Crochet Business and Planning for the Upcoming Year | Podcast Episode #75

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What do you do to plan for the upcoming year?

Do you sit down and set goals for yourself or do you just wing it? I take planning very seriously and I’m sure this is the reason I am where I am today – not because I’m lucky, because I sat down one day and decided what I wanted to accomplish. I could read Jim Rohn quotes all day (and you’ll even hear one in the episode today) but this one struck a chord with me today. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” That is the topic of our discussion today – Setting goals and accomplishing them. Let’s do this!

You’ll Learn About

• Six steps to plan for your most productive year ever.
• The important prerequisite to all of this

Episode Trascript

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You’re listening to the Be Hooked Podcast, session number 75, with Brittany. Are you ready for this? Hello there and welcome to episode 75 of the Be Hooked podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today. I’m really thrilled that you’re here because, well, it’s a brand new month for us and we know that that is a new theme here on the show.

Well, you know that I am kind of a planning nut. I love to plan things. I love to organize my calendar. I’m big on journaling and really just trying to figure out the best way to execute my plans so I can achieve my goals. While many people plan for their upcoming year in October, November, sometimes even December, well, that is not me. I actually plan my upcoming year in August.

And that’s why in this month on the podcast, we’re going to talk all about planning, productivity, and achieving your goals. I’ve got some great guests lined up to talk about those things so you can get a fresh perspective from them. But I also have a couple of episodes lined up where it’s just you and me, starting today with that keynote presentation I gave back in July at the Our Maker Life event.

Today is also a special episode because I’m going to try something a little different. Of course, I’m going to have the show notes page available and for this episode, it’s behookedcrochet.com/session075. You’ll want to head over there so you can get the freebie, the download. This is the new thing that I’m going to try here with the show.

Anytime I have sort of a mini workshop setting where it’s just you and I here on the podcast, well, I want to be able to offer you some kind of download or some type of digital file where you can take notes on the things that you’ve learned when you get to that point. And no better way to start than when you’re planning for your best year ever, right?

So you can download the freebie for this episode over on the show notes page. You’ll head over to there. Once again, that’s BeHookedCrochet.com/session075. I highly, highly suggest that you do that, at least for this episode. I’m going to throw a lot of information your way.

And in order for you to plan for your best year ever, you really need to not only think about the things that we’re going to talk about, but physically get them out of your head and onto paper so that you can commit to them. So that link once again is BeHookedCrochet.com/session075. Get it. I promise you won’t regret it.

Now before we dive into planning for our best year ever, I want to think about somebody that you know who maybe is like, “Hey, I really want to learn how to crochet.” Well, if you have somebody like that in your life, I would encourage you to suggest Annie’s Afghan Block of the Month Club to them.

And the reason why I suggest that is because, well, it’s a progressive project. You receive the pattern, an actual DVD with how to crochet the blocks that are included within this afghan. And it’s progressive, meaning that the first ones that you’ll receive are going to be very basic stitches—perfect for a beginner—and they increase in difficulty as the project progresses.

So it’s a great way to really foster that growth and that learning experience for them. So as you’re thinking of the person you want to suggest this to, head over to annieskitclubs.com/bhpodcast, all lowercase. That way you can learn more about the service and see if it’s right for that person.

And if it is, just send a quick email to them. Maybe send a text message or however you like to communicate with them. Because this could be the one thing that could really get them involved—from wanting to know how to crochet to actually being able to do it and then having a great project at the other side of that. So that link once again is annieskitclubs.com/b-h-p-o-d-c-a-s-t.

So fasten your seatbelts now and get ready for a ride because I want to share with you how I plan for my best year ever. I’ll share with you the six things that I do every single time I want to tackle a new goal, and especially before I try to tackle a brand new year. These six things have proven themselves to me time and time again. I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for this.

And also, I want to let you know that I didn’t figure all of this out overnight. This has really been a five- or six-year process of trial and error, figuring out what worked and what didn’t. And that’s really the first lesson here. Although these six steps work beautifully for me, you might find yourself just a tiny bit different. Maybe one thing works for you a little bit different than it does for me.

So I would recommend listening to the full episode, getting a feel for all of these things. Download that freebie that I mentioned to you from the show notes page, and then figure out how you can take what you’ve learned here and apply it in your own life because we’re all a little bit different. So I’m really excited to share this with you. Let’s just dive right in.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. Perfection is likely the one thing that’s keeping you from living your dream right now. I’m going to take a moment to share a little audio clip with you today to show you a little thing about perfection.

