Energy Planning is one in every of my favorite productiveness instruments (and the planning methodology I train in PGSD) however I lately observed I used to be severely avoiding it. On this episode, I discuss by way of why that occurred, what I used to be believing about myself and my enterprise and the way I received again into the behavior with out making myself really feel unhealthy about falling off.
Whether or not you’ve fallen out of your planning routine otherwise you’ve been eager about beginning one – this episode will make it easier to get out of avoidance and again into alignment.
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Introduction
Hello, and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Venture. A podcast filled with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My identify is Sam Laura Brown, I assist entrepreneurs launch their perfectionism handbrake, to allow them to get out of their very own manner and construct a satisfying and worthwhile enterprise. I’m the founding father of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Completed group teaching program, which is in any other case referred to as PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that can assist you with your small business, you may comply with me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
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So I simply felt known as to choose up my microphone and share a bit bit about what has been taking place with me and my energy planning lately. So only for context, in case you don’t know, I developed and now train a planning methodology known as energy planning. And it is a calendaring methodology that works to your perfectionist mind as an alternative of in opposition to it. So lengthy story quick, I’ve at all times liked planning and being organized regardless of not being as organized as I might like to be. However once I particularly, it got here up a lot in enterprise.
Once I was beginning my enterprise, I used to be working from a protracted to do checklist. Like, I attempted every little thing, the time blocking, put up it notes, like, all totally different sorts of issues, and I simply discovered myself having just a few key points. A type of points was that I at all times felt like there was a lot to do, and I didn’t know the place to start out. I additionally didn’t really really feel like I used to be making progress although I knew I used to be getting issues performed. It simply felt just like the extra I received performed, the extra there was to get performed.
And so it felt very disheartening in that sense. I additionally felt like I wasn’t capable of actually make good use of my time and particularly I imply, it’s nonetheless the case right this moment. However particularly once I first began, the time that I needed to work on my enterprise was very valuable. I used to be working full time as an accountant. Nicely, technically, really, once I first began, I wasn’t but graduated from my regulation and finance diploma.
So I had my uni research full time. I used to be working an virtually full time hours job on the facet of that, Buddies, household, health, all of these issues. After which once I graduated in 2015, I then was working full time as an accountant within the metropolis, and I additionally had a variety of different commitments as nicely, the identical issues. It simply felt like I didn’t have a lot time and vitality for my enterprise, however I actually wished to get it off the bottom. I simply knew that regardless of the concern, the doubt, the imposter syndrome, aka the perfectionism that was arising for me once I really began displaying up as myself that I wanted to determine learn how to profit from the time that I had.
And I simply felt like once I wasn’t capable of plan correctly for my mind, I wasn’t capable of get a way of that. I simply didn’t know what to prioritize. The whole lot felt necessary, which meant nothing actually felt necessary. I burned out so much as nicely. So there have been all these causes that I simply felt like all of those planning strategies and issues, like, I actually wish to do them, however I’ve to be tremendous motivated or tremendous disciplined to have the ability to persist with them and even then I fall off.
So, like, what’s the deal? As a result of I do know I’m good. I do know I’m succesful. I do know that I might really be somebody who follows by way of, and but I’m not at present. So, anyway, I pieced collectively all of the various things that I discovered into one thing that labored for me.
After which what I did was began sharing that with my followers, my shoppers, my folks in my world that had been studying from me in my enterprise. Like, hey. I’ve discovered what actually works for me. Do you wanna give it a go? Right here’s learn how to do it.
After which simply the extra I did that, the extra that I noticed that everybody else who was doing it as nicely was simply discovering that they had been having huge breakthroughs of their productiveness that they had been capable of maintain with out having to be good, with out having to be motivated, with out having to be disciplined, with out having to be higher. And that due to that, they really skilled their enterprise rising. And that was the identical for me as nicely. Once I had the overwhelming to do checklist or the over scheduled time blocking in my calendar. I wasn’t really capable of have the total time enterprise that I wished to have as a result of I simply continually felt like I used to be spinning my wheels.
