ARE YOU A GOAL GETTER? With Debra Eckerling

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

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Show. Oh my god, we're coming up to year and I have a really

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important show. And amazing friend and guest, Deb Eckerling

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Welcome. How are you?

Debra Eckerling: 00:00:17

Oh, well, I get to hang out with you. And I get

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to talk about goals. So I mean, really? How can I not be awesome

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today? Thank you so much for having me on.

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I'm so glad. We've been trying to get schedules to

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work. And now we're doing it. So let me tell people about you a

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little bit. And then I got a little a little question for you

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after this. So gold strategist Deb Eckerling is on a mission to

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change gold culture, in and out of the workplace. She is an

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award winning author of your gold guide, and founder of the

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DEB method, DEB method, trademark system of goal setting

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simplified. You're a speaker, consultant, a workshop leader,

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you offer personal and professional planning for

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content development and event strategy and team building for

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executives, entrepreneurs, consultants and companies. Deb

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has spoken on stages for TEDx, innovation, women, score LA and

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so many more, you are the host of gold chat live, I've been on

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a bunch of times, the Deb Show, and you now actually have the

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taste buds with Deb podcast, and can connect with you at on

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LinkedIn and learn more at the Dev method.com. So you are a

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amazing friend and woman and you are actually helping

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corporations. You know, and people move forward because goal

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setting is the starting point in the foundation. So we're going

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to talk a lot about this. So first, the the question is, is

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that something new going on or something that we may not know

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about you? Sure?

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Well you kind of teased it with my taste buds

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with them podcast, but the thing not a lot of people know is that

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I am a reformed non cook. Oh, I used to think cooking was too

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time consuming. It was so much easier to go out for dinner. And

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then once I got an instant pot, this was 2017 I realised that

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you could put in ingredients, and then go do things and then

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you're rewarded with a yummy meal. So somehow, over the last

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six and a half years, I've gone from a non cook to a food

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writer, and food podcast are and I have to tell you I am I'm

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having so much fun because first of all food. But second of all,

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there's so many more benefits to cooking than I ever thought

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imaginable. It's great for creativity, meditation, and it

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goes so hand in hand with goal setting and goal getting so I'm

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I'm I invite anyone everyone if you love, it's all about their

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bite size conversations about food, cooking, and community.

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That's my tag for tastebuds with Deb what you can subscribe on

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iTunes or your favourite podcast platform. Or you can even watch

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the apps on my social including my LinkedIn which is at the debt

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method. Oh, I'm sorry, including my YouTube app, the debt method.

Howard Brown: 00:03:08

That's incredible. Oh my god. So you got it. That's

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great. So that foodie, I am like to cook barbecue, but I love to

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eat so. Oh, that's cool. So and there's so many angles to it.

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It's really cool.

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Well, did you ever notice that you could have

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a conversation about food and or cooking with just about anyone,

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even if they don't like to cook? It's another conversation. I was

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talking to someone last week just like oh, my husband's the

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cook. I don't cook. And she went into the reasons why cuz she had

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a y from her childhood. She never wanted to cook. I mean,

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it's it's it's so intriguing. But the other thing that I love

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about my show is it is a mixture of some our cookbook authors,

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some are chefs. Some have just written things to do with food.

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I have Mitch album on because he's got to food philanthropies

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I know you're another Michigan guy. So it everybody has a

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connection to food in some way shape or form. And I just love

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that exploration. And then I get to learn all these fun tips. The

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other thing is to growing up, I was always in charge of like the

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platters the plating would have company so it was the veggie

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trays or the crackers or the whatever I like I'm not

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artistic, but I'm great at designing platters. And then as

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an adult, I'm like, you know, it'd be fun to plate food. But

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now I have to cook it too. Okay, so you know, all these elements

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kind of come together. But the thing that I love the most about

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the cooking process is you can't be on your computer. You can't

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be going through emails or just obsessively watching the news.

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When you're cooking. You're in that moment and that is the

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perfect downtime that you can Use for figuring things out or

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just meditating or, and I love it. So sometimes if I'm writing

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an article and I'm like, Oh, I'm stuck, okay, I'm gonna go cook

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something. And then by the time I'm back at my computer, I'm

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figuring it out, and I'm ready to go. So

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I love it. Because I talked about it a little bit

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different terms, I see find your happy place, like I find the

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basketball court, you found cooking, find art, find

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meditation, find hiking, find music, but you found your happy

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place. And I can tell because you're lighting up all about it.

