4 Ways Make this Year Different

Over the last few weeks I have felt myself feeling a little breathless, anxious, and unsettled. While at the time same feeling juiced up and excited for the year ahead.

Last year was a year of “wandering through the desert,” as I have started referring to it. I didn’t let go of the vision for my life and working towards that vision took an entirely different, unquantifiable quest for success and healing.

Last year was really, just that, a year of healing, clearing out the clutter and baggage in my mind and spirit. It was a year where the goal was survival. Which is so unlike me, it’s not even funny. You can read more about my 20 lessons in 2020 here.

I don’t believe that we came to this planet to merely survive, I believe each person is here for a reason and existing is not it. I believe each and every one of us was created to thrive and impact the lives around them.

I believe success is relatively simple to achieve, when you follow simple steps to achieve success, because big successes are achieved by small daily intentional actions. It doesn’t matter if you are trying to lose weight, grow a business, learn a language- everything boils down to small daily actions.

The hardest part in achieving anything isn’t the obstacles and roadblocks along the way, it’s how you see the obstacles. (That’s another post you can read here)

Sometimes, the success is found in the pause. The moments of reflection and making sure you are ok with you, and that was very much what last year was for me, and I suspect for many of you reading this.

The pause can last a week, a month, a year or a decade. It’s a chance to get re-centered and refocused, which in today’s go go go pace, is needed.

Just like the seasons change, so do seasons of life. Just as there is time for things to grow, there is a time for things to rest. For many, last year was a time of involuntary rest, while for others it was a time for working double time.

Whether or not the vaccine changes anything with our society, part of being a business woman, coach, consultant or creator is learning to adapt and keep moving forward.

Right now we are experiencing a massive shift in the leadership of the world from political, to business and every where in between. There is a massive changing of the guard, and the world needs what you’ve got right now.

People who were top dogs 12 months ago, have faded into obscurity- some have fought the shift, while others have just let it happen. Some who were leaders have grown bitter and taken to airing their dirty laundry all over the internet, others have grown silent, and others have taken the opportunity to pivot and explore new opportunities.

There is rising of new leaders right now who are more intuitive of the marketplace, great managers who are willing to make the hard decisions, and are nimble and adaptable.

If you are ready to make this year different from last year and achieve your goals here are some tips for you:

1. Get Specific About What You Want

   Set a big annual goal, something that you know you can achieve, and maybe just a stretch beyond what you know you can achieve.

2. Stay focused

   Getting clear not only about what you want, but what you need to do to get there is a big part of success. One of the hardest things for most of entrepreneurial women is we have a tendency to get distracted by shiny objects, so we get super hyped about the next thing, when what we should really do is stay hyped about our current offering, until it’s sold out, full up and fully automated and sytemetized before we go adding fancy new things to our plates. It is a discipline to stay focused, but it’s crucial if you want to win.

3. Show Up Everyday

   I’m not saying you can’t take days off, I would be a hypocrite if that were my advise. I believe in working until the work is done and then switching off.

   Plan and schedule your activities and time block the things that are most important to you. If you set a goal to achieve something, set yourself up for success by showing up for yourself. Ditch the excuses you have to not do the work, and instead seek reasons to do the work so that you can have the end result.

4. Get Accountable.

   Hiring a coach, plugging into a tribe, and declaring your goals- is the fastest way to achieve your goals. I have hired several coaches in the last 15 years to help me in areas like my health, business, mindset and beliefs.

   By being accountable to other people you are making sure someone else is invested in your success who can help you achieve your goals with wisdom and guidance, shine a light on your blind spots that are slowing you down or stopping you, plus they will make sure that you do the things you said you were going to do to get the results you said you wanted.

Have you taken the time to get clear on what your goals are in all 9 areas of your life?

Have you set yourself up for success by hiring a coach, creating a plan and connecting to a community?

If not now is the time. I will be hosting a Goal Setting Workshop on Monday, January 11th at 11a MST (where all my 11:11 people at?) In this workshop we will spend 90 minutes together and look at 9 areas of your life and evaluate where you are, decide where you would like to make a change, and create a plan to achieve it.

