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5 min readPatricia and Jamie are recording this episode from a parking lot, a first in their podcasting history, because that is exactly the kind of curveball their mid-year goals check-in is about. They set ambitious plans back in January, but as Jamie puts it, “a lot of life has happened since.” The episode is a candid walkthrough of how business and personal goals rarely follow a straight line, and how the detours—what they call “side quests”—are often where the real progress lives.
The Side Quest as Strategy
Patricia opens with a vivid example of a goal that completely rewrote her year. At the start of 2024, her physical goals were focused on West Coast swing dancing, splits, cartwheels, and a pull-up. Then, in mid-March, she agreed to partner with another instructor and began training for country dance competitions—a discipline she had never attempted. She has since attended four dance conventions, qualified for the world championships in Dallas (held between Christmas and New Year’s), and is now deciding whether to compete. The original goals—splits, cartwheels, pull-ups—have not been directly worked on. Instead, the intense physical training for country dancing has indirectly built the endurance and fitness that will support those original targets. Patricia’s approach is the “Jamie route”: she took a two-hour drive with multiple stops, and she still arrived at a destination
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:24) **The Reality of Business Plans** - Patricia and Jamie introduce the episode's theme: how business rarely follows the original plan, and how to keep working toward goals despite detours.
- 2 (02:08) **Side Quests vs. Direct Routes** - Jamie and Patricia contrast their personal styles of pursuing goals, using a travel analogy to illustrate different but equally valid approaches.
- 3 (03:43) **Patricia's Goal Shift: Country Dancing Side Quest** - Patricia shares how a completely unplanned opportunity transformed her physical goals for the year.
- 4 (05:27) **Recovery and the Pivot** - Patricia explains how recovering from an injury and addressing health deficiencies set the stage for her sudden pivot into competitive country dancing.
- 5 (08:33) **The Donut Event: A Case Study in Failure** - Jamie and Patricia recount an in-person event that had zero attendees, using it as a real-world example of how goals can fail despite perfect planning.
- 6 (11:38) **Finding Wins in the Losses** - The hosts analyze what they learned from the failed event, reframing it as data rather than a personal failure.
- 7 (13:57) **Mid-Year Goal Assessment: Jamie's Bingo Card** - Jamie shares her quantitative progress on her yearly goals using a bingo card system.
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Show Notes
We are marching through the early days of quarter two, and sharing with you our reflections, progress, and lessons learned as we’ve continued to work toward and coach through goal achievement for the year!
In this episode, Jamie and Patricia join each other in person to bring you some humorous back stories, and raw reactions to moments when well-laid plans do not fully meet expectations.
We take you through some of our personal growth and progress over the past quarter while pulling back the curtain on our different, though equally effective, methods of making our dream goals a reality. And you can make yours a reality too… with strategies that work for you!
We also dive into conversation on our July Fuel Your Dreams event, the outcome, and what we learned and were able to share with our clients through the process.
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