Episode 59

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Published on:

14th Aug 2024

59 | 3 Things You Should Do When You're Planning Your Work Week

I'm a nerd about planning. But it has taken me a while to figure out how to effectively plan my work week (because when you have 2 young kids and there are so many unpredictable things about your business it can be hard to plan!)

In this episode I share:

  • how to choose how many hours a work to week
  • how to choose when to work
  • designing your ideal work week
  • planning each individual week

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Transcript
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I've coached nearly 100 women about their screen time,

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and here's what I've learned.

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Women actually don't care about their

screen time, they care about those things

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that are impacted by their screen time.

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Their ability to be patient with their

kids, the growth of their business,

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having time to pursue their creative

dreams, their relationship with their

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husband, the inner peace that they feel,

their confidence in themselves, their

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Connection with God, their friendships

not missing out on their kids' childhoods.

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I'm Alex and I'm here to

help you find inner peace.

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Enjoy true fulfillment

and be fully present.

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Welcome to the Mindful with Media Podcast.

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Hi friends.

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Last week.

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I did an episode all about how I like

to plan out my ideal weekly schedule.

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As fall is coming up.

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And so this week I want to focus on

how I plan out my ideal work schedule.

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And.

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I'm kind of, kind of touch

on three parts to this.

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So one.

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Deciding when you want to work.

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To deciding.

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Your ideal week.

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So.

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When you do which tasks every week.

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And then third, I'm

also going to touch on.

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Like week by week planning.

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So like at the beginning of each

week, how to plan what you're

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going to specifically do that week.

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We'll see if this all

fits in this episode.

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If it ends up being too

much, I may break it up.

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But.

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Let's start with figuring out.

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How to decide.

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How many hours a week do you want to work?

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And when to plan out your work times,

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I briefly touched on this last

week . So if you haven't already make

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sure to go listen to that episode,

but kind of some more specifically

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of deciding when you want to work.

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I have found it really helpful.

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To have three designated times.

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Like related to my, my ideal week.

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I like to have.

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Designated times when I do work.

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And that's when I have a babysitter,

I have a babysitter that comes

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for about five hours a week.

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Those are for sure.

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Work times.

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And then I like to have designated

times when I don't work.

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'cause I used to feel like I just always.

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Want it to be working and a little bit

for like, I always needed to be working.

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So.

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Every night.

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As soon as my kids were in

bed, I wanted to be working.

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Or even when I was with my kids,

I, my mind was racing about all

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the things I wanted to do for work.

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And I wanted to.

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Uh, you know, I'd constantly be like

taking notes on my phone or try to pull

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out my laptop and just always trying to.

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Work work work.

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And so it's really helpful for me

to have designated times when I

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don't work, whether that's times I.

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Really want to be focused on

my kids or that's times when.

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I want to be doing

self-care things for myself.

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So.

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Running or reading or.

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Doing puzzles or painting my nails

or doing things that are just like,

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just designating times that you.

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I do not work on your business.

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And even if you've never done this before,

it can be a little bit uncomfortable,

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but it's actually really powerful for me.

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To have those times, because then when

I do work on my business, I'm way more.

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Focused and have a plan and

a purpose for that time.

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Instead of always working and

never really getting anything done.

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So, yeah, I like to have times I'm.

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Strictly working., I like to have

times I'm strictly not allowed to work.

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And then I also like to have in

between times where it's like, I can

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work if I want to, if I'm feeling

it, but if I'm not feeling it like.

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I don't have to, or if there's

something else that feels more.

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Depressing.

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I could do that.

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And like, of course I'm

in charge of my life.

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I can always do something else.

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If I'm.

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Not feeling like working, but.

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But I don't know.

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It just helps my brain to have

those three separated times.

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To make sure that it just helps me.

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I

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give my business the attention

that I want to give it.

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And it helps me give my personal

and my family life, the attention

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that I want to give that.

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And then it also.

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So for me, those in between times.

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Are.

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Typically nap time.

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So I've kind of played around

with different things like

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certain days of the week.

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Nap times are.

