2026 Goal Setting Secrets: Reflect, Envision, and Set 90-Day Sprints

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Still setting vague goals and hoping for the best? This episode breaks down how to plan 2026 with clarity, focus, and momentum—without burnout, shame, or chasing goals that don’t actually move the needle.

What You’ll Learn:
How to reflect on your year using data and intuition to make smarter decisions
How the 80/20 rule reveals what’s actually making you money (and what to cut)
How to turn big goals into action-based plans that actually convert

Timestamps:
00:00 – Why goal setting matters more than ever heading into 2026
01:05 – Why goal setting matters more than ever heading into 2026
05:45 – Reflection first: using data, metrics, and honest self-review
12:10 – The 80/20 rule and cutting what drains your time and revenue
18:40 – Taking inventory of business, health, and personal life
25:55 – Visioning your future identity and life by design
31:20 – Turning goals into 90-day sprints and action-based behaviors

References & Resources:
Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)

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Michelle Pualani: Hello and welcome back to the Click Tease podcast where we talk all about what is relevant and culturally attuned to today with marketing, how to improve your personal brand, and then how to leverage your leverage, your content for conversion. Today we are talking all about goal setting as we head into a new year, the.

Vision that you're gonna create for yourself. How you're gonna approach 2026 with intention, whether that be personal, professional in your business, with your content, and in your marketing. Hi, I'm Michelle Palani Houston, founder of To Be Honest Beverage Company, as well as a business and marketing mentor and consultant.

Joanna Newton: co-founder of Millennial Marketer and Agency that helps people create their own digital products. Let's dive in. 

Michelle Pualani: So. 

Joanna Newton: We shouldn't. So we're normally, normally so less planned we planned, so then, [00:01:00] so I was supposed to talk, talk next, but normally we do something different.

Michelle Pualani: Yeah, that's totally fine. So let me ask you, Joanna, why are we planning for this year ahead? What is so important about goal setting and creating a vision as business owners?

Joanna Newton: much for that setup. So today, yeah, we're talking about planning for the year and what's really fun, I think about this time of year is there's such a natural reflection point moment that you have now. Do you have to reset your goals every January 1st? No. Can you change your goals partway through the year?

Yes. But I think the start of a new year is a great time to start to reflect on your business, on your personal life, on what you're doing and what you wanna see. For that year, if you're a business owner, you're closing out your books and you're, you're starting your new budgets and you're doing all of those kinds of [00:02:00] things, and it just leads to such a natural great point to start looking at goal setting. And I think goal setting is so important. So you have, you know, a guidepost to look to for what you want your next step to be, what you want your life to be. And you know, today as we talk about this process for goal setting. not just going to be about, oh, I wanna make a million dollars this year, or any of those milestones.

I think as we look at goals, we're gonna be looking holistically at the whole person and what those things are that you wanna see yourself in the coming year.

Michelle Pualani: Absolutely, and from a business perspective, we often.

Joanna Newton: Get

Michelle Pualani: Sometimes get ahead of ourselves and you know, a million dollars, I wanna make that. But we don't realize or understand like how we're gonna get there, what that actually looks like, or even picture ourselves in that place. And if we're holding onto, you [00:03:00] know, belief systems and ways of being and mindset and ways of working that don't align with those goals, that can really impact and affect why or how you reach them.

Or not. So some of the things to keep in mind as we move through this process, so when you're reflecting, when you're goal setting, you don't typically wanna just sit down, plan 15 minutes and like knock it out. Now if you're someone who is like.

Joanna Newton: Success,

Michelle Pualani: of success. You're happy with what you're at. You've got a good system.

Cool. Maybe this is just a very short reflection point for you, but you often want to,

Joanna Newton: yourself time.

Michelle Pualani: give yourself time and space like break out an hour, an hour and a half, you're not gonna be bothered. Turn your phone off. Set things aside, unplug. Get away from people and have this be an opportunity for you to reflect on yourself and the past year at hand.