Okay, now what we need to do is set up to join with our starting chain here. So actually we’re going to chain four one more time. And then we’re going to slip stitch into our third chain over here. Insert your hook into the third chain and slip stitch. And that finishes round number three.

Okay, here’s where it gets a little bit tricky. We’re going to have to move our hook into some awkward positions in order to get these petals to sit in front and behind each other like they do. So what we’re going to do, we’re going to pull up this loop a little bit, and we’re going to drop it, but hold on to it. Hold on to it with your thumb and your finger, and we’re going to insert our hook into this loop stitch that’s right next to the double crochet space. Go ahead and insert your hook. And now in order to make…

Now this timid girl, she had just one dream—to share her passion and perspective with whoever would listen. Did she have it all figured out? Obviously not. We heard that. Did she have a solid plan? No, not really. This girl made lots of mistakes. So what makes this display… so perfect?

She took action in spite of all of this. She knew she wanted to teach someone how to crochet this flower, and so she did. She turned a dream into a reality. Now I’ll just go ahead and let the cat out of the bag and share that that timid girl was me five years ago.

My first video ever published on B Hooked Crochet is really embarrassing for me for so many reasons. But I love it because it shows that perfection isn’t a part of taking action on your dream. Five years ago, I had just that one dream. I just wanted to teach someone how to crochet. I didn’t have it all figured out, but I went for it anyway.

A lot has changed since then. This dream that I call Be Hooked Crochet—my life—is made up of so many chapters. All of which were once a dream. A crazy idea I thought about on the drive home from work. Today I want to share with you that not only are your dreams attainable, but how you can make them your reality.

It’s interesting that in this context we call them our dreams, right? I don’t know about you, but not a single thing I’ve ever dreamt at night has come true. And boy, is that a good thing.

Rather than think of them as our dreams—these things we’re primed to believe won’t come true—from this moment on, refer to them as chapters in your story. Here’s my favorite: we can also think of them as destinations—places we want to go and eventually places we’ve been.

Finding success is a lot like planning for a trip. Think about it. We figure out where we want to go, we figure out how we’re going to get there, and then we go. Well, success is no different. We just need to figure out what we want to achieve—that’s often the hardest step—how we’re going to achieve it, and then we take action.

So whenever you have a free moment, I want you to open up your Google Maps app. This really is the perfect representation for the point I’m trying to get across here. So when you open up that app, in the search bar, type the destination “I don’t know” and hit the search button. But watch your screen closely because you’ll see a message pop up there.

Now, I know a lot of you are probably on the go and you can’t do this right now, so I’ll share that message with you here: No results for I don’t know.

The truth is, if you don’t know where you’re headed, you’ll never get there. If you’ve ever felt like a hamster in a wheel, it’s probably because you haven’t identified your destination. I want you to take a journey with me today so we can figure out your first step to find your destination, map your route. We’re going to stop dreaming and start doing.

Action inspires more action. When you take that first step, you’ll want to take another. You’ll be tempted to wait until everything is perfect and in its place, but let me share a little secret with you. Perfect isn’t real. It’s a great thing to strive for, but it’s the single most debilitating thing for your business.

Remember, confidence and mastery come with practice. While patience and success—these two seemingly intangible things—they come when we realize we’re not going to be perfect.

Now, I know you have at least one dream that you wish were your reality. You know what? You don’t have to dream anymore. Take this journey with me as I share the six things that I do every time I prepare for a new goal. These six things are so important in my life and in my business. I go through them every single year, this time of year in August.

I’m confident that if you incorporate them in your life as well, then you too can be living your dreams.

So that little maps exercise showed us if we don’t know where we’re headed, we’ll never get there. So naturally, the first thing we need to do seems like we should figure out where we’re going to go, right? Well, before anything else, before we get into that first step, we need to figure out something deeper.

Some call it an unfair advantage. Others call it their unique selling proposition. I like to call it your purpose. Simply put, we need to figure out what you bring to the table—what you bring to this industry. We all have something unique that we need to leverage in order to find success.

I’ve mentioned on the podcast before that The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan is required reading for anyone looking to make a serious transformation in their lives. They say, extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

Now we can use this quote for all aspects of our lives and our business, but for what we want to accomplish right now, we need to narrow our focus, and in the process, we’ll find our purpose.