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I still have like work

things in planning to do.

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But that is a little bit more

flexible for me as far as.

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If I want to skip nap time that

day, or if my kids don't nap or

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if I want to do housework, or if I

feel like I need a nap or whatever.

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That's that's been helpful for me.

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The other thing that.

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And like, I know, five hours.

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A week.

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For like designated work time

may seem like a lot or a little,

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depending on where you're at.

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Just be realistic with yourself.

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About how much time you can.

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Can actually dedicate to

your business each week.

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And one hour you can get

a lot done in one hour.

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If it's a designated one hour.

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Just, yeah, just be honest with yourself.

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About how much time do you want to, to

be working on your business each week?

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Okay.

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And then the other thing about

deciding when you want to work

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kind of related to last week is.

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His work, something that you're okay

doing while your kids are awake or

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you're while your kids are around.

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Is that something you want to do while

they're with a babysitter or while

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they're sleeping or while they're

doing quiet time or while they're.

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Watching TV or something like that.

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Just, just be really honest

with yourself about, are you

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okay with doing it while you're.

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Kids are around or would you prefer

doing it while they're not around?

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That will help you designate when you

want to have your work days and times.

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And then.

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With that.

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Also pay attention to your energy levels.

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So.

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Are you more of a morning

person and you, you, your brain

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works better in the morning.

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Or

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like I like for me, I am a morning person.

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But I actually want to use my morning.

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Energy for running and for

spending time with my kids.

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And so I work in the afternoons.

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And my kids are with a babysitter then.

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And it works great for us because

the reason I specifically chose

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that time is because that's

witching hour and that's when.

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Life feels the most stressful and

we're not really with friends.

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And so.

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Afternoon's we're feeling hard for me.

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With caregiving.

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And so that's when I decided to hire a

babysitter was to come in the afternoons.

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So just pay attention to.

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When you work best and when you,

when you want to work and if you

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can make that work, as far as.

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E like.

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Okay.

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Maybe you're a morning person, but

you really prefer to when you're work,

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when your kids are asleep and you don't

want to hire childcare, K then evenings

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might be your best bet or nap time.

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That might be your best bet.

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So.

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Just just things to, to think about and

to pay attention to, as you're deciding.

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How many hours a week you want to work?

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And designate for working.

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Then.

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After you've chosen your designated

hours that you're going to work.

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Then you can kind of set up your

ideal workweek that you'll, you'll

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typically fall back on each week.

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If you don't know how to spend

your time, you can look at your

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ideal week that you planned out.

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So.

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Some things to keep in mind, as

you're planning out your ideal week of

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things that you want to spend time on.

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I.

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Have five categories that

I like to think about.

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One providing free value.

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So for me, that currently looks like.

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These podcast episodes.

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And my Instagram content.

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Where I teach through that content.

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Too.

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I like to create connections with people.

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So that might look like creating

reels that attract new people.

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Into my audience.

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That might look like.

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DM conversations, whether that's

like offering free coaching

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on my Instagram stories or.

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Often those conversations just come up.

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Or like, I recently did one where I

said, can you like, tell me the number

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one thing that's getting in the way from

you making a thousand dollars a month.

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And then I put up a few poll options

and then whatever you selected.

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Then I said, I'll, I'll DM you.

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And we can talk about this and figure

out how to get over this hurdle.

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So things like that.

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So, yeah.

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Provide for your value,

create conversations.

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Number three.

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I like to make sure I have

time for creating new offers.

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I like to offer.

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One mini offer at least once a month.

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Whether that's a boxer

challenge or a guide or a.

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Free workshop or a.

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One-on-one call or something like that.

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I like to make sure that I'm

staying up to date on offering

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things that are serving people and

providing more value for people.

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I know.

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Amber Smith talks about, like, if you

want to make more money than you should

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be providing more value for people.

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And so that's worked really well for me.

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It helps people trust me.

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It helps people get into

my world and new ways.

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It helps me.

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Connect with new people in new ways.

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It's yeah, I'm a huge

believer in mini offers.

