Leonie’s 200 Life + Biz Goals In 2016: How Did I Go?
Hi dearests,
Earlier this year, I shared my 2016 goals publicly. I wanted to roll back around and see how I went with those goals.
I wanted to share as well – I’m not particularly having a Big Goal year. I’ve done a lot over the past eight years… and had some years where I’ve gone ballz-to-the-wall with goals. After so much moving and growing, this year, I’m much more about sweet domesticity and settling. So my goals reflect that. There ain’t no wrong way to do goals! They are really just the structure to help build a life and business you adore… however that looks for you and your family!
Overall, I’m really happy with where I ended up. There’s much more that I would have liked to have done… but when I take into account how life and health and business/staffing challenges happened in 2016… I feel pretty fucking rad at what I did do and where I’ve ended up!
It’s been a huge spiritual lesson for me over the years to be motivated by my goals, but NOT have my ego and worth tied up in them. I talked more about this with Kerry Rowett in this interview if you want to hear more!
And, as always, I’m so super grateful for my own goals workbooks… even though they’ve been used by over a quarter of a million people worldwide, I wrote them for myself first and foremost… and they’ve been one of the biggest blessings and guiding forces of my life and business over the last eight years.
Life
Go on a health retreat
Increase my immunity
Tint van windows
Go horse-riding
Celebrate solstice
Do a large painting
Get fans installed
Do a picnic by myself
Do art date/workshop with Starry @ NGA
Get family photographs taken
Have BBQ with old work mates
Set up Wii and play games
Get painting for above bed
Have creative side projects (decide on some!!!)
Have a solo mama retreat
Do a digital illustration course
Do a daily creative challenge for 20 days
Experiment with Jade Egg
Get Lile to teach me knitting
Try tie-dying
Do some woodwork
Take Starry to something sacred (it’s in the works!)
Try Tigress Yoga or Yin Yoga
Read 52 books
Re-read “What We Say Matters”
Go to Cockington Green (planning to do it these school holidays)
Go on a road trip with Deb (we didn’t…. but we did spend so much time together! It was lovely!)
Go to Kingston Foreshore or get a Freakshake with family
Fix bicycle + go for ride (planning to do it these school holidays)
Replace curtains and blinds
Get shelves installed in wardrobes
Go to a concert or show
Read a good money book
Pay off mortgage on Property #1 (really close to that… feeling good about where we are financially)
Update wills
Make our house feel like a home
Plant tomatos and beans
Create poster for Golden Rules of Success + hang in studio
Stop sleeping with iPhone in bedroom
Declutter and get boxes to op shop
Get phone fixed/get new phone
Prune roses before Spring
Rearrange house and put bookcase in lounge
Order electric blanket
Order non-slip rug for long hallway rug
Finish Brené Brown e-course
Put up Zen Habits poster in my office
Have weekly solo mama retreats in bed
Get coat racks
Watch the seasons change
Max out super contributions
Quarterly financial planning meetings
Work out watering system
Fix foot
Make a creative nook for myself
Discover a new creative passion (planners!)
Go to Questacon
Go to Balloon Festival
Go to NLA exhibition
Finish “I’m Off Then”
Finish “Something New”
Read “Zim Zum of Love”
Keep regularly art journalling
Go on regular girl dates with Lil
Try San Churro
Get new king size bed
Get new headboard
Find a pilates instructor + do pilates weekly
Weekly food delivery
Beach holiday
Get wedding ring re-sized
Go to women’s circle
Get rugs + carpets professionally cleaned
Christmas Bucket List:
Order 2016 Instagram album (I usually order through Blurb, but its software is currently shitting its pants for the Instagram integration… waiting for it to de-bugify!)