So, anyway, that’s a little bit of a little bit of context in case you don’t know what energy planning is. And it’s one thing that I train together with different productiveness strategies that I’ve developed inside my productiveness program, which is known as perfectionist getting shit performed, aka PGSD. And I’ve been doing energy planning now, I wanna say it’s 4 or 5 years, which is wonderful once I look by way of my iCal, and I can simply see, like, the place my time has gone for a number of years. And, like, I can correlate that with totally different seasons of progress in my enterprise and issues like that. It’s so cool.
So, anyway, I’ve been repeatedly creating energy planning and now creating it out for not simply, like, while you’re first beginning your small business, what sort of issues have to go in there, like, what’s the construction that helps that. And I get a lot of that by way of the shoppers that I assist inside my program and simply at all times taking note of what’s arising for them as they’re studying energy planning, how they’re interacting with it, what’s working for them, what isn’t working for them, insights that PGSDers have of, like, I’m doing this factor and that factor and, like, integrating a few of that as nicely. It’s very a lot one thing that I’m repeatedly eager about and adapting and studying and rising with. And, additionally, now on the a number of six determine to 7 determine degree, I’m additionally creating out by way of my very own expertise in addition to shoppers I coach at that degree, what changes would possibly have to be made to energy planning at totally different ranges of enterprise, but additionally simply in numerous seasons of life as nicely. I’m virtually thirty seven weeks pregnant on the time of recording this, and so I’m about to navigate a brand new season of not likely even a brand new season, however the postpartum interval, at the least.
That is child quantity 4, and I’ll have 4 underneath 4 for at the least a few months till Lydia turns 4 years previous. So, I simply actually really feel like particularly any interval the place proper now, like, I’ve a variety of, totally different appointments. I’ve one I’m about to go to for my being pregnant and simply, like, common life admin, greater than I’ve ever had earlier than. As a result of in case you’re a mum or dad, you’ll know with every baby comes admin stuff to do to assist them and assist them and all these issues. So there’s that.
But additionally enterprise clever, I’ve simply been going by way of such a shift. I’ve talked about this in latest episodes I’ve recorded, however actually shifting right into a deep degree of self belief, the next degree of management, the next commonplace for the way we run the enterprise and never from this, like, strict how ought to I do it sort of place, which it initially kinda began as that, after which I dropped into that self belief or developed the self belief. It didn’t simply occur. I did create it. So when that took place, it grew to become extra about actually working with myself as an alternative of in opposition to myself much more so than I used to be figuring out what the enterprise wants, what I personally want, and having my private wants met in my private life, but additionally having a enterprise that truly is aligned with how I wanna do enterprise and my distinctive methods of doing issues and enjoying to my strengths and various things like that.
So there was an actual shift behind the scenes in how I’ve been working in what I’m now keen to name out. And, when it comes to particularly, like, staff and various things like that, as an alternative of sort of folks pleasing, going with the move, like, you recognize, we’re all on this collectively. Not that we’re not, however I might see that in my management, there was a unwillingness in some circumstances to carry somebody accountable as a result of I simply wished to be appreciated and be pleasant and all of these various things. And now I simply really feel like my imaginative and prescient for the enterprise and what wants to alter within the enterprise, but additionally, like, the place the enterprise goes has actually crystallized a lot. I really feel like I’ve such a transparent imaginative and prescient of that that now it’s similar to my and I’m making an attempt to say this with out sounding so, like, intense as a result of the sensation isn’t intense.
The sensation is that I’ve a lot need and willingness and self belief, and, like, there isn’t this form of rigidity or strain or rush. And there have been a variety of that within the final two or so years that I’ve needed to actually do some emotional and thought work on getting out of that cycle, like that sort of shortage or money injection cycle or there’s numerous alternative ways you could possibly give it some thought. However I actually really feel now that I’m in a special season. And in a second, I promise, I’ll get to the place I’m desirous to get to, which is the ability planning and this season. However simply to present context for the season, that there have been shifts within the sorts of issues that I’m engaged on, the best way that we’re working.
I used to be initially planning to have a extra outlined mat depart interval, however that simply felt like I used to be being unnecessarily restrictive in a manner that wasn’t really supportive. It was extra like I ought to do this. So I’ve now received an undefined mat depart arising. Mainly, I’m simply trusting myself to work once I wanna work, to not burn out, and I really feel assured with that. I haven’t burnt out in a few years now, and I train so much about that inside perfectionist getting shit performed.