Sign up for the Goal Setting Workshop Here

This workshop is for you if you haven’t set your 2021 goals yet, you lack accountability, or feel like the only goals you ever set are income goals, and weight loss goals. Momma Boss, there is so much more to you, your life and your values than those 2 things.

It’s time to start living the Momma Boss Life, where working smarter is better than working harder. Sign up for the Goal Setting Workshop here.

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Why Hasn't Business Grown?

Do you ever feel like you have grown your business to a certain point, and no matter what you do or what advise you take, you still can’t seem to get over the hump?

Business has phases of growth, and even though we all want to have the next big idea that brings us overnight success. The reality is, it takes work to grow a business to every level of success. I will never forget the day, the levels were spelled out for me, by the one and only Alex Charfen is his Billionaire Code, suddenly I discovered what was confounding me, became clear.

The Billionaire Code that Alex created is worth taking a look at, it’s basically a chart of the levels and layers of success and the things that stop businesses from evolving to the next level. I found that there is a lot of truth in the layers he lays out, but it’s also not a straight line of doing, implementing or understanding- unfortunately.

Because a business, when launched, grown, and systemized becomes a living breathing creature all it’s own. You get a special tax ID from the government for your business, and your business pays taxes like you and your employees pay. When done correctly, your business keeps running without you needed in the day to day operations, and in the best case scenario cases outlives you, (for service based businesses, it’s a harder thing to accomplish, but certainly not impossible.)

Because your business is an entity of its own, it also means that you can expect certain things along the growth spectrum, there are always variables at play, normally due to human error. So as you grow your business and look at the person next to you, making it happen with ease, know this-

Everyday is an adventure, full of unexpected twists and turns.

The one thing every growing business has in common, is each leaders (you) ability to see the problems, create solutions, and implement them.

I remember early on in business, I thought that meant that only I could implement changes before I passed the new changes onto my staff. Where I got it wrong, I didn’t have to be the person doing all the heavy lifting, that is why you hire people, and why you bring on a staff you pay to do a very specific job.

The problem is, most business owners, especially first time business owners are a mess at delegating work, making sure it gets done, and rewarding success.

Normally how is the whole scenario plays out:

• Hire someone, delegate work to them

• Take the work back, do it yourself, because nobody can do it better that you, and you have to make sure it gets done.

• Get frustrated and burned out, because having a team is more of a problem than it’s worth.

• If you don’t fix it, many business owners, especially coaches, consultants and creatives shrink their business down to where it’s just them again, and end up owning a job not a business.

The common denominator in this chaos here, is YOU. YOU THE BUSINESS OWNER.

You and your micromanager tendencies, inability to ask for help, and ensure that you are effectively getting the help you need.

The only thing stopping you from taking your business to the next level is you, it will always be you, and as soon as YOU realize that you are your businesses greatest strength you are also your businesses greatest weakness.

Your business will change when you understand those weaknesses, ask for help diagnosing the blind spots and change how you lead people.

For me, early on in my career as an entrepreneur, changing how I led people was the hardest and messiest part, because by nature I may possess leadership qualities, but that doesn’t mean I was inherently gifted with knowing how to lead others. Chances are you are the same.

The mistakes I made while learning how to lead is what makes this such a big topic for me.

The mistakes you make while leading others, can literally ruin the lives of the people who work for us by either creating a false sense of security or be so brutal, they end up having to spend years in counseling after having worked for a person like you. I know that seems a little melodramatic, but the power you have as business owner, and leader is something that you must respect.

Your blind spots in knowing where your weaknesses lie as a leader and actively seeking solutions for them is slowing your team down, business growth , and the impact your company is capable of making in this world.

If you are ready to get deep, beyond the basics growing your business, and ready to take a look inside you, your business, and truly gaining the skill of discovering your blindspots, moving through them quickly, and creating the income and impact you have always envisioned, but feels somehow out of reach, it’s time to schedule your Smart Business Audit.

When you schedule your Smart Business Audit, you will be taken to a short questionaire so that I can be more familiar with your business, and we can waste less time getting to know each other, and more time problem solving.

On this call we will diagnose your blindspots preventing you from growing your company, now and into the future and create a plan to move forward and thru these blindspots quickly so that you can gain the leverage, growth, and sense of peace in owning your business that has been eluding you up til now. That changes today.

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