Believe Like A Boss
Learn how to smash your goals and expand the possibility of your life through mindset management, spiritual (energetic) alignment and intentional action. Join each week as Life Coach Nandi (rhymes with Gandhi) teaches you how to create what she calls "a life of thrive" with ease and authenticity. | NandiCamille.com
Believe Like A Boss
Action Audit: Tools and Tips for Effective Goal Management
Ever feel overwhelmed by your commitments, or wonder how your actions align with your goals? In this heartfelt finale of season six of "Believe Like a Boss," I share my journey from founding a Montessori school to embracing the executive director role at a Reggio Emilio inspired school. This transition has been a whirlwind of excitement and challenges, and I'm eager to share my reflections and valuable lessons learned along the way. Get ready for some personal stories and career updates that highlight both the triumphs and the trials of this new chapter in my professional life.
We take a deep dive into emotional self-awareness and goal-setting in this episode. By acknowledging and naming our emotions, we can significantly reduce their power over us. I'll discuss methods for setting and tracking goals within specific timeframes, whether it be a week, three months, or a year. Learn how to choose the right goal-tracking method for you, be it writing them down, using a planner, or creating a vision board. My aim is to help you grow personally and professionally, free from self-judgment and negative self-talk.
In the final segment, we explore the powerful impact of goal tracking and the Accountability Club on achieving personal milestones. I'll share my favorite tools, from physical planners to digital platforms like Monday.com, and how they help keep my goals on track. Mindfulness and regular self-check-ins are essential to ensuring that our actions are aligned with our definitions of success. Stay connected through social media for ongoing updates, and consider a free discovery call for personalized coaching. Thank you for your unwavering support, and I can't wait to reconnect with you in the next season.
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Hi, friends, and welcome to Believe Like a Boss. I'm your host Life Coach, nandi Camille. Join me as I teach you how to smash your goals and expand the possibility of your life through mindset management, spiritual alignment and authentic action. I'll teach you how to create what I like to call a life of thrive, with ease and authenticity. It's time to play with what's possible. Are you ready? Let's go time to play with what's possible. Are you ready?
Speaker 2:Let's go. Hello, hello, hello, my friends, and welcome back to another episode of Believe Like a Boss. I am your host life coach, nadia Camille. Oh my gosh, my friends, this one's bittersweet. This is going to be the last episode in season six. I will be back. This is not the end of the podcast.
Speaker 2:I did contemplate that After six seasons I was like, am I done? Are we done? And honestly, recently I just feel like I've been bubbling over with new ideas and new episodes. I've been saving them on my phone, so we are not done. But with me, I started a new position, so I just finished the last, I suppose, position that I was doing.
Speaker 2:I was a founder of a Montessori, so I just founded a Montessori. For those of you who are new here, welcome. I am a life coach. I'm a mindfulness based life coach. I work with female entrepreneurs and high achieving women, usually executive women, women that are running businesses in the corporate sense or running business on their own, and so the businesses I've been running I just founded in Montessori and now I am stepping into an executive director role at a Reggio Emilio inspired school now, and so part of my project is to actually build onto the school. We have three classrooms now and I'd like to add at least two more and extend our age group and that's what the group would like and that's why I've been brought on and I'm really excited to do that. And so, with me stepping into it, this is my third week there now. It's been a lot of fun. It's also been incredibly overwhelming in the best way. I also have accountability club starting next week and I'm still an ambassador for the beauty boost.
Speaker 2:Now, I'm not telling you all of this. I know that there's a lot of messages I think we hear around hustle culture. The point of this is not to tell you that I look at me doing all the things. No, I'm a naturally multi-passionate human. If I was not doing all these things, I'd probably be bored. I really enjoy having a really multi-passionate life. I love being an executive director. I love working with children. I also really love working with adults in my life coaching business. I love working with children. I also really love working with adults in my life coaching business. I love it. I also love being an ambassador because it allows me to also meet other women in the community who are like-minded, and I love doing things like Accountability Club to bring the women that I work with in my one-on-one coaching together. So I enjoy everything that I'm doing. But, having said all of this, as you can tell, it's a lot. It's a lot. I'm in a busy season right now and so, for that reason, this is where I just say you know, we're going to put a pin in the podcast this week and this will be the last episode for season six.
