Our perfectionist all-or-nothing mindset is what makes us insurgent from our calendars. That’s, except you’re planning correctly as a perfectionist.
I was the one that couldn’t comply with via with my calendar for greater than a few days. But regardless of how a lot time I spent planning the whole lot out, I saved rebelling. It wasn’t as a result of I didn’t have what it takes to be my very own boss. It was just because I used to be unknowingly making some fairly massive planning errors that have been making my perfectionist mindset working towards me.
On this episode I’m sharing 8 calendaring errors which can be unknowingly inflicting you to insurgent towards your calendar. And I stroll you thru how Energy Planning solves for every of them within the best and most sensible manner. If you’d like to have the ability to depend on your self to comply with via together with your plans while having numerous flexibility and freedom in your week, this episode is for you.
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Introduction
That is the Perfectionism Venture, 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 comply with via 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 Achieved. In case you’re bored with procrastinating, overthinking and half ending your concepts, you’re in the correct place. Now, let’s dive in.
Sam Laura Brown (Customized Introduction)
Okay, so tremendous fast intro to this episode. I need to let you realize that the facility planning course is formally open for enrollment. We haven’t been open since 2024 and that’s about 18 months in the past once we have been final open.
After which earlier than that, it was about 18 months since we have been open. So it’s open now. I don’t know the way lengthy will probably be open for.
And we’ve got simply been getting so many questions, significantly in the latest launch for perfectionist getting shit carried out. So many questions on the facility planning course. So your want has been granted.
It’s open. So you’ll be able to go to samlaurabrown.com/planning. I’ll go away the hyperlink for you within the present notes as effectively.
So you’ll be able to go there proper now, enroll. You may be taught energy planning begin to end inside one afternoon. There’s even a bonus workshop in there known as your first energy hour the place I information you thru on demand.
Everytime you need to watch it, I information you thru precisely the way to do your first energy hour, particularly when you have a protracted to do record of duties that you just’ve obtained that you just’ve been procrastinating on and a few that basically must get carried out. And like, you simply really feel like there’s manner an excessive amount of to do to even slot in your calendar. I actually stroll you thru that in your first energy hour workshop.
You get immediate entry to all of it. It’s identical to, it’s one of the best. I’m so excited to have it open.
So I need to invite you inside samlaurabrown.com/planning within the present notes. And this episode is de facto going to be so insightful. If in case you have been rebelling towards your calendar and also you need to really feel in charge of your time, you need to really feel organized, you need to be on prime of your corporation.
And that is the fact. In case you aren’t taking motion persistently in your corporation, it’s not in a position to develop as a result of a enterprise wants advertising. It wants gross sales.
It wants operations. It wants supply. Logistically, your corporation wants motion for it to be rising and to be succeeding.
So if perfectionism is stopping you from taking motion, that’s your most pressing precedence to unravel as a result of in any other case your corporation gained’t be capable to develop. And will probably be very irritating since you’ll be working very onerous in stops and begins and simply making an attempt to determine all of the issues and studying totally different methods to implement that. In case you don’t know the way to take motion, you’ll be able to’t implement a technique.
Implementation of a technique is actually taking motion. In order that’s why I’m so keen about serving to perfectionist entrepreneurs take constant motion of their enterprise. It was the largest bottleneck and roadblocker for me.
After which as soon as I found out the way to get out of my very own manner and the way to take motion and do the issues I must do to construct my enterprise, I simply wished to share it with others. So be part of us within the energy planning course, and I hope you take pleasure in this episode.
Sam Laura Brown
Okay, so I need to discuss right this moment a few subject that I’ve been getting requested lots about, and I notice I’ve by no means carried out an episode particularly on this, and I need to discuss it as a result of rebelling towards your calendar, setting issues up after which not following via with them, is one thing that does a lot injury to our self belief and likewise to our enterprise if we’re not in a position to depend on ourselves to get shit carried out, and we’re continually making guarantees with ourselves after which breaking them, it turns into actually onerous to make selections in your corporation since you don’t belief your self to truly comply with via with them, like the whole lot in enterprise, will get tougher while you insurgent towards your calendar, to not point out you’re not then almost definitely getting issues carried out that should be carried out.
You most likely finally get it carried out, however you’re working on the final minute. All the things may be very disturbing. You get burnt out typically. You resent your corporation. You are feeling such as you’re not in charge of your time, and also you’re simply very reactive as an alternative of being proactive in your corporation, and so I need to share with you why you’re rebelling towards your calendar and likewise how energy planning could have you make plans that you just don’t even need to insurgent towards. It’s not that you just simply gained’t insurgent towards them, it’s you gained’t even need to. And should you do need to change your plans, you could have the liberty and the permission from the facility planning methodology to try this. It’s inherent within the course of itself that you’ll modify and replace your plan.
So when we’ve got our perfectionism handbrake on and we’re in that each one or nothing mindset, we insurgent towards our calendars lots. And so I need to share with you and undergo why you’re rebelling and the way energy planning will aid you to not insurgent, to be able to begin calendaring and following via with it, and have it really feel actually good, actually versatile and gratifying and such as you even have freedom in your corporation, versus if you’re rebelling towards your calendar, you’ll not have a way of freedom. Even if you’re working intuitively and doing no matter you need to do, you’ll nonetheless really feel like you’ll be able to’t depend on your self and also you’re not actually free. So I need to have you ever feeling free, with the ability to even have enjoyable new enterprise, to work intuitively and in a flowy manner. If that’s what you love to do, that’s how I prefer to work and with the ability to depend on your self, and with the ability to really feel like you’re in charge of your time and also you’re not overwhelmed by the whole lot that there’s to do.