However I’m actually simply, like, on this new period, in a way, it actually looks like for me within the enterprise. And there’s a variety of frustration I’m having to deal with as a result of, Eddie, you is perhaps accustomed to this while you simply have such a transparent imaginative and prescient. But it surely additionally takes time to execute on that imaginative and prescient and to, like, get issues in alignment with that that you simply simply need it, like, instantly. However I additionally know that the method of making the imaginative and prescient is as worthwhile or, like, the method of executing on that or bringing that to life is as worthwhile, if no more worthwhile, than having it delivered to life and, like, the tip results of that. So I’m simply bringing myself again to that.
However, anyway, with my energy planning, I’ve observed in the previous couple of weeks specifically that my energy hour, in order that’s while you’re planning out your week, now we have a 3 step course of to your energy hour that you simply undergo to actually set your week up in a manner that helps you, that works together with your mind, that doesn’t make you go into overthinking or invite procrastination or have you ever feeling a lot strain to get every little thing performed or, like, over scheduling your self. All of that’s catered for within the energy hour course of in order that you find yourself with a plan which you could really comply with and one that can assist your small business develop with out feeling utterly insufficient the entire time since you’re so behind and you need to rush or you need to be extra disciplined or extra motivated or to be higher or no matter. So that you even have a plan which you could execute, that’s in alignment together with your objectives, and you may comply with by way of with simply as you might be. After which by doing that each week, you, in fact, improve your capability. You, in fact, improve the quantity of issues which you could get performed.
You, in fact, improve the standard of your output, your consistency, and so many issues like that. So the ability hour is the first step. Little tweaks is step two. So, in fact, life’s gonna occur. You’re going to distract your self at occasions.
Like, issues will come up. And if you’re planning in a very inflexible all or nothing manner of, like, I have to comply with the plan completely or else, and you then simply abandon it after just a few days as a result of it didn’t go completely. And you then simply begin over on Monday, or possibly you don’t even begin over in any respect. You simply return to the overwhelming to do checklist with just a few highlighted priorities. Probably, in case you’re just like the PGSDers, once they are available in, they’ve received, like, a protracted to do checklist, and so they spotlight, like, the highest three issues to do this day.
That if you’re simply both having such a imprecise plan just like the to do checklist, which is de facto only a want checklist, or when you have an over scheduled calendar, it’s actually laborious, actually laborious. Like, it’s simply setting your self up for failure to not be in that each one or nothing mindset and simply utterly fall off. So we do little tweaks. You regulate your calendar. Once more, the method for that is taught inside PGSD, however you regulate your calendar and also you are also adjusting it to mirror what really occurred in order that by the tip of the week, you’ve gotten a tough overview.
It’s not all the way down to the second. It’s not even all the way down to the minute. However you’ve gotten a tough overview of what really occurred in your week to be able to see your progress and so you too can evaluate it with a screenshot of your energy hour after you end planning and see, like, okay. There are issues that I plan to do this now, like, aren’t on my calendar in any respect as a result of they didn’t get performed. What occurred there?
There’s simply, like, a lot alternative for self consciousness, self understanding, and truly creating everlasting change, not simply feeling pissed off you place it off once more, not really understanding why, after which repeating the identical mistake the subsequent week, after which occurring like that for years. And, like, you’ve by no means really began your e mail checklist that you simply actually wished to start out, and it’s two years later. So now we have that. And in the long run of the week, you do your weekly overview the place you might be evaluating your earlier than screenshot of your calendar while you began the week with the after and gaining all of the insights which you could from that. You don’t want to realize many.
Only one makes such an enormous distinction. And, additionally, I simply wanna point out this too. You don’t want to have the ability to plan out every week at a time in full. Most of our PGSDers I’d say it’s, like, half and half. I’d say about half do a full week of energy planning, and the opposite half would do, like, planning out at some point at a time following the ability planning methodology or two days at a time or three days at a time, after which having the ability to plan out longer and longer time intervals as they construct their self belief and their comply with by way of and people sure issues as nicely.
