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Word of the Year for 2025 is your chance to focus, grow, and achieve success! In this episode of Prospecting on Purpose, Sara Murray reveals how choosing a "word of the year" can help streamline your energy and align your intentions for the upcoming year. For Sara, discipline is her word of the year for 2025, and she shares why embracing it is key to accomplishing her ambitious goals.
This special, end of year episode also gives you a sneak peek into what's coming in Season 3 of Prospecting on Purpose, including:
Guest experts sharing insights on sales, authenticity, and influence.
Live events on LinkedIn and YouTube to help you connect and learn in real-time.
Networking opportunities designed to take your personal and professional growth to the next level.
🎯 Ready to choose your word of the year for 2025? Whether it's discipline, growth, focus, or even 'no', Sara encourages you to find the word that resonates with your goals and empowers your journey.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
Why a "word of the year" can be a game-changer for your mindset and productivity.
How discipline can help you balance a busy life and achieve long-term success.
The exciting updates coming to the podcast in the new year, including live elements and networking events.
Looking to plan your sales strategy for 2025? Don't miss:
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Discipline is my word.
And in that spirit,
I'm going to share with you
a couple of changes
that you're going to see in season three.
Looking ahead, the beginning of the year
will launch with really amazing
guest experts and guest interviews
that we've captured.
They're all experts in their field,
really heavy sales gurus.
You're listening to Prospecting
on Purpose, where we discuss all things
prospecting, sales, business and mindset.
I'm your host, Sara murray, a sales
champion who's here to show you
that you can be a shark in business
and still lead with intentionality
and authenticity.
Tune in each week as we dive into methods
to connect
with clients, communicate
with confidence and close the deal.
Welcome back to Prospecting on Purpose.
I feel like part of adulthood is just
saying, Wow, time goes by so fast, time
flies, etc. etc.
until we die.
So once again, we've wrapped up
a second season of the show.
Thank you so much for listening.
Thank you so much for being here.
This is going to be a pretty quick
episode, mainly because I just did
a four part mini series on reflecting
over the past two years and 100 episodes.
So I'm not going to spend
any time on reflection here.
If you want to listen to that, it's
episode 98 through 101.
What I do want to focus on
today is instead giving
a little look into the year ahead
and this time of year.
And of course, in January
we hear a lot of workshops, podcast
episodes, conversations around goal
setting and rituals
and, you know, understanding
where we want to go,
what are the lessons that we've learned,
what are the gaps we need to fill?
And all of that is,
I think, really crucial
to our own personal
and professional development.
I think it's really vital to carve out
time and invest in yourself
and spend time on that.
But what I do want to share with you in
this episode
is just a small little ritual.
Nothing crazy or major,
but it's something I've done the past
couple of years and I'm starting to hear
other people doing it.
And it's fun and it's simple and it's just
kind of a way to streamline
where your attention's going.
And you've probably heard that phrase
where focus goes, energy flows.
And I'm a big believer in that.
And in today's world, we're so busy,
there's so much coming at us all the time.
We have to be on to be responsive,
all those things.
It can get hard to just stay focused.
And so as we discovered,
a year goes by fast, you don't need
to accomplish everything in your year.
But really what I'm going to encourage you
to do what I'm doing for myself
and I'll share here
is to just pick a word of the year.
What is your word of the year going to be?
And it could be around
What's the intention for the year?
What do you want to bring into your life?
What do you want to focus on?
What do you want to achieve?
How do you want to feel?
What qualities do you want to embody?
This is your word.
No one has to know it.
It's just something
kind of special for you.
Example Words could be growth of balance,
courage, joy,
focus, strength, resilience, clarity,
alignment, peace, grace, energy.
Explore.
Maybe your word is just know
or boundaries.
I somebody shared with me the other day
their word of the year is just know
and they have it on their wall.
And I'll share with you the last two
years, my words have been abundance
in 2024 and I will share with you
my last two words.
The past two years were a little more
Woo woo!
2023 was abundance. 2024 was received.
And the word that keeps coming up for me
going into
2025 is a little bit more sharp.
And what I'm
personally focusing on right now
and leading into the new year
is discipline.
And I debated that for a while,
making that my word of the year
because it feels a little bit harsh.
And I think my attitude towards
the word discipline has had a bit of
a negative connotation.
But when I think about
what actually helps me execute
and what really helps me manage
what I'm juggling
and I have some pretty big goals
and they're a little bit all
over the place and where do I want to do
and where I want to go?
All of this
is going to require discipline, and
I think I do an okay
job of practicing discipline,
but it's something that I want to focus on
and improve on.