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Food does make the world go round. So it's incredible. So

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let's, let's talk about something that I will tell you

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that many people struggle with. I know that people say I want to

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get in shape, I want to lose weight into the new year that's

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coming up. And they sign up for a gym membership, and you sign

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up for a trainer. And like a month later, you're not doing

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it. That's a goal gone back Girl Gone Bad. And so tell me just

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give me a little history. How did you get into, you know why

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goal setting became such a pursuit and such an expertise

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for you?

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Well in so I've lived in LA, it's going on 26

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years. It's I moved here, the end of 19th thing is seven. Oh

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my goodness feels like such a million years ago. So back when

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I lived in Chicago, one of my first jobs out of college was

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doing events for Barnes and Noble. And I would always hang

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out in the cafe because it was a community bookstore. So I wanted

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events for the community. In one day, one of my regulars came in

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and he said W start a writer support group. And I said if you

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think people will show up, let's give it a try. And not only was

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it a hit, but I saw the power of goal setting firsthand because I

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would never ask anybody to do anything I wasn't prepared to do

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myself. So it was okay. What did you accomplish? What are you

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working on? What resources do you need? What are your goals

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for next time. And I would set and achieve my goals. And we it

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was such a wonderful community effort. It was great. So fast

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forward, moved to LA I always talked about this wonderful

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group restarted here. And over the years it evolved. So

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originally it was writer support group. Now it's for writers,

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creatives, and entrepreneurs, because if you're one, you're

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you're really all three because we've got to have that

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creativity that writing that entrepreneurial spirit, it all

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kind of goes hand in hand. And so it was a live group that it

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was a hybrid, online, only a hybrid again, and now obviously

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it is a very active Facebook group. So every day it's a

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different post about Monday is what are your networking goals

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for the week? Tuesdays? What are your goals for the week,

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Wednesday, blog share day, Thursdays, toot your horn, and

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then Friday is photo Friday, and then we can plan. So in this

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virtual land I've taken I think I've gone in a couple of

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different circles. But that's okay, I know you can follow me.

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But it's just a way for people to connect with one another

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share their wins and get encouraged along. So let me back

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up because I realised I skipped a very important part. So I

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started this group in LA. And people would come up to me

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You're good at this. I've been trying to write my book for

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years, can I hire you? We got it done in three months, or you're

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good at this, we you speak at my event. So that's where it came

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in. My professional background is project management and

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communication. So all those little things come together as

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well. And then in 2018, my main communications client was going

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away. And I took that as an opportunity to really fully step

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into what I believe I was meant to do, which is help people

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figure out what they want and how to get it. And my name

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worked with the system that I had been teaching for years. So

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that's a How did that method came about? Um, I that's a

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really long answer. But that's okay. Not everything

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you did you read but now you left us and teased

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us because people want to what is the Deb Deb method? Hey, take

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us to the next step. What is the Okay, so

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I believe and I said this before to get what you

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want, you need to know what that is. So Deb is all about setting

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the foundation for your goals. So D is determine your mission

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to get what you want. You need to know what that is, is explore

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your options. Okay, you've got this vision for what you want

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your life to be. It's the research phase so you can

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explore different avenues and see how you want to make that

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mission into your reality. And then brainstorm your path is

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divide and conquer you know, what are all the things that you

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need to do to get to your happy place. So determine explore our

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brain Storm. And when you set the foundation for your goals,

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you set yourself up for success.

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Love it, I love it. It's really funny that

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because I have your book, and I've known you for a while, and

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I'm going through it, it's not difficult, but it's definitely

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intentional. And we were talking in the green room before coming

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on that I wrote, you go, did you write your, your your wins down,

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and I did. And I've accomplished a lot. And you're like, Well,

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next, right. Next, you got to put your wins planning for 24.

