How To Be Your Own Cheerleader In Your Online Business

How To Be Your Own Cheerleader In Your Online Business

by | Online Business

I'm not sure about you. But growing up I was taught to encourage others and to downplay my own accomplishments. While I do believe encouraging others is important, I also believe you need to be your own cheerleader.

Be Proud Of Your Accomplishments

I’m sure you’re with me on this one, encouraging and cheering on others brings joy to leadership. But here’s the thing, is it okay to downplay your own success?

Let me ask you, is it really prideful to be proud of your accomplishments?

But what if it simply means that you believing in yourself when you cheer on your own accomplishments?

So which is it? What perspective do you want to look at it from?

Now, this is important I feel you’re believing in yourself when you pause and take the time to cheer on your accomplishments!

Why Be Proud, You Ask

C’mon Friend, you and I both know not everyone achieves the goals that they set. Heck, not everyone will even set a goal.

When you set goals and achieving them, that can be hard. Not everybody has the ability to follow through and take the goal to the finish line.

That can be extremely hard when you run an online business.

So why not be your own cheerleader?

How To Be Your Own Cheerleader In Your Online Business

I challenge you to Be Your Own Cheerleader

So what do you do when you have no one to cheer you on?

You guessed it, be your own cheerleader!

When you have no one to build you up and encourage you to keep going when running an online business feels really challenging. It's okay. Be your own cheerleader.

When your family and friends may not get the whole online business world and hold you down when you should be soaring. Well, you need to be your own cheerleader.

Cheer, Friend when nobody else does.

Be The Voice

Here’s the bottom line you need to make sure that you believe in yourself.

You need to make sure that you're being confident, and you need to be your own cheerleader in your business and in your life.

Because I can tell you, you're not going to always have that encouraging voice in your ears, you need to make sure that you're that encouraging voice.

Take time to celebrate the accomplishments, be your own cheerleader.

The problem is online entrepreneurs rarely take time to slow down and pop the bubbly and celebrate.

Instead, they move quickly to the next goal all that hurry without cheering will drain your energy.

Do You? 

Hey, I throw no stones here, I speak first hand. I get it. Taking time to step back and truly celebrate accomplishments. Who has time for that? 

Then it finally dawned on me, I was not taking the time to really be my own cheerleader. 

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution be your own cheerleader. 

But there’s a catch, you need to cheer on the little things too not just the big thing! 

Every day should have at least one win, one thing to cheer. It's critical and it's important.

Today, I hope that you take the time to be your own cheerleader.

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Little Side Note

How To Be Your Own Cheerleader In Your Online Business

✁ Just a Snippet

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

  • Not sure about you, but I was taught to encourage others and downplay my own accomplishments.
  • To cheer for others, but not my own success.
  • Really is it prideful to be proud of our accomplishments?
  • Or is it simply believe in ourselves when we cheer for our accomplishments?
  • Setting goals and achieving them that can be hard. Why not be your own cheerleaders?
  • What do you do when you have no one to cheer you on? Be your own cheerleader.
  • What do you do when you have no one to build you up and encourage you to keep going when running an online business feels challenging. Be your own cheerleader.
  • When your family and friends may not get the whole online business world and hold you down when you should soar. Be your own cheerleader.
  • Cheerleaders cheer when no one else does.
  • Believe in yourself. Be confident. Be Your Own Cheerleader.
Creating a winning record in online business

Creating a winning record in online business

by | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Working closely with online entrepreneurs I understand firsthand that checking the done box is not all that exciting to them. Why is this a problem? Missing deadlines leads to issues with achieving a goal and/or finishing an important revenue-generating project on time. I know what you’re thinking how do you making it task completion exciting? The solution is simply creating a winning record in online business.

Stay with me here I'm not necessarily talking about the number of leads, or the number of offers, or the number of clients, that's not what I'm talking about with creating a winning record in online business.

In The Game

I spend a great deal of time at sporting events and talking about sporting events because my kids loving playing sports in school. And that's great. I love it. I love it. I love it.