So with that stated, with that context, that for me, I observed that I’ve been avoiding my energy planning although I function so significantly better when I’ve that sort of versatile construction that actually helps my creativity as an alternative of stifles it. Like, I achieve this significantly better. And I used to be not really doing it. I used to be nonetheless doing little tweaks. So on the finish of the week, like, I can see the place my time roughly went.
Nonetheless doing my weekly overview as nicely, getting insights into the enterprise, into my very own productiveness, my perfectionism, and why that’s arising and why I have to launch my perfectionism handbrake. However the energy hour itself was one thing that I used to be avoiding doing, and I used to be sort of doing it however sort of not likely. Like, you recognize, while you’re in that scenario that you simply’re like, I’m I’m doing it, however this isn’t really me doing it absolutely. And never that it must be good. It’s by no means good.
However I wasn’t following the steps. I simply wasn’t really doing the factor in full. So the rationale for that that I used to be telling myself was as a result of the enterprise was navigating simply, like, a season of, as I discussed, like, me transitioning into doing totally different sorts of issues for the enterprise, but additionally returning to a variety of issues that I used to do within the enterprise after which stopped doing in relation to content material creation and various things like that. Like, it’s simply been, like, a a reel during the last, I’d say, three months or, like, from the start of twenty twenty 5, to just about 4 months, simply, like, determining what the enterprise wants on this season of the enterprise and rising to that. And it has been, yeah, simply mainly an adjustment or, like, a rediscovery or a reinvention.
And now, almost 4 months later, it feels prefer it’s all actually clicking collectively in essentially the most stunning manner. But it surely has been a course of, and it’s actually necessary simply to say that as nicely as a result of we will, once more, simply get so pissed off when now we have this imaginative and prescient of how we wish issues to be and it’s not immediately taking place, that it’s a course of. It’s an unfolding or a discovery, and there are layers. Like, I’ve been having so many breakthroughs and epiphanies, which then results in the subsequent one. I’ve had, like, this domino impact from getting coached, self teaching, having my energy planning to construct a lot consciousness, and simply additionally years of expertise with mindset and all these various things, productiveness, constructing companies, teaching shoppers, doing one on one teaching as nicely, all of these various things, my PGFC teaching that I do.
So all of that to say, I’ve simply been like, I don’t know precisely it is a story. I don’t know precisely what I have to plan, and it feels prefer it simply advanced so quick. So I can’t actually plan. So I’ll simply have the construction of my energy planning so I do know precisely once I’m working, once I’m not working. And that’s one factor that actually helps me to have the ability to change off in addition to I do, that I might be in work mode after which be utterly not eager about work in any respect, which I feel a variety of entrepreneurs wrestle to say.
And it’s not as a result of it needs to be a wrestle, however I feel we’re simply not taught instruments like energy planning that truly assist with that. When you have an limitless to do checklist, in fact, you’re gonna endlessly take into consideration your small business. And even in case you love your small business as I do, what it might imply is then you’ve gotten an underdeveloped private life, then enterprise looks like actually excessive stakes as a result of it’s the one factor actually occurring in your life. After which that reduces your braveness in your small business, and that reduces your resilience and so many necessary issues like that. As a result of it looks like such an enormous deal, that turns your perfectionism handbrake on.
That may make you freeze. That may make you go into doing a variety of overworking and, like, that sort of overfunctioning. After which it actually impacts the enterprise outcomes. After which, in fact, due to that once more, it looks like an enormous deal as a result of your private life is underdeveloped otherwise you’re counting on your small business. Nicely, really, it’s often each of those collectively.
You’re counting on your small business to fulfill your private wants, and it simply finally ends up getting messy. And I really feel like within the final, I’d say, six to eight months, I’ve actually performed so much to untangle that, to develop out much more my private life, issues like hobbies, beginning studying once more actually persistently, like fiction books, private growth, however only for the enjoyable of private growth as a result of that’s the sort of individual I’m. Not studying it in a enterprise context, however simply studying it for the love of the particular topic of it. So on the subject of any change in season, any change in life, within the sense of, like, enterprise season, it might be literal season. Like, if you’re someplace I’m not.