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So that's my next step. So I love the way that it just takes

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you through. And it holds you accountable. And that's really

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important. I think that the biggest thing with making goals

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is being held accountable to make your goals. And so people

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slip all the time. Well, they

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slip all the time. But the other thing is,

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they're not gifting themselves, the time and the energy to

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figure out, you know, a year from now, what do you want to be

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celebrating? Great. Now, what do you need to do to get there? And

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it really is. So my motto is goal setting, simplify because

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it is challenging to change your life. So I just made the

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instructions really, really easy. So in the wind factor,

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it's huge, because goals take a long time. But if you're

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counting your wins, either daily or weekly or monthly, then at

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the end of the year, you're like, Okay, these are my top 10

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things that I did. Great. It's all in service of that mission.

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You know, the motto? I mean, you're shining brightly, I mean,

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it's all over the place for you, right? So whatever it is that

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you're all about, use that as your your compass, and then find

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different ways to get that out into the world.

Howard Brown: 00:11:45

I agree. But let's let's even break it down

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further. Okay, let's go. First step, what do they need to do?

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You know, just just to get started, because most of the

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time getting started is where it is like you with cooking,

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getting started. And then it started to the wheels are moving

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now on you. But so so what's the first step that someone should

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take? Well

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determine your mission. If you do if you do

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nothing else, but do everything else. But really, that is the

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key. Because again, to get what you want, you need to know what

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it is I know I repeat myself, but it's so important. But the

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first phase and determine your mission is visualisation. When

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you think about the life you want, what does that look like?

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Are you a best selling author? Are you speaking to millions of

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people on the TED stage or TEDx stage? Is your product in this

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big store? Are you listed in the 40s? The Forbes 50, under 50, or

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50, over 50? What is going to be that pinnacle for you? What are

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you working towards. And once you have it, maybe it's a well

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balanced life, it's you on vacation with your family,

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whatever it is that you want to create, either personally or

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professionally, think about it, and then create some sort of

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visual representation. So if the goal is to be a best selling

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author, you take a copy of The New York Times bestseller list,

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scratch out number one and put your name and your book title.

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I've got my version of that on my board next to me. If it's to

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be on one of those to hop lists in your field, get the current

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list and then put your picture in your bio over it and then

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print it out or put it as your screensaver, whatever it is that

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you want to create, create like something to keep your eye on

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the prize that you can look at that will keep you motivated and

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moving forward.

Howard Brown: 00:13:50

I think it's really important. What do you

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think some of the reasons are that stop people from, you know,

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achieving their goals.

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No time, no energy, not gifting themselves,

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that and that's a big thing that people get. They go to school

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for one thing. They think this is what their life is going to

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be and then they're miserable. And they're like, Well, I put in

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all the time and energy, or they've been working at a

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company for years and years. And it's not what it once was. But

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they've done their time, then, you know, they're just like

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biding time. I'm not that and that's a big reason why I do

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what I do is I believe everybody deserves to feel happy, feel

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fulfilled in some, if not all of their life. So let's say you

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can't leave the job. What's something you can do on the

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side? That's going to bring you joy? What's a good side hustle

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or passion project? Whether or not is even for money? Maybe you

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always wanted to write a book. But what is that one thing that

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you could dedicate a little bit of time each day or each week,

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to build to create something that's going to bring more joy

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and fulfilment into your Life.

Howard Brown: 00:15:01

Yeah, I would say that also accountability, self

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accountability or team accountability. So when you go

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into a corporation, you know, you're talking to individual

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performers as well as they're part of teams. So I do think

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that there and I'd love your opinion on this individual goals

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versus the team goals. They can be overlapping, but they can

Howard Brown: 00:15:22

also be different, correct. They

Debra Eckerling: 00:15:25

can in one of my fit, and this is what I

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generally do for companies is I go, and I do my goal setting

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simplified workshop, for if it's a small company, the company, or

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if it's a team, if it's a larger company, the team, and we go

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through depth. And it's, we talk about the personal as well as

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the professional goals. In this was a big thing. During the

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pandemic, a lot of people learn new skills. So maybe their job

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is doing one thing, but they learned social media, and they

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really would be better served in the marketing department. But

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they're not going to the boss isn't going to know that because

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it's something that they're doing on the site. So by

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bringing people together in this workshop environment, it and

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I've done it with a boss, and also without the boss, and you

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know, really depends on the company culture. But what I'm

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doing is I'm asking the questions that people don't

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normally ask, you know, what, what is your goal, what is your

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mission in life, as it relates to work, but also as it relates

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to who you are, I mean, your goals may change, but who you

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aren't in your intention, that's not going to change, you know,

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shining brightly. In yours, you are a really good example. It

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can apply to anything and everything that you're doing.

