Michael Bosstick On How To Make Every Year A Success & Achieve Your Personal Goals

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now, Lauren Everts and Michael Bostick are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Hello, Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Skinny Confidential, Him and Her Show. Today, you have me, Michael Bostick, solo on the mic, on the camera, I guess, now that this is audio and video. And I want to do a little bit of a year end show that I think one will help kind of recap the year that we've had as well as maybe give some purpose around why we do some of the things we do, both professionally and personally. And then also hopefully, give you some ideas to set up your new year for success, focus, and purpose. Not that you're not already doing that and focusing on that, but there's some things that we've learned over the last few years and me especially on how to make sure that you're setting up your year with purpose, with focus, and so that you can have success and not just personal success, but professional success as well. So I want to start this episode by, you know, acknowledging that it's coming out around the holidays, but that really you could listen to this anytime, beginning of the year, end of the first quarter. You could listen it before the new year. It's really meant to be evergreen, and it's meant for anyone that is looking to get a little bit more structure and focus around the year ahead. And again, you can do this at any time. So one of the things that I've learned over two decades of running a business and now being in a long term relationship and building a family is that some of the secret sauce that people glaze over sometimes, not that they don't talk about it, but they move past it real quick when it comes to what makes people successful, is that most of these successful people that I've met, most of the businesses that I've seen win, in our case, the businesses that I've worked and the ones that haven't, there's a real differentiator. And that differentiator is that there's an extreme focus. Most great companies, if you really think about it, whether it's a tech business or an entertainment business, or if it's a restaurant or whatever it may be, if you really think about the operation, when you acknowledge the businesses that have made it and done well is there's a huge focus in that company, in that operation. If you think about a relationship, a personal relationship, most of the relationships that have been successful and lasted is there's a big focus from the individuals involved on making sure that they're really focused on that relationship and taking care of that …