So the facility planning course as effectively. I need to be sure you find out about this. The ability planning course is open for enrollment on the time of this launch, and might be open for 4 days solely. So I’ll hyperlink up within the present notes, the place you’ll be able to go to seek out out extra and enroll. It’s samlaurabrown.com/powerplanning, and it’s going to be so useful. So I’ll discuss {that a} bit extra on the finish. However for now, I simply need to get into why you insurgent towards your calendar. So I’ve been speaking to folks by way of Instagram DM’s and emails and issues like that, and simply listening to extra about this subject of rebelling towards your calendar and what that appears like for folks, and understanding how irritating it’s and the way painful it’s for the people who find themselves doing that. And I get it as a result of I was the one that was continually rebelling towards my calendar. That I might plan out my week. I might be time blocking. I might sit down and I might then match my to do record and the whole lot in my head and the whole lot I wished to get carried out, I might put that into my calendar after which inside, for positive, inside three days at greatest, however inside 24 hours, sometimes, I had fallen behind on these plans.
I then didn’t need to preserve taking a look at my calendar, or I didn’t need to do the factor that I had deliberate, and so I simply stopped truly following via with the plan. After which, in fact, the plan turns into outdated, after which it’s simply a lot work to even get the plan workable once more while you’re doing it this manner. And so I might simply not look, after which I’d attempt once more, typically the following Monday, after which the identical factor would occur. And I used to be so annoyed, as a result of I beloved the concept of getting an attractive colour coded calendar that might simply enable me to not really feel overwhelmed, like I knew precisely what I wanted to do, and I simply had that clear plan for the week, however the way in which I used to be doing it was turning my perfectionism handbrake on and making it so onerous to truly comply with via.
So listed below are a couple of particular the reason why you’re rebelling towards your calendar. I simply need you to listen to all through all of this that it’s not as a result of that’s simply who you’re, that that’s the way it’s all the time going to be, and particularly and on this episode, I’m speaking to the one that has a want to work from a digital calendar, like iCal, which I exploit, or Google calendar should you don’t need to work from a calendar, and also you’re like, oh my god, I couldn’t think about something worse, this episode and energy planning isn’t for you, as a result of you’ll be working from a digital calendar in a manner that you just love, reasonably than in a manner that makes you’re feeling like you’re in a very demanding job that hasn’t taken any of your private wants into consideration. It hasn’t taken something into consideration. It’s simply this idealistic plan that’s been given to you so you are able to do the whole lot completely in very brief time frames and barely sleep and barely eat.
In case you are feeling like your calendar is like that, energy planning goes to be so wonderful for you. However once more, when you have no want to work from a calendar, this isn’t for you. So right here is why you insurgent. To start with, you don’t actually know why you must do what’s in your calendar, and also you don’t have an thought of the way it ties into the larger image of your corporation. So for instance, you may need issues in there like lead era or submit on social media, and despite the fact that you realize and have heard via different people who these duties are vital for your corporation, or it may be issues like file taxes and that kind of factor, you don’t even have a transparent larger image for your corporation, so that you don’t even have the motivation required to comply with via with these issues, as a result of it feels prefer it doesn’t actually matter whether or not you get them carried out or not, and it undoubtedly doesn’t matter whether or not you get them carried out right this moment, so that you’re simply lacking that larger image. Having a transparent objective for your corporation that truly permits you to have extra motivation for each single job that might be in your calendar.
One other one is that you’ve got deliberate your duties in a very imprecise manner. So once more, issues like submit on social media, begin a podcast, replace web site, work on branding. In case you are planning your duties in your calendar in that language, it’s so onerous to comply with via, additionally, as a result of while you phrase issues like that, you’ll have a tendency to essentially underestimate how a lot time is required, or pre work that’s required to have the ability to full that job, and so it feels so unrealistic and so onerous to comply with via on that in fact you’ll insurgent towards it. It is advisable have your plan arrange in a very clear and concise manner in order that it’s simple to comply with via. You already know precisely what success seems to be like, and you realize you could have sufficient time to get it carried out. One other one is that you’re utilizing a number of productiveness strategies.
So your calendar is sort of there as a advice or a suggestion with what you possibly can do together with your time. However you additionally know that you just may be working out of your job administration system as your to do record. You may need paper to do record. You may need iPhone notes. You most likely in your drained mind, have a protracted record of issues you’re like mentally holding on to concepts that you’ve got, issues that you’ve got seen that you really want to have the ability to do, little enchancment initiatives in your web site or social media, and issues like that that you just need to work on. So your calendar is handled extra as a suggestion or advice, therefore why it’s simple to disregard while you aren’t truly dedicated to your calendar, you’re identical to, Okay, effectively, I might do this, however I might do that different factor as an alternative.
One other one is that you just haven’t taken into consideration what you truly need to do and the way you’re employed greatest. So you could have given your self a plan that features issues that you need to do or need to do or must do, reasonably than truly taking part in into the strengths that you’ve got working in an aligned manner, doing the issues that you just actually take pleasure in doing and determining. And that is what you’ll be taught within the energy planning course, determining the way to set a very clear objective for your corporation, a progress objective, the way to establish the needle movers that can get you to that objective, and the way to have these needle movers be issues that you just truly take pleasure in. I do know, and this may very well be a complete different podcast episode, however I do know that it may be onerous to imagine, as a perfectionist that you could obtain your targets by doing issues that really feel simple and aligned and play to your strengths. We regularly have this concept that success takes a number of onerous work and needs to be earned, and so what we’ll subconsciously do from that perception is that we’ll arrange our enterprise in a manner that has us making an attempt to enhance our weaknesses reasonably than taking part in to our strengths.