What are you great at? I didn’t find my true purpose until two years after I started BeHooked Crochet. A friend recommended the book StrengthsFinder to me, and my entire perspective shifted.

Now, StrengthsFinder is a quick read. Its sole purpose is really to evaluate you based on your responses to a survey that’s included. I know, I know, you’re thinking, “Personality test? Really, Brittany? That’s what you based your business on?” I was completely skeptical too, but honestly, that skepticism melted away when those results described me to a T.

Think about it. We know ourselves better than anyone else. We’ll rarely ever admit that, but we can hardly ever put our finger on what it is that we’re great at. This book did that for me. It identified what I thought was my biggest flaw, and made me realize it was actually my number one strength.

Now, I’m not saying you need to have StrengthsFinder in order to find your purpose and find what you’re great at, but if you’re like me and you can’t quite put your finger on it, this book is a great place to start.

Another place you can look into is your network. Ask your friends, your families, your coworkers what they think you really excel at. You might be surprised by some of those responses. We need to figure out what you’re great at and more importantly, how you plan to serve the world with that strength.

The world—this industry—has a special place that only you can fill. Now once you know this, we can proceed with step number one.

This is the fun part. We get to craft your dream. Now I know each and every one of you are going to download that freebie and you’re going to take action on this, but I also want you to promise that you’ll set aside some time for a brainstorming session.

We’ll break this brainstorming session into two parts. The first one, we’re gonna brain dump everything that’s going through your mind right now. If you find yourself thinking, “Yeah, that would be pretty cool if I could do that,” write it down. This is your brainstorming phase—your creative phase. Go through that for 15 to 20 minutes.

Don’t stick with it too long and don’t just try to rush through it either. But then you’re ready to move on to the second phase.

This is your refining phase. You’ll look at the list, could be a really long list of things that you want to accomplish, and then refine it. Pick four to six from that big long list and just focus on those four to six things for that following year.

Now, it’s really important that we don’t pick more than six because what happens when we do that is, well, if you have a big long to-do list, you look at that, you’re motivated, you’re like, yes, I’m going to go tackle all of these things. But then you look at your list and your mind says, whoa, that is a ton of work. And it checks out. And then you don’t do any of it.

We need to set ourselves up for success and not stress. And remember, go back to one of our examples. We’re thinking of our dreams as chapters in a book. We only read a chapter one at a time, right? But eventually we do read them all.

So it’s really helpful if in this phase we can also organize them. We can put some kind of logical order to them. So in this session that we have planned for, we’ve got it on our calendar. We brain dump all of the things that we think we would want to accomplish. And then we look at that list, we refine it, and we write down four to six of those things.

And those four to six things is what you’re committing to accomplishing next year. It’s really, really important that we get these ideas, these thoughts out of our head and onto paper so that not only can we see them, we can commit to them. That’s step number one.

Now, at the time of this keynote presentation, we were in Chicago, the Windy City, and I had a really great analogy for step number two.

Well, think about a time where you have been in a big city and you’re surrounded by all of these skyscrapers, these tons of buildings. You’ve got probably millions of pounds of steel and brick and concrete. How do we know that one of these buildings isn’t just going to cave in on us or come crashing down?

Well, because we know that each one of those buildings has been engineered to have a strong support system. Your business, your dream, and most importantly, you need a strong support system too.

I can recall a time when I was sitting at my computer on a Saturday. I was completely defeated by putting in an extra 30 hours for a book that I was writing and not to mention the full-time job that I had already finished for that week. And I was at a place where I just knew I wasn’t valued.

I was hustling in those days, but it really just felt like I was spinning my wheels. I looked up at my husband in a moment of just sheer defeat and I said, why am I doing this? What is all this work for? I didn’t feel like I was working towards something, but just working tirelessly.

I didn’t know it then, but that was only three months before I quit my full-time job and dove into my biggest dream, ready to sink or swim.

The ending to that long and dreadful chapter of my life was kind of messy. I had been working for the same company for five years, giving them all I had and then some, and I just wasn’t happy. I went through all emotions. I went to college. I got a degree. I got a job right after that. But I just wasn’t happy.

One evening, I came home from work, and all of my emotions just poured out of me. I confessed to him I just couldn’t live a life of dread anymore. Now, my husband, he deserves a gold star or something here because this meltdown session, I am not proud of, but… It was required. It was a required step in order for me to move forward.

So he listened patiently as I just poured my heart out to him. And then as I started to wrap it up, he said, Brittany, do you remember that time you asked me what all this work was for? It was for this moment to prepare for your dream.