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And that really is your motto, in so I said before, the first

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step is visualisation. And then you do the current bio future

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bio, mission and motto. So that's what makes up determining

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your mission. When you look at everything that you're doing

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through that lens, of your mission, and motto, it makes it

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really easy to stay on track. So if we're doing this workshop, or

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when we're doing this workshop, saying, Okay, what is your goal

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in the company, maybe somebody wants management opportunities,

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but was never seen as a leader before, it's an opportunity for

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people to get in touch with who they are, what their best skills

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are, and how they can benefit the company, but also benefit

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themselves for a richer, more fulfilled life.

Howard Brown: 00:17:38

Yeah, absolutely. And I actually think that, you

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know, because I'm tracking you that you going in and talking to

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corporations at the annual review process, because you're

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really taking stock of what you've accomplished and what

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you're going to accomplish moving forward. I think that's a

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really cool timing that you they bring you in before the review

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process. I think that's the timing of that is stunning,

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because it's really that. And again, we take stock of

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ourselves, but year end and into the New Years, when everyone's

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trying to take stock, right? Everything can be fresh.

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Hopefully you have a you know, a nice vision board for what's

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going on there. And so what how are people going to set

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themselves up for success? We're living in a really complex

Howard Brown: 00:18:22

world, there's lots of politics and and wars and some a lot of

Howard Brown: 00:18:26

negativity going on. AI has changed a lot. I mean, it's,

Howard Brown: 00:18:31

it's, it's screen time is up. But I will tell you, coming out

Howard Brown: 00:18:35

of the pandemic, most people were lonely and depressed. And

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so what, how are we going to set people up for success moving

Howard Brown: 00:18:43

forward?

Debra Eckerling: 00:18:44

Okay, well, the first thing I want anybody who

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is listening or watching to do is to go into your calendar and

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set an appointment for yourself, it can be a half an hour can be

Debra Eckerling: 00:18:55

an hour, the rule is you can move the appointment, but you

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:00

can't delete it. So look at some time in the coming week. And I

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:04

want to do what what you and I discussed before, start by

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writing out 10 wins from this year. And then decide what 10

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:14

wins you want to be touting at the end of 2024. I like to start

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:21

the new year in depth December, because it's and you can start

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:27

it's great. You got like this overlap month where you can

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:29

celebrate the end of December, the wins for the year but you're

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:33

also get a running start into the new year. And think about

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what do you want to be saying about yourself this time next

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year? What things do you need to put in place? And if you don't

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:48

know your mission, you don't know your motto. Give yourself

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:53

the time to figure out what's going to drive you to where you

Debra Eckerling: 00:19:58

want to go and let's say If you don't love your job, you don't

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:04

know if changing your job as an option. But think about maybe

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:07

there are other opportunities at the company where your skills

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:11

can be better utilised, or what kind of side hustle, can you

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:14

start, whether it's for profit or not, it's going to bring you

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:17

joy. But really, like I said, gift yourself this half hour

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:21

this hour, where you're going to take stock of your wins and plan

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:25

a wins for the next year. That is the first step.

Howard Brown: 00:20:30

I love it. So self appointment 10 wins and where

Howard Brown: 00:20:33

you're going to be next year, easy, you should be able to do

Howard Brown: 00:20:35

that. And it is Deb December, and now we know what it means.

Howard Brown: 00:20:39

Any last, you know, favourite goal setting tunes or tips and

Howard Brown: 00:20:42

maybe another one you want to share? Well,

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:45

the other it's just like you set that

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:47

appointment for you know, taking stock of where you are now and

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:50

where you want to go. Give yourself an ongoing appointment,

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:54

whether it's once a week or twice a week. And let that be

Debra Eckerling: 00:20:59

your time. Your goal time, where maybe it's um, you want I always

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:07

have a tonne of examples. And now I'm like, they're all in my

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:10

head at once. Let's say you want to live a healthier lifestyle.