Speaker 2:Now, having said that, I am picking up blogging again, so you will still be able to hear from me weekly, but I want to share what it is that I'm doing, what it is that I'm going through, some of the things that Tyler and I are going through as a couple, as both executives, just wanting to share a little bit more of the personal side. I actually started this entire journey, yes, on the Roach Challenge course, but when I actually started my business, I first started it as a blogger. I wanted to share my story and help people, like a coach does, but through my blog, and it was after a few years of blogging that I realized that I really just wanted to take it into coaching. So this is near and dear to my heart, so don't worry me every single week with the blog coming out and hey, if you want that help and support, my coaching is not going away. So come and coach with me one-on-one, or come and join accountability club. It starts exactly in one week, that starts October 8th. All of the dates are on the website and if you're curious about what that is, I'll talk a little bit more about it at the end of the podcast. I feel like I already talked y'all's ears off at the beginning of this one. So if you want more information about accountability club, listen all the way until the end. I'll give a little bit more information. You can also go to nandikamilcom slash accountability club. All right, my friends.
Speaker 2:So this week we're talking about action audit. This is where we're ending season six, tying it up with a lovely blow, a lovely blow, a lovely bow. Words are hard today. It's been a whole day. I'm recording this podcast at the end of the day, so I apologize in advance for words being hard this afternoon.
Speaker 2:But what we're focused on is auditing our action, and really it's not so much about the fine tune like what did you do and what did you create. It's it's. I want to approach it in a really soft manner. We're talking about auctioning our or, I'm sorry, auditing our action. It's about really, truly, auction. Why do I want to use the word auctioning, auditing? I think because I'm looking at my notes right now. Auction and audit are next to each other, because it's called auction, action, dang flabbit, y'all. Action, audit, and my brain is fusing the words together. I already apologized in advance, okay, so, softly approaching this, I'm talking about your results, right, when we're looking at our action, when we're looking at auditing our action, we're really talking about do you like the results that you've been getting?
Speaker 2:And when I say do you like the results that you've been getting, and when I say do you like the results that you've been getting, I'm talking about do you like the way that you feel, do you like your life when you wake up in the morning? How do you feel about the day you're about to have, right? If you're waking up and you're already frustrated, there's a chance that you don't like the results of your life. You don't like the job you're going to, you don't like the person you're sleeping next to you, don't like the lack of person sleeping next to you. You don't like dot, dot, dot, right. And so I want to check in and truly.
Speaker 2:I think in most cases, the answer to this is there's a handful of things in my life that I like, those results. I like my morning routine. I like my community at my local fitness boutique, I like seeing my sister once a week for lunch. I like my co-workers right. And then there's a handful of things results that we don't like. I don't like that.
Speaker 2:When I asked for a raise, I was turned down. I don't like that. I'm not bold enough to ask for a raise. That I think that it's a bold and scary thing to do, and so, therefore, my result is that I'm unwilling to ask for a raise, or I'm too afraid to ask for a raise. I don't like the result that I'm arguing with my partner consistently. This didn't used to be a result. The result of our relationship used to be a lot of. The result of our relationship used to be a lot of connectedness, and I felt really good and excited on a day-to-day basis because I was invigorated by this. That was a positive result by this relationship, but now I'm getting a negative result. We're arguing a lot right, and so when we're talking about auditing your action, that word auction wants to come out so bad. We're talking about truly auditing your results and then working backwards, right, if I don't like this result of me not making enough each month to also get a facial and travel, or me not going to enough networking events. I actually haven't been spending time talking to people, telling them about my business and what I do. I haven't actually been spending time out of my home, right, so I don't like that result. How do I work backwards to then take a look at the action that I'm taking? And so I have a handful of questions for you all today, as I do.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the podcast. I'm a mindfulness-based life coach, mindfulness being awareness, without judgment. We're going to, I'm going to ask you these questions and I want you to mindfully again be aware of your answers. Don't judge yourself for them. I'm going to ask you these questions and I want you to, if you have. As always, my invitation is, if you have the time, to sit down, pause this and do this with a journal. That is my number one recommendation. Clearly, this is a podcast and I love podcasts, because I can do laundry while listening to a podcast. I can go for a run, I can do whatever I need to do. I don't actually like to run. That was a horrible example. I do not run. I get out on my bike, so I might listen to all of them on my bike. I would recommend, if you're doing that, come back, save these questions, listen to these questions, save this podcast so you can answer these questions.
