You have a brilliant new idea in the shower. You sit down to start researching domain names and competitors.
Fireworks are happening and you know this is the idea you’ve been waiting for… except you had planned to spend today finishing up that other project.
Creatives often feel called to follow their inspirations, wanting to strike while the iron is hot. What can result, unfortunately, is a long list of half-completed projects coupled with disappointment about time squandered.
Fortunately, there’s a way to achieve balance between leveraging your brilliance and making sure each project gets completed.
Don’t forget to include cleaning out your digital toolbox.
With new tools and services coming out every day, it’s easy to accumulate more than you need.
Avoid getting to the point where your tools and programs hinder your progress by using this checklist to comb through what you’re currently using, what you’re no longer using, and what you really need to optimize your business systems.
When you run your own business, there’s a lot of pressure to “stay in the know” with the latest tips and strategies. I don’t want you to suffer from information overload.
Our fear of being left behind often compels us to subscribe to every newsletter, get every free eBook, buy every program that professes to double our income, and read every “5 Hacks for Building Your List” type of blog post.
After a while, we realize that we don’t have enough fingers to stay pressed firmly on the pulse of our industry, keep up with our workload, and show up for our families.
Blogging takes a lot of time. And it often doesn’t seem urgent because nothing is going to explode in your business if you don’t get a post out this week.
Your favorite client, on the other hand, might not be happy with a missed deadline…
So blogging gets relegated to next week, again, or you throw together an article quickly just to post something.
By not following through with a regular blogging schedule, you’re missing out on the opportunity to build authority, trust, social media shares and marketing opportunities plus a lot of good will among your target audience.
I promised you that I’m going to be giving you more behind-the-scenes access to how I run my business.
Now I want to show you the tools I rely on to manage my business.
You might find this surprising, but I don’t have a large collection of tools. When you have too many tools—no matter how wonderful they are—you get bogged down in managing them.
Devising a plan to achieve goals can get very challenging. Even when we take the time to do it, we quickly give up on our goals, because we never translate them into day-to-day actions that actually fit our very busy schedules.
As a result, our plans look wonderful on paper but are quite impossible to achieve.
How DO we create a plan that motivates us instead of bringing us down and making us feel bad about ourselves?