That join is gonna take you through in a second, but for the most part, you [00:04:00] don't want to just like whip this out in a 10 minute break. You want time for it. You also don't have to do it all at once. You can do it in. Two or three sessions, you can take the time for reflection and then you can take the time for goal setting and planning.

You know, wrapping up the end of year and saying, and okay, what happened previously? How did that impact us? What's going on versus what do I see moving forward can be very different states of being, and if you have a team or you're working with leadership. In any way, you know, to be able to reflect on what has happened can be very distinct from then goal setting.

So give yourself time, give yourself the space, unplug, um, and don't feel like you have to get it all done in a very short period of time. Also, be honest with yourself, like this is for. You like this is transparency for you, so don't feel like you have to try to make things better than they were. Don't feel like you have to gloss over things.

Don't feel like you're trying to impress anyone. Like get really honest with your metrics, your numbers, [00:05:00] how you showed up for yourself in your business, especially if you're a solopreneur. And then really, ultimately, we're gonna go through some things today, but keep it simple. Make it fun for yourself. Do it outside at a park, or you know, if you're somewhere in the snow, because it's the end of the year, maybe in a cozy cafe, get yourself a nice drink.

You know, this doesn't have to be something that you dread. Always try to integrate it in a way that's fun for you.

Joanna Newton: The first step of this process is going to be reflection, and I might argue that this could be the most important of this process because you have to understand what happened if you want to improve or grow or move forward, or just keep the things that are working. And I encourage you to find ways to do this with data because honestly, a lot of times our. Thought about what happened and what actually happens, like aren't always the same thing. Um, and I know like our perception and how we feel is so [00:06:00] important, but when it comes to certain things, looking at data is really important. One thing that we started doing for this podcast is Michelle and I really want this podcast to be a conversation and to be conversational. And for a long time we were saying like we should. Have shorter talking spurts and do this and make it super conversational. And it didn't change for us until we started tracking it till I put the transcripts in AI and said, how long have, are each of us talking through? And we were talking. Now this episode will be an exception, I think this episode because. have a little bit of a different goal with it. We'll probably talk for longer spurts, of us were talking for like five minutes straight regularly, consistently, and that's not what we wanted. So tracking the data, we go, oh, and then we started talking shorter we watched it. And we changed [00:07:00] because we had the data. I dunno if you wanna say something on that before I, before

Michelle Pualani: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think it's so important. I have a, so we can cut, so we can be shorter in our.

Joanna Newton: I don't have a five minute monologue.

Michelle Pualani: Yeah, I mean, we really started the podcast too, with a different intention and a different focus, and so it's okay to pivot. And in that, Joanne and I were taking the role of educators and coaches so much more so at that time. And so those long bouts were intended to be educational, informational. We were guiding, we were coaching, but we have realized we've wanted to shift that.

And Joanna is. Definitely our numbers, data metrics person who is really great at organizing that in terms of like our podcast stats and everything that we've been doing. But I have a business mentor that, um, oh my gosh, I'm gonna forget the phrase that he uses, but like you can't change what you don't measure or something like that.

But really [00:08:00] truly, like if you don't know where you're at from a stats, data numbers, metrics perspective in your business, you don't know what to. Change alter differently in order to grow, in order to scale, in order to evolve like where you're gonna go. So it's so important to know those things.

Joanna Newton: and our feelings about how our business did. Those are very reflective of us. So if we had just a hard day or a bad day, we might think, oh, my business is failing. But then when you look at the numbers and are like, oh wait, I closed $60,000 in new deals this month. Well, like, there's a, there's a difference.

And both of those things are important, like how you feel is important and the numbers are important. So I think it's when you're looking at like your reflection, looking at number. And your emotions. Looking at data and how you feel is really important. So when you are reflecting, think about your wins, like some really big wins for that year. Think about what challenges you faced. Think about any transitions that happened. Did you lose a [00:09:00] client just 'cause of natural client loss? Did you have to, did you lose a, uh, team member? Did you have to transition what software you used? There's a million things that happen. Within a business, think through what those things are. Um, and then also just ask yourself like, what are you proud of? What did you learn? Like what has changed right about my business? And write those things down. Think about it, journal it, process it in the way you want. Talk it out to chat, GPT, whatever it is that helps you reflect. Just make sure you're thinking about those things.