Speaker 2:In case you are not particular to specific results, right, this is if you're wanting to change your results, let's take a look at your action, all right. So if you already track your time via a calendar, a planner, et cetera, I want you to look at the past increment of time. You get to decide what that increment of time is If it is one week, if it is one month, if it is three months, if it is the last year, right. But look at an increment of time and ask the following questions right. But look at an increment of time and ask the following questions how do you feel about how you spent your time?
Speaker 2:And truly, just this one is just feeling how do you emotionally feel about how you have spent your time in the last week, in the last month, in the last three months, in the last year? How do you feel about how you spent your time? And generally, that question is if you're looking at the last year, that question comes back to like how do you feel about your life? Right, that will tell you how you feel about the results that you're creating, if you generally like your life, if you're happy, if you are generally and this is not to say you're happy all the time. Never will I ever promote 100% happiness 100% of the time. It is not a thing that is available to us. As human beings on the planet, we are supposed to feel all of the emotions. So you might be a generally happy person, you will still feel frustrated, you will still feel disappointment, you will still feel sadness, and I hope that you do right, because all of that is an invitation to the fullness that is life.
Speaker 2:But, as you're checking in, maybe you have been feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed for the past year, for the past week, for the past three months. How do you feel about how you have spent your time Emotionally? Check in how do you feel and allow that emotion to come up. Don't beat yourself up for feeling overwhelmed. Don't make fun of yourself or call yourself a loser or any other nasty thing we like to say to ourselves because you've been feeling anxious. You should be over this already, because you've been feeling grief, right. Whatever it is you've been feeling, I want to invite you to feel it fully. It's totally fine. And here's the other thing you don't even need to feel it, I just need you to name it, right. I think that that's the other thing that comes up. If I say it out loud that I've been anxious and overwhelmed, I'm going to trigger more anxiety and more overwhelm. Right, and that might've been true for you in the past. Your brain has evidence of that.
Speaker 2:But what I would offer is, the more we get to practice saying our emotions out loud or naming them or writing them down in our journal, the less scary they become. I can now, from a place of groundedness, say I'm experiencing depression. I can say that to Tyler and I won't fall apart. I can mindfully notice huh, I see my cues. I'm pulling away from my friends. I'm pulling away from you. I'm not eating as often. I'm skipping showers. I don't feel good in general. I feel cranky and grumpy and irritable, and I'm noticing. I can name it. I am experiencing some depression. I am experiencing some anxiety. I would invite you to practice naming what you're feeling and again, those may be really heavy for you. Maybe you're just feeling sadness, maybe you're feeling a little bit of worry, maybe you're feeling concerned. It is okay to name it and I would offer that it is very helpful to name it and to get really comfortable naming your emotions. All right, so that's our first question.
Speaker 2:My second question for your action audit what were your goals and did I accomplish them? Again, we're looking within a timeframe. This is the last week, the last three months, the last one year. You decide on your timeframe. Within that timeframe, what were your goals and did you accomplish them? Do you know what your goals were? Do you know what you were going for? Maybe you hadn't set any goals. Maybe, as you think, if your timeframe is the last week oh, I didn't set any goals for last week.
Speaker 2:It makes sense that I don't like my results in this area. I didn't actually set any goals last week when, in reality, I want to be meal planning, I want to work out three times per week for 30 minutes each. I want to make sure I'm seeing at least one friend once a week, so I'm having some social time once a week and I want to make sure I'm going on date night. I wasn't verbal about that. I didn't write that down anywhere. I might have thought it, but I didn't actually set the goal right.
Speaker 2:What were your goals and did you accomplish them? And again, this is where I want you to remove any judgment when you ask that question did I accomplish them? Did I accomplish my goals? If the answer is no, it's okay. We're not here to judge the answer. No, you piece of crap. You should have done it already. This is why we can't follow through with our dreams. None of that, absolutely not. You say no, clean. No, I didn't do it, that's it, that's it. We keep it clean, my friends. So much of our negative energy just comes from all the extra gobbledygook that we add on to things. If you didn't take your car to get the oil change and you've been all worried about it you say no, I did not last week go to get my oil change, that's it. Now, what am I going to do about it? I'm going to call the place, I'm going to make an appointment, I'm going to put it in my calendar and I'm going to show up at seven in the morning, because I know that that's when Grease Monkey opens up, and if I get there at seven, they'll get me within 15 minutes and I'll be out there by 730. Right, make a plan. Let it be a clean no and then make a plan from there. Okay, so that's the second question.
