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Complete Beats Perfect Any Day As An Entrepreneur

Complete Beats Perfect Any Day As An Entrepreneur

by | Online Business

Are you caught in a trap that you can't put your work out there into the online business world until it's perfect? Why? Who says it’s not perfect? Really what exactly is perfect anyways? What if you started to believe that complete beats perfect.

Check the boxes

Do you want to know why complete is better than perfect? Well, of course, you do. I know you do.

Here’s what I mean if you're waiting for some version of perfect, more than likely you’re still tinkering around with something you’re aspiring to create.

When you set the bar too high on the first go around it may never actually be finished in your eyes.

The sad thing is that newer entrepreneurs don’t realize you’ll never actually get it complete and you’ll never put it out there into to make an impact.

Complete Beats Perfect

How do I know? Silly, that was me when I started my entrepreneurship. It’s not perfect was my go-to excuse when I wasn’t ready to release my blog post, social media post, my offer, opt-in, the list can go on and on. Guess what happened, those thoughts kept me safe from judgment. The result? Nothing, but a whole lot of back and forth in my mind cause my own inner critic was way worse than anyone else.

Complete beats Perfect

Take the leap of faith

What if you take the leap of faith, and trust that God has you’re back? That’s what I had to do.

I had to believe that I could be an entrepreneur. I had to believe in myself, I had to believe enough for my husband who kindly supported me in the first few years when I fumbled around.

Here’s my big secret, my mantra.

Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action.

What is perfect?

But, here’s the thing and I've said it time and time again, my idea of perfect and your idea of perfect are two different things.

What?

You guessed it we both have two different perceptions and ideas on what perfect should be.

So what is my point? What are you not getting done or putting out there because you feel it's not up to your standard?

Someone else shoes

For a minute put yourself in someone elses shoes.

What if your offer as it is right now is what your dream client is needing.

Do you find that the right people are brought to you at the right time for where you are in your business?

When you stop getting tangled up in the little thing, running a business is a heck of a lot easier.

Shift from perfect

What if you shifted your mindset to consider everything as a work in progress? Instead of holding back, putting it out into the world as the starting point, and be satisfied adopt the thinking complete beats perfect.

Here is the magic, give yourself permission for revisions.

Doesn't it feel different to look at it from a new perspective? When you giving yourself permission for revisions, it changes your thinking.

It shifts your thinking on how you want to actually do and achieve those goals and projects.

Why not test it for yourself. Get curious and put something out there when it's almost perfect. Take the feedback and revise it to be better than before. Everything in business is a work in progress and complete beats perfect.

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Little Side Note

Where are you getting tangled up in your life and business? When we get tangled up in all the little things it gets us out of balance. Doing B work is still considered above average, amiright?

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Why completion is better than perfect.
  • If you’re striving for perfect then you’re still tinkering around with whatever you’re working on and it will never be finished to your satisfaction.
  • Get it done, put it out there.
  • Business is easy when you take messy imperfection action, is my mantra.
  • I've said this time and time again my idea of perfect could be really different than your idea of perfect.
  • Stop trying so hard, make it easy on yourself
  • What if you considered everything a work in progress?
  • Does that change your thinking?

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Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

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Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

by | Online Business

When I started my business in 2016, one of the first things I did was research how do I turn my idea into an online business? My idea was to work from home as a virtual assistant. I researched all the things such as; writing a business plan, figure out your niche, who is your ideal client, what services you want to provide, the list goes on and on. All the information can be overwhelming. How do you turn your idea into an online business?

My struggle

As a newbie to the online world and entrepreneurship, I thought that I had a really good idea for my work-from-home business I went out and did all the hard stuff that turns out was the way easy stuff.

I did all the research on the competitors that were offering similar services.

I spent extensive time building a business plan. I invested in online learning. I thought I had everything figured out logistically such as contracts, invoices, proposals, software all the things like that I needed to onboard the clients and make an impact.

Don’t get me wrong, those pieces are essential when you turn an idea into an online business. As it turns out, I also believe those are the easy part of starting your online business.

Yes, I do know that sounds crazy. But stay with me here, the actual hard part is getting out of your own way. That was my struggle when it came to turning my idea into an online business.

I can almost hear you thinking what the heck is she even talking about. The problem was as a new online entrepreneur I let my monkey minds get in the way of the things that I wanted to achieve in my online business.

No Stones Coming From Here

If you are experiencing the monkey mind, let me assure you that no stones will be coming from this direction, LOL. You see it takes one to know one, am I right?

This was me when I started out going from an employee to an entrepreneur. I did all those things, all those easy things. Thinking they were the hard things.

Here’s the main issue with that, doesn’t matter how fabulous your business plan is or your onboarding process if you do not have the confidence to put yourself out there and find clients that need the services you are offering.

Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

All the things

If you take months to get everything on the back end figured out, you have zero money coming into the business. That’s the problem.

How do you even know if people want what you have to offer?

The solution is simple, start with a beta test for your idea.

When you start with a beta, it allows you to figure out if there is actual interest in your offer.

Here’s why it’s important to validate your offer, you will bring money in the door and it builds your confidence to actually provide that service or create that course.

With a beta, you’ll figure out if you’re on the right track. Are you giving people what they actually want versus what you think they want? Because they are truly two different things.

Stops the Worry

Because the thing is when you build that confidence piece of what you have to offer, your idea is desirable for people.

This my Friend, in turn, helps you to not worry.

Worry about saying the wrong thing, worry about putting the wrong social posts out on social media, worrying about all those things that come along when you aren't confident in what you're doing, what you’re saying, and putting out there in the world.

The hard part to Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

The hard part is when you're just getting started and you do not have that confidence to getting out there and tell others about your offer.

The hard part is staying focused when you hear no to your idea.

It feels so personal. But, it is not. It is the feedback to tweak how you are presenting your idea to others.

It's having the confidence to keep going even when you do not get the yes.

Fortunately for me, as a former sales rep, I understood that you have to get a lot of no before you hear a yes.

As long as you have the confidence that you have a solution to a problem. You don't have to worry about any of the other things.

The result of worry will get you absolutely nowhere to turn an idea into an online business. It will only keep you stuck in worry and questioning if you're doing the right thing or not.

Say You Can

Guess what, I believe in you, I know that you can go out and have the confidence to turn an idea into an online business.

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Little Side Note

I have a mean girl, how about you?
I can hear her whisper to me anytime that I’m having doubts in regards to my ability. She is attempting to keep me safe, really she only keeps me stuck.
Because I know that I’m a mean girl, I’m able to do the work need to shut her down to change my thinking about myself. If you’re a new online entrepreneur, this work is essential to your success.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • I researched all the things such as; writing a business plan, figure out your niche, who is your ideal client, what services you want to provide, the list goes on and on.
  • I found out that the actual hard part is getting out of your own way.
  • It doesn’t matter how fabulous your business plan is or your onboarding process if you do not have the confidence to put yourself out there and find clients that need the services you are offering.
  • If you take months to get everything on the back end figured out, you have zero money coming into the business. That’s the problem.
  • How do you even know if people want what you have to offer?
  • Because the thing is when you build that confidence piece of what you have to offer, your idea is desirable for people.
  • The hard part is when you're just getting started and you do not have that confidence to getting out there and tell others about your offer.
  • The hard part is staying focused when you hear no to your idea.
  • Get your offer out there!
Quarterly Review & Planning

Quarterly Review & Planning

by | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Oh my goodness, quarterly planning is one of my favorite things to do. Let’s go ahead and step through a quarterly review and planning! Why are these days so important for your online business? Because what you focus on improves. Taking a few hours each quarter to review the previous quarter and plan for the next gets you out of the day-to-day and strategically focused on growing your business. 

If you’d like here is the perfect opportunity to download my planner. It will walk you through this!

This is non-negotiable! 
 

You must have enough time set aside for reviewing and planning your quarters. Block off two hours on your CEO day to get this done, preferably before the end of the quarter. However, this can be done at any 90 Day increment. Copy and paste the link for this blog into your calendar event. (: 

Set the tone

Grab a cup of coffee, water, or your drink of choice. Also, have a timer handy you’ll want that. If you don’t have a timer, simply Google the word timer, and one will pop up in the browser.  

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Limit your distractions

Turn off all the distractions because it's time to get focused on your online business. Let me elaborate, turn off your notifications, put your phone in do not disturb mode, and close all the application and browser windows. 

If your business growth is unimportant to you, then who is it important to? Put on your CEO hat and be the person your future self will be proud of. (: 

Unlock the Secret to Business Growth: Learn How to Plan Your Next Quarter!

Start with Reflection

Now, this is important for your quarterly review and planning to begin reflecting on where you’re coming from in your business. You need to look back to look forward. 

I can almost hear you thinking, what the heck do I reflect on?  No problem, I’ve got you. 

What worked really well?

What are the areas of improvement?

Umm, total feedback – not doing that again!

Woohoo, review your win jar (in case no one has told you lately YOU’RE AMAZING, just sayin’)

Did you achieve your quarterly goal? If not, why? 

Are you on track to hit your yearly goals? 

Reflect on this last quarter, this last month, this last year, your whole time in business, whatever pops into your head. 

Go ahead now, and set the timer for five or ten minutes, whatever you feel comfortable doing. Grab your journal or notebook and get to writing. 