And I know like. If you're listening to this podcast, you're probably a high achiever. You probably push yourself. You are probably harder on yourself than like, the reason I'm telling you to look at the data is 'cause I get hard on myself and then I look at the data and I'm like, oh wait, I'm doing okay.

Like, like maybe I didn't quite get where I wanted to this year, but I saw some pretty big wins. If you [00:10:00] had a business that made a profit in 2025, are doing great. If you are able to pay yourself 2025, you're doing great. And I think sometimes that's helpful to really look at those things, write them down and look at your successes, right on that piece of paper.

Michelle Pualani: Yeah, absolutely. We're at 100% our harshest critics and we often get in our own heads and we see all of our own. Failures. We are privy to all of the mistakes that we made. We are aware of all those things, but you have to remember, like other people see you in segments and I remind, have to remind myself of this constantly is how well I show up in these different ways.

And that is reflected, you know, the way that people see me, the way that I get feedback from clients, from people. I had an onboarding session with a client the other day and at the end she was like, oh my God, you are so good at this. And I was like. Thanks. That's, you know, it's great to hear. It's kinda one of those funny things 'cause you're like, wait, I [00:11:00] am good at what I do, but you don't think about it.

You know? 'cause we have all of our insecurities, our doubts, our fears for ourselves. And of course, like you said, like as you're listening, you're often probably the type of person that wants to show up. A hundred percent like you wanna do, well, you wanna deliver. And so you're constantly learning and growing and trying to even make yourself better, but you forget that so many people are satisfied with the type of work that you perform without it being completely perfect.

And that's, you know. Part of what we do as coaches and experts and leaders and authorities in our industry. Okay, this next point I think is really important and it's been super top of mind for me. So as you're reflecting, as you're reviewing, you're gonna start to pull out different things, especially if you're looking at your metrics and your numbers.

So let's just say you have five offers. Maybe very typical. You have like a one-to-one, you have a group, maybe you have a digital product,

Joanna Newton: do

Michelle Pualani: um, maybe you do workshops for people. Maybe there's this. Like one thing that you've pursued for a long [00:12:00] time, I don't know, but you've got a few offers on the board and now you're looking at end of year and you're saying, okay, how much money did I make in each of my offers?

Well, it's usually gonna be not equally weighted. That's not very common. Now, if you are different situation, but. Introducing here what's called the Pareto principle. You may have heard it, heard of it before. It's our 80 20 rule. If you haven't, because I know lots of us haven't been exposed to this just yet.

It's that 20% of your effort, 20% of your work, often gets you 80% of your results and vice versa. So a lot of times we're spending 80% of our time on. Procrastination. Smaller tasks, smaller clients like little things that don't get a ton of the results, they get 20%. So they're maybe a portion of your profit, they're a portion of your outcome.

Maybe you're getting followers, maybe you're getting reach, but that 20% of work attention, effort. [00:13:00] Input is what's getting the majority of your results. It's where the majority of your money comes from. So as you head into this next year, you wanna do more of what's actually working at scale,

Joanna Newton: is.

Michelle Pualani: something that is leveraged.

So if you have. An offer that took you your 20% of time, but that's making you 80% of your results and making you the most money. But you have these other offers that are kind of taking a bit of your time, but they're not really producing anything or you have clients on your roster. I, this is even for us, even like with our physical product, we have clients who are like minuscule in terms of our sales.

Just for our, uh, our bottles and our non elk beverage, but they ask so much of us, they're late on payments. They take more time and effort. They're like coddling, et cetera. And then our clients who spend the most money with us and buy the most product are just like, Hey, I need this. Hey, I need 12 more bottles.

Hey, thank you. Like it's super simple, super easy. So as you head into this next [00:14:00] year when you're reflecting, what can you cut out? What is the 80% of work time, effort, energy, and resources that is unnecessary that you can start to say no to, that you can start to diminish and then put more time and energy into that 20% of top tier, high level like best ROI most leveraged scalable opportunities.