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So, , that's the third thing

I like to spend my time on.

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And then number four, I like to

spend time marketing my offers.

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So I usually do that

through Instagram stories.

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Also Instagram posts, sometimes

through workshops or other like minute

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using those mini offers to market.

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Um, a different offer.

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And also on my podcast.

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So there are lots of different ways that.

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I do market my offers, but that's

something that I like to spend time doing.

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And then the fifth thing that I.

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Make sure that I like to have time in

my schedule for is fulfilling any offer.

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So whether that's like actual live

coaching calls or creating social

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media content for people, or.

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Creating trainings that people have.

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Purchased or.

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And holding those workshops that people

have signed up for things like that.

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So like actually fulfilling offers.

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Or kind of with that, like

with my one-on-one clients, I

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offer unlimited Voxer coaching.

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So serving them.

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They're Voxer chatting on

there, things like that.

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I like to brain dump all of the

tasks that I do in my business.

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Or things that I want to

spend time on in my business.

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This is again, just brain dump time.

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. As I was planning out my ideal

schedule for this fall, here are some

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of the things that I wrote down.

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One-on-one coaching calls.

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Uh, serenity workshop.

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I'll be holding once a month.

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Which is a new hybrid.

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Program that I'm launching on

August 20th, where you get a

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one-on-one call with me once a month.

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And then you also.

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Get to yeah.

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Participate in these group

workshops once a month.

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And then some more

things that I wrote down.

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record podcasts, outlined

podcasts, edit podcasts.

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Outline Instagram content.

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Create Instagram content.

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And if I wanted to get

more specific with that.

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Like I create different.

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Types of content.

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So like creating content could mean.

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Filming reels or editing reels

or creating graphics in Canva.

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Like if I wanted to, I could get

really specific on those things.

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I didn't hear, but, and also you

could get really specific on like

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what type of content you're creating,

whether it's content that's meant

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to attract new followers or content.

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That's a mint.

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Two.

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Nurture your current audience

or content that's meant

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too.

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Sell things.

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So, yeah, just.

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Something to be aware of.

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So some more things that I brain dumped

for things that I want to spend time on or

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have time for in my business this season.

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Um, posting to stories and

sometime well, In the past, I

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haven't always like separated out

posting to stories and posting on.

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Like my posts, like creating posts.

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And so that's just something I want

to make sure that I have time for and

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yeah, just be intentional about that.

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I also want to.

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Weekly plan.

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And I also, while I leak weekly

plan, I like to spend some time.

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Reflecting on the previous week and

expressing gratitude and staying in

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that mindset of abundance and believing

that things are working in my business.

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, Responding to Voxer messages

for my private clients.

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I like being social on social media.

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So like responding to comments,

that's something that I'm

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hit or miss on with my posts.

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Uh, responding to DMS on Instagram.

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Writing emails.

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So I'm just going to kind of

insert a little thought here.

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So.

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I created a guide a few months ago.

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Uh, mom's guide to

building a simple business.

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And I talk about how there

are so many more things that I

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could be doing in my business.

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But I intentionally choose not to,

because I don't want to spend any more

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time on my business right now, or.

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Effort or energy, like.

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I just don't want to do

anything extra right now.

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And so.

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Writing emails has not been a

priority for me in the past.

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I feel like it's something

I could pretty easily.

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Do just like.

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I'm already creating podcasts episodes.

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I'm already creating content on Instagram.

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And so I could easily.

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Turn any of those into a quick email.

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So it's something that I would.

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Like to incorporate into my schedule, but.

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I think I'm just trying to decide.

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If and how I want that to look.

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Also things that I want

to spend my time on are.

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Planning trainings for the

serenity, that group program.

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Recording trainings for the serenity

and editing trainings for the serenity.

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So basically.

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If you're part of the serenity, you'll

also get a access to a private podcast

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where you'll get one training a month.

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And so that's also going to be

something that I'm going to have to

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incorporate in my, my weekly plan.

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And then creating new offers.

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I really.

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I love.

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Creating at least one new

mini offer each month.