He encouraged me to hold my head high and set my sights on the one thing I knew would finally make me happy. The one thing I was great at. If it weren’t for my husband, his support, on this night, when I needed him the most, there is no way I would have made the decision to go full-time with BeHooked.

It’s too difficult, right? To dive into waters you’re not sure you can navigate? This evening changed our lives forever. We were terrified.

Here’s the thing, though. Fear is an indicator. Fear is your sign that you’re doing exactly what you should be doing, that you truly care about the outcome.

Now you might be thinking, Brittany, my friends, my family, they just don’t believe in me. They think I’m dreaming too big. You know what I say to that? Prove it. Show them how serious you are with your actions.

How does that old saying go? Actions speak louder than words. Show them.

A great quote from Jim Rohn says, you are the average of the five people you spend most of your time with. Think about that and think about the five people you spend most of your time with. Your thoughts, actions, and everything in between are an average of these five people.

That could be a scary thing, right? But it doesn’t have to be. Surround yourself by people who believe in you. Surround yourself by people who understand you and your purpose. Surround yourself by people who will drive you forward.

I’m not afraid to admit that I wouldn’t be here if not for my husband and the support system that we put into place five years ago. I don’t want you to be discouraged by that and say, well, Brittany, you’ve had five years to plan for that. Well, I had to start somewhere. And I want you to start somewhere today to take the first step to building your support system.

Now, so far, we figured out what our purpose is, we have a list of goals, and we understand the all-important support system. Now, let’s think about the platform in step number three.

This is my favorite part. I kind of geek out on this a little bit, and I have a couple examples to share with you.

So the first platform in the BeHooked story actually wasn’t a YouTube channel or a website. It was a Pinterest page. I often found myself really frustrated by pins that didn’t lead to where they said they would, so I created a Pinterest account that only curated functional pins.

Identify a problem and create the solution.

Now, of course, another example is the YouTube channel. I know I’m not the only one here who has learned their craft on YouTube. When I first figured out that you could learn how to crochet and how to knit on YouTube for free, on your couch, I was hooked.

I shamelessly consumed probably weeks worth of crochet tutorials. There were even nights when I would lay in bed and hide under the covers just so I could watch another video. Now this binge, I’m not exactly proud of, but during this time, I learned a ton of information, but I found myself asking more questions than finding answers and learning things the hard way rather than from the tutorial.

This made me realize that perhaps my particular style of learning wasn’t covered in the endless supply of tutorials and a crazy thing happened. I found my niche. Identify a problem and create the solution.

Now another example to that is of course the podcast. Podcast has a really special place in my heart not because I love it and it’s great, but it helped me achieve two of my biggest goals. One of those goals was to have a deeper connection with you, with my audience.

And I started thinking and looking around at how I could make that happen. I started thinking about the brands, the creators that I felt most connected with, and I found a trend that those brands and those creators that I felt like were my best friend and that I knew them for years, I had been listening to their podcast every single week.

Another huge, huge goal that the podcast helped me achieve is, well, the whole reason for this little presentation right here, speaking. I wanted nothing more than to stand in front of an amazing crowd of people and inspire them with my story and empower them with the tools that they need to accomplish their goals too.

There’s no way I would have been able to do that if it weren’t for the podcast.

When I was thinking about this goal and sort of planning for this thing that I thought, well, I really wanted to do it, but at the same time I was so afraid of it that I almost didn’t take action on it. I remembered that fear, though, was my indicator, and I said, Brittany, yes, this is what you need to do.

My biggest reservation was I wasn’t confident in my ability to communicate my message. And even still, to this day, you’ll hear I don’t always say the right words. Sometimes a word comes out of my mouth and I don’t even realize it. Sometimes I don’t really construct my sentences the way that they should. But it’s all a work in progress.

So I thought to myself, how can I get better at speaking? Well, you need practice. Confidence and mastery, they come with practice. So how do you practice speaking?

Well, my coworkers are of the fuzzy type. So although they are great listeners, they’re not really good conversationalists. So I thought to myself, a podcast. Yes, that is how I can get practice speaking on a regular basis.

So I say all of this to prime you for step number three. Identify a problem first and create the solution. That is step number three.

But what I want you to do is think about the problem, think about the solution, and then figure out what platform can be the vehicle for that.

So you might be thinking, where do I even begin with all of this?