Joanna Newton: important to do because as business owners, our time is so important and so valuable, and if you're spending your time on the wrong things that aren't making money, you are going to struggle for. Us this year at Millennial Marketer, we have this. We've phased it out, but we decided to cut out an entire service we were offering. It was too hard to scale. It was too expensive to run. It was too stressful for me, right? Like it just created all of these problems that And as I'm building my 2026 budget [00:15:00] without it, I am so relieved to not have that. Expense because the profit we were making on it, sometimes we were losing money on this particular offer and sometimes we were making money.

But you know, the idea was always we'll scale it and then it will make money, but scaling it was just too challenging and we spent too much time, too much money. So it's gone and we're gonna be able to replace that with something else that's more life giving and more energetic. The other thing too. When you're, when you're looking at this come to look at data, I actually, on this podcast, one conversation we had about growing a personal brand and growing a following really made me how important I have this like one profile in a marketplace that really makes me. of my money and my company, all of its money and it's such a valuable asset and I'm always like, oh, I want a million TikTok followers and I want this and [00:16:00] I want that. When I actually have this crazy, strong niched profile that gets me multiple inbound leads every day, like that's a dream. And I think I only want that like. TikTok following. 'cause I feel like somehow that will like make me more legitimate. Like I think that will make me more legitimate. But I have this profile in this brand presence that is doing its job and making my money. So spending actually more time growing and cultivating that. Not that I'm not gonna keep up the other things.

'cause the truth is nothing happens in a vacuum. People find me there, they watch the podcast, they check out my website, they do their research. All of that stuff matters, but I should be putting my most effort and energy into that profile and then doing the other things to support. Right? Um, and so realizing those things by looking at the data and [00:17:00] reflecting is so, so important to keep that going.

Michelle Pualani: Yeah, and we can do it in all areas of our business, whether that's our content platforms, whether that's our, you know, the different marketing channels that we have for outreach, being featured on people's podcasts, doing. Newsletters, like doing workshops for other people. It could be your product suite and what that is.

It could be your team members, like which of your team members has the most output and which ones are kind of just lacking, and who can you cut? I know that's kind of harsh, especially around the holidays, but it's true. You know, it's, it's like how can we think about this principle in a lot of different areas of our business?

Joanna Newton: So the next step for you, after you've kind of thought about that 80 20 rule, what's bringing in, what's creating the most sales, um, the most even joy for you? The next thing you wanna do is really take inventory of where you are now. So you've reflected, you've thought about all of that. Now you wanna sit down and understand. Exactly where you are. So take a look at your business, your [00:18:00] health, your wellness, your relationships, your emotional energy, all of the things that make of your life. And sort of take an inventory. Where are you out with sales? How are you with your health? All of those things.

So you understand where you sit. Life and then try to start to identify what's working for you, what's not, what's where you want it to be? You know, where where's lacking, where are the stress points? Where are the pain points? Where are the blocks that are keeping you from getting to that next level of business or really, really just enjoying your life? reflect on that.

Michelle Pualani: And so much of our business intertwines with personal. So this is such an important and integral aspect because oftentimes we start our own businesses for freedom, for, for. Flexibility for financial success for our families, for some type of work life balance or equilibrium [00:19:00] that we couldn't find in an employed environment.

And so when you're looking at your 80 20 rule, when you're looking at scrutinizing the past year from a business perspective, what encroached upon your personal time did you have to cancel? Fitness because you were overworking. Did you have to push important meetings with friends or family or appointments for your health and wellbeing because you took on another client because you.

Overdelivered because you didn't prepare enough in advance. Like where does that business impact your personal life and how can you assess that to see where you are in order to then make changes? What do you want to be different? What do you want about your schedule to look differently? What do you want about where you're investing, your time, your effort, your resources to change and to shift?

And then use that?

Joanna Newton: Eventually

Michelle Pualani: intentionally create that life that you're building for yourself, not waiting for some day when things open up. So as we head into this new year, what you're gonna do is you're gonna [00:20:00] envision, now thinking forward, I've reflected, I've thought about it. This is where I'm at right now.