Speaker 2:Third question for you is how are you tracking your goals? Do you write them down each month? Do you put them in a planner? Do you put them in a calendar? Is it a part of your vision board? How are you tracking your goals? And I would say that a vision, I guess that's up for debate. Use whatever sticks you, leave the rest.
Speaker 2:I could see how a vision board could be a tracker for somebody who they very specifically, when I do vision board parties, this would be a type of board that I teach on a goal specific board. That could be a tracker. If your goal is to run a marathon, everything on that vision board that is goal specific is going to be the food you're eating, the regimen you're going after, the outfit that you're wearing, the place that you're running in the name of the race or the logo of the race. All of that is going to be on that goal specific vision board. And so, yes, a vision board could be a way to track your goals. That, when you completed it. Maybe you hang it up or you frame it or you put a picture of you doing the thing on that vision board and then you hang it up whatever it is.
Speaker 2:But how do you track your goals? Do you write them on an Excel spreadsheet at the beginning of the year every year and you're like this is my goal for January, february, march, april, may, all the way through the year? Is it that you have one big goal for the year or one big goal for the week? I would like to meal prep this week, right, but how are you tracking it? Are you writing it down? Is it in a digital calendar?
Speaker 2:I personally really love I'm a little bit of a crazy person. I have my planner, my physical planner, because it feels good to me to write things down in my physical planner. I also do have a Google calendar that I sync my physical calendar with, so technically it's overkill, but for me, filling out my physical planner is actually a mindfulness activity for me. I sit down, I get out my pens, I write it down, I draw, I color. It's really a great way for me to slow down and for me to really get familiar with what's coming up in my schedule and have a better idea of what's coming up, instead of having to look at my digital calendar to see what's coming up. But that's me right, and I also love mondaycom Mondaycom. I'm not sponsored by at all, but I actually really love the platform. You don't even have to buy the paid version. I love the free version as well.
Speaker 2:It has a lot of different boards for me to use and I personally like to have a month, so yearly goal go at the top, so everything that I would like to accomplish within the entire year. I make a list of them at the very top and then from there I do set monthly goals. So at the beginning of each month I write in there what is my intention for this month and then at the end of that month I recap what did I do? What did I not? What's next Now? Full disclosure.
Speaker 2:I have fallen out of practice with this, but this, I think, has been my favorite practice and I actually just today got back onto mondaycom so I could clean that up and start doing that again, because it's for me really helpful to look every single month at what I've been doing, take notes on what I've been doing, as well as have hey this year, I'd like to go to the zoo and I'd like to go to the aquarium. I'm a child, those are the things I like to do, and truly. And so at some point in the year I will look at the list and be like what from my wants list do I want to do, maybe this weekend, or looking ahead, and I will use that list to help build out my life Side tangent. But that's what works for me, what works for you. How are you tracking your goals? And here's the thing At the end of the day, you don't have to do any of this.
Speaker 2:This is for the person, though, that has goals, that has dreams and wants a way to organize it and is tired of getting the same results in a certain area of their life. They're tired of feeling frustrated at work, you're tired of feeling frustrated in your romantic relationship or in your friendships, and you're ready for different results. I would check in, even with that right. Look over the last week with your romantic relationship, or if you've been dating, right, you're looking to meet somebody. What goals did you set around that last week? If you're frustrated with arguing with your partner, did you set any intention to slow down and maybe listen a little bit more? Or to read a book on relationships, or to watch a YouTube video on relationships, or to find a podcast episode from Believe Like a Boss that will help you having hard conversations, because that 100% exists. Right. Are you setting goals that help you create different results in your life, or are you doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result? That, for me, blew my mind wide open. I love that quote Insanity is doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result. My friend, it is time to try something new if you're tired of getting the same results. I hope that this action on it serves you and you are able to check in mindfully. And just how do I feel about how things are going? How do I feel about how I spent my time? What are my goals and did I accomplish them? Have I set any goals right? And it's not about beating ourselves up at any point, it's just about checking in. Am I showing up in alignment with what I decide is my best, with what I've decided is successful? So the other way I will ask that is, if you were to define what it means to be your very best self, what would that definition be? If you were to define what it means to be successful for you, what does that mean for you in your life, not for anybody else in you. What does that mean for you in your life, not for anybody else in the world? What does it mean for you in your life to be successful? Right? And then we get to check in. Are you getting results that are in alignment with your best self and with being successful? Are you living a life that you feel is in alignment with being your best self, aka being successful? And if you don't, let's take a look, let's back up. How are we spending our time? Do we feel good on a day-to-day basis and what are you going to do about it? Instead? That's truly what we're doing here Checking in to see what's working, what's not and what is next. You know I love those questions.
