How to Plan Your Best Year Ever with Tanya Dalton

January 7, 2022

Tanya Dalton, bestselling author, founder and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co., and nationally recognized productivity expert, is the final guest on The Secrets of Supermom Show podcast series HOW TO PLAN YOUR BEST YEAR EVER.

Every day for the first week of 2022, a new guest expert joins host Lori Oberbroeckling to share the secrets, the strategies, and the tools she uses to plan her best year ever. Best-selling authors, CEOs and COOs of million-dollar corporations, women running six-figure side-hustles while working full time, podcasters, bloggers, and more join us to spill it all. You do not want to miss a single episode of this amazing series!

Today’s guest, Tanya Dalton, serves as a growth strategist for female leaders. In addition to having her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, being named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the year by Fortune Magazine, Tanya’s podcast, The Intentional Advantage has received millions of downloads from listeners around the world. Her highly anticipated second book, On Purpose: The Busy Woman’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success, was released at the end of 2021.

She is also a featured expert on several networks including NBC and Fox and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur.com. Tanya has been featured in some of the world’s leading publications including Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, and Real Simple. She has been awarded the elite Enterprising Women Award and has been named the Female Entrepreneur to Watch for the state of North Carolina.

Today, Tanya shares with us how to plan your best year ever including…

Letting go of the fear of failure when setting your big goals for your year and your life
Looking at the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your past to take you on the right path forward

Reflections and reviews of your life and business goals every single quarter and scheduling them NOW
How can you “acknowledge, assess, and adjust” throughout your year
Casting a vision for your life vs. setting tangible goals
The biggest mistake we make when goal-setting

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Show Notes: How to Plan Your Best Year Ever with Tanya Dalton

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Hey, hey friend! Welcome to Episode #46 of The Secrets of Supermom Show!

Today is the final day. Today is the last day of the How to Plan Your Best Year Ever podcast series, and our headlining guest does not disappoint. If you are just joining us for the series, welcome and let me fill you in. This week, to kick off the new year right, we decided to create an amazing series on The Secrets of Supermom Show. Starting on January 1st, 2022 all the way through January 7th we have had a new guest every day sharing with us How to Plan Your Best Year Ever.

Over these seven days, we heard from seven experts on time management, productivity, planning, and goal-setting. I talked to best-selling authors, CEOs and COOs of million-dollar corporations, women running six-figure side-hustles while working full time, podcasters, and bloggers. And every one of them was a true supermom. They shared strategies, inspiration, and exactly how they personally plan their best year ever. I hope you have felt challenged, inspired, motivated, and ready for your best year ever.

If you missed the first six episodes, you can head back to…

Episode #40 and hear from Christy Wright No.1 national best-selling author, personal development expert, and host of The Christy Wright Show
Episode #41 and hear from Holly Marie Haynes entrepreneur, corporate strategist, top 100 podcaster, and creator of the Crush the Rush quarterly business planner
Episode #42 and hear from Brittany Werth, triplet mom and COO of Simplified by Emily Ley
Episode #43 and hear from Sarah Hart Unger, host of the podcasts Best Laid Plans and Best of Both Worlds (with Laura Vanderkam)
Episode #44 and hear from Anna Dearmon Kornick, time management coach and host of the podcast It’s About Time
Episode #45 and hear from Jennifer Kropf, blogger at Healthy Happy Impactful

Today, Tanya Dalton joins us. Tanya is a bestselling author, founder and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co., and nationally recognized productivity expert. I can truly think of no one better to wrap up this amazing series.

Tanya serves as a growth strategist for female leaders. In addition to having her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, being named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the year by Fortune Magazine, Tanya’s podcast, The Intentional Advantage has received millions of downloads from listeners around the world. Her highly anticipated second book, On Purpose: The Busy Woman’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success, was released at the end of 2021.

She is a featured expert on several networks including NBC and Fox and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur.com. Tanya has been featured in some of the world’s leading publications including Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, and Real Simple. She is absolutely incredible, just you wait.

Friends, if you love this episode and this series, I would sure love for you to share it with a friend. And if you have been really loving it, I would appreciate nothing more than a rating and review in your favorite podcast platform.

I am thrilled to introduce you to Tanya Dalton.

How to Plan Your Best Year Ever with Tanya Dalton

Y’all, before we dive into the show, I have a special treat for you. After this amazing podcast series ends, I have a free workshop for you on January 10th. It is called, you guessed it, How to Plan Your Best Year Ever, and it walks you through a step-by-step plan combining tried and true methods with some of the strategies from our brilliant guests to plan your very best year. You can grab your seat right now, it’s totally free! The link to join is www.secretsofsupermom.com/workshop.

This workshop is for you if…

You want to start saying NO to things that don’t light you up.

You want to feel more organized and less overwhelmed.

You want more time for YOU.

You want to set a big goal and actually reach it.

You want to better manage your time and your energy.

You want to live this year feeling peace and happiness, ready for even bigger things.

Let’s make 2022 the year you find a purpose, create a plan, and crush it. I cannot wait to see you there! Let’s get on with the show!

How to Plan Your Best Year Ever Workshop with Lori Oberbroeckling

How to Plan Your Best Year Ever with Tanya Dalton

In today’s episode, we discuss…

Letting go of the fear of failure when setting your big goals for your year and your life
Actually deciding not to worry about what anyone else things when it comes to planning your life
Why you might want to skip the step of looking back, but why it is the most important part
Looking at the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your past to take you on the right path forward

How Tanya used a negative experience from her past, a huge regret in fact, to make a giant change in her business–and flourished
Using reflection as an intentional pause throughout your year
Reflections and reviews of your life and business goals every single quarter and scheduling them NOW (brilliant, right?!?! Doing this for sure!)
How can you “acknowledge, assess, and adjust” throughout your year
The difference between being busy and being productive
Giving yourself appropriate deadlines or you will fill the time you have (hello, Parkinson’s law!)
Casting a vision for your life vs. setting tangible goals
The biggest mistake we make when goal-setting
Joy and happiness come from casting goals that fit with your big vision for your future
Why busy moms, busy women tend to get so overwhelmed
Using Tanya’s book, On Purpose, to cast a vision and set the goals that will mean the most to you