Now what do I wanna create for myself? In one year's time, how do I wanna feel? How do I wanna feel in my body? How do I wanna feel about my business? How do I wanna feel in my relationships, my partnerships, my friendships, my life? How do I wanna feel in my home environment? How am I spending my time? Where is my schedule taking me?

Am I landlocked? Am I in my office? Am I at my home? Am I traveling? Like, where am I actually investing my time with my business? Am I leading my team? Am I more actively involved in the marketing? Am I putting more time into copywriting? Am I filming more? Where am I spending my time? And then how do I have support from other people?

And then who are you surrounding yourself? What does that look like? What are you building? What type of accolades maybe have you reached at that time? And how does it appear in your life? You know, you can [00:21:00] write some more like identity statements around it, whereas maybe you're thinking through like your coach, your expertise, your authority.

And I am the authority in microneedling for facials, or you know, I am a TikTok creator with 10,000 followers based on, I don't know, dog grooming or whatever the case is. You know, get specific to who you are as an individual and how you're showing up. And that can be personal too. So I am a supportive husband and father, or I am a more present.

Mother, because I only work x number of hours a week, and therefore I have time for my kids. So you're essentially creating a future identity for yourself that you want to start to embody and starting to see, starting to write, starting to acknowledge yourself as that person before it happens.

Joanna Newton: I think this process is so [00:22:00] important, like from the reflection to, you know, taking inventory to that visioning process because I think so many times. We just accept that life sucks sometimes. And there, there is this reality that there are things out of our control that we have to deal with, but we can make choices and take actions that make it better.

And I have like a silly little story to share. Um, I bought new couches like four years ago and. They were super slippery on my floors. They would move and my dog is crazy. And if someone's at the door, she jumps on the couches and it moves the couch and literally every day. I have to move those couches at the end of the day back to where they're supposed to do.

And this drove me nuts. And I just let it happen to me like four years. Why I did not change anything about this. I have no idea. I'd be so annoyed, like, I have to move [00:23:00] these damn couches again. Like, what the hell? I'm just like constantly moving these couches and they're scratching up my floors and we're like so annoyed. So last week I bought little grippy things to put at the bottom of my couch. I put them on the, the things and now my couches don't move. And like, like I know that's such like a silly example, but sometimes we just like accept this annoying thing in our life that we absolutely hate and we let it happen to us over and over and over again. sometimes the solution is, well, I'm just gonna. Spend $20, it was $20 or something to get little grippy things to put on my couches. And they might, I mean, if someone like shoved them, they'd still move, but they're not, I haven't moved them since I put them on this weekend and I haven't touched them.

And they're where they belong. Right. And I think we have to think through that and go through that reflection to be like. What is [00:24:00] it that I just hate that I need to be different. You might not be able to change it right away. Maybe you, maybe you have to have a job while you're working on your business and you hate your commute.

Maybe you can't fix that immediately, right? But you can say, okay, you know, this is what I'm gonna do on my commute to make it better. Or this is how I'm gonna make this portion better and figure that out.

Michelle Pualani: Yeah, we, I mean, it's the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over and over again, and that's something that I've also had to recognize. For me, it was like having outdated things. I would just be okay with my outdated old model when it would've maybe been a really small investment or just an easy swap for something different.

Whether that was clothes or stuff, I, I definitely grew up, you know, in a poor environment and so we either got hand-me-downs or secondhand or just held onto things for forever because. That's what [00:25:00] you did. You didn't upgrade or change or evolve and looking at the different aspects of your life, you might be realizing how and why you're holding on to certain things and what can you do differently.

That makes such a huge difference, especially that mental load that we talked about before on the podcast, is we're so often carrying that mental load of little things that bother us, trigger us that we have to take care of, that we have to do. That can be. Delegated that can be checked off the list, that can be kind of easily handled and then it releases time opportunity for us to then invest in the things that matter, the 20%.

Mm-hmm.