Well, think about your problem. Just think about the things that you have experienced in the past month. What is one thing that you found yourself saying, gosh, I wish it were this way, or gosh, I really wish I had this? Identify your problem and then figure out how you can create that solution. And then think about what that solution is and then choose your platform. So when I say platform, I’m thinking podcast, social channels, website, Etsy shop. It could be any number of things. The most important takeaway here is though, is that your platform needs to be the vehicle to solving that problem.

Now, as we move on to step number four, I want to take you back to our maps exercise. So we agree that we’ll never reach an unknown destination, but the same goes for a destination without a route. You’ll never get there. Same thing is true for your goals. If you have a goal in mind, that’s great, but if you don’t know how to get there, you won’t ever get there. So in step number four, we’re going to create a roadmap for yourself so that you know exactly what you need to do. You’re paving the way to your dreams.

So we’ll look at our refined list, the one that we made back in step number one, and we’re gonna make a checklist for each of those four to six things. Take it one item at a time, and just put some thought into it. Think of what you need to do or what you need to accomplish in order to get to that goal. Now, again, you want to keep your checklist on the shorter side. I wouldn’t do more than 10 things because, again, if you look at a big long list, your brain is this, whoa, too much work, right? It checks out, loses all motivation. So try to keep it short and simple, as simplified as you possibly can make it, so that you can get yourself from where you are right now to accomplishing that goal.

In this step, we’re creating the plan for next year. Now for me, I like to do this in my brainstorming session. So I will schedule one full day where I have my big brain dump, I have my refining phase, I think about my support system, and I think about what platform is going to be the vehicle to solving a problem that I’ve found in the industry. Well, then I’m also going to take my list of four to six things. I’m going to create a checklist. And this plan is going to be my roadmap for 2019 for next year.

The reason why I like to do it all at once in one big long day is because, well, one, I’m motivated at that point. I’m on fire actually for the things that I want to accomplish. This is the time when I’m probably the most creative and most motivated. So I want to get everything out of my head while I’m on fire for this right now. But I also like to do that because it gives me a bigger picture. I can think about things like, well, the podcast and how it helped me achieve two of my goals. When you have the bigger picture, you can take a more logical approach. You don’t have to work harder. You just have to work smarter in some cases. So in step number four, we’re going to create a checklist and that checklist will be a to-do list for the upcoming year.

Now, as we move on to step number five, I want you to think about how much free time you have. I know I’m not the only one saying or believing that there’s just not enough time in the day. It doesn’t matter if you’re an entrepreneur, if you work full time, it doesn’t matter what you do. Time management is a struggle, right? The struggle is real. This is something that I don’t admit to being a pro at, but it is something that I know I need to constantly improve. And in this mission of constantly improving my time management skills, I come across an example that was a huge eye-opener for me.

So every single one of us have 168 hours each week. That is our baseline. Now we’ll say the average person sleeps for 7 hours a night, so we’ll subtract 49 hours from our baseline. Now even though we wish we could compromise on something like work, but most of us can’t, so we’ll have to subtract, we’ll say 40 hours from our baseline because the average person works 40 hours a week. You know what this leaves us with? 79 hours. We have 79 hours left over after things that we can’t compromise on, like work and sleep.

Now I know you’re probably saying, well, I’m different. Maybe you sleep longer, maybe you work more, you work less. The point here is that you take your baseline, 168 hours, and you make this equation work for you. So make a modification to your work and your sleep schedule. Subtract that from that baseline so you know how much time you have left over.

Then we also need to think about our responsibilities. We all have certain things that we’ve promised our time to, and on those things, we can’t compromise on. Sometimes we don’t want to compromise on that, right? I’m thinking about taking your kids to soccer practice, cooking dinner, spending time with your significant other. Doesn’t matter what it is, figure out what those responsibilities are and how much time you spend on them each week. Then subtract that from your baseline.

The objective here is to find your free time so that you can use that free time for items on your checklist that we just created in step number four. I want you to reserve your free time for items on your list. Physically schedule it. There’s one thing I’ve learned. It’s that if an appointment doesn’t exist in my calendar, then that to-do or that thing becomes optional or flexible. Optional or flexible won’t get you to your goals.

So we have covered so much ground here today. We’re moving on now to the sixth and final step, and it’s the most important. Give yourself a deadline. You must give yourself a deadline. If you don’t, you’ll enter that realm of option and flexibility. This isn’t an option. You aren’t flexible. You’re listening to this episode because you want great things for your life and for your business. The only way you can do that is to make your dream your priority and be too stubborn to take no for an answer.