We’ll overcomplicate our busy work and issues that don’t matter as a result of it feels so uncomfortable to have success be simple, it could truly be like a complete paradigm shift for that to occur, and id shattering and identical to it could simply utterly query our worldview. So what we do is we make it sophisticated and onerous. And an instance of this for me, I discover teaching. I discover recording podcast episodes. I discover speaking on tales going stay. I discover all of that sort of factor very simple. Thoughts you. I needed to do mindset work to have that be the case. However as soon as that was simple for me, I truly stopped myself from doing these issues as a result of it felt so uncomfortable to have a profitable enterprise based mostly on a set of expertise that I discovered to be simple by simply exhibiting up and chatting and sharing by teaching and self teaching after which sharing these insights with others like that simply felt manner too simple. And so I might try to be taught webinars and arrange sophisticated funnels for my enterprise and like do all of the issues I ought to be doing.
And I’ve had probably the most success when I’ve labored in an aligned manner I’ve performed to my strengths. I’ve put in my calendar the issues that I’m good at, I’m additionally studying new expertise, however the issues that I’m good at, I don’t dismiss them or overlook them simply because they really feel simple. So it there’s a good probability and there are some tedious duties you you do must do to construct a enterprise, however there’s a good probability that your calendar is full of a number of shoulds and have tos and want tos versus the belongings you need to be doing that you’re aligned with, and almost definitely, you’re somebody as effectively who has different enterprise initiatives and desires and concepts that they need to be engaged on. Possibly that’s one other arm of your corporation that you just need to begin. Possibly you need to begin a complete different enterprise. Possibly you need to begin a podcast or a YouTube channel, and also you don’t truly enable your self to try this. Not solely do you’re feeling so overwhelmed by the whole lot at the moment that it feels such as you don’t have the time or vitality, however you’re not even permitting your self to discover what you need your corporation to truly appear like.
So your corporation is feeling extra like a job than it is sort of a enterprise. And likewise, you’re not making an allowance for as effectively together with your calendar, and for this reason you’re rebelling towards it. You’re not truly making an allowance for how you’re employed greatest, like what your work rhythms are. Possibly you don’t even perceive what they’re. A software like energy planning, it has a suggestions, suggestions loop in it. So you’ll learn to actually perceive your self, research your self. You can be figuring out your work rhythm. So for instance, for me, I experimented with doing sluggish mornings after which working within the afternoon. I work manner higher and I’m far more productive after I get shit carried out within the morning and I end earlier within the day after which get the clear relaxation within the afternoon within the night.
However I used to be in a position to mess around with it and actually work out for me, like, what occasions of day do I work greatest? After which what’s the greatest sequencing for various duties? Like, is it higher to do a podcast episode after which write emails, or vice versa after I document a podcast episode, is it higher to have some clear relaxation, or is it higher to leap straight into one other job? I’ve figured all of that out via energy planning, after which energy planning helps me to truly execute that and implement that. In case you are rebelling towards your calendar, almost definitely you’re planning what you need to do, or what your perfect self would be capable to do, and perhaps as effectively, particularly, like, should you’re like me, and also you’ve come from the 9 to 5, then you’ll be pondering like, I’ve to work 9 to 5 and principally, like, what would I do if this was a job? And perhaps as effectively, you’re nonetheless feeling like your corporation is a passion.
So that you’re like, hey, I must deal with this significantly. I must work 9 to 5 hours. However you won’t be productive in 9 to 5 hours with having like a lunch break within the center, you would possibly work higher, working for an hour after which having a half hour break, after which working for an hour after which going for a stroll after which working for an hour, after which that being your day carried out. And I do know it may well sound loopy, particularly should you’ve come from just like the 9 to 5 stay and or the entrepreneurship, like, the way in which that it’s talked about, is like you need to be hustling and dealing 24/7, however what you’ll discover, and also you’ll find out about this within the course too, as you enhance your clear relaxation, your guilt free relaxation, you’ll enhance your vitality, your focus, your productiveness, in order that when it’s work time, you aren’t solely as a result of you realize Your needle movers and your progress objective, you’re not solely not solely engaged on what’s truly important, however you’ll be able to get it carried out in additional self belief, extra shortly, extra simply.
You’re in a position to not overthink and never procrastinate, so that you don’t really need as a lot time. You may get eight hours value of labor carried out in three hours. That’s very lifelike while you have been energy planning, while you have been truly planning in a manner that not solely works on your perfectionist mind, but in addition takes into consideration who you’re as a human, what your preferences are, what your work rhythms are. There are a number of college students who’ve carried out energy planning who love working by way of their human design. They love working by way of their cycle and planning in another way when they’re ovulating versus after they’re of their luteal part and issues like that.
So perhaps you’re not taking that into consideration in any respect. That’s my guess. You’re simply planning for your self a really idealistic if I used to be good and completely motivating, then that is what I ought to do if I used to be following what all of the consultants say it’s important to. Do to construct a enterprise, right here is my plan. After all you insurgent towards that. After all you don’t need to comply with via on that. That’s not freedom, and that doesn’t really feel like success, regardless of how a lot cash you make from that sort of factor and that sort of strategy to enterprise on a everyday foundation, you’ll not really feel profitable, and you’ll not really feel fulfilled if you’re constructing a enterprise you don’t even like in a manner that you just don’t even need.