And so instead of
just shying away from the word
or putting it in a category
where it feels kind of yucky
or having resistance to it,
I want to embrace it
as my word of the year
and being vigilant and relentless in the
pursuit of my goals, disciplined my word.
And in that spirit,
I'm going to share with you
a couple of changes
that you're going to see in season three.
Looking ahead, the beginning of the year
will launch with really amazing
guest experts and guest interviews
that we've captured.
They're all experts in their field,
really heavy sales gurus.
So if you're in a customer facing role,
if you have sales responsibilities
or if you're not in a sales role,
but you're in a position
where you need to influence others,
which that's pretty much all of us.
I would really encourage you
to check out the guests
that are going to be dropping in January,
produce sales focus.
If you want to tune up a bit
over the holidays and you're planning
your 2025 sales numbers, I recommend
you go back and listen to episode 38 Best
Tips in creating and Maintaining Sales
forecasts and Episode 39 CRM Basics.
Those will be some nice tools as we're
resting or recovering from this year.
Looking into the year ahead, use this time
to get a little bit more organized
on where you want to go from a numbers
perspective, if that's your role.
I know we have a lot of sales
colleagues who listen to the show,
so I wanted to make a note of that.
And in the spirit of discipline,
I want to share some of the things
to expect in Season three.
So we are bringing a couple of changes.
One of the things, just to give you a peek
into the short term is that we're going
to start January with some pretty heavy
hitting sales experts.
So we have quite a few guests on the show
for the month of January,
pretty heavily in sales.
Authenticity.
What makes successful sales people?
How do you influence
your different spheres of influence?
You know, we talk about this
a lot on the show.
Obviously,
it's a sales lens on our podcast, but
even if you're not in sales, I'd encourage
you to listen to these guests
because every single one of us
has to influence in some way or another.
And we've had some really great
interviews, some really heavy hitters.
So I'd recommend you
listen to listen to the guests in January.
And then if you're looking
at an opportunity on how to kind of tune
up during the holidays, go back
and listen to two episodes of this show.
If you have not yet
heard, Episode 38 is best Tips in creating
and Maintaining Sales forecasts
and Episode 39 is CRM
Customer Relationship Management,
CRM Basics.
So if you're looking at how you're going
to reverse engineer and hit
your goals, there's a ton of episodes
on this show that will help you with
Those two are particularly good
if you're in a sales role.
And then the other thing, you know,
that's kind of the immediate future
long term for 2025,
we're launching a couple of things,
mainly, you know, I love doing the show.
I've learned a lot of lessons.
I've met amazing people.
But one of the things that I feel
was missing for me personally is
that I'd like to have more of a two way
communication connection.
You know, podcasts are kind of tricky
because it's
one way
and that's you hopefully know me by now.
I really love people.
I love the interaction that I've been able
to have, so I want to do more of that.
And I think having more live
elements to the show will make it
just a little bit more fresh, poppy,
if you will.
And so for season three,
we're going to do more live elements.
And of course, and the cutest of fashions,
we're going to call them
pop up
events, pop for prospecting on purpose.
And then this will be in the form of live
interviews on the show.
Those will be hosted on LinkedIn live.
We'll probably do to a month.
They will also stream on YouTube live.
So whether
whichever platform works for you.
And then of course
the recording of the show
will be published
after the live event as an episode.
So if you miss a live event,
you will find a way to capture it
on the podcast itself.
But what's really exciting about this
is that we can engage with each other,
we can network, we can ask questions
of our awesome guests.
So I'm really looking forward
to the live element of the show.
And then I'm also going to host
like a pop up office hours slash
online networking event,
potentially in-person networking,
you know, second half of next year.
But really just wanting to use this as an
opportunity to learn and grow as a group.
Because what I have found is there's a lot
of connection points with each other,
but I want to serve as a vehicle,
have the podcast, serve as a vehicle
to orchestrate that.
So if you'd like to stay in the loop
on the live events for 2025,
you can register to receive updates at
Sara murray dot com forward slash podcast.
If we are not yet connected on LinkedIn,
please add me.
It's at Sara murray Sales.
That's the same for the YouTube
channel subscriber over there
at Sara murray Sales.
Everything's
going to be really fun in the New Year.
I'm looking forward to it.
I think we have a good thing going
and now it's just time to elevate
and step it up.
And to wrap up this episode,
I wish you and your families
an end of the year that's filled with joy,
love, health, rest,
reflection and a very happy New Year
and the upcoming year.
See you next year for season
three of Prospecting on Purpose.
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to the Prospecting on Purpose podcast.
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