052: HOW TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND CREATE MORE BALANCE IN YOUR DAY

 
 
 

Today’s talking point:

I'm going to go through four of the biggest mindset shifts I think you need in order to learn how to be more productive and create more balance in your day. Mindset work routines and systems are so important right now more than ever, and so I really hope this episode brings you some reassurance, safety, and some space to allow your mindset to grow.


HOW TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE


#1 | Focus Your Mind 

The first mindset shift I want to talk about to help you learn how to be more productive and create more balance in your day is to focus your mind on not giving up. This relates to business specifically.

The thing with business is that things aren't going to go your way all of the time. It's business. But in times like this, I also want to make sure that you don't give up.

Usually what happens at the start of a new year, a new quarter or even a new month or a new week, is that we start out feeling really confident and we have loads of enthusiasm. We think: “yes, there's loads I want to get done this week and I'm going to smash it out of the park. Let's do this.” But then as we go through the month, we start to dip and we go down and we start to lose our confidence and our enthusiasm. 

Things won't go our way all of the time and then we hit a low point and that moment then is when we want to give up.

So if you decide not to be a successful business owner, you are going to choose to completely abandon ship right here. You are going to stop all of your progress and you could end up doing one of a few things:


Negative thoughts to look out for: 

  • Wanting to just give up

  • Buying a new course because you don't believe in yourself because your confidence is low. 

  • Saying you’re going to start something new and not following through


If you keep doing this, the cycle will start over and over again. This is NOT learning how to be more productive.

When you're here in this place and things are hard, guess what successful business owners do?

They keep going and they go up and up and up until they get to the other side. And I promise you if you do keep going, if you don't give up, you will get to that breakthrough and you will get the results that you desire.

There are going to be multiple challenges along your journey from busy to boss. There will be, but you are not doing this alone and I don't want you to give up. Okay?

P.S. If you want to learn how to incorporate mindset work into your daily routine and 3 other non-negotiable tasks to help you create more balance in your day, click here to access The Fab Four!


#2 | Fix Your Attitude

Without getting too “woo woo,” whether you're big into mindset or not, the basis of taking care of your mindset is all about your thoughts. And learning how to be more productive starts with your mindset. Because if you have the right thoughts, you will take the right actions. And if you take the right actions, you're going to get the results that you want. 

So there are two attitudes that I want to talk to you about that are really going to help you create success in your business and in your life as well. 

  • You are responsible for the growth of your business. You only you. 

I want this to be an empowering realisation for you because if you rely on me or on someone else for the growth of your business, then how is that sustainable? It's not, is it? I want you to be fully empowered to know that the actions you are creating for yourself every single day create the result that you are going to see in your business. 

Know that you are responsible for the growth of your success, of your business, of everything that's happening inside of your business. 

  • You do not need to ask for permission. 

As a business owner, I get this so much because for some things that you feel like you need to ask permission for, usually deep down you already know the answer. And if you keep asking permission based questions, you're not going to get the results that you want.

You don't have to ask permission for everything. And I don't want you to feel like you have to because honestly the answer is already within you. And at the end of the day, you know what's best for your people and you know what's best for your business. 


#3 | Be a Decision Maker

Let me preface this by saying that I used to be terrible at making decisions, honestly. But the way that you make decisions can really impact the results that you have as a business owner throughout your journey.

So how do you make the right decisions that are going to give you the results that you want? As a business owner, you have to make a lot of decisions and these decisions have the potential to paralyse you from getting the results that you want in your business. When it comes to learning how to be more productive, decisions are the devil.

Don’t overthink everything, instead, make gut calls. If you find yourself in decision mode, set a timer for five to 10 seconds and the rule is that you have to make a decision in that time and once you have made the decision, go with it and don't look back. 

Questions you can ask yourself when you're faced with a decision are:

  • What is the simplest thing that I can do right now? 

  • Can I delegate this? 

  • If I can't delegate this, how can I simplify this? 

Don't make things hard. 

You don't have to do everything yourself and you don't have to make everything bigger or more complicated than it already is. Let's choose to either delegate it or if we can't delegate it, let's choose a timeline that makes us feel comfortable.

What we're wanting to get to here is a clear mind, a mind that doesn't feel drained at the end of the day after all these decisions that you're going to have to make. 

REMEMBER: if you want to learn how to incorporate mindset work into your daily routine and 3 other non-negotiable tasks to help you create more balance in your day, click here to access The Fab Four!


#4 | Focus on Data not Drama

Even though 50 million things and bad information are coming at you all the time right now, you have control over your mind. You have a lot of things that are in your control. Things like: 

  • Taking care of yourself 

  • Investing in your education 

  • Levelling up your knowledge and skill set 

  • Becoming the best in your industry

  • Taking the best care of your clients and customers

  • Understanding that you have control over your mindset

Regain that control. 

The next couple of episodes that you can expect on this podcast are all to do with more on how to be more productive, along with habits to help you grow as a business owner and how to set goals effectively. I know that this will be really, really helpful for you right now in the times that we are living in.

I just wanted to end with my biggest piece of advice, which is to try to drown out all the noise and try to just focus on the credible sources and updates, just find the most credible sources for you to learn from. 

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