Coffee Chat: Planning for Q4

This is what was happening with me personally.

And I, I'm wondering if it also resonates with you.

You'll have to, you'll have to let me know if it's also resonating with you.

But, um, what ended up happening was we would get into Q4 and, you know, they're October and I personally love Halloween.

To me, it is my Super Bowl of all the holidays.

I know most people save that for Christmas or Hanukkah.

No, for me, it's Halloween.

So I start preparing for that.

No joke, like October 1st, all of my decorations go up, et cetera.

So we sort of have Halloween, November, Thanksgiving, travel, days off, people are out of the office.

Hanukkah, same thing.

People are out of the office, days off, you can't get in touch with people.

Then you've got Christmas, then you've got New Year's.

So what I was finding is I would set all these goals for Q4 and at least what happened last year in kind of the year prior is they would just sort of all get jumbled.

They would all sort of get like in the washing machine and And some of them would kind of get done and some of them wouldn't get done.

And it would just be like, whoa.

And so what I realized, and that's what I'm correcting for this year, is I'm actually going to spend September setting myself up for success in Q4.

So what do I mean by that? I have...

two or three goals, nothing crazy.

Cause again, everything I just talked about Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, you know, all the holidays.

I know that it's not the time to set super lofty goals, but it is the time to, you know, set some goals to finish out the end of the year really strong.

So two of them for me, which are, you know, pretty, pretty big ones.

I have committed to figuring out how to use Claude cowork.

So that is something that, That requires me taking courses to, you know, figure out the best ways to use it or watching YouTube tutorials or, you know, it's not something like, I should back up for a second.

I guess if you're doing small goals for Q4,