So what I need to discuss subsequent is setting reminders that you just and I don’t set reminders with my energy planning, and I don’t advocate that you just do. You are able to do it if you need. If in case you have ADHD, for instance, and also you wrestle with time blindness, then what you possibly can do is as an alternative set your self an alarm to go off each hour to maintain you conscious of time. However I simply discover if you’re setting reminders for your self, except you’re actually dedicated to your plans, like in case your energy planning, may be okay to set reminders, however if you’re not, not solely are you doing all these items that I’ve talked about, however then you’re having these reminders pop as much as remind you about plans that you just’re not even dedicated to, that you just don’t even know in the event that they’re going to get you to your objective which can be worded in such a imprecise manner it’s so onerous to even know the place to begin and what to do and what carried out seems to be like.
And also you’re bombarding your self with that. After which each time you hit ignore otherwise you exit out of that reminder, you’re breaking a promise you made with your self and depleting your self belief, which makes choice making tougher, which makes following via a lot tougher. You may’t depend on your self. You then as effectively, should you love working intuitively. You may’t belief your intuitive nudges and hunches that you’ve got, as a result of general, you could have a behavior of breaking guarantees with your self. So no matter whether or not you’re energy planning or not, I don’t advocate setting reminders. And as an alternative, should you need assistance with being conscious of time, set your self alarms which can be time based mostly reasonably than ones which can be job based mostly. If you end up energy planning, you’ll be utilizing your calendar as your to do record as your plan that you’re following all through the day.
Step two of energy planning, I’ll discuss this extra in a bit, however step two of energy planning is little tweaks. So you’ll be as you go, placing a verify mark emoji in subsequent to your duties and adjusting them as you go. So some duties, you would possibly discover they take you a bit longer, or you must shuffle issues round, or there was an sudden interruption, or perhaps you distracted your self, and so you must modify your plan so it’s nonetheless workable. You’ll learn to do this within the energy planning course. You’ll nonetheless get that satisfaction of ticking off a to do record, nevertheless it gained’t be one the place it’s countless and you then’ve identical to highlighted the three prime priorities for the day. As a substitute, it can truly be a plan that you just need to comply with via on, and you should have that there.
So as an alternative of like, when folks like, I can’t even keep in mind to verify my calendar, it’s as a result of their calendar is only a suggestion or advice for what to do. They’re sometimes utilizing a number of totally different productiveness instruments or strategies to try to preserve monitor of the whole lot. And so in fact, you neglect to have a look at your calendar since you don’t need to, as a result of it’s solely a suggestion. If you’re energy planning, there isn’t strictness or strain out of your calendar, however you’ll be continually participating with it the identical manner that should you’re working from a to do record, you’re participating with that to do record. So simply know that when you find yourself energy planning as effectively, you gained’t need to, like, try to drive your self to have a look at your calendar as a result of it would be best to have a look at it as a result of it’s a plan that you just truly need to comply with that can get you to your targets. It offers you numerous clear relaxation. It has you working in an aligned manner. If in case you have a tedious job, you’re going to have numerous relaxation after that job, or ample time to try this job so it’s not disturbing.
So it’s simply going to be a lot simpler to truly have a look at your calendar and never neglect to have a look at your calendar as effectively. Having plans that aren’t workable and are simple to fall behind on is one more reason that you’re rebelling towards your calendar. So for instance, with this, and I’m simply fascinated about, there are such a lot of examples I might share, however I’m fascinated about as a result of with out perfection, it’s all or nothing mindset, and we’re so optimistic about what we will get carried out, and we’re imagining ourselves completely motivated to have the ability to get it carried out once we are making our plans, that what sometimes occurs is that you just gained’t have time for lunch. You should have much less time than wanted for each job that must be accomplished. You gained’t have put in any wiggle room.
So we name this buffer time. You gained’t have put in any wiggle room in your plans. So if there’s an sudden cellphone name, if it’s important to go and decide up your little one from daycare, or they’re residence sick for the day, like if there’s any sort of disruption, you’re instantly behind in your plans, and you then really feel responsible about altering them, as a result of you need to be following via. So that’s one more reason. It’s simply if it’s really easy. Observe via, and the little tweaks in energy planning actually accounts for this. And in your energy hour, you’ll put in your buffer time you’ll anticipate issues which may come up, so you have already got a contingency plan in place, an additional time put aside in order that it’s simple to vary your plans. It is advisable have workability in your plans to truly be capable to comply with via with it and have it not be disturbing.
And one other factor as effectively I’m simply studying my writing right here is that you just haven’t most likely estimated how lengthy duties will take you. You might be simply hoping and being wishful. And I believe probably the most fascinating factor about that is that a number of occasions these are duties which may not be new to you. After all, we’ve got new duties to us on a regular basis. As entrepreneurs, we’re continually doing new issues, however even for duties like writing an e-mail e-newsletter or posting on social media and issues like that, particularly should you’re planning in a manner that’s turning your perfectionism handbrake on, which is making you overthink and procrastinate and do all of these various things that you just truly haven’t obtained an thought but about how lengthy it takes you to do sure duties, additionally realizing which duties are you extra prone to overthink and taking that into consideration. Additionally being conscious of your self doing self teaching and issues like that to assist with that.