Speaker 2:All right, my friends, I hope that you enjoyed this podcast episode. I'm going to wrap it up in a beautiful bow right here. That is all we are talking about for the podcast itself. I'm going to segue now to talking a little bit about Accountability Club. I talked about it last week in the intro. I sprinkled it in here and there, but I really just want to take a moment to talk about where it came from and what we're going to be doing in Accountability Club, as well as the practical side. So let's start practical.
Speaker 2:What is Accountability Club? It is a group coaching program and it's going to last from October through January. It'll be two live sessions each month at 6 30 pm Mountain Time. It's going to be an opportunity for you to be held accountable for your goals, but it's also going to be an opportunity I'm going to coach you. You're going to get like the podcast, but we're going to get a little bit more intimate. You're going to be in the digital room with me. I'm going to coach you on your goals, so you will be held accountable for that. But the other beautiful part of a group coaching program is that you will all be together. You will be with other like-minded women who are showing up, who are writing down their goals, who are listening to this podcast and are taking action, who are not just listening to this podcast right, you might be listening to other things, but they're doing the thing. They're buying the books, they're showing up, they are walking towards their dreams and, even though we don't always know the timeline or how things are going to manifest, they're showing up anyway, and so this is a really beautiful group for you to join, if you're like I'm ready to do the thing right and you're wanting some momentum, especially going into 2025.
Speaker 2:I've personally always been of the mind of if you watch running, if you watch people that run relay races and hopefully you saw the Olympics recently but what you'll notice is that when the person who has the baton is actively running towards the next person on their team who's going to grab the baton, the person in front of them that's about to grab the baton will start jogging before the baton is passed to them. They do not stay stagnant, they do not stay still until the baton was handed to them and then they take off. No, they start to jog a little bit before the baton is handed to them. And so that's the way that I like to think about starting a new year. I don't want to wait until 2025 to start on my goals, to start taking action, to do the things. Let's start jogging now and then we end in January, so that you are already on your way. You've already started jogging towards your goals. You've already set the intention.
Speaker 2:We're talking about identity. We're talking about setting boundaries. We're talking about following through. We're also talking about bouncing back from setbacks, because guess what? That will happen as we are going towards our goals. Setbacks will happen. How are you going towards our goals? Setbacks will happen. How are you going to bounce back and keep going towards your goals so that you make sure it happens right?
Speaker 2:Do you know the amount of times that something has happened with a podcast? Something has been deleted, or I felt really bad about it, or it was off, or whatever it was that I have not wanted to do this, but then I check in and I remember my why and I show up anyway because I bounced back from that setback and I am so grateful to have done now six seasons of the podcast. We have over 10,000 downloads, and that was last summer. We're listened to in several countries outside of the United States and I'm so grateful for that, and I want to be able to help other women that are like I want not what I have, but what you want for you your definition of success to help you get there in a safe space where other women are doing the dang thing too. So if you're interested in that, if you're interested in being coached and being supported and meeting other women who are doing the thing, go to nandikamilcom slash accountability club. You can also go into the show notes that is the description of this podcast to learn a little bit more about accountability club. And hey, if that's not for you, I totally respect and understand that.
Speaker 2:Keep following me at nandikamil on Instagram. I need to work on my TikTok a little bit, but I'm on social media. Come and get to know me a little bit better and I'll see you at the next season, not even next week, my friends. I'll see you next season. Hey friend, if you like this podcast, I would love it if you could give us a five-star rating. Share it with your friends. If you're interested in one-on-one coaching, if this podcast resonates with you and you're ready for some one-on-one support support for you and your journey go ahead to nandikamilcom to learn more, or head over to nandikamilasme to sign up for your free discovery call.