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To help serve you and to help.

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Continue to serve you in new ways.

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So.

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I've already kind of done this for

myself, but if you haven't yet, After

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you've brain dumped all the things that

you want to do, you could go through and

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be really honest with yourself about.

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What things are a priority for you

to spend time on this season and

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what things you want to set aside

until the next season about every.

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I would say three months or so, kind

of like beginning of this school year.

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Beginning of the new

year, beginning of summer.

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So maybe that's every four months.

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I like to check in and see if

my schedule is working for me.

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Change things up.

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And if things aren't working earlier

than I'll change things earlier, but.

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Basically set those, like write

those down in a specific place.

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Those things that you want to

spend time on, but are not a good.

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Fit for you during this

season and put them.

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My kids are very wild today.

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They're with a babysitter down stairs.

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But they just keep screaming

and it's quite distracting.

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So.

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We will see if we can get

through this episode today.

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But just kind of on that.

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Yeah.

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So just being honest with yourself.

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If it's a good fit for this season.

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So I mentioned.

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Emails, one of those things I'm

kind of trying to decide on.

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Some other things, my website, I.

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Had a website up and

running and all the things.

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And then.

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I just.

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Felt like so much work to keep

it up-to-date that I haven't.

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Prioritized it, and it was also

kind of around the time I was

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switching my business model and

figuring out what I was doing.

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So.

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I have not.

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Kept my website.

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Up-to-date.

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And that's something I would

like to do in the near future.

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And then also.

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I want to redo my branding.

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And that's also something that.

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I'm kind of trying to decide.

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When and how I want to do that.

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A little plug for Rebecca Peterson.

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She is a.

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Brand designer and.

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I would love to work with her.

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Trying to figure out

when I want to do that.

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So just bring dome all of the

things that you want to spend

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your time on in your business.

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And then be honest with yourself.

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About what's realistic for

this season and what's not.

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And, and you can also like

play with this as you start to

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plug things into your schedule.

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But then the next step is to.

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After you've prioritized.

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What's most important.

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Then you can,

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Group certain activities together.

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So like, If you have like admin

work for your website or things like

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that, I'll also something that I.

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I didn't necessarily put on there,

but what also be part of like,

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Yeah, I could've put on there

is like creating sales pages or.

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Creating product pages for when

I'm selling certain things.

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That's.

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Another thing that like I

spend time on in my business.

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So, yeah, you could have grouped

things into like admin work or

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content creation or your podcast, or.

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Live calls with people or.

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Planning trainings or creating offers?

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I don't know, like just group certain.

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Tasks together.

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Is the next step.

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And then also with that, I think

just noting which tasks are.

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Best at certain times, like,

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Planning a training.

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Or planning a podcast like that.

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Deep work thinking that probably

takes my highest brainpower.

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So I'm going to want to

do those types of things.

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Either earlier in the week or.

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As early in the day as possible.

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Coaching calls.

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Those are a lot easier for me.

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To like.

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They still take deep work and

deep thinking, but because they

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have somebody to, to work with and

talk with, it's not as much just

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like digging deep and focusing.

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So that's something I could do.

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At a more flexible time of day,

but I also like I want live

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call or live coaching call.

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I really want my kids I want to have

them with a reliable babysitter.

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I would prefer not to

do it when they could.

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B.

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Coming in or things like that, which

isn't the end of the world either, but

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just, just something that I prefer.

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So make note of those things too.

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Group, the tasks together, and then note.

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What time of day or what.

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Time of the week is best

for those tasks to be done.

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So you've got your brain dump.

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You've got all your tasks.

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You've.

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Prioritized which tasks

are most important.

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You've noted which tasks.

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Take more brain energy, or also, you

could note with that, like which tasks.

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It needs to be quiet.

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Like you prefer a quiet background or you

need to be quiet because people in your

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house or sleeping or things like that,

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and you've set aside, which tasks

are not realistic during this season.

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Then.

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You can.

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Note which tasks follow a weekly

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schedule like things that

you'll do every week.

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So for me.

