How To Let Going ALL IN Be Easy

1. Identify what needs to happen to create the result. Not what your perfectionist brain wants the process to look like. You can have a messy process and produce a killer result. Do you REALLY need to do all those steps you think you need to do?

2. Commit to doing what needs to happen.

3. Commit to NOT doing any extra stuff.

4. Relax. No one is going to die if you let it be easy. Goals are just for fun.

Success Leaves Clues

Success leaves clues.

Here are three questions to unlock those clues:

1. Why are you at your current level of success, and not further behind?

2. Why are you at your current level of success, and not further ahead?

3. What’s the difference between future you, who has achieved your goal, and current you?

Here are my answers:

Why am I at 2600 YouTube subscribers, and not at 1000 subscribers?

• I uploaded weekly for 12 weeks

• I started making videos FOR YouTube rather than making videos and putting them ON YouTube. Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t make it a YouTube video.

• I hired an editor that made my videos a lot more watchable.

• I focused massively on titles and thumbnails

• I focused so much more on

Why am I at 2600 subscribers and not 5000 subscribers?

• I stopped creating/publishing while I moved countries (And therefore I paused hiring my editor)

• My titles and thumbnails can use so much improvement still

• The quality of my video structure isn’t at 100k level yet

What’s the difference between future me (who has 5000 subscribers), and current me (who has 2600 subscribers)?

• She puts way more thought into the titles and content

• She trains for YouTube like Michael Jordan trains for the NBA championship (and has a dedicated YouTube mentor)

• She doesn’t shy away from the hard work of creating more engaging content - she is willing to go the extra mile to get a better shot or create a better script.

• She is extremely comfortable in front of the camera (she talks to it every day until the camera feels like a person)

• Immediately she hires support again

• She has a permanent set up so all she has to do is turn on the lights and camera and GO, there’s no “set up time” required.

How would you answer those questions?

July 2024 Goals

I just moved to Sydney, so this month I’m taking a step back from my usual intensity and giving myself space to work on some fun goals I’ve been wanting to pursue for a while.

By July 31st, I will easily:

Master the Moonwalk

I grew up watching Michael Jackson music videos because my mum was a huge fan. So I can kind of do a moonwalk already.

But it’s not fluid and it doesn’t have the visual effect it’s supposed to. So this month, I’m going to practice every day until it’s so smooth, it’s criminal. I’ll post all the cringe videos.

Thoughts that will drive me to create this result:

• This is so fun

• I want to practice today

• Any minute now, it’s going to just click.

• Once I have this move, I’ll never lose it. It’s like riding a bike.

Solidify the Vision for my Next Coaching Program

As I evolve, my business does too. This year has been full of inner evolution. So I’m ready to create something new. I feel it bubbling up, I just haven’t created enough mental focus for it to arise.

Thoughts that will drive me to create this result:

• I know exactly what to create

• People are waiting for this

• Anything I create will work

What are your July Goals?
What do you need to think to make them happen?

The Blog Is Back

Between 2019-2021, I wrote a blog every single day for two years.

730 posts. Never missed a day.

It was life changing in so many ways:

• I developed the discipline to show up for my goals, every single day, no matter what. Even when I was sick, tired, busy and resistant.

• I learned how to trade perfect (and even good) for done. Some of the posts I created are physically painful for me to re-read. But I was willing to be bad at writing to get good at showing up. I discovered that a large part of getting what you want in life is allowing yourself to be dissatisfied with the process.

• It inspired me to create a graphic (below) about showing up daily that got seen by 6 million people, liked by 120,000 on Twitter, and shared by 35,000, including by Ariana Huffington, and Steven Bartlett from Diary of a CEO/Dragons Den. I still get messages every week from therapists and schools telling me how they have it printed and hung up in their offices and classrooms.

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My decision to show up daily came from words by the writer Sean Wes (who is now on a hiatus from the internet).

It’s that last sentence that got me.

I realised I’d been looking for the microwaveable version of success. The ready-meal option. The quick fix.

But there is no shortcut. There’s only doing the work.

And just like Sean said, showing up daily did make me money.
It did build me an audience.
It did solve most of my (business) problems.

The blog itself wasn’t what created success (I’m pretty sure for the first whole year I had about five readers), but the act of learning to show up daily meant that I actually started doing the necessary work to build a sustainable business. I finally learned to stick with things long enough to see them work.

(The truth is, ALL the marketing gurus are right. Every technique, every strategy they say is the secret to success, it all works. But only if YOU work. You can’t try it and stop after a bit because you’re not seeing results. You have to pick a strategy and go all in, and NOT STOP UNTIL IT WORKS.)

So, I blogged for my two year commitment, and then finished so I could focus on creating my podcast, How to Take Action.

Now – two years and 110 episodes in – I’ve been starting to feel that something is missing from my online presence.

I haven’t been feeling on fire with my influence like I used to.

For years I’ve had a theory that to be truly influential, you need to be both inspirational and aspirational.

Inspirational
Noun
Causing people to want to do or create something

Aspirational
Noun
Role modelling the process of doing and creating something

Inspiration alone is useful.
Aspiration alone is cool.

But together, they can light a fire of ambition so hot you can’t put it out.

