That is half 3 of my 5-part sequence on how one can *really* cease procrastinating. You don’t want extra motivation or self-discipline as a way to cease procrastinating. To have the ability to implement the selections you make successfully, you want productiveness instruments that work to your perfectionist mind.

80% of your procrastination will vanish while you get the appropriate productiveness instruments that calm your perfectionist mind down so you may persistently present up. Energy Planning is the key to taking constant motion with out burning out or freaking your perfectionist mind out.

In the event you’re a perfectionist entrepreneur and also you need to present up persistently and confidently put your self on the market, Energy Planning is the reply. 

It’s a easy 3 step course of that anybody can study. And I stroll you thru it on this episode (which is a component 3 of the 5-part cease procrastination sequence).

Right here’s a quick overview of how Energy Planning works however make sure to tune into this episode to get all the main points!

Step 1. Energy Hour – in your weekly Energy Hour you’ll put your needle shifting duties in your digital calendar and create easy contingency plans that make it straightforward to get all the pieces completed with out feeling overwhelmed.

Step 2. Little Tweaks – day-after-day you’ll spend slightly little bit of time tweaking your calendar so you may get all the pieces completed with out ever feeling behind or burning out, even when one thing sudden comes up.

Step 3. Weekly Assessment – on the finish of the week you’ll do a quick weekly evaluate to find what labored, what didn’t work and what to do in another way so subsequent week’s plans are even simpler to comply with via on.

After listening to this episode, you’ll know how one can make the form of plans that get you out of your personal means – even while you’re scared to point out up.

Take heed to this episode now!

This 5-part sequence is for perfectionists who:

• Get caught in analysis mode in relation to your area of interest, messaging and branding
• Purchase cameras, domains and planners to attempt to encourage themselves to point out up
• Push essential duties off till the final minute since you want the strain

The whole lot you’ve discovered about how one can cease procrastinating doesn’t apply to perfectionists!

Throughout this 5-part procrastination sequence I’ll be educating you the stunning fact about procrastination, the hidden causes you haven’t been capable of cease and the straightforward course of you may instantly begin following to truly cease procrastinating. 

I gained’t be telling you to delete social media apps or write a reminder on a post-it notice to remind you ‘completed is healthier than good’. 

This sequence goes that can assist you create emotional security and emotions which are going to mean you can even have the boldness to cease procrastinating and put your self on the market.

Tune into this sequence to learn to cease procrastinating so your enterprise can lastly get off the bottom.

Discover the total episode transcript and present notes at samlaurabrown.com/episode449.

In This Episode You’ll Study:

• The productiveness software that calms your perfectionist mind down so you may present up persistently and put your self on the market
• Why you procrastinate on particular duties and how one can use energy planning that can assist you transfer ahead
• Aim setting for perfectionsts
• What it seems to be like when perfectionists comply with the identical planning recommendation as everybody else
• What must occur throughout your weekly Energy Hour
• Methods to replace your calendar so your plans keep workable
• Methods to do your weekly evaluate
• How Energy Planning has you doing extra in much less time with out burning out

Featured In The Episode:

PGSD is opening to new college students on 14 March 2024:

The PGSD Course of will get you out of your personal means in your enterprise and have you ever making extra money extra simply. The doorways to Perfectionists Getting Shit Accomplished might be opening at 6am New York time on 14 March and shutting at 11:59pm New York time on 21 March 2024. Discover out extra about this system and be a part of the waitlist right here: samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.

Take The Perfectionism Quiz To Get Your Personalised Perfectionism Rating

In the event you’re undecided whether or not perfectionism is what’s making you get in your personal means, I invite you to take The Perfectionism Quiz. 

After working with over 1,000 perfectionist entrepreneurs, I created this free quiz so you may get your personalised perfectionism rating and uncover which of the 5 areas of perfectionism you’d most profit from engaged on overcoming probably the most: whether or not it’s overthinking, procrastination, burnout, all-or-nothing considering or concern of judgement.

It takes lower than 3 minutes to get your distinctive consequence and be one step nearer to getting shit completed with out burning out. In the event you love studying about your self and also you’re able to get out of your personal means, go to samlaurabrown.com/quiz to take the quiz as we speak. 

Work With Me:

My teaching program Perfectionists Getting Shit Accomplished (aka PGSD) teaches you how one can plan correctly as a perfectionist so you may get out of your personal means in your enterprise. To search out out extra about this system and be the primary to know when the doorways open, be a part of the waitlist as we speak: samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.