Prior to any game, we discuss the record of the opponent, along with who they played and the individual statistic of the players. Y’all numbers tell stories.

This got me thinking about how do you keep track of a winning record in online business? To gauge how things are going. Look at it from a different angle, besides the everyday metrics which cause a glazed-over look in the eyes of almost every online entrepreneur I know.

Why is this important in your business?

You must be wondering why is this important, how does this relate to creating a winning record in an online business, and it's pretty simple.

Let me break this down for you if an action item is completed on time it’s a clear win. If it’s not completed on time it’s a clear loss. Pretty simple right!

And here's the thing as an online business owner you play an important role in taking a project across the finish line or achieving a business goal. Those action items aren’t always exciting to the owner.

Creating a winning record in online business

Break it down

In order to achieve a goal, it needs to be broken down into action items. The same thing in order to complete a project, it needs to be broken down into action items, everything that you're doing and trying to accomplish in an online business needs to be broken down into action items.

If your online business is not at a place where you can hire a project manager or OBM to figure out the project plan for you, this is how you’d figure out the action items for yourself.

Begin with a mind sweep of all of the possible action items that you need to either complete the project, reach the goal, do whatever it is that you need to get done in your online business.

Next, you put those actions in order how they need to be completed.

Start with the end date in mind, working backward from the last action to the first action begin to assign a completion date.

If you want to reach this goal by x date, then you're going to work backward on your timeline assigning dates.

Note, this is important if you haven't done that action before make sure you overestimate the amount of time it will take to complete. Add a little buffer.

When I’m breaking down a plan if I feel it will take a team member 3 hours to complete, I’ll estimate it to take 6 hours, always double up that time.

I can almost hear you thinking, what about Parkinson's Law? The old adage that work expands to fill the time allotted.

Still, I’ve found it’s better to have the extra buffer time than asking a team of contractors to find more time in their already full calendars. If it takes less time, great! Getting a bit of extra time in a project is super exciting, guaranteed you’ll find something else that you can fill it with.

Creating a Winning Record

You must be wondering how do you create a winning record in your online business?

Here’s how it works for every action that you complete on time is considered a win.

And every action that doesn’t get completed on time and on the due date, that's considered a loss, boohoo.

I’m a Notion enthusiast for almost all of my task management, I’ve added two fields one for the win and one for the loss. To figure out my record at the end of the week or the end of the month I filter on the date range in a table view and sum the total at the bottom.

Here's my suggestion on how you can go ahead and track to make sure that you actually have a winning record, because what you track actually improves.

If you have a project management system that allows for custom fields, then create a win field, and a loss field. You could also use the same field and either give yourself a 1 or -1, depending on if your win or loss.

If you're not using a project management system that allows for custom fields you can create a spreadsheet with your action items with a column for your wins and a column for your loss. Summing them up at the bottom for the record.

What does creating a winning recond tell you

Creating a winning record will shine a light if action items are getting completed on time or if action items aren’t getting completed on time.

Occasionally things come up and the action item isn’t completed by the actual deadline or due date. The keyword is occasionally.

If the record has more losses than wins, it’s time to take a look at what’s going on inside the online business to cause this.

That’s valuable information to use and improve on the record.

Is creating a winning record something you’d like in your online business?

How fun is this little spin on getting action items done? I'd love to hear if you found this beneficial.

So go ahead and leave me a comment below if you did. Thank you and I appreciate you have a wonderful day.

l

Little Side Note

With action items, it's essential as the business owner to only be working on action items that ONLY you can do. Can the action be done by someone else?

