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147: Set Your 2020 Pivot Strategy

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To help you kick-off the new year in style and soul-aligned next steps, I’m back with my annual Set Your Pivot Strategy episode! New and improved with the best resources and reflection questions to help you explore a powerful vision for 2020 :)

I encourage you to get out a pen and paper for this one—yes, analog-style—and pause frequently to journal for as long as you’d like on each prompt. Go big! Go for quantity, not quality, and don’t censor yourself or worry yet about whether or not what you are envisioning is possible—the time for that will come later. 

When you think you’re done writing, keep going! That just means you’ve gotten your most obvious ideas down. Pushing through the pauses is where you create breakthroughs, and every time you sit with a question you’ve never heard before, you are creating new neural pathways in the brain. 

Remember—not all pivots have to be massive career moves, nor should they be. The best pivots, and your best chance of success, lie in starting exactly where you are, by: 

  • Doubling down on what’s working

  • Envisioning what success looks like one year from now

  • Scanning for people, skills, and projects that interest you and build on your strengths and vision, then

  • Setting up a handful of small experiments to let them show you which ones gain the most traction on their own

Happy Pivot planning! Check out full show notes from this episode at PivotMethod.com/147.

A quick favor: If you have gotten value from the episodes so far, I would be very grateful for a rating and/or review, and even better—tell a friend about the Pivot Podcast by sending them this episode! Huge thanks in advance :) 

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Resources Mentioned

  • Pivot Sprint: The Pivot Sprint will walk you through the four-stage Pivot Method over a course of four weeks, with some extra prep and reflection at the start and end. The weekly emails will have tips, questions, suggested actions, and a selected list of key tools and templates.

  • Pivot Mastermind: An exclusive toolkit with pointers (and templates) for starting your own mastermind group, structuring calls, and tracking goals along the way. It also includes a suggested 12-week roadmap for guiding your mastermind group through a three-month Pivot Plan (which you can repeat every quarter as desired),

  • Pivot Toolkit: A library of all tools, templates, and resources corresponding to the exercises in the book and grouped by the four stages of the Pivot Method.

  • Buy the book: Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (now out in paperback with a new afterword!). Introducing a four-step process to methodically make your next career move by doubling down on what is already working.

  • Accompanying Pivot Workbook and Pivot Planner Notepad. The Mat What's Next workbook offers a tactile, interactive compliment to the book to help you work through the key Pivot exercises in a fun, methodical way.

  • Momentum: My private community for heart-based solopreneurs, where you can ask me anything in weekly Q&A calls, join a private Facebook group, and get access to courses to help you design your ideal six-figure business—with ease and joy.

  • Pivot Podcast is listener supported—consider donating to become a Pivot Insider and you’ll get access to a private monthly Q&A call where you can ask me anything, and discuss the latest books, tools and topics I’ve shared in recent episodes.

  • Free-up Founder Time: Founder Time is the time that you dedicate to working on your business, as the owner of the whole operation. Ideally, you schedule it for your most creative windows—when you feel energized to do your best work (for me that's early mornings). Get a combination of my most helpful tools, templates, podcast episodes, and book recommendations to give us all a head-start on generating greater financial freedom, security, abundance, ease, and flow—in life and work.

  • The Pivot Author Toolkit (Free): Get the the templates I created to navigate the wild and winding path of book publishing—to write and launch two top-selling books, Life After College (Running Press, 2011) and Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio, Penguin/Random House 2016).

  • (He)art of Podcasting: A 5-Day Course on Presence, Powerful Questions, and Practical Systems and Tips for Bootstrapping Your Podcast. Podcasting can be one of the most rewarding projects you ever tackle (it certainly has been for me)—and it doesn't require overnight audio engineering mastery, state-of-the-art studios, or even nailing the perfect guest list. I break it down into 5 days of 60-90 minute pre-recorded lessons.

  • Pivot Jumpstart Coaching: Personalized, one-on-one support to help kickstart your pivot with a member of the Pivot Coaching team.

  • Pivot to Profit: VIP Strategy Day with Jenny in New York City: Set your business for 6-figure success and get the red carpet treatment during a two-night stay in NYC—including a 45-minute prep call to set our agenda, 6-hour strategy pow-wow in person, and 45-minute follow-up call afterward to debrief.

Resources for companies and managers:

  • Keynotes: As a keynote speaker, my philosophy and passion as a facilitator is to keep everyone energized and engaged, while giving ample time for personal reflection, getting to know their peers, and creating their own customized plan for how they want to grow in the coming year. I love working with audiences of all shapes and sizes, and have worked with companies like Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Forbes, as well as keynoting at conferences for entrepreneurs.

  • Leader Toolkit: Tools and resources for putting the Pivot Method in practice as a manager and coach. This includes a Career Conversation Starter Kit as well as templates to send to your team.

Topics Covered

  • Pivot Resources

  • [08:00] What is your word or theme of the year?

  • [12:00] What are your soul goals? Why I agree with Tosha Silver on not just creating a "grocery list for God"

  • [15:00] Create a 2020 strategy mind map

  • Ask: What sparks joy? Don't get stuck in shoulds

  • Form combinatorial questions: how can I do X and Y? For example, when I was leaving Google I focused on the question "how can I earn twice as much in half the time?"

  • [20:00] Pivot Method: Prompts for each of the four stages to set your strategy and set-up small experiments (Plant, Scan, Pilot, Launch)

  • [40:00] Handling the fear that often comes with setting big goals

Additional Resources Mentioned

Set Your 2020 Strategy

Happy New Year everyone!!