Mind Sweep

Stay with me now; I want you to do a mind sweep and get all of your thoughts that are distracting you out on that paper. This provides for a clear mind while you’re planning. With a mind sweep, it lets your brain know that all your thoughts are in a safe place and you don't need to worry about them while we're moving forward in the quarterly review and your next quarter planning. 

Revisit Your Vision

Moving on with our review, what's your vision? Pull that out and read it. 

What if you do not have a vision? Now is a perfect time to write one out. 

Does your vision feel in alignment with you still? Do you feel like, oh, yeah, that's my vision! 

That's exactly where I'm going. 

Your original vision for your business, is it still where you're heading now that you've grown as an entrepreneur?

Bottom line, does your vision still feel in alignment with you? Great. 

Let's put your vision on paper; what are your three-year and one-year goals?

If it's the same, beautiful. Write it out exactly the same and step into your future self that is already living the vision of your business. 

Pause and set your timer for about five minutes. 

What is your vision for the next 90 days? Pause and tap into your vision of how the next 90 days will go in your business. 

What are your goals? 

What goals do you want to achieve for the next quarter, the next six months, and the next year? Whatever it is, you can achieve them! 

 

This is where I really want you to focus. What is your goal for the next quarter? 

Will what you what to accomplish in the next quarter will push you toward your one-year goal? 

Here’s what I mean, if what you want to accomplish in the next quarter will not directly impact your one-year goal, that is pushing your business towards your vision. 

Ask yourself, why am I trying to accomplish this goal when it is not in alignment with my vision? 

As a follow-up question, would achieving this goal make you feel like you’re living your good life?

Get that timer going! You may want a bit more time for this one. 

The next thing, what do you want more of in your life and business?

For example, would you be on cloud nine if you were to do this daily in your life and business? What is it? What do you want more of in your life and business? That will make you feel like, yeah, this feels wonderful. 

Now, knowing what you want to do less in your life and business is important. The problem is there are things that you're doing that you don't need to be doing that drain your energy. 

What are those? Go ahead and write them out. Here’s why that’s important those draining tasks will be the items we look at potentially outsourcing to somebody else that would not find it draining.

And the best part is it will preserve your energy for things only you can do in your business as an entrepreneur.  

Those tasks draining your energy and focus need to get off your plate if you hope to grow your business to six figures. 

What is that? What can someone else do for you? 

Circling back to your goals, what would make you jump up and down with joy if you were to achieve them? Or have it happen? Or come across? What would that be? 

Don’t forget what your top three personal, financial, and business goals that you have for the next quarter are. 

Here’s how to filter your goals

Now, this is the kicker; this is the goal-filtering question I ask my clients.  

Read those goals that you just wrote down for your life, your business, and your finance. 

Looking at those goals and ask yourself, are you committed? Are you committed to those goals? By committing, are you willing to devote two hours a day to achieving those goals? If not, they are not meaningful to you. 

Map out important dates

Time to pull out the calendar. What dates do you need to plan around?

Here’s why this is important when planning out how to reach your goal. You’ll reverse engineer from the end date. You need to understand you’re runway. If you have two weeks out of the office for a vacation that will play a huge factor in getting stuff done.

Block all the time you’ll be out of the office. In your paper planner, you can use stickers or wasabi tape to make it fun.

  • Vacation Days
  • Important Kid Events
  • Holidays
  • Launch Dates

Breakdown the Goal

Here’s how it works, in order for the goal to be a success, there must be a commitment to follow through.

This is plain and simple, you can hope all day to reach your goal. Here’s the bottom line, if you’re not committed to creating a plan, following through, and taking action you will not have success. This is accountability Friend!

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution it’s breaking down the goal into a plan by figuring out who, what, when.

This is actually breaking down the project. Digging in and figuring out what needs to be done, who will get the work done, and when it needs to be done. You may need to figure out the where too if it needs a physical location.

👊 Quick Tip: With the project plan, depending on how much needs to get done creating this in a spreadsheet and importing it into a project management system can be a lot easier and faster.

Business Pulse

The final thing, what is your business pulse? What I mean what are the numbers telling you about your business? Do you have a healthy thriving business? Or do you have areas that need to be focused on in the next quarter?

If you’re not tracking your numbers weekly or monthly, do that now. What gets measured gets improved. Here are a few common stats.

  • Website Traffic
  • Email Subscribers
  • Engagement
  • Number of Clients

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Looking back is the best way to move forward.
  • Are you still in alignment with your vision?
  • What are you actually committed to doing?
  • Add all the important out of office dates to your calendar
  • Create a plan and commit to your success
  • How do you know you’ve improved without having a business pulse with all your numbers?
  • Go get ’em, tiger! You’ve got this.
  • Schedule time on your calendar for your NEXT quarterly review and planning.