However simply being conscious like this job I’m prone to overthink, so I’ll give myself a little bit bit of additional time in order that if I do overthink it and I get a bit caught with that, that’s okay. And if I don’t, I’m permitting myself to overachieve and get it carried out early. So that you simply haven’t correctly estimated, and also you haven’t obtained a option to be taught that. So via energy planning and thru the weekly assessment, when you find yourself learning your self, you’ll learn the way lengthy duties take you, as a result of as you do your little tweaks, you’re including verify mark emojis, and also you have been having roughly in your calendar a mirrored image of what you accomplished. And so every week, when you’ll be able to truly mirror on on the finish of the week, how lengthy issues truly took you, and also you’ll be evaluating that with the screenshot that you just’ll take off your calendar after you end your Energy Hour at the start of your week, you’ll see that distinction, and also you’ll be capable to see, okay, I utterly underestimated how lengthy this factor took me.
After which while you’re planning throughout your subsequent Energy Hour, as an alternative of simply hoping you’ll be extra motivated and making the identical plan, you may give your self extra time to try this and de prioritize one thing else that isn’t as a lot of a needle mover. And you’ll discover that while you truly start permitting your self to correctly estimate time, and also you develop that ability via self research in your weekly assessment, will probably be a lot simpler to focus and get shit carried out and comply with via together with your plans, since you are being cheap with your self. After we’re rebelling towards our calendar, it is actually because we’re feeling like we simply have to face and ship, like we’ve got to do an ideal efficiency within the minimal period of time with no preparation, with no psychological heat up, we simply must, like, go in and do it completely and do it shortly, that creates a number of strain and resistance, and subsequently we’re like, No thanks. I don’t need to have a look at the calendar.
However while you develop via the suggestions loop of the weekly assessment, while you develop the ability of realizing how lengthy duties take you, and this has been achieved by inventive entrepreneurs to artists. I did an interview on the podcast with Rachel Brown, who’s an artist, who talked in that episode about how she has used energy planning to grasp her inventive course of and the way lengthy creating artwork takes her. So it’s not only for individuals who have a enterprise the place there’s no creativity concerned and it’s identical to, Do that, do that. Do that for inventive entrepreneurs too. I believe that is so vital that can assist you perceive your inventive course of and actually lean into that and work with that, reasonably than working towards it.
And at last, one more reason why you aren’t following via together with your plans and you’re rebelling towards your calendar is since you are utterly overwhelming your self. It’s sort of like the results of the whole lot that I’ve talked about is that you’ll really feel overwhelmed. You’ll really feel like I can by no means get this all carried out. I don’t know the place to begin. I don’t have sufficient time, despite the fact that you could have calendared out what you need to do, and you’ve got carried out it in a manner the place you assume you may need sufficient time, you inherently perceive it’s not clear sufficient. You don’t have sufficient time, otherwise you gained’t have the vitality to do it within the time that you’ve got given your self with the quantity of relaxation you’ve given your self, and so it feels utterly unachievable. You’re setting your self up for failure. You’re feeling so overwhelmed that you just then procrastinate, and also you’re identical to, oh my god, I simply must do one thing.
So I’ll verify e-mail and I’ll reconcile my Xero account for my accounting software program, such as you have been simply gonna decide off the little fast and simple duties reasonably than doing the issues which can be truly going to construct your corporation and dealing on these new inventive initiatives, launching an internet course, something like that, should you don’t have a lot time, if you’re feeling overwhelmed, you aren’t going to choose these duties that basically matter. So I need to discuss energy planning, and particularly how energy planning helps you to have a plan that you just truly need to comply with and that you just gained’t need to insurgent towards. Once more. I’m a former calendar insurgent, if you’ll. I might not comply with via with my plans. I attempted, I attempted so onerous to comply with the recommendation on calendaring and time blocking, and I did all of the various things the Pomodoro methodology, like paper planners, all of the issues that I might discover, as a result of I so desperately wished to be productive.
I wished to really feel on prime of my enterprise. I wished to really feel succesful. I wished to really feel like I used to be getting shit carried out. I wished to really feel like I used to be taking advantage of the restricted time that I needed to construct my enterprise. Once I first began, I used to be a full time scholar, a regulation scholar and a finance scholar. Then as soon as I graduated, I used to be working full time in an accounting position at one of many massive corporations in Brisbane Metropolis, the place I stay. After which I had a component time job. As soon as I left that full time job, I had a component time job, and I used to be constructing my enterprise on the facet. After which as soon as I used to be full time in my enterprise. I then grew to become a mother. I had my daughter, Lydia, then I had twins, and so it’s simply, I’ve simply, it’s so vital. I simply actually need to be certain, you realize, it’s so vital to not be overwhelmed and to have a plan that you just truly need to comply with, that works for you, that works on your life-style, that works on your targets and that you’ve got and that performs to your strengths and actually helps you to be the entrepreneur and the enterprise proprietor that you just need to be with out feeling like you’re burning your self out. You’re by no means in a position to swap off. You’re by no means, by no means, oh my god, I can’t say by no means, by no means in a position to take a trip, particularly a laptop computer free trip. I would like that for you so dangerous. So I’m going to share with you about energy planning, after which I’ll discuss a little bit bit in regards to the energy planning course.
So there are a couple of parts and 4 significantly that I need to discuss inside the energy planning course, and energy planning general, that can help you to have plans that you just truly need to comply with and that you just gained’t even need to insurgent towards. So to begin with, and this is likely one of the first belongings you’re going to do within the energy planning course, is you’ll set a progress objective for your corporation. It is a 12 month income objective that’s set in a selected manner that basically helps you as a human and your perfectionist mind and your corporation as effectively. So you’ll really feel clear. You’ll really feel such as you even have a objective that you just need to develop into. It’s going to be difficult, nevertheless it’s not too difficult. It’s not overwhelming. It’s an invite to change into the following model of your self and for your corporation to enter its subsequent iteration with out that being one thing that’s going to really feel utterly overwhelming or unimaginable, otherwise you’re on this like fairy story pondering that you just may need had earlier than while you’ve set a very massive, unrealistic objective, since you’re feeling actually motivated, otherwise you intellectually perceive the way to do it, however you don’t.
