{"id":15212,"date":"2024-01-27T21:42:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T02:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiftgalleries.com\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T02:42:35","slug":"004-photography-business-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiftgalleries.com\/thrive\/004-photography-business-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrive 004: Inspiration for Your Goal Setting and Task Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve spent the past 3 weeks walking step-by-step through setting ambitious (but achievable) goals<\/strong><\/a>, creating milestones to check our progress<\/strong><\/a> along the way, planning projects<\/strong><\/a> for hitting each milestone as well as weekly tasks<\/strong><\/a> to accomplish those projects.<\/p>\n

By breaking down our big, lofty yearly goal into these ever-smaller bite sized pieces, we turn a big, scary journey through the year into easily digestible weekly tasks. (Holy mixed metaphors, Batman!).<\/p>\n

The beauty of a goal setting and planning process<\/strong><\/a> (\ud83d\udc48 seriously, click that one…) like this is, once it’s set up, all you have to do is… well… the next thing on your list. It takes our focus off of the top of the mountain and, instead, allows us to focus on just the next step.<\/p>\n

But maybe you found yourself stuck this month trying to figure out what should go into those monthly projects or weekly tasks. Let’s take some time today to look at a few examples to give you a bit of inspiration for your own plans for 2024.<\/p>\n

(To keep this email from being a massive wall of text that scares everyone away<\/span> For the sake of brevity, I’ve only given a SMART Goal, 4 Quarterly Checkpoints, 3 Monthly Projects and 1 months’ worth of tasks for each example below).<\/em><\/p>\n

Feel free to outright steal any of these, there’s no gatekeeping here.<\/p>\n

Example 1: Double Wedding Bookings<\/h2>\n

SMART Goal:<\/strong>
\n“I’m going to double my 2023 wedding photography bookings (from 6 to 12) by December 31st, 2024.”<\/p>\n

Quarterly Checkpoints:<\/strong><\/p>\n