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FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Introduction
Hello and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Venture, a podcast stuffed with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My identify is Sam Laura Brown, I assist entrepreneurs launch their perfectionism handbrake to allow them to get out of their very own means and construct a satisfying and worthwhile enterprise. I’m the founding father of the Perfectionist Getting Shit Accomplished group teaching program, which is in any other case often called PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that can assist you with your enterprise. You may comply with me on Instagram @perfectionismproject

Sam Laura Brown
A large welcome to episode three on this 5 half sequence on how one can cease procrastinating. If you’re a perfectionist entrepreneur and you make lower than six figures a yr, this sequence goes that can assist you perceive why you procrastinate. We talked about that partly one, it’s going that can assist you get unstuck with essential enterprise selections like your area of interest, we talked about that partly two. Partially three, as we speak, we’re speaking about how one can plan correctly as a perfectionist, so you may take constant motion, and try this with out freaking your self out. In order that’s going to be speaking about three steps of energy planning and having a progress objective.

So I’m going to share that with you as we speak. Partially 4, I’m going to be sharing with you how one can use a create optimistic time strain, so you are able to do your finest work with out burning out. So if you’re presently counting on deadlines, and the final minute rush to get shit completed, otherwise you’re crowding your day trip with a lot of little issues. So strain is there to return to do the massive issues that that’s going to be insanely useful for you. And in Half 5, I’m going to be recapping and supplying you with an summary of precisely what it’s essential do to cease procrastinating what’s really going to work as we’ve already mentioned, blocking social media doesn’t work. Utilizing to do lists doesn’t work, motivated your self by shopping for web site domains, or new tools, new cameras and microphones and issues like that, that’s not gonna work, you really want to simply make selections like an actual enterprise proprietor, it’s essential plan your week in all probability as a perfectionist, it’s essential confidently and persistently put your self on the market and know precisely how to try this.

In order that’s what this sequence helps you with. In that half 5, I’m going to be telling you extra about my program known as perfectionist getting shit completed, aka PGSD, that’s going that can assist you implement all the pieces that I’ve shared with you. On this sequence. That is designed to have you might have so many actionable takeaways. However I need to allow you to and help you with really turning this mental data that you’ll have from listening to this sequence into precise outcomes into having your enterprise really get off the bottom and also you’re not procrastinating. And that feeling secure to try this you don’t cease procrastinating, then you definitely freak out. And then you definitely return into procrastination mode, which might be what’s been occurring for you and also you’ve been in these spurts of motivation, then you definitely scare your self with the motion, you’re taking the trajectory of that.

So that you maintain your self again once more, we need to create that security there. And so my program is actually designed to help perfectionist entrepreneurs, who’re making lower than six figures to truly have the setting and the help and all of the instruments and all the pieces clearly specified by quite simple steps so that you can comply with. With the intention to really carry out on the highest degree as a entrepreneur, so that you’re really capable of develop the talent set of entrepreneurship. In order that it’s not simply it’s important to hope that you’ve got a reel that goes viral. And then you definitely’re capable of have this in a single day success, that you’ve got the abilities of entrepreneurship, which provides you the final word safety, as a result of it signifies that even when one thing had been to occur to your enterprise, or social media was to vary if the algorithm was to, if there’s one other world occasion, just like the pandemic, that you’d be okay, since you’ve received that talent set there.

In order your coach, I allow you to really grapple with the truth that enterprise is a psychological recreation, you want to have the ability to overcome that concern of failure and bounce again from failures you’ll expertise. So perfectionist getting shit completed is actually designed to help you with that, like how elite athletes, they don’t attempt to go it alone. They spend money on that help to allow them to attain their potential. So I need to invite you into PGSD. I’ll let you know extra about it partly 5, so to try this as effectively, as a result of I do know for me at the very least like I simply the final word frustration was me feeling sensible and clever, however realizing that I wasn’t really residing into that potential. And I had at all times this type of conflicting curiosity in fully. And I had this conflicting thought sample that I attempted so onerous to reconcile that.

I deeply believed in myself. And I additionally had all this impostor syndrome and concern and self doubt. And as soon as I discovered what I share inside PGSD and what I’m sharing an summary of on this sequence, I’ve been capable of create a profitable enterprise that additionally means I solely work three days per week, I spend a lot of time with my three little ones. I’ve revamped $2 million in my enterprise as an alternative of getting to work within the accounting job that I used to be capable of depart and really capable of do what I really like, do it in a means that really works to me and have success doing it. So I need that for you as effectively.