You’re not truly but the one that can do it. So the expansion objective goes to provide you a lot. Motivation, as a result of you’ll be clear on the place you are attempting to get to. We perfectionist. We hate losing effort. We now have a concern of losing time and effort on the incorrect issues. In case you don’t have a objective and also you don’t know the place you’re going, you’ll really feel like you’re losing time on the incorrect issues. As a result of, in fact, you’re, since you don’t even know what you need these issues so as to add as much as. So that you’re going to set your progress objective. I’ll train you ways to try this within the energy planning course, in order that it’s very easy to plan correctly with energy planning, to determine your needle movers and to get clear relaxation as effectively. In case you don’t have a transparent objective, then the whole lot feels so vital, and also you by no means really feel like you could have sufficient time to get the whole lot carried out. However while you do know the objective, you’re in a position to truly work out what’s a needle mover and what isn’t and let go of the issues that aren’t needle movers.
Even should you’re a perfectionist and you’ve got hassle letting go of issues, it is possible for you to to let go as soon as you employ a needle mover matrix to tell apart what’s important and what’s a pleasant to have. So the second factor is energy planning. So there are three steps. They’re quite simple. Anybody can be taught them. Of energy planning, and that’s your energy hour, your little tweaks and your weekly assessment. So these are the three steps that you just’re going to be following each week, and I simply need to briefly describe them to you so that you perceive what this seems to be like. So throughout your Energy Hour, which goes to occur at the start of your week, it doesn’t need to be Monday, however it may be. You’ll establish your needle movers and schedule them in your digital calendar in a manner that you just gained’t need to insurgent towards. You’ll have a versatile plan that can get you to your progress objective and offer you loads of guilt free, clear relaxation.
So within the energy planning course, you’re going to get entry to the facility planning companion that guides you thru the method, and likewise the facility planning modules will train you precisely how the facility hour works, the way to establish issues which may distract you or interrupt you, and make contingency plans, the way to schedule out your clear relaxation so that you just truly get some relaxation with out feeling responsible about it. You’ll be taught the complete course of. It’s quite simple. And there’s additionally a bonus, if you’re fearful that you just gained’t truly be capable to suit your to do record into your calendar, and your previous self has perhaps been procrastinating on a number of issues and has put lots in your plate. Then there’s a bonus workshop. It’s known as your first Energy Hour, taught by me, and I’ll stroll you thru step-by-step, your first Energy Hour.
I’ll aid you keep away from frequent errors which can be made or issues which can be simple to overly concentrate on. I’ll aid you full that first Energy Hour efficiently and actually be certain you’ll be able to and supported to do the important issues in your Energy Hour. I’ll information you thru it. It’s quite simple, however I’ll help you thru that. I’ll aid you sidestep any overwhelm which may come up as you navigate your very first energy hour. In order that Energy Hour is de facto you laying out your plan in a manner that you could truly comply with via on. That may get you to your targets, performs to your strengths, feels aligned, offers you relaxation. And I do know which may sound too good to be true, however that’s simply since you haven’t been planning correctly as a perfectionist.
The second step. So that is what you do in the course of the week. The second step is you do your little tweaks. So all through the week, Life might be life in interruptions are inevitable, and likewise inspiration will strike like you should have inventive concepts are available in, and that’s why you’re going to make little tweaks to your calendar so that you just’re all the time clear about what to work on, with out ever feeling trapped by your plans or such as you’re falling behind. So you’ll continually be working your plans and conserving them workable and making little or typically massive changes to your plan to be able to preserve following via it doesn’t matter what occurs, regardless of should you do need to go and decide up your little one from daycare or something like that, you’ll be supported to remain targeted on what’s important or to utterly deprioritize work. If you must focus in your private life, you’ll be supported to try this via that little tweaks course of.
I’ll train you what to do, and it provides you with permission to truly change your plans and to not really feel dangerous about that, you’ll truly be capable to comply with via as effectively, as a result of there’s that flexibility. I really feel like, as perfectionists, if we really feel like we’re being pressured to do one thing and there’s a lot strictness and rigidity, then, in fact, we insurgent towards it. However when it’s like, okay, effectively, right here’s the plan, and should you do need to change it, you’ll be able to. Typically we’re like, Okay, effectively, I’m simply gonna comply with via with it, and if I do want to vary it, then I’m simply gonna change it. It simply removes the guilt, the judgment, the disgrace that makes it so onerous to be productive. And step three is a weekly assessment. So on the finish of the week, you’ll spend quarter-hour following the weekly assessment framework to check your self and your corporation with ease. And every week, this implies you’ll solely get extra productive, extra organized, and discover it simpler to comply with via together with your plans.
I’ve already talked about this within the episode, however you’ll be truly learning your self and what occurred within the week in a very compassionate manner. You’ll be evaluating how your calendar seems to be on the finish of the week with the way it regarded earlier than the week began like after you probably did your energy hour, you’ll take a screenshot and see what you had deliberate out, and you then’ll evaluate the 2 and say, Okay, right here’s what works so effectively about this week. And also you’ll get the precise prompts contained in the course, however you’ll be, usually talking, taking a look at, right here’s what labored very well. Right here’s what I’m celebrating, right here’s what didn’t work so effectively, and what I’m going to do in another way subsequent time. However you’ll be, in simply quarter-hour, understanding a lot about your self, how you’re employed greatest, the way you relaxation greatest, what duties are the needle movers for you, which of them aren’t truly needle movers and aren’t including up? You will note that via your weekly assessment.