Come up with advent calendar
Get family Christmas cards done
Write Christmas letter and send cards
Goals I Canned:
See the Christmas lights (didn’t. Daylight savings means we would have had to keep the kids up 3 hours past their bedtime to see them. #nope)
Read “5 Love Languages For Kids”(nope, wasn’t called to it)
Finish “The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck”(nope, wasn’t called to it)
Finish “Quiet Power”(nope, wasn’t called to it)
Finish Bill Bryson’s “Home” (nope, wasn’t called to it)
Do quarterly personal plans (nope… decided it wasn’t the right thing for me)
Business
Run 12 webinars (Didn’t… recurrent throat infections have annihilated this year…)
Top 10 Goal Setting Mistakes
Marketing Do’s and Don’ts for Wellpreneurs
From Broke Creative To Millionaire Maven
5 Proven Tips To Finish 2016 With Your Goals Completed
Release adorable goodies
Internet Addiction illustrated zine
10 Lessons From Building A Million Dollar Company (video recorded live at a conference)
How To Run A Workbook Group
8 Paths To Instant Happy wallpaper
My Top Books For 2016: An Illustrated Reading Log
Leonie’s Beach Holiday Illustrated Zine
Stop working nights
Professional video & photoshoot for 2017 workbooks
Grow mailing list to 100,000 (75,000… ain’t so bad!)
Grow FB page to 150,000 (137,000… ain’t so bad!)
Finish all courses I’m partway through!
Income goal of $X (waiting for final numbers… won’t hit goal I don’t think but still grew significantly still! Hooray! Very proud!)
Do some interviews I am proud of – (HOORAY! Eventual Millionaire and Wellpreneur podcasts!)
Release Shining Discount Centre into Academy
New design for ShiningAcademy.com
Professional video for Academy
Train staff in copywriting
Strengthen LDI Standard Operating Procedures
Organise insurances
Get 2017 workbooks off to print
Find permanent bookkeeper
Find permanent tech support
Sell 5,000 workbook packages in our 7 day pre-order sale
Run a Canberra conference
Stop working weekends
12 coaching calls for the Academy (Done monthly, rest of year already scheduled in)
Do some live speaking gigs (did 3 – Canberra Business In Heels, Canberra Wise Women and Wellness Hub in addition to my annual Academy conference)
Release 12 new courses into the Academy
Sales 101 (with guest expert Fran Pratt)
Business Goddess 2.0 e-course
Boundaries Bootcamp
Discover Your Life’s Wisdom
Publishing Sensation Case Study
6i Success System
7 Chakra Business Model Masterclass
2 day Shining Academy conference video recordings
How To Align To Your Goals (with guest expert Kerry Rowett)
7 Life Changing Habits For An Abundant Year (with guest expert Denise Duffield-Thomas)
Smart Time Management (with guest expert Kate Christie)
Leonie Speaks: A Live Interview on Creativity + Death (video recorded live at a conference)
Everyday Sex Goddess
The Anxiety Workshop
Body Love Workshop
Biz Goals I Decided To Can
Batch-record video content in advance (it’s not my style)
New website design (yeah… NOT the right time for that this year!)
Finish reading “Managing For Dummies” (decided to stop focus on being a manager… I wasn’t born to be a manager… I was born to be a fucking ARTIST, man!)
Read great business biographies (canned that idea because burnout… I needed to read soul-nourishing creative and spiritual books instead. And trashy romance. Ohhhhhh how I love trashy romance!)
Philanthropy & Community – Completed
Build library through Room To Read (can read about it here!)
Sponsor more children (now sponsoring 8!)
Sponsor animals (sponsored an elephant, turtle and orangutan)
Donate to more land and animal conservations (donated $5000)
Make more loans through Kiva (have now made over 400 Kiva loans! Woot! So close to 400!)
Cook for someone who needs it (gave food delivery vouchers to a grieving family and bought a trolley filled with groceries for a refugee family)
Donate workbooks and diaries to charities (yay! 70,000 donated!)
Donated $1,000 to buying a Safe Bus for women in PNG
Donated $3,500 to supporting a Kenyan orphanage
I’m also cogitating over some of the big spiritual lessons I’ve learned over the last year. I hope to write more about them once they settle in, deep into my bones.
Thank you as always for sharing this ridiculously wild, amazing journey with me. I’m one lucky bugger.
Big love,
