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Goals Are Reached In the Daily Doing

Goals Are Reached In the Daily Doing

by | Goals

Years ago the Vice President of Sales asked the sales team at a retreat, “How do we reach our quota?”. He paused and listened to our responses, and went on to say, the same way you eat an elephant. Bite by Bite. Whether it is launching a new product, staying consistent with marketing, reaching a financial goal, or whatever else you’re trying to achieve it will be reached in the daily doing.

Miss Task

I love the name that I gave my business when I started out in 2016. When I was naming my business I wanted something short and sweet, easy to remember, and simple to Google.

But, what it means to me is something more, I see it as do not miss a task. If we are going to reach the goal we need to not skip over or miss the necessary tasks that need to be done. This is the daily doing. The daily doing doesn’t need to be done by the online entrepreneur, but it needs to be done by someone on the team.

In fact, I would encourage you to hire that part-time VA for just a few hours a week, it is a mindset shift that feels very empowering.

Easy Road

How do we stop ourselves from taking the easy road? While my mantra this year is “Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action” to me that doesn’t mean taking the easy road and skipping the daily doing.

It means that I will do the job to the best of my abilities for who I am right now. How you do one thing is how you do everything.

As online entrepreneurs, if we are so busy that we feel we need to cut corners to get everything done, is the corner-cutting setting your business up for future success?

I’m going to tell you, it will not. You’ll get to a point that you’ll regret that corner-cutting because something will break. And it will be a time monster to find and fix the issue.

Leadership

As an Online Business Manager, a key piece of my role in an online business is managing the team. My areas of expertise that I bring to my clients are leadership, metrics, planning, and organization. These are skills that I commit to cultivating.

Skill development is a daily doing that is a non-negotiable in my schedule. It is part of my morning routine. Gathering knowledge.

Goals Are Reached In the Daily Doing

Recently, during my morning knowledge-gathering, I came upon this article on self-leadership by Jenni Carton, here is the link if you’re interested in reading it: Lead Yourself Well to Lead Others Better by Jenni Catron.

This is one key piece that stuck out to me in the article. “Self-leadership is the hard work behind the scenes that prepares you for great leadership. Understanding who you are, cultivating your character, committing to lifelong learning, and developing discipline provide the framework for fostering the leadership of self.”

This little nugget landed a spot in my Words + Wisdom gallery inside of Notion.

It is the hard work behind the scenes, our daily doing that makes us great.

Focus on the daily doing

Friend, I love to look towards the future what I’m going to do. But, thinking about your goals and what you want to do will not make them happen.

It takes action. It takes daily doing to get to your goals. Without taking action we stay stuck and stagnant.

It is the daily doing that forms the habits and gives us confidence that we can reach our goals.

Mind Mapping To Plan Your Goals

Little Side Note

If you have no idea what to do. A fantastic way to figure it out is mind mapping. I’ve talked about this before in a post. Check it out.

 

✁ Just a Snippet

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

  • Whether it is launching a new product, staying consistent with marketing, reaching a financial goal, or whatever else you’re trying to achieve it will be reached in the daily doing.
  • If we are going to reach the goal we need to not skip over or miss the necessary tasks that need to be done.
  • Doing the job to the best of your abilities for who you are right now, is not taking the easy road.
  • Skill development is a daily doing that is a non-negotiable in my schedule. Is skill development part of your daily doing?
  • It takes daily doing to get to your goals.
  • What goal are you working towards and do you know the daily doing that needs to happen to accomplish your goal?
Planning for the year ahead as an online entrepreneur

Planning for the year ahead as an online entrepreneur

by | Goals, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Planning for the year ahead as an online entrepreneur

Wow, another new year is upon us, are you planning for the year ahead as an online entrepreneur? 

You may resist planning in your business because the thought of it feels difficult. Friend, with even an outline of where you’d like to go and what you’d like to accomplish it, will keep you from feeling insanely busy EVERY single day. 

I’m sure you’ve heard if you don’t know where you’re going how will you know when you get there. This holds true in business as well. 

You’ll always have people and things that will pull you around in your business. 

But, you put together a plan it will create the focus you need to move ahead. Cause I know you do not want to be in this same place next year. 

Reflection

Reflecting on the things that worked, areas of improvement and dropping what you need to walk away from. 

What was really successful this past year? What did you achieve?

What didn’t go as smoothly as you hoped this past year? What challenges did you face and overcome or not overcome?

What pulled your attention away from your goal?

What were the numbers?

Gather all the status of your business. How many followers you have on your social media accounts. 

What was your profit, expense, income, clients? 

You’ll want to make sure that you’re measuring your progress.  

What is the vision for the next year?

What’s the vision for your business? 

Do you have an idea of where you want to be in three years? Come on, it’s time to write down the vision you have for business, where are you going?

From your three-year vision, what can you do in the upcoming year to move in that direction?

Planning for the year ahead as an online entrepreneur

Let Me Guide You Through An Annual Plan

Firstly, pull out the calendar and figure out the actual number of working days you’ll have in the quarter. What days do you plan to take time off for vacation, rest or leisure? 

Block those days off in your calendar now. 

