[Unfreeze Yourself Series] Why You Cannot Determine What To Focus On

In Half 3 of the Unfreeze Your self Collection, I clarify why you retain creating plans that look nice on Sunday however have fallen aside by Wednesday.

In the event you’ve ever stuffed your calendar with bold plans solely to search out your self falling behind, feeling overwhelmed and questioning why you may’t follow them then this episode is for you.

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Introduction
That is the Perfectionism Undertaking, the one podcast created particularly for perfectionists who’re constructing companies. I’m your host, Sam Laura Brown, perfectionism professional and entrepreneur. I train perfectionists the way to plan correctly, persistently observe by way of and relaxation with out guilt to allow them to construct worthwhile and fulfilling companies with out burning out.

I’ve helped over a thousand perfectionist entrepreneurs do precisely that inside my program, Perfectionist Getting Shit Completed. In the event you’re bored with procrastinating, overthinking and half ending your concepts, you’re in the precise place. Now, let’s dive in.

Sam Laura Brown
Welcome to half three of the Unfreeze Your self collection. So this collection is all about the way to go from being in a perfectionist freeze the place you might be caught, you’re spinning your wheels, you aren’t making progress, you are feeling overwhelmed by every thing there may be to do, and also you aren’t getting it accomplished. what to do, however you’re not doing it.

We’re going from that to having the ability to really do the issues you should do to construct your corporation since you’re good, you’re clever, you understand what it takes to construct a full-time enterprise, you simply haven’t been in a position to get your self to observe by way of on it. So on this collection, we’ve coated already, partially two, I went into what you should do, what you should have to have the ability to really construct a full-time enterprise, and that’s a full-time marketing strategy. That’s why you don’t know what to deal with since you don’t have a plan that works on your perfectionist mind that means that you can be clear on precisely the place you’re going and precisely the way to get there.

On this episode, I wish to speak about why you don’t follow your plans since you may hear that like, okay, that sounds good. I’m going to have a full-time marketing strategy, whether or not I wish to be full-time this 12 months or whether or not I’m a bit earlier on, it’s going to take me a couple of years to get there. I’ve a plan.

I like the choices I’ve made, and that truly feels potential. So now we wish to zoom in to your week and really following by way of on that plan. So let’s speak about why you don’t follow your plans.

So what tends to occur for us perfectionists, and in case you can relate to this, there’s nothing incorrect with you. Because of this this collection is so essential as a result of there may be nothing incorrect with you. So with regards to your week, you’ve acquired time to work on your corporation.

It won’t be as a lot as you need, however you’ve acquired time. the final path that you simply’re going after you have your full-time marketing strategy. And but you’re nonetheless attempting to determine what do I really do with my time proper now? It’s Tuesday, it’s 10 AM.

I’m attempting to determine what to truly work on proper now in order that 12 months from now, three years from now, I will be full-time in my enterprise. I will be making a full-time earnings from a enterprise that I really get pleasure from working with. How do I really get that? What does that truly appear to be? So what’s taking place? The issue is why you don’t follow your plans, like your full-time marketing strategy, why you don’t follow issues like that’s since you don’t have a practical plan which you can really observe by way of on on your week.

What you do, what your perfectionist mind does is you create plans on your perfect self. You create plans assuming that there are going to be no interruptions, that you simply’re going to have a number of motivation, that you’re going to have a lot inspiration all through the week, that there’s going to be no hiccups. And that clearly isn’t the truth.

And so it’s unimaginable to observe by way of in your plans. You’ve simply acquired approach an excessive amount of in your listing or in your calendar. It’s simply completely jam-packed.

That may be a signal that you simply aren’t planning correctly as a perfectionist. So what we perfectionists are inclined to do once we’re on this state of affairs of not having the ability to follow plans is we attempt tougher. We attempt to be extra motivated.

We attempt to have extra self-discipline. We attempt to have extra willpower. We attempt waking up at 5 a.m. We attempt going to the cafe or a co-working area or getting a change of surroundings.

Like we simply attempt issues to attempt to be motivated sufficient to observe by way of with the plan. However motivation isn’t really going to have the ability to get you to observe by way of with that plan. So what you want as an alternative is a approach of planning that doesn’t require you to be motivated.

You wish to plan correctly as a perfectionist with energy planning so that you’ve got a transparent, versatile plan on your week that has the duties that may really get you to your full-time enterprise in that plan and that it’s workable. You may really observe by way of on it. As a substitute of planning on your perfect self, you propose on your actual self, which suggests you may really do it, which suggests you may really construct a full-time enterprise.

So I wish to inform you a narrative about one in every of my purchasers. So earlier than she got here into Perfectionist Getting Shit Completed and began energy planning, what she was doing, she was working from a calendar, nevertheless it was filled with duties that had been both shoulds or to-do’s. So she had in her calendar fairly a couple of to-do’s that had been, for instance, life admin.

She simply added right into a time and it wasn’t a time that she was dedicated to doing it, however she needed to recollect to get it accomplished. So she had it there as a reminder. All of those little life admin to-do’s and enterprise to-do’s.

Keep in mind to again up pc. Issues like that that she needed to verify occurred and to recollect. She additionally had in there a lot of shoulds.

She had CEO time, journaling, these items that she didn’t actually know what to do with that point, however she had heard that she ought to do issues like that. So her calendar ended up being filled with issues that she wasn’t dedicated to doing and that weren’t really going to get her to her targets, which is why it was really easy for her to procrastinate and get caught in overthinking and principally simply really feel like she was working actually laborious to construct her enterprise, nevertheless it wasn’t getting wherever. After which she felt so pissed off and ashamed as a result of she was considering, I’m working so laborious.

Why isn’t this working? Is there one thing incorrect with me? However all she wanted to do was begin energy play and planning in a approach that labored for her perfectionist mind. Once more, meaning clear. It means lifelike.

It means it has duties in there that may really get you to having a full-time enterprise. It’s one thing that’s versatile. So when there’s hiccups, when life occurs, as a result of life will probably be life-ing, then you may really nonetheless observe by way of with these plans.

So energy planning is how you are taking your full-time marketing strategy, which goes to offer your perfectionist mind readability and path. the place you’re going. Energy planning permits you every week to take the steps that mean you can create the full-time enterprise, that mean you can observe by way of on the marketing strategy.

And what I’m going to be speaking about with you within the subsequent half, half 4, is why you retain burning out. Since you hear this and go, okay, full-time marketing strategy that works for my mind. Nice.

Energy planning, a planning methodology, a weekly planning methodology that works for my mind and I can really observe by way of. Nice. However okay, what if I burn out? What if I can’t observe by way of on that with out utterly exhausting myself, particularly since I’ve acquired a full life? What do I do then? That’s what I’m going to be speaking to you about partially 4. So keep tuned.

Outro
If this episode resonated with you, you wish to be inside Perfectionist Getting Shit Completed, aka PGSD. PGSD is the enterprise program for perfectionists, and inside you’ll be taught enterprise technique, weekly planning, and the way to observe by way of along with your plans in a approach that works on your perfectionist mind, which suggests you’ll have the ability to construct a satisfying full-time enterprise with out burning your self out. The doorways are opening on the seventeenth of June for one week solely, and that is your last alternative to affix PGSD with lifetime entry.

To affix the waitlist and discover out extra, go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.