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:15

One of those appointments, you're going to brainstorm out,

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:18

okay, what are all the different things that you need to do? I

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:20

need to exercise more, I need to cook more, eat out less plan my

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:24

meals, plan my exercise, find an exercise I enjoy. You make that

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:29

big list, and then you schedule the time in your calendar to do

Debra Eckerling: 00:21:33

the things on that list. Yeah,

Howard Brown: 00:21:36

I think so I would say add maybe a accountability

Howard Brown: 00:21:39

buddy, that walking buddy, that workout buddy. Sometimes when

Howard Brown: 00:21:42

you you can't let that other person down, you got to show up.

Howard Brown: 00:21:45

So I think that's important if someone else potentially can go

Howard Brown: 00:21:48

with you as well. So I think that's amazing. All right. So

Howard Brown: 00:21:52

this is the part of the show that my favourite part is that

Howard Brown: 00:21:54

we're gonna shine brightly on you. So the sun is shining on

Howard Brown: 00:21:58

you in LA, and you're gonna tell us the best ways to get in touch

Howard Brown: 00:22:02

with you. You've got lots of goodies. But what do you want to

Howard Brown: 00:22:06

share with us today? And then just take us to some inspiration

Howard Brown: 00:22:10

and then kick the show back to me to close out.

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:13

Okay, well, I first of all, thank you so much

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:15

this then a lot of fun time goes so quickly when we're hanging

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:18

out. It doesn't it does, I would say I am at the dev method

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:23

everywhere on social media, you can find you can learn more

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:27

about me at the debt method.com. And you can email me info at

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that method.com If you're on LinkedIn, and if you're not,

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:36

that should be another goal. Please find me connect with me

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:41

and say that this is where we met. And if you want to be part

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:45

of I've got two communities on Facebook, I've got right on

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online, which is for goal setting productivity and

Debra Eckerling: 00:22:50

community. So it's facebook.com/group/write on

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online, or, and or if you're a foodie like me, please join at

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his buds with Deb on Facebook. So facebook.com/group/his

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friends with Deb, and you can subscribe to both the Dev Show

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:10

and he spots, WhatsApp wherever you get your podcasts.

Howard Brown: 00:23:13

Yeah, I'll include them all in the notes and on the

Howard Brown: 00:23:15

social media links in the comments and all that as well.

Howard Brown: 00:23:18

So bring us some inspiration.

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:22

i It's the new year, this is exciting, you get

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:26

this clean slate. So I would say when you give yourself the time

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:32

and energy first to figure out you know what you want, and make

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:36

a plan to get it, you have all the power in the world to turn

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:40

that life you want into reality. So schedule the time. Don't Oh,

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:47

very important. When you make these appointments with

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:48

yourself, you need to treat them as if they're an appointment

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:52

with anybody else. You know, when you value, the time you

Debra Eckerling: 00:23:57

spend on you, you do the work, you will get to where you want

Debra Eckerling: 00:24:01

to go. So go for it. Because we know you can do it.

Howard Brown: 00:24:06

I love it. I just companies individuals join the

Howard Brown: 00:24:09

networks, contact Deb by her book. Really, it's you made it

Howard Brown: 00:24:13

simple and digestible and to move forward. So goal settings a

Howard Brown: 00:24:17

big deal for everyone, as far as individually and part of team.

Howard Brown: 00:24:21

So what a great show. So thank you again for being here. So I'm

Howard Brown: 00:24:25

Howard Brown. This is theSshining Brightly Podcast

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Show. And we bring you real important stuff that you can

Howard Brown: 00:24:32

actually take action on and shine your own light. And it's

Howard Brown: 00:24:35

important so you can reach me at shining brightly.com You can

Howard Brown: 00:24:39

look all about what I do on the podcast as well as my speaking

Howard Brown: 00:24:43

and the book and my advocacy work. And just if we all just

Howard Brown: 00:24:47

shine brightly, a little bit more for ourselves, for each

Howard Brown: 00:24:51

other and for others and for our neighbours in our communities,

Howard Brown: 00:24:55

the world will become a better place. So thanks again. Deb

Howard Brown: 00:24:59

loved having you It's always great to see you thank you