Joanna Newton: So the next step in our process is to actually set our goals. I encourage you to really focus on just three core goals. I think at this point we can get really overwhelmed and wanna try to fix everything, but you can't do everything and fix everything at once. That is probably your surefire way to [00:26:00] fail, is if you try to do too many things at once.

So I encourage you to just take personal goal. just for you, professional that's for you, your business and, and that growth area. one sort of like your spiritual mindset goal. Like what does that look like for you? Um, and then write them in the affirmative. I am a TikTok star. No, that's not gonna be my goal for this year.

Right? Um, but like, write that in the affirmative, like you are those things that you wanna be on the professional, personal, and, you know, spiritual mindset areas.

Michelle Pualani: Yeah. Goals are important. They're big. They're part of your identity. You can get specific, you can get like focused. Whatever makes sense for you. And whatever you truly believe in, don't let it be a pressure thing, right? Like you think you [00:27:00] should have a million followers on TikTok. Is that because you truly want it and it's going to be important for you or important for the progress of your business?

Not necessarily. So allow yourself to focus on goals and center on goals that are relevant to you, that you actually care about and that you're gonna set for yourself and not for anyone else. And then once you have those goals for the year. We have to get into action. And so oftentimes we think like, okay, I'm gonna make blank by the end of the year.

And then we get to Q4. We were talking about this before we started the podcast. You get to Q4, you realize you haven't hit your goals. You didn't actually have an action plan for it. Oh my gosh, I gotta scramble, scramble, scramble. And so what you're gonna do in your business specifically, you can do.

Personally as well, but in your business specifically, you're gonna break your goals down into 90 day sprints. So those are your quarters, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, throughout the year, and you're gonna have one focus per quarter. Now remember those five offers that probably aren't [00:28:00] making the same amount of revenue for that first.

Quarter, and for that first 90 day sprint, you're gonna focus on one offer that relates somehow to your goal. Whether that is reaching a certain amount of people, whether that is converting a certain amount of people, whether that is improving your conversion rates, whether that isn't growing your revenue, whatever that looks like, that's going to be tactical, tangible for you.

You're gonna focus in and then you're gonna break it down. Okay, how am I going to get there? What am I gonna do on a monthly basis? What am I looking to accomplish? What am I gonna do on a weekly basis? What am I gonna do on a daily basis? And start to break it down into small, reasonable chunks that actually work and apply for you in your business.

Instead of feeling like, oh my God, I've gotta make a million dollars. That sounds really intimidating. I'm not really gonna, I'm just gonna kind of shoot in the dark in the beginning, and then I'm gonna try to. Change this. It's just, that's how we often kind of go about it. But if you can break it down, you can simplify it.

That's the approach you're gonna [00:29:00] take and actually getting towards it and making it happen. So ensuring that you have that high priority, the focus for the quarter, knowing that that's a part of the process, um, knowing that you're not going to just knock it outta the park right away knowing that you're maybe gonna fail, you're gonna fall, you're gonna misstep.

Then when you're actually going to apply it, ensure that that's the thing you focus on first. Don't start your day. Check email, check dms. Just kind of allow yourself to float through. Start with the focus. Start with the deep work. Start with what it is that you're actually wanting to accomplish, and then let all of the admin and other things trickle in underneath that.

Joanna Newton: that I actually learned from you, Michelle, on one of these that we've done, this might be like our third goal setting epi, like New Year's goal setting episode. And on one of the ones in the past, you shared something really interesting with me and the podcast listeners about goal setting that always. Stuck. Stuck with me since you've said it [00:30:00] was when you're looking at these things to focus on your action over outcomes because you can really control your actions, but outcomes are a whole nother thing. 'cause outcomes, there's a lot of external factors with outcomes. I had some external. Factors really affect my business growth this year. Um, there were a lot of changes at Kajabi. We moved the marketplace. The economy has been tough, like inflation has been tough. There's a lot of external factors that affected our ability to grow. But what's not affected is my ability to show up. So if you're trying to make more sales, if you say, well, I wanna close in sales a week. That's harder than saying, I'm going to send 10 proposals every day I can send 10

Michelle Pualani: Yes.