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Outlining content.

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Creating content for Instagram.

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Outlining a podcast, recording

a podcast, editing a podcast.

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Those are things that I do every week.

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So you can even just note, like

which tasks are daily, weekly.

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Monthly or just occasionally or one time.

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So, no.

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How frequent each task

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needs to be done or

you want it to be done.

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And then I would go through and just

be really honest with yourself with,

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about how long you want for each task.

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And this is something that's.

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Really key because.

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Hate the first time I like

made my ideal schedule.

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I was.

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Trying to do a ridiculous amount of

things in a very short period of time.

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And I couldn't figure out why it

could never get anything done, but

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I wasn't being honest with how long.

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Things were going to take.

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If I'm putting out a.

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40 minute podcast.

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I can't expect it to take only 40

minutes to outline, record and edit

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the podcast if that makes sense.

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So just things like that, be honest

with your time, but also I've also

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found like, However much time I

give myself that's how much time

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it's going to take to do something.

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So if I give myself.

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An hour to create one post.

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I will take an hour creating one post.

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If I give myself.

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10 minutes to create one post.

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I will create a post in 10 minutes.

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So, so just finding that

balance of being honest with

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how long things take, but also.

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Practicing.

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Being imperfect in your work.

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Offering things that are not perfect.

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Selling guides that aren't perfect.

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Putting out podcast episodes

that aren't perfect.

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Things like that.

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It, I feel like that's been a huge

thing for me for actually moving

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the needle in my business is.

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Lowering my standard for the

type of work that I put out,

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which is probably not like what.

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Somebody would, should tell you

like what I should tell you to do,

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but I think glowing lowering your

standard can actually help you.

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Move the needle in your business more.

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Okay.

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So once you have the time of about

how much time each task might take.

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You have them grouped together.

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You haven't prioritized.

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All the things, then you can start

plugging them in your schedule.

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So I made a custom business bullet

journal with Krista Kirkham and

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each month she has set up for me

a place to plan out my ideal week.

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And so.

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I like to write in.

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The hours that I have dedicated for work.

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And just kind of shade those in.

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And then I, and I like to have

the times where I'm like, this is

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like my like focused work time.

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This is my.

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Flexible work time.

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And then this is my like, not work time.

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I like to have that written in there.

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And then, then I can

start plugging tasks in.

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So I like to spend one hour each week.

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Outlining.

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Content for my Instagram.

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And so like, Specifically.

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Writing down exactly what the post

is going to say so that I don't

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have to spend an hour searching

for a good audio or searching for

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a good hook or trying to figure out

how I can make it apply to my knit.

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Like.

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I just spend one hour a week.

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Saying a prayer asking God to help me.

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What I should share with

my audience that week.

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And then.

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Writing it all out.

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So then day by day when I create

the content, it's so fast because

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I've already written it out.

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So I've decided to that on.

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Mondays, because that also takes quite

a bit of brain power for me to decide

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what I want to say., And I'd like to

do that at the beginning of my week.

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So it's all ready to go.

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So Monday's.

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While my kids.

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Our napping is my current plan

for what I'm going to do that.

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And then.

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I've also planned to do.

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Everything with my podcast on Wednesdays

because episodes release on Wednesdays.

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And so the week prior I'll plan to.

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Outline the podcast, record the

podcast, edit the podcast and

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get it all up, uploaded and ready

to go for the following week.

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I like to do it on a week by week basis.

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I know some people like to

batch their podcast and like,

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The record a bunch at once.

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Aye.

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That has never worked for me.

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Same with like batching.

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Creating social media content.

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Like I guess I batch outline,

but I don't like to batch create

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for most things anyways.

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And then I've also decided.

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On Wednesdays because I'll have

nap time and I'll have one of my

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babysitters here on Wednesdays.

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So that's also when I'm planning to.

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Do something related to the

monthly training for the serenity.

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So either.

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Plan out the training actually record

the training or edit the training.

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I'll do that on Wednesdays as

well., so that's like my podcast.

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Day, both.

