How to stay focused, work efficiently and be most productive. Let's take a walk on The Soar Path.
Many
entrepreneurs work from home. Some have brick and mortar small business. However, life happens. Most times we are interrupted by Life
Happens.
We seem to lose focus when life
happens and it creates stand still moments.
I am a grandma!! I should be at home just visiting with my grandkids all the
time. Noooo, I am a boomer entrepreneur!!!
I have
clients and workshops, I am a speaker and coach. I am very busy. I own a women’s inspirational network I am very busy. When do I get unfocused?
When I want to have a little fun with my
babies. I have learned to combat my
little issue by creating smaller tasks and being productive even when my beautiful grands are visiting.
GET READY TO IGNITE
Most of getting focused has a lot to do
with Day 3. This is perhaps the biggest, most important day of them
all because it’s all about how to maintain FOCUS, efficiency and productivity
on your entrepreneurial journey.
What happens once we’ve been given all
the information, resources and tools we could possibly need to start creating,
growing and maintaining our businesses?
Being able to stay focused, work
efficiently and be productive are three of the biggest struggles I hear from
our audience on a regular basis, and without these three things, you’re going
to have a really hard time making any progress with your business growth.
Being an entrepreneur means there is
no-one telling you what to do. Someone
else was giving you my “to-do” lists.
A helpful way to help hold yourself
accountable is to join a small mastermind group or online community.
A mastermind might be made up of just you and
one other person, (I do this often) or it might be you and 3 or 4 others who you’ve met through
an online community you’re a part of.
If you have someone you can check in with
daily, weekly or even bi-weekly, that accountability is HUGE when it comes to
meeting your goals.
Repeat
Don’t forget this step! It’s important to
understand that this strategy is not a one-time thing, rather something you get
in the habit of doing every single week.
If you get to a point where you feel like
you’ve mastered this stuff, awesome! Then I challenge you to start doing it
daily.
Working efficiently: Theming
A few months ago I implemented a simple
technique that has helped me become more efficient, get more done and make more
money in my business.
It’s
called Theming Your Days
Whether you love planning and execution or
hate it, theming your days can help you do both without having to hold actual
planning sessions and meetings with yourself every day.
So let’s talk about how you might implement
this concept of theming your days in your business.
Establish Your Themes
First part is simple: what themes are
required in your business in order to make it run? Or, in other words, what do
you do on a regular basis that actually creates your business?
Some examples might
be:
- Creating
podcast episodes
- Writing
blog posts
- Emailing
a weekly newsletter to my list
- Hosting
Webinars
- Moderating
a community Forum
- Email
- Social
Media
- Creating
videos
…you get the idea.
EXERCISE:
Now pick 4 to 5 themes that are recurring for
you and that, together, create your FOCUS.
Schedule it
Once you have your themes, create a schedule
around them, giving each day of your “work week” a theme.
Do the work
Two major reasons why theming your days works
– why you’re able to be more efficient, get more done, and make more money in
your business – are:
1. You no longer wake up asking yourself,
“What should I work on today?”
2. You don’t have to re-adjust and re-focus 3
to 4 times throughout the day as you jump from one unrelated task to the next.
But theming your days is only going to help
you be more efficient, get more done, and make more money in your business if
you actually do the work.
Theming isn’t a way for you to be able to
just say you’re going to do something.
Theming isn’t meant to be used in order to draw
up a bunch of plans and then not take the first step towards implementing them.
Theming isn’t about sitting and thinking
about how you don’t really feel like doing it…YOU HAVE TO DO THE WORK!
Get
yourself in your theme zone, because guess what?… You don’t have to get out of
that zone when you’re working within a theme for an entire day!
WHEN
UNEXPECTED TASKS SURFACE
Of
course there will be unexpected tasks that will surface that need your
immediate attention; like
· Corresponding
to emails
· Creating
invoices
· Creating and putting up a lead page
· Time for website updates
The
daily tasks will remain daily, but with theming you have to become very
disciplined as to not crush the time you’ve promised to your daily theme. This
might mean using an online timer to remind you that 1.5 hours in Facebook isn’t
necessary going to ensure great community engagement :)
Thank you SO much for joining me on The Soar
Path!
I’m grateful you’ve decided to come on this
journey with me.
And
Congratulations! – you’ve just
taken a huge step in growing your business: you’ve invested the time to learn
about the steps and strategies you can take TODAY to help move your business
forward.
The key to remember now that we’re at the end
of The Soar Path is that none of this content will matter unless YOU put it
into action.
>> What’s ONE thing you’re going to do TODAY to
help move your business forward? <<
>> What’s ONE thing you’re going to do TODAY to
help you get one step closer to your goals? <<
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