✁ Just a Snippet

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

  • Feel like creating a winning record in your online business?
  • This inspiration came from the many sporting events and discussions we have in our household.
  • This got me thinking about creating a winning record in online business.
  • What could be a simple way of creating a winning record in online business?
  • Give yourself a win when you complete the action item on time, a loss if you do not.
  • Yes, see simple right.
  • Here is the thing, in order to achieve a goal it needs to be broke down into action items.
  • If you do not have a project manager or OBM to do this for you, begin with a mind sweep of every action possible to reach the goal.
  • Put each action in order by how they need to be completed.
  • Every action item that is completed on time is a win! Woohoo.
  • Every action item that is not completed on time is a loss. Boohoo.
  • After you've reached your goal, you'll have a Win-Loss record that you can improve on for the next goal. (:
Online Entrepreneur Stop Switching Your Offer

Online Entrepreneur Stop Switching Your Offer

by | Online Business

What do you do when something is not working in your online business? For example, let's say you have a launch on a new course that you've created or a done-for-you service that you offer, and it's not doing as well as you’d like, you're completely hearing crickets. Now, this is important. I'm going to tell you to stop switching your offer when something doesn't work for you, the first time.

For the love, Stop Switching Your Offer

Stop switching your offer when it doesn't work the first time, instead take that feedback and use it to launch the offer better than next time.
Stick with me here, because we only become good at something when we keep trying, tweaking, and offer it over and over again. While taking that feedback from the launch and improving upon it.

Figure Out Why

Now, I know what you’re thinking, it's not working, absolutely no one was interested in your offer, it will be much easier to start all over again.

That’s not true stop switching your offer. After each launch, you should debrief and look at the feedback and tweak it to generate interest.

I’m guessing you took care in selecting your offer in the beginning. You’re offering a course or service that you love right?

Launching something new can be a challenge, don’t give up after one attempt because you're going to become better and better and better every single time you launch your offer.

This is not groundbreaking we become good at things, and an expert at things that we keep doing over and over and over again.

It all boils down to this stop switching your offer. That will be even more confusing to your audience.

Stop Switching Your Offer

Believe it or not

Do you still not believe me? Well, you need to think about this, our natural instinct is to keep trying, even when it doesn't feel like it works the first time.

Here's a prime example for any parents out there.

Think back to when your children were babies, and they were starting to walk and talk did they get it the first time? No!

But, here’s the thing they kept trying, they didn't stop, they kept trying until they actually mastered walking and talking.

And that’s what I mean that tells us that our natural instinct is to keep trying, even when it doesn't work the first time.

Only a few

I’d like to point out it is only in a few situations that I would say, Oh, hold on sister, maybe you need to stop that.

Those are the situation that could be physically harming you, emotionally, or mentally, that would be the only situation where I would tell you to stop.

In Online Business

Here is the thing in your online business when it doesn't work the first time around, that is just feedback that you can use to make it better than next time around.

So at your next launch, you will know that you need to do X, Y, and Z instead of A, B, and C.

I’ll say it again you only become an expert when you keep doing it, meaning stop switching your offer.

When you take your launch debrief information and use that feedback you will do even better than next time.

Your Desire

Let me point out that desire to switch or to stop. That's your brain trying to pull you back into comfort.

What most people don’t realize when you're pushing yourself outside your comfort zone you do not feel safe, it’s scary and your brain is going to keep you safe every single time.

But that's okay because the more and more you do it, the better and better you'll get the more comfortable and the safer and safer you'll feel as you're launching your offer.

Today, I encourage you to stop switching and keep on with your offer and take that feedback and make it better.

Stop Switching Your Offer

✁ Just a Snippet

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

  • Stop switching your offer when something didn't work for you the first time.
  • We only become good at something when we keep trying to do it and improve upon it
  • Our natural instinct IS to keep trying even when it doesn't work the first time.
    Here is something I'd like you to think about. Does a baby give up on walking when they fall down the first time, no they keep trying until they master walking! That tells you our natural instinct is to keep trying even when it doesn't work the first time. Only in a few situations would I tell you to hold up on trying, that would be if it is harmful to you physically, emotional,ly or mentally to keep going then stop it. But, that's very different than
  • When it doesn't work the first time that's just feedback to use to make it better the next time around. We only become an expert when we keep doing and use the feedback to do it better the next time.
  • You may be switching because your brain is trying to pull you back to comfortable