I’m in Brisbane, Australia. We don’t actually have seasons. We technically do, but it surely’s at all times fairly sunny. It’s at all times fairly heat. We’ve the perfect climate, I feel, on this planet.
And I’ve traveled to a variety of locations. I actually assume Brisbane has wonderful climate. However you would possibly really be someplace the place there are literal seasons of, like, it’s essential to work in a different way. In winter, particularly in case you’re someplace the place the times go tremendous quick after which in summer time, it’s tremendous lengthy and, like, there are totally different belongings you wanna do in numerous seasons, for me, there’s not that a lot variation seasonally when it comes to, like, the climate, so it doesn’t actually have an effect on it. But it surely is perhaps for you.
That is perhaps a factor. You may need all totally different sorts of seasons. Possibly you’ve gotten a continual sickness or one thing like that the place you’ve gotten flare ups and various things. So, like, there might be all totally different sorts of seasons, whether or not it’s enterprise season, a life season, and inside that, like, a management season in your small business or a well being season, and that goes by way of totally different variation and alter, that you simply wish to have a planning methodology and gear that truly takes that under consideration and helps you rather than having a inflexible manner of, like, you need to get up at 5AM each morning. That simply isn’t gonna work in sure seasons of your life.
Postpartum, when you’ve had a child, is a superb instance of that. There may be huge change to the best way that you simply sleep and to what it’s essential to do to have the ability to get a baseline degree of hours of sleep. So I actually, particularly for perfectionists, deeply, deeply consider in having a planning methodology and gear that works for you rather than in opposition to you. And so for me, with this season, I’ve simply been like, I don’t actually know what to place in my calendar. And so I’ll simply have the construction and I’ll fill it in as I’m going, however I gained’t plan out.
And it hasn’t even gave the impression of that straight in my head, However I simply observed that I wouldn’t do my full energy hour or I’d begin doing it after which I’d get I’d distract myself as an alternative of claiming get distracted. I might distract myself, by both saying sure to an outdoor distraction alternative or actually producing my very own distraction for myself. As a result of, in fact, it feels uncomfortable to take a seat down and plan it out and have that degree of readability and dedication and all of that. Like, that does require a sure emotional capability to have the ability to sit with that. And so naturally, as people, we generate distractions from ourselves as a result of we’re wired to hunt pleasure, keep away from ache, and do what’s most effective, which suggests conserving vitality, pondering the identical ideas time and again, doing the identical routine autopilot habits time and again.
So with that stated, what I did right this moment, I actually broke out of it of this, like, energy planning avoidance, in case you wanna name it that, although. I used to be nonetheless doing virtually all of it. However one of many key elements I wasn’t doing absolutely that I simply was like, okay. What do I really want? And that is simply how one can be pondering while you undergo a shift.
And, additionally, it’s okay when you have weeks and even months the place you’re like, I do know this works very well for me, and but I discover myself not doing it. And I’m keen to simply let myself be pissed off, and that’s okay or no matter it’s. So similar to, I I actually am recommitting to doing my energy hour each week even when I have to make so many little tweaks that it’s utterly unrecognizable. And I’m already fairly snug with making a variety of little tweaks to my calendar in order that it’s not an issue for me mentally, emotionally if my calendar seems to be very totally different to what I deliberate it out to be. I do know that that can typically occur.
I do know a variety of occasions that’s for actually good causes. Like, a plan evolves or I wanted to present myself extra time or more room for sure issues or no matter. So I do know and for lots of PGSDers, I discussed this as a result of once they first are available in and be taught energy planning, there’s this, like, virtually this concept of in case you’re doing a bit tweak to your calendar or making an adjustment, you then failed at comply with by way of. However a part of comply with by way of is having the ability to make changes. That’s how anybody is ready to comply with by way of.
It’s not from simply being, like, so strict and so inflexible with your self. And I’d say even when that was the key, that’s in all probability not the perfect sort of feeling in life that you could possibly have. I’m such an enormous believer in self-discipline, in actually having the ability to honor your phrase. And typically, the important thing to honoring your phrase and having that integrity with your self is definitely recognizing when your phrase or no matter you dedicated to must be up to date so that you can really be capable to honor it. That’s such an enormous piece, not simply this, like, inflexible method that perfectionists are inclined to take with self-discipline.