So that you’re going to have that versatile construction, you’re going to have lifelike time estimates. You’re going to be working in an aligned manner, and also you’re going to be conserving that plan workable, so that you gained’t need to insurgent towards it. And I identical to, it’s to not say, like, with my energy planning, I’m undoubtedly making these little tweaks and making changes. And there are occasions the place I’m like, I need to do one thing else utterly as an alternative, and I enable myself to try this. It feels so liberating as a result of I’m the boss and I created a enterprise partly as a result of I wished freedom. So I’ve the liberty to vary my plans, however I don’t have the overwhelm that comes with not having clear plans. And there’s one thing to be stated for this as effectively. In case you are somebody with a number of uncertainty in your week, which almost definitely you’ll be, should you’re a human perhaps like me, you could have little ones. Possibly you could have demanding shoppers or prospects like there are simply so many various issues. Possibly you could have you’re taking care of your mother and father and you must preserve going to hospital to assist them.
No matter it’s, we will typically be on this mindset that if there’s a number of uncertainty, we’re not in a position to plan. However when you have a number of uncertainty in your week, you’ll profit from energy planning probably the most, as a result of what occurs is, if we’re like, oh, there’s an excessive amount of uncertainty to even make a plan, not solely is life difficult as a result of there’s a number of uncertainty, however we’re including additional uncertainty by being unclear about what we have to do within the enterprise and what’s truly achievable. And so it signifies that each second you do have time to work on your corporation, you’re having to determine from scratch what you need to work on. And should you don’t have a lot vitality, you’re going to choose the simple issues, the issues that you’re good at or conversant in.
And also you’re not going to be choosing these needle shifting initiatives, otherwise you’re not going to be placing the time facet to simply placing apart time, after I say placing apart time to simply assume and dream about your corporation and plan the larger image, such as you’re going to be so busy placing out fires and being reactive to your prospects and shoppers and simply checking e-mail and checking social media after which checking e-mail once more, that you just’re not truly going to have the ability to escape that overwhelm procrastination loop the place you could have the lengthy to do record, you’re feeling so overwhelmed that it makes you procrastinate. Then you definately really feel responsible, so that you attempt to get shit carried out, you then really feel so overwhelmed once more since you’re so behind. So that you make the to do record longer with like you’ll be able to consolidate all of it collectively, add new issues, and the cycle simply repeats and repeats.
Your corporation can’t develop while you’re overwhelmed, it simply can’t when you find yourself overwhelmed, while you aren’t in a position to assume clearly, you aren’t in a position to do what’s wanted, and also you’re undoubtedly not in a position to do it to the usual that you just truly need to have the ability to do it to. So when you could have your energy planning, and while you’re truly in a position to plan in a manner that works on your perfectionist mind as an alternative of towards it, it’s going to be a lot simpler to be motivated. You’re going to be a lot kinder to your self. You’re truly going to have freedom in your corporation, and also you’ll be capable to transfer your self ahead in a manner that isn’t doable while you don’t have readability on what must be carried out. I really like the idea, and that is what energy planning actually is, of getting a plan and adjusting. It’s higher than having no plan in any respect. So a lot better for therefore many causes.
The subsequent factor quantity three, clear relaxation. So contained in the course, you’ll find out about clear relaxation, the way to schedule it in, what to do in your clear relaxation, how to consider clear relaxation so that you just truly get the advantages of it. That is while you have been getting mind relaxation. You have been resting with out guilt. So if you’re feeling drained, exhausted, burned out, should you simply don’t have the vitality, perhaps you could have time, however you don’t have the vitality, emotionally or mentally to comply with via with the plans that you’ve got, then it’s as a result of you aren’t getting sufficient relaxation. And I do know as perfectionist like I hear this on a regular basis. This was once me. I like working. I take pleasure in it. I really like fascinated about the enterprise. I really like working. It’s okay if I’m working on a regular basis, it’s not an issue. However what obtained me on to scrub relaxation and what had me truly begin doing it myself after which instructing it to my college students and different perfectionist entrepreneurs is that after I wasn’t resting, the to begin with, my mind was drained, but in addition it meant I ought to be working in my head, 24/7, so I used to be all the time feeling behind. There was all the time extra to be carried out, and there was no cause to get issues carried out after I had deliberate, as a result of I might all the time do it tonight or tomorrow morning or tomorrow lunchtime, I might all the time be like, Oh, squeeze that in tomorrow. Versus when I’ve clear relaxation, not solely is my mind rested, and subsequently it’s a lot simpler to focus, to remain on job and to not get distracted, nevertheless it means that there’s additionally time constraint and optimistic time strain within the week, in order that I’m then pressured to prioritize.
