue the music.