There’s additionally, like, the self-discipline to truly be capable to have uncomfortable insights and make changes even when your perfectionist mind desires it to go precisely the way you initially deliberate it. So with my planning right this moment, I used to be similar to, mainly, I’m going to have so much larger. I’m utilizing my fingers, however you can’t see them, so it doesn’t actually make sense. However larger chunks of time than moderately than smaller chunks. So typically what actually helps me is having every little thing damaged down into, like, I like to recommend nothing shorter than thirty minutes or fifteen minutes on the shortest.
In any other case, it simply it’s too within the weeds, and it’s, like, not useful to have that degree of element except you’re very skilled with energy planning. And that’s additionally one thing that helps you and doesn’t really feel restrictive. However typically I like having, like, thirty minute increments or 45 minute increments of, like, very particular issues, very particular outcomes I wanna obtain. However proper now, what I’m actually feeling known as to do is have much more move than regular. And energy planning actually helps move, helps creativity.
I’ve interviewed PGSDers on the podcast earlier than, like, one in every of our PGSDers, Rachel Brown, on how energy planning helps you with creativity. She’s an artist. So it actually helps with creativity, however typically there’s extra I want, like, extra construction or artistic constraint to deliver that creativity out. And typically I simply want extra of, like, flowy vibes and simply, like, letting myself do what I need inside some sure boundaries and parameters. I discover for me, everybody’s totally different.
Because of this energy planning is so adaptable to you, and we actually assist you in PGSD to get it working for you. And recently, I’ve actually been leaning extra into my human design as nicely. I’m a two 4 emotional projector. Actually leaning into that and having that that construction, like flowy construction that’s versatile and actually helps me. And so at this cut-off date, it has actually been about having or not it’s much less particular than it was in different seasons.
However for me, I discover if I don’t have any boundary in any respect so if I’m, like, not working from a calendar in any respect, if I’m simply working basically, we’re at all times working from one thing. So in case you’re not working from, like, a bodily to do checklist or a bodily calendar in your laptop computer or your cellphone or no matter, you’re working from a psychological to do checklist on the very least. There may be some sort of construction, framework, checklist, one thing someplace you’ve gotten, even when it’s not bodily, that you’re working from to determine what to do subsequent. And I’ve simply discovered for me that when I’ve an excessive amount of, I wanna say, like, unclarity. What’s the phrase for that?
Not being clear, basically, on what the objectives are. We assist with this in PGSD too as, like, having a progress purpose or a momentum venture or each that actually anchors you, helps you prioritize, helps you get shit performed with out burning out. So you’ve gotten that in thoughts, after which you’ve gotten your issues that you simply wish to transfer ahead to truly be capable to accomplish that. And I discover that if I don’t have if it’s similar to I can do no matter every time I need. And on this, like, mainly, in each second I’m having to decide on what I even wanna work on within the first place, that to me simply is overwhelming.
After which I don’t do issues as a result of it looks like there’s a lot to do. I don’t know what’s most necessary. I don’t know the place to start out. I don’t know the way lengthy it can take. And there’s that perfectionist all or nothing mindset that may are available in of, like, if I don’t have an enormous chunk of time, then I don’t have any time to get one thing correctly performed.
And so my mind likes to assume that sort of thought. So I really like having the, like, total like, these are the important thing needle movers for me, and that is roughly once I’m gonna do it. And I belief myself to work extra if I need. I belief myself to work much less if I need. I belief myself to have the ability to discern if I’m desirous to work extra, what’s the thought and feeling behind that if I like these causes.
And the identical with working much less if I like these causes. Not that I’m gonna have good like of the explanations on a regular basis, however I belief myself to discern that and to make changes. And, additionally, I simply and I wanna say just about each PGSDer, that is true as nicely. I feel it’s a part of, like, what attracts you to a program like PGSD is having that resonance with the core philosophy. And the core philosophy of PGSD is getting shit performed with out burning out, and that’s by way of versatile construction, self assist, self belief, working with your self as an alternative of in opposition to your self, and having the ability to have issues that make it easier to keep organized and never really feel overwhelmed and never overthink and never procrastinate with out then being restrictive or having you be inflexible or, like, I ought to do that as a result of I noticed this different individual doing that or I’ve to do this as a result of that’s what everybody else does at this stage of enterprise.