Joanna Newton: every day no matter what is happening. Right? I have full control over that. [00:31:00] So as you're writing these things down and thinking about your goals, know, turn them into action items you can do and you have. Full control of, because that's gonna heighten your ability to have, have success. Say you're sending those 10 proposals every day and you are not hitting that $20,000 a week sales goal, then you can say, okay, how can I adjust my offer? Or where I'm pitching, or how I'm pitching, or my sales process? Right?

You can say. What am I gonna change? I'm not getting that $20,000. What am I gonna change? But you're still responsible for that 10 proposals a day or, or whatever that goal is that you've, you've set for yourself.

Michelle Pualani: Oh, that makes me so happy. That's something that stood out and it's so true. I come from behavioral health coaching and changing behavior, which is. Our days, our lives, our goals, the what makes up our time is our behavior. How we show up to work, how we show up in our personal life, how we show up in our relationships, everything that [00:32:00] we do.

And when you think about the way in which you're investing your time. A lot of us just go by default. Or if we're goal setting, I wanna lose 10 pounds, I wanna make this much money. You're right, they're all outcome based, which we technically cannot control. We cannot say this is exactly what's gonna happen because I'm choosing it to, but our actions are behaviors.

The things that we do with our time is exactly where we can put our attention. And so when you can shift that mindset, that intention, that focus towards goal setting, being. Behavior based, action based, I'm gonna show up in this way. That will change the game completely and forever.

Joanna Newton: saying I wanna build muscle this year. So vague, but saying I'm going to eat protein at every meal and get in at least three weight training, resistant training sessions a week. I will build muscle if I do those [00:33:00] actions, but that is so much more something that I, I as a person can control.

Michelle Pualani: Beautiful. So as we start to close this episode, you have the steps, you have the approach. This is a general reflection from the year past goal setting as we head into an exciting new year, ways to break it down into those 90 day sprints. Remember, simplicity is key here. Transparency and honesty with yourself, letting go of the judgment, the embarrassment.

It doesn't matter what you accomplish this year, no one is keeping track. Like literally no one is keeping score of what you. But you. Yeah, and you're the one who's giving yourself all the crap for it. When realistically it's not important. When I started letting a lot of that stuff go, that's when I actually started seeing like leaps and bound changes in what I was producing, because I wasn't spending all this emotional wasted mental energy and time on, oh my gosh, I'm such a failure.

Oh my gosh, I didn't do it. Oh my gosh, I'm so ashamed. How will people accept me? And just got past that and like, okay, I'm [00:34:00] a human being and this is how I'm showing up. Changes the game. So be able to, you know, move through this process, take the time and as you're headed into new the new year, keeping in mind that like.

It's okay to fail. It's okay to misstep. It's okay to pivot and make changes, although try to follow through on those behaviors. You know, don't give something a week and then say, oh, this isn't working. Like give it some. Give it at least the 90 days. Give it the 90 days of your plan. Follow your plans.

Stick to the plan, get the content out, write the stuff, do the thing. And then once you get to a point of like clear metrics and you can look back and review, then make educated decisions based on that and make a pivot. But allow yourself that time to be able to build momentum, to build scale, to build opportunity, and create a long of enough runway timeline for you in order to do that.

And give yourself some grace along the way because. We're all out here doing our best, and we should be proud of everything that we've done this year. [00:35:00] Even if that thing was. To get rid of stuff. This was a big purging year for me, 2025. And so just for me to cut the cord on brand, a brand that wasn't working to get rid of products, to declutter our businesses was huge.

And so 2026 I think is gonna be a much bigger year of scale and growth, but sometimes you need to cut and clear in order to make Wave four, those big things. So do that for yourself. Give yourself some time, and we're so proud of you.

Joanna Newton: you so much for listening in, and thank you so much for being part of Click Tease throughout the year. We really appreciate everyone who leaves a comment, follows us, subscribes, sends us a message, all of those things. So please keep tuning. In this year, in 2026, this will actually be the first episode of 2026. So thank you for being here. Make sure you follow, subscribe, share this with a friend who you know is ready to set some amazing goals for the year.