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My public podcast and

then the private podcast.

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And then

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the other thing that I've plugged

in here that I want to make sure to

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do at the same time every week is.

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Weekly plan and.

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=Reflect.

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Take time to reflect and express

gratitude and just kind of journal

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about how the, how the week went.

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And that's something that Krista

helped me incorporate in my.

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Bullet journal as a place to do that.

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Like two weeks to reflect and

express gratitude each week

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So with that, I kind of left a lot

of open space in my ideal schedule.

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For this fall currently, I may find

a rhythm and a system that works and

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plug more things in, but I just wanted

to say like, you don't have to have

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every minute of every day planned out.

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If that doesn't work for you.

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For me.

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I like to have a F those really only those

three things are like in place right now.

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When I'm going to outline content

when I'm gonna do my podcast and

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when I'm going to weekly plan.

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Because I, I actually

prefer doing a lot of

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my planning for the week on a week

by week basis., for a few reasons.

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So.

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I like to keep all of my.

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Times when my babysitter's here.

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Open for people to sign

up for coaching calls.

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Whether that's my one-on-one

clients or that's.

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Sometimes I'll do.

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Free calls here and there or.

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Things like that.

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I like to leave space for

people to sign up for things.

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So if somebody signs up for a time on.

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Let's say Monday afternoon

when my babysitter's here.

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Then I'll plan to do more of

my work on Friday afternoon.

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:

So just like, I know some people

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only designate like a certain

number of hours per week.

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For coaching calls and then

they have other days designated

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for doing other work.

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I like to just keep all of them open

that's what's worked well for me.

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So then I'm going to kind of get

into the third part of this episode.

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And that's.

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Actually planning on a week by week basis.

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Let me make sure that I

didn't miss anything for the

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planning, your ideal week.

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One sec.

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A few more notes on planning

out your ideal week.

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If you're feeling burnt out in your

business or your find that you're

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kind of dreading doing your work.

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I would.

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Plan more days off and designate

more times not to work.

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And then cut out any fluff that

you're doing in your business

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that you're spending your time on.

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And so for me, anything that

I don't love doing, that's

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not totally filling me up and.

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Filling my soul.

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I'll find a way to eliminate that.

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Or.

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Hired out.

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Or.

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Just stop doing it.

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Or make it less.

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do it less or if you're

doing anything that's.

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Not making you money.

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Then don't spend time on that so that

you have more time to just focus on

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yourself as a person or those things in

your business that you do want to do.

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And generally speaking, I,

I believe less is better.

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Simpler is better.

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There are probably a lot of

things that you might be spending

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time on your business that you

really don't need to be doing.

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It's better to just focus your.

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Your time and your energy on

a few things and trying to.

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Be everywhere or do everything

or learn everything.

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Okay.

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Let's getting to the

actual, weekly planning.

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So.

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Each week I like to choose a focus.

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Like what is my main purpose this week?

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Is it two.

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Promote a certain mini offer.

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Is it too?

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Establish my expertise in a certain area.

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Is it too?

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Create connections with people.

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And like I said, like, You're

probably doing these things.

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Kind of all the time, like they

all interact with each other,

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but I just like to choose.

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A a focus for that week.

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And then.

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I like to write out all the things

that I want to get done that week, that

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aren't already in my ideal schedule.

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. I like to look at my ideal schedule.

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See if it works that week.

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For example, I'm planning to do.

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Everything related to my

podcast on Wednesdays.

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If I realize my babysitter is going

to be gone on this Wednesday, can I

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need to pick a new day to do that?

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Cause that's not going to work.

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Then.

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Right out all of the things that I.

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Want to do that week.

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The more specific, the better.

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So like, if I just say

like create content.

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Okay.

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What does that actually mean?

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I create a post about.

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Yada, yada, yada, create

a post about Yetta.

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Yeah.

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Post on my stories.

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To promote yada yada.

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Like.

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The more specific, the better, or like

respond to these specific people about.

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The specific thing.

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, you can go a little crazy with this and

you can play with what works for you.

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But when in doubt, get more

specific because I have found that.

