Overplanning Crushing Your Dreams?
Overplanning can affect how quickly your dream business grows. Is your ambitious overplanning crushing your dreams?
When we start out we have so many new and exciting ideas that we water down our progress by trying to achieve them all.
Not only does it water down your progress, but you’ll also have a fewer accomplishment to celebrate. Celebrating the small wins is what aspires you to keep going.
Focusing on more than one goal at a time will take longer than one single focus.
Run One Race At A Time
If your running a race you won’t stop that race in the middle to start another one, would you?
This same reasoning applies to your business goals too. When you're running a race you stay on the same course or you’ll never reach the finish line.
What’s the best way to reach the finish line?
One step at a time, your business goals are achieved the same way by small accomplishable daily tasks.
You can not get to mile two without taking all the steps in mile one.
What daily actions do you need to take to make sure you reach my finish line?
We Can't Hope Our Way To Success
I love the word hope and believe it in wholeheartedly, but unfortunately, we can’t hope our way to success.
However, a little hope along with our daily actions set us up for success.
Are you overplanning?
Right now how many races are you trying to run? C’mon Friend, how many goals and projects do you have going on right now at this moment?
Are you trying to plan the launch of a new service?
Perhaps building an online course?
Setting up a new application in your business?
Do you see how this overplanning is crushing your dream? You only have so much time in the day to work in your business and work on your dreams.
What if you picked and planned out one goal at a time and took it to the finish line?
I throw no stones, I’ve done the same thing!
I know from experience because I’ve done the same thing. Trying to run too many races when my business was new and not sure what services I wanted to offered or who I wanted to impact. I was trying to excessive plan and offer all these different services and help anyone that needed it.
You know how the phrase goes jack of all trades master of none.
All this did was give me a ticket to the overwhelm train, I’m telling you Friend that is not the train that y’all want to be on.
How did I stop overplanning and work on my dreams?
By narrowing my focus, working on my mindset and striving towards one goal at a time.
Did this happen overnight? Heck no, but as I worked with more and more Solopreneurs it helped narrow down the focus on what I was truly passionate about.
I began to understand my true purpose, while this is still evolving, I know what fills my cups but doesn’t overflow it.
When you pay attention to too many things at once your cup runs over.
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Plan one project at a time
Depending on the size of the project, it could be for the whole quarter or simply one month.
Keep in mind when planning this project it will take you twice as long as you think it will – really.
Take your one project and brain dump every single thing that you need to do to get it across the finish line. Then take that list, prioritize it and schedule it.
Just believe in your dream and take the small action steps daily to achieve it.
Here’s great advise from Rachel Hollis – You can only go all-in on one goal at a time…
What will yours be?