Secondly, grab your notebook it’s time to create an exhausting list of all the projects that you want to accomplish in the next year. When I say exhausted, I mean get it all out even those crazy ideas. No project is too small or simple for the list. Write down everything that pops into your head, without any judgment.

What projects are in aligned with your vision

With your exhausted list of ideas, which projects do you feel is the most aligned with the vision and mission of your online business. Next, go on and cross off anything on your list that is unaligned or doesn’t bring a sense of joy. 

Then, circle all the ideas that you feel are aligned with the vision of your online business and rank each of the tasks by importance to you and your ideal clients. This will aid in where you need to start. 

Each quarter will be assigned three projects to achieve! Basically, one per month. Start with the projects that have the most impact on the growth of your online business or is the quickest path to cash. Either highlight the three tasks for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 with a different color or note the Q in front of the task.

Mindmap the Quarters

My favorite way to create a plan is, to begin with, a mindmap. I’ve talked about mindmap previously in the post if you’d like to read it. 

In the center of a new sheet of paper pick one of the ideas from your list. This is how you start your mindmap.

Circle your idea in the center of your page and begin to create lines off of this idea with all the items that need to take place in order to bring it to completion.  Then create small accomplishable tasks off of items that need to be completed. 

For example, if one project in the next quarter is to create a new opt-in. You’ll need a landing page for one of the items. What are the small accomplishable daily tasks to create a landing page? Here are a few ideas. 

  • Find images 
  • Write Copy
  • Create Wireframe

What else do you need to do? 

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Little Side Note

If you’re planning to create a new offering this should be your single focus for the one whole quarter.

Get it scheduled

If you have a project management system you can set this all up inside, so that you know what to do when. If not, a paper calendar or Bullet Journal will work just fine. 

At the top, write out your online business mission, vision, and goals for the first quarter. Under this breaks it into three columns. One for each project. 

Looking at your list if you had to pick just one project what would it be? 

Start with that one. 

Under the Project Header

Now we are going to put in all the tasks that need to be completed by who and when. Will you need any resources, such as a new software application, to complete the task? 

Not all the tasks must be completed by you. It’s very important that you stay in your lane and delegate out the tasks that can be done by someone else.

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Quarterly Planning May Not Be Sexy

Quarterly Planning May Not Be Sexy

by | Goals, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Quarterly Planning May Not Be Sexy ​

The fourth quarter is just around the corner, while quarterly planning may not be sexy, it’s necessary for the success of your online business. 

You may resist planning in your business because the thought of it feels difficult. Friend, with even an outline of where you’d like to go and what you’d like to accomplish it, will keep you from feeling insanely busy EVERY single day. 

We all pick our difficult. Would you rather have a couple of hours of difficult or day in and day out difficult? In the end, it is always your choice. What do you feel is the best use of your time and energy?

Let Me Guide You Through A Quarterly Project Plan… 

Firstly, pull out the calendar and figure out the actual number of working days you’ll have in the quarter. Are you taking any time off for vacation, rest or leisure? 

Block those days off in your calendar now. 

Secondly, grab your notebook it’s time to create an exhausting list of all the projects that you want to accomplish in the next three months. When I say exhausted, I mean get it all out even those crazy ideas. No project is too small or simple for the list. Write down everything that pops into your head, without any judgment.

What projects are in aligned with your vision

With your exhausted list of ideas, which projects do you feel is the most aligned with the vision and mission of your online business. Next, go on and cross off anything on your list that is unaligned or doesn’t bring a sense of joy. 

Then, circle all the ideas that you feel are aligned with the vision of your online business and rank each of the tasks by importance to you and your soulmate clients. This will aid in where you need to start.

Quarterly Planning May Not Be Sexy
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Little Side Note

If you’re planning a large launch to take place in the next quarter and you know all focus needs to go into this. This would be your only project for the quarter. 

Mindmap the project

My favorite way to create a project plan is to begin with a mindmap. I’ve talked about mindmap previously in the post if you’d like to read it. 

In the center of a new sheet of paper pick one of the ideas from your list. This is how you start your mindmap.

Circle your idea in the center of your page and begin to create lines off of this idea with all the items that need to take place in order to bring it to completion.  Then create small accomplishable tasks off of items that need to be completed. 

For example, if one project in the next quarter is to create a new opt-in. You’ll need a landing page for one of the items. What are the small accomplishable daily tasks to create a landing page? Here are a few ideas. 

  • Find images 
  • Write Copy
  • Create Wireframe
  • What else do you need to do? 

Get it scheduled

If you have a project management system you can set this all up inside, so that you know what to do when. If not, a paper calendar or Bullet Journal will work just fine. 

At the top, write out your online business mission, vision, and goals for the upcoming quarter. Under this breaks it into three columns. One for each project. 

Looking at your list if you had to pick just one project what would it be? 

Start with that one.

Under the Project Header

Now we are going to put in all the tasks that need to be completed by who and when. Will you need any resources, such as a new software application, to complete the task? 

Not all the tasks must be completed by you. It’s very important that you stay in your lane and delegate out the tasks that can be done by someone else.