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If I have my work time and

I go to work and it says,

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Create a mini offer.

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I'm like, how do I do that?

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Like, what does that even mean?

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But I, if I have really specifically

on my to-do list for that

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week, brainstorm specific pain

points that my audience is having.

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That's a lot easier for my brain

to be like, oh yeah, I can do that.

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Things like that.

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And then, so.

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Yeah, I'll just say this as your like,

brain dumping your tasks for the week.

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Break them down into.

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Smaller tasks.

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Especially, . On that weekly level

or also on that daily level, if you

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get to the beginning of your day and

you're like, this feels overwhelming.

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:

Break it down.

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So then once you have all of your

tasks for the week, I like to choose.

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A couple non-negotiables.

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Because in an ideal world,

I would get them all done.

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That's not always realistic.

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And so I just like to plug in okay.

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Like, When in doubt, if I get this

done, I am successful this week.

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I have done what I needed

to do in my business.

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And so.

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After I've.

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Establishment non-negotiables and

I've written down all the little mini

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tasks that I want to do for that week.

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Then I'd like to plug

them into my schedule.

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So it'll say like, Okay, I'll do this.

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During nap time on Tuesday, all the,

this while my babysitter's here on.

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Friday, I'll do this every evening.

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You know, I like to

respond to Voxer messages.

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Most evening.

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So I'll do that.

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Each evening after my kids go to bed,

things like that, just like plug in

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when you're going to do specific tasks.

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I've done different things with this,

but., just making sure that you have the

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space for the things that you want to do.

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And then.

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Also being okay.

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If you don't get things done.

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And I said this earlier, but like

establishing times that you don't work.

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I think it's really healthy to

have a deadline for the evening.

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Like K if I haven't.

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Gotten what I wanted to done

by 10 o'clock, then I'm done.

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Or even if I have things to do, and

it's Tuesday night when I said I wasn't

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going to work, I'm not going to work.

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And of course you're in charge.

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:

You get to choose, but just.

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:

, being okay with not getting

everything done in your business.

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But I do feel like the more intentionally

am with designated work times and.

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Getting really specific about which

tasks I'm going to do when, and

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being honest with myself about how

long those tasks are going to take.

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That's helped me too.

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:

Plan my work week out.

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In a better way.

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Okay.

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I feel like this was kind of a lot.

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As a recap, we talked about.

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How to.

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Side when you're going to work.

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Designating.

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Work hours and designating non-work hours.

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And then also.

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How to plan out your ideal workweek

with the, especially with those tasks or

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:

types of tasks that repeat every week.

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And you want to make sure that

you have time for and prioritize.

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And then.

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:

Planning your week on a,

on a week to week basis.

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:

Please reach out.

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If you have any questions on

how I do this or what this looks

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like, or, if I missed anything.

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:

Feel free to reach out.

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:

I've gotten quite a bit of feedback about

last week's episode that you do, like

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this kind of content that you like, the.

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:

The planning and how I plan

my week and things like that.

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So,

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I will plan to.

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Occasionally create episodes like this

that are more about like, Planning

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and scheduling and organizing and

prioritizing and things like that.

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But if you're in the camp that

this stuff is kind of boring to you

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again, this is my invitation to you.

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Feel free to reach out and

be like, Not my favorite.

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I like when you talk about.

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This episode or whatever, just share.

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What, what kind of content you do?

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Like that's more helpful for you?

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Because.

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Whatever feedback I get.

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That's what I'm going to lean

into is creating content that

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actually helps you and serves you.

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Mindful with Media
This is the podcast for entrepreneurial moms who want to grow a meaningful, profitable business without sacrificing their other priorities (like spending time with their kids or getting enough sleep).

Host Alex Fales—business coach, mindset mentor, and mom—shares honest conversations, simple strategies, and powerful mindset shifts to help you and make money doing work you love and grow as a person while you're at it.

Expect solo episodes, authentic chats, and real-life stories that help you blend business strategy with personal growth, so you can build a business that supports your life (not the other way around).

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