Think, Kim Kardashian becoming a human rights lawyer. She added inspiration to her aspirational lifestyle. Or climate activist, Greta Thunberg’s double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to attend a conference. She added aspiration to her inspiring message.

Don’t just share how to do something. Role model doing it.
Don’t just role model doing something. Share how to do it.

If you think of the most influential person in your life, it’s likely that they had those qualities:

1. They taught you how to think differently (inspiration).

2. They role modelled the way (aspiration).

And that’s why I’m bringing back my blog.

I’m creating what I wish existed for me to consume: the juicy, behind-the-scenes of someone’s goals, mixed with the nitty-gritty how-to instructions.

While I won’t be posting daily (my “showing up daily” focus is now directed towards the back-end marketing of my business), I will be updating frequently with my goals, processes, and insights.

I hope it inspires and aspires you to do something impossibly ambitious.

Day 730: The End.

Today is my 25th birthday, and this is it. Day 730. Two years of daily blogging in a row, nonstop. I made it!

No matter what I do in my life from here on out, that achievement can never be undone. That brings a delicious sense of satisfaction!

I’m grateful for every single one of you who have been with me on this journey. For my readers, whom although I don’t know, I felt a tremendous sense of accountability to complete. For my clients, who frequently inspired ideas for blog posts. For my boyfriend, Daniel, who patiently waits for me to finish a blog post before I can go to bed. For my past self, for setting myself this goal. And for Sean Wes, for inspiring me to do it in the first place.

Here are some of the things I learned, after two years:

1. Blogging isn’t a habit you can build. It definitely didn’t become automatic after 21 days. The habit I built was discipline.

2. It’s okay to do B– work. When you embark on a project like daily blogging, perfectionism really gets kicked to the curb. (If you want to let go of perfectionism I highly recommend publishing something daily!). Although I developed my writing voice throughout the process (someone described it as “punchy”!), some days I just settled for a really average, really boring post. And I’m okay with that.

3. Accountability is everything. I had many days where I considered stopping. But I had publicly announced it so many times that it just felt like there was no option but to go on.

4. Another key reason I stuck to it when I didn’t feel like it was just how big the goal was. I felt like, if I’d already done 43 days, or 202 days, or 564 days, how could I stop now? That’s the power of setting impossible goals.

5. Learning to show up daily is one of the best things I’ve ever done. Now I trust myself to hit any goal I set myself – because I know that I’m willing to show up, even on weekends, and Christmas, and birthdays.

And so now, I’m done. I considered continuing with daily blogging, but I decided not to.

Endings are wonderful.

They provide space for new beginnings.

And I’ve got some new impossible goals to attend to. (I promise I’ll still post on occasion, I’m not deserting this blog forever!).

Until then, thank you for coming along on this wild ride.

THE END.

Podcast

Today I’ve been outlining my podcast (my next project after I finish two years of blogging).

I’m not sure whether I’ll launch it soon, or if it’s the kind of thing that will need to simmer for a while.

Either way, it’s coming.

I'll announce it here when it's out (because I plan to still post on my blog occasionally – just not daily).

What would you like to hear in a podcast from me? Leave me a comment or email me at hello@saraharnoldhall.com with your suggestions.

A July Goal in Progress

One of my July Goals to redo my office has officially begun. Here are a few snapshots. Looking forward to sharing the before and after photos soon!

Bonus July Goal

I know we’re already a third of the way through July, but I’m adding an extra goal this month: FUN.

Things were getting a bit too serious.

I could feel myself starting to stress out and then I was like WAIT A MINUTE. Goals are just for fun!

So fun is my highest priority this month.

How do you inject extra fun into your goals?

Keep Going

When you know DEEP inside that you’re meant for something HUGE, it’s the most frustrating thing to look around and see your life not where you want it to be.

When your goals are still just goals.

When you feel like you’ve been at it literally forever.

When you’ve told your entire extended family about your dream and they kinda doubt you and you want to prove them wrong and you’re STILL not there.

It’s exhausting.

I used to be there, in 2018/2019, before my business took off.

But that’s why I’m qualified to tell you that it’s worth it to keep going.

When you’re not there yet, it doesn’t mean you won’t ever get there, I promise.

No matter what your goal is, if you’ve started, you’re in the middle of achieving it.

You’re in the middle of being a full time entrepreneur.

You’re in the middle of writing a best selling book.

You’re in the middle of becoming a world-touring speaker.

You’re in the middle of becoming the healthiest version of you.

You’re not lost, you’re not stuck. 

You’re just in the middle.

The only ones who make it are the ones who keep going.

Keep going. It’s so worth it.

My Style

I’m a go go go, push your limits, do whatever it takes, go all in, hustle-coz-you-love-it kinda girl.

But that’s not the only way to go after your goals.

Some of my closest friends and mentors are much more "Go with the flow, let it be, breathe into it” kinda people.

There is no right way to achieve your goals.

There is only the way that resonates with you.

I publicly share my ideas and philosophies on the internet because it might be the vibe that helps you.

But if it doesn’t, I totally invite you to ignore everything I say and go and crush your goals anyway.

If your way works better for you, DEFINITELY do that.

We can have different views and still all crush our goals.