Are you about to reach six figures or have you crossed the six-figure mark and now find yourself struggling to implement the next big ideas? Coming up with the next big ideas for your business is not your bottleneck. Nope, it is taking action to implement your next big business idea. If this is you, you're not alone, and actually, you're in good company with a ton of online entrepreneurs. If you’re struggling to scale in your business it may be time to build a team of action takers to implement your next big idea.

Hello. If we haven't met before, my name is Michele and I am a life and success coach utilizing my experience as a certified online business manager to help female entrepreneurs achieve their goals, their visions, and their dreams, so they can live a good life and actually have time to enjoy it.

What happens when the determination begins to fade?

I know what you’re wondering, what happens when the determination begins to fade. What are your next steps? How do you overcome this?

At the beginning of your business, it was great. Each day you sat at your desk determined to build your business, the good life you craved. But, now you’re all tangled up in the day-to-day operations.

The very thought of having to run the business and bring a new idea to life has zero appeal to you.

Do you have this common problem?

There is a very common problem that I hear from far too many business owners. They have a six-figure offer that is one-and-done. Let me clarify what is a one-and-done offer. Your customer buys from you one time because you have nothing else they can buy from you.

Instead of building a team, you spend your time on the hamster wheel of selling your one-and-done offer. Stay with me now, what if you brought on a team to help you build your next idea that could bring in recurring revenue from your current customers? This would get you off the hamster wheel of having to constantly sell in order to grow your business.

Either Way

You’ve lost the dream of why you started the business because implementation and action-taking are really not in your wheelhouse.

Now you’re stuck. You’re stuck in managing the offer, the business, the selling, and all the crap you no longer want to do in the business.

Really, in order to grow your business, you need to step out of the doing and focus on the big picture goals you have for your business. That is something only YOU can do.

If implementation and action-taking is a limitation of yours it may be time to build a team of action takers.

Don’t you wish you could get out of your own way and onto the growth path?

Is that something you’d like for your business?

As an online business manager with a team of project managers, this is where we tend to step into a business.

Our clients have built a solid foundation, but they are done with the day-to-day management and operations of the business. They’ve reached the point of burnout and exhaustion. They have created and implemented an offer that is launched and profitable. They have hit a ceiling and are not able to grow and scale.

They have been burning the candle at both ends with running a business and a family.

And, just can not do it any longer.

✁ Just a Snippet

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

• Coming up with the next big ideas for your business is not your bottleneck. Nope, it is taking action to implement your next big business idea.
• If you’re struggling to scale in your business it may be time to build a team of action takers to implement your next big idea.
• Entrepreneurs tend to be visionaries. Your minds come up with all kinds of amazing ideas. That’s not the problem.
• Even though taking action and implementation is not one of your greatest strengths you did it anyway because you were driven and determined to bring your idea to life.
• Now, you find your determination has been all used up with your first big idea.
• Each day you sat at your desk determined to build your business, the good life you craved.
• But, now you’re all tangled up in the day-to-day operations.
• Instead of building a team, you spend your time on the hamster wheel of selling your one-and-done offer.
• Now you’re stuck. You’re stuck in managing the offer, the business, the selling, and all the crap you no longer want to do in the business.
• As an online business manager with a team of project managers, this is where we tend to step into a business.

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. 

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.