So take your list of four to six things and assign each of those four to six things a year. If you’re planning for next year, that’s probably all going to be 2019. But let’s say you’re on a roll and you’ve got next, you know, the following year planned out as well. Assign a year to your goal. Then take each of your checklist items that we created in step number four and assign a date to them. It’s so important that we do this because we need to get these things out of our head and onto paper to commit to them. But we need to have a deadline so that we can hold ourselves accountable for it. You don’t want to let yourself down. You don’t want to let others down. Give yourself a deadline so you can be accountable for those things and not let anyone down.

I hope that you don’t wait until everything is perfect. In episode 63 of the podcast, Kate from Lovecraft said, evolution is a requirement for a digital crafting business. In 2013, I started an Etsy shop called Be Hooked Crochet. You know what isn’t a part of my business today? An Etsy shop. As you learn, grow, and discover more of what you have to offer, your dream will naturally evolve. Take action today. Don’t wait for things to be perfect.

Now, five years ago, I had that one little dream to share my perspective and my passion with whoever would listen. But if you would have asked me back then, if you would have gone in time, asked that timid girl in that very embarrassing first video where she would be in five years, you know what I would have said? Right here. Because I dreamt this life. I crafted this life with diligence, perseverance, and deliberate execution. Using these very six steps.

I’ve made a habit to repeat these steps every single August so that I can plan for my best year. And I recommend that you do the same too. It’s the only way you’ll live the life that you’re dreaming of today.

Now I’d be lying if I told you that this was going to be easy. It’s all pretty black and white when I say, yeah, follow these six steps and you’ll achieve your goals. It’s not. Taking action on these six things and accomplishing your goals, living the life of your dreams, it’s going to be one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. You’ll experience emotions like self-doubt, worry, stress, in a way that can only point back to you.

You will be in charge of your schedule, your future, your finances, your failures. But above all else, you will be in charge of your life and your legacy. Two things that have the absolute potential to transform the lives of others.

Now as we wrap up our session here today, I challenge you right now, wherever you are, to raise your hand as high as you can. Now raise your hand two inches higher. I know you did it. I know you raised your hand two inches higher.

You know what that tells me? That tells me that perhaps even you don’t know how high you can go, that your limit may not even be your limit. And as powerful as that is, I want you to really think about what you heard today. Head over to the show notes page, download your freebie so that you can take action on these six things.

Our prerequisite is to figure out your purpose. Figure out what you bring to the table and what you can bring to this industry. Step number one, we’re gonna craft our dream. We’re gonna figure out the four to six goals that we want to accomplish next year.

Step number two, we’re gonna take the first step to building our support system, to surrounding yourself by people who truly believe in you.

And step number three, we’re gonna identify a problem and create a solution, figure out how that works into our goal, our big dream, and then choose the platform that’s right to execute on that problem.

In step number four, we’re going to look at our list of four to six things and create a roadmap for ourselves, a checklist, so that we can always keep tabs on where we are and what we still need to do in order to achieve that goal.

In step number five, we’re going to figure out how much free time that we have to work on this. And we’re physically scheduling our checklist items in our calendar.

And in step number six, we’re giving ourselves a deadline. Because if we don’t, it’ll never get done.

Now I want to just say a really big thank you for the opportunity to share this with you. It’s been an absolute pleasure. I know that you’re going to take action on this. And if you have any questions along the way, please don’t hesitate to send me an email, Brittany at BeHookedCrochet.com. I’m here to help. I’m here to show you a way that has worked for me and give you the permission to take that and make it your own.

Craft your dream, go crush it, and then tell me about it.

Whew, take a deep breath. I know that was a lot of information. Give yourself a pat on the back.

And don’t forget to check out annieskitclubs.com/bhpodcast so that you can investigate the Afghan Block of the Month Club, figure out if it’s right for you or somebody that you know who is wanting to learn how to crochet. It’s a great service for that.

When you sign up as a member, your first kit will be 50% off, which is really great, right? We all love to save a little money. And after that, you’ll be charged on a monthly basis. You’ll get a new piece of that pattern, with a DVD to walk you through the pattern and all of the yarn and hooks that you need to make that happen.

So that link, once again, is annieskitclubs.com/bhpodcast.

Now, dream big, my friends, and go make it your reality. I’ll see you next week. Bye for now.