I don’t have as a lot time for busy work. And likewise, I’m truly, with this clear relaxation, in a position to actually simply be capable to concentrate on what truly issues and get it accomplished. And I do know we take into consideration like, I’ll relaxation when the whole lot is finished. That’s one thing I hear so typically. And what I need to supply to you is the explanation you don’t get the whole lot carried out is since you’re not resting, as a result of you’ll be able to all the time do it tonight or tomorrow or squeeze it in. You’re simply on this, like treadmill that’s all the time going you’re simply all the time sort of jogging alongside in your corporation, versus there’s time while you’re working and also you’re targeted and also you’re concentrating, you get your self again on monitor should you get distracted or if there are interruptions, you modify your plans as wanted. And there’s time while you’re resting, you’ll be able to mentally swap off. You’re not having to consider your corporation should you don’t need to be you’re not stressing in regards to the funds or while you’re going to create that piece of content material that you just stated you’ve been eager to create now for a month.
You gained’t be fascinated about that, after which it simply creates such a optimistic productiveness cycle the place you’re resting with out guilt, working with focus, and dealing with out criticism, and actually getting such a way of freedom in your corporation, not resenting it anymore, having the laptop computer free holidays. That’s what occurs while you apply clear relaxation. And this may be one of many hardest elements of energy planning, is the clear relaxation facet, and it is likely one of the strongest, which is why I proceed to show it and apply it myself and actually help you to grasp what clear relaxation is, the way to truly get it to be able to be extra productive and now have a private life outdoors of your corporation. In case you are feeling actually burdened about your corporation, almost definitely it’s as a result of there’s not a lot else occurring in your life, or there’s different stuff occurring.
Possibly you could have a household and youngsters that you just need to spend time with, or different hobbies, however you’re both not totally current with these, otherwise you’re doing them as an escape, or you’re resenting them as a result of they’re taking time away from your corporation as a result of you need to be working, since you’re so behind. So energy planning simply helps you escape that overwhelm procrastination loop and permits you to calmly and confidently get shit carried out while you’re working and to mentally swap off and get that mind relaxation when you find yourself not working and having the flexibleness too. It’s not about being good at both of these issues, having the flexibleness to be a human about it and to regulate these plans as and when required. And the ultimate factor I need to discuss is the needle movers. So I’ve already talked about this all through the episode, and within the energy planning course, there’s a bonus that we’ve got added that is known as the needle mover masterclass.
And in that, you’ll be taught the needle mover matrix and the way to establish what’s vital versus what isn’t you may need used just like the Eisenhower matrix earlier than, which is figuring out what’s pressing and vital and prioritizing based mostly on that. I don’t advocate that. So on this course, within the energy planning course, I’ll train you the way to establish your true needle movers so that you just don’t need to work as onerous. You may work smarter and never tougher, and you’ll work your perfect work hours since you are very clear on what is crucial to get you to the expansion objective that you’ve got for your corporation. And when you find yourself additionally planning out your needle movers, it actually simply counters all these issues I discussed earlier within the episode which can be making you insurgent. So you should have while you’re energy planning, clear and particular duties. They’ll be damaged down. They’re simple to comply with via on. They’re clear. You already know precisely what success seems to be like and what must be carried out, and also you haven’t underestimated how lengthy it takes you’ll be able to actively and precisely estimate that, and you realize you’ll be able to modify it if wanted.
So should you’re doing a number of new duties, you could have extra buffer time in your calendar in order that if it does take you longer, it’s not an issue, and it doesn’t throw you off, and it doesn’t imply it’s important to say to your husband or spouse or whoever, like, Hey, I’m going to be like, three hours late for dinner tonight. I’ve to work late. I’m sorry. No, you’ll nonetheless be capable to end your day while you deliberate due to the expansion objective, energy planning, clear relaxation and needle movers and the way they’ll help you to comply with via with the plans you truly need that can get you to the targets that you just truly need to have in an aligned manner that works together with your strengths. And yeah, I’m so keen about energy planning. It was such a recreation changer for me, after spending so lengthy learning productiveness and enterprise and mindset and studying all types of various strategies. And it’s not that no different strategies work, it’s that this methodology works so effectively for the perfectionist mind, and I need to share it with you.
I would like you to have the ability to have. Have plans that you just need to comply with via on, and also you truly comply with via on and also you’re variety to your self when you find yourself not following via on them, and also you simply modify your plans and preserve going. That’s the way to construct a profitable enterprise, the way to have freedom, the way to truly take pleasure in working your corporation and never feeling like your corporation is working you. So the facility planning course is open for enrollment. So within the present notes, you will notice the hyperlink for the place you’ll be able to go to seek out out extra in regards to the course and enroll, any questions, e-mail help@samlaurabrown.com and we’ll get again to you ASAP so you will get your self inside. You can begin planning correctly as a perfectionist, and you’ll say goodbye to overwhelm and goodbye to being the one that rebels towards your calendar.
It doesn’t need to be the case anymore. You may comply with via. You may depend on your self. You may belief your self. You may really feel on prime of your corporation. So I need to invite you into the course to show you ways to try this. So I’m simply so excited for this enrollment we’re doing for the facility planning course. It hasn’t been provided as a standalone course for 18 months. I don’t know if, I don’t know once we might be providing it once more, so I need to invite you inside. I need to invite you to begin planning correctly as a perfectionist. I hope you’re having an attractive day, and I’ll discuss to you within the subsequent episode.
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I hope you loved that episode. In order talked about, the facility planning course is now formally open for enrollment. You may go to samlaurabrown.com/planning to enroll right this moment.
You may be taught energy planning inside one afternoon. I’ll personally information you thru your very first energy hour. All the things is in there so that you can begin energy planning.
It’s a quite simple course of. Anybody can be taught it and you should utilize it straight away to construct your corporation. You may say goodbye to overwhelming to-do record and begin energy planning so your corporation can lastly develop.
So samlaurabrown.com/planning is the place to enroll right this moment.
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