Like, letting go of these guidelines, making your personal, trusting your self to execute on them, supporting your self by way of the ups and downs of that as a result of it’s in all probability not gonna immediately work. There in all probability is gonna be some determining that should occur. So that actually is what energy planning is about and PGSD as nicely. Energy planning is simply one of many instruments we train in there. However for me, simply really having the ability to be like, I don’t have to be as particular with my work time and the outcomes of that, like, what I wanna have performed as I usually am.
And on this season, I can simply have larger chunks, so, like, two hours, for instance, or three hours, the place it’s a bit extra imprecise. It’s nonetheless end result targeted of, like, what I wanna full, but it surely’s a bit extra imprecise than in different seasons, and that’s okay. So in case you’re already energy planning, you’re already in PTSD, I simply wanna invite you to recollect or be taught that you’ll actually have a distinction in how your energy planning seems to be season to season, enterprise clever, private life life clever, all of the issues in between. And that isn’t an indication that you simply’re doing it fallacious. That’s really an indication that you simply’re utilizing it to assist your self.
It’s regular to have resistance, particularly in intervals the place maybe it feels extra turbulent, maybe it doesn’t, however the place you’re sort of, like, reconfiguring and reinventing that additionally, naturally, there shall be a shift that should occur in the way you’re planning your time and eager about your self and your small business and all these issues. So doing it the best way you’ve at all times performed it isn’t the purpose. It’s to consider, okay, right this moment, on this second with what I do know now, this week, on this second with what I do know now, what’s the most supportive manner for me to have energy planning be one thing that helps me? After which give your self permission to do that, to truly ask these questions. That is, like, key basic underlying premise of what I train and what this system is about and the instrument is that it’s not taking a look at, like, how does everybody else do it and I ought to do this too?
However, like, turning it inwards of, like, okay. I’ve a construction and a philosophy and issues which can be there to assist me. And now what would it not appear to be to belief myself to use that, to ask questions and ask for assist, essential as nicely. After we belief ourselves, we additionally are inclined to ask for assist, however not in a, like, is that this proper or is that this fallacious sort of manner or what ought to I, shouldn’t I do? However simply asking questions that assist us belief ourselves extra, that assist us implement in a manner that’s extra true to ourselves.
And so, yeah, I simply wished to share mainly me being in a brand new section of energy planning. The instruments are saying the steps are the identical, however making use of it in a different way as I’m now coming into or, like, in or really feel like I’m sort of, like, solidifying a special season. And I’m so glad that I simply saved at it imperfectly throughout that point as nicely and that I simply let or not it’s what it was with out judging it or, like, I needs to be doing higher. I’m similar to, okay. I’m noticing.
I’m noticing that I’m not doing energy planning the best way I usually do. I’m noticing that I’m not doing it on the frequency that I usually do. Like, I’m not finishing the ability hour, and that’s okay. And I belief myself to return to it. So with that stated, I actually wanna simply invite you as nicely to affix us in PGSD after we open for enrollment in July is the subsequent enrollment.
So samlaurabrown.com/pgsd is the place you may go to enroll in the waitlist for this system. I hope you’re having a lovely day, and I’ll discuss to you within the subsequent episode.
Outro
In the event you take pleasure in this podcast, I like to recommend signing up for the waitlist for my program known as Perfectionists Getting Shit Completed (aka PGSD). This can be a program designed that can assist you get out of your personal manner in your small business. You’re gonna discover ways to launch your perfectionism handbrake by setting a progress purpose for your small business, planning correctly as a perfectionist with Energy Planning and getting common guilt-free clear relaxation. You’ll be taught the talents required to get out of your personal manner and be supported each step of the best way to do it.
Whereas the doorways to PGSD are at present closed, they are going to be opening once more quickly. So to seek out out extra about this system and be part of the waitlist right this moment, go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.
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