So as we speak we’re speaking about energy planning. We’re speaking about your progress objective and these been instruments to truly allow you to take constant motion. We’ve mentioned how one can do lists, time blocking SMART objectives. They don’t work for perfectionists. I’ve received to enter that in additional element however actually what I need to let you know with this episode is what to do as an alternative, that I’m not simply going to say these issues don’t work all the very best. What I need to share with you on this episode is precisely what it’s essential do to plan your week correctly as a perfectionist. So your perfectionist mind doesn’t freak out, while you begin taking motion.

And imply that you just fall off the wagon after a couple of productive days or even weeks, that you just’re really capable of do the stuff you need to do while you need to do them, you’re capable of relaxation while you need to relaxation and try this with out guilt, you’re capable of present up while you need to present up, and try this confidently. Even while you’re doing one thing you’ve by no means completed earlier than. Even while you’re going stay, placing your self on the market recording a video for a trigger, even while you’re doing one thing that feels scary, you’re capable of do it, you’re capable of really feel so happy with your self. Like I do know you’ve had that feeling earlier than, while you did the scary factor, as an alternative of avoiding it. How wonderful that feels.

I feel with entrepreneurs, we would like that freedom of entrepreneurship, we actually need to have the ability to do what we need to do once we need to do it. However we regularly try this at our personal expense and on the expense of our self belief that we’re on this mindset of I simply need to really feel in circulate aligned and that I’m by no means having to really feel like I’m working like I simply need to really feel prefer it’s my ardour and that I’m impressed. After which I’m doing my factor. And the way in which we method it though that feels like a stunning factor to do. It signifies that we’re not capable of belief ourselves. After which we’re having to simply depend on these inspiration hits to get something completed. After which we don’t really feel any safety over the expansion of our enterprise. And it looks like the expansion of our enterprise is out of our management.

As a result of we’ve to attend for these intuitive downloads and concepts to return up relatively than having the self belief. And that is what I educate my purchasers to do in my program. And these are the instruments to assist that I’m sharing on this episode is that should you can develop the self belief to do what you stated you’d do while you stated you’d do it, even when it’s a scary issues, and likewise the self belief to know when to vary your plans. As a result of that’s a extremely essential a part of this. We’re not planning that by no means change, we’re adjusting them. As we go. We’re additionally honoring how we really feel and doing all of that too. We’re not working at our personal expense. However simply know that if you’re attempting to be so in alignment on a regular basis, that’s coming on the expense of your self belief, I need you to have the ability to depend on your self, to have the ability to be accountable to your self, even when nobody else is there telling you it must be completed.

And even when you might have family and friends saying hey, I might see , you’re actually nervous as we speak you might have your personal enterprise, your personal boss, you need to go get a espresso, do you need to meet up? Hey, are you able to assist me transfer like all of those requests that you’ll have coming in, particularly should you haven’t left your job but? As soon as you’re full time in that enterprise, you’ll have folks coming to you and saying hey, can I’ve your time. And you have to to say to your self at the very least no, as a result of I’ve deliberate with myself that I’m going to honor and which are essential. And also you may say one thing else to them. However you’re going to have the ability to honor the plans you might have with your self. If you wish to really feel like you’re in charge of the expansion of your enterprise.

You aren’t having to attend for impressed concepts to return. You don’t need to hope purchasers or clients discover that you just really are capable of management the expansion of your enterprise. You want to have the ability to belief your self. So the instruments I’m speaking about as we speak, I’m going to be exhibiting the steps with you your progress objective, and your energy planning. These are the instruments that mean you can work in an aligned means while growing your self belief as an alternative of diminishing it. I really like manifestation I really like all of that facet of issues. I additionally love respecting myself. And with the ability to depend on myself with the ability to belief myself, I really like the sensation of doing onerous issues.

I really like the sensation of doing the brave factor. I really like the sensation when there was one thing that I had a lot resistance to. And I take advantage of my mind to beat my mind and really do it. I really like that feeling as somebody who loves private improvement, that to me is the very best. And I’m attempting to be so flowy about issues and like an excessive amount of in that female, then I’m not capable of really actually get that feeling. And if I’m attempting to be too strict and structured. Like once I’m doing for instance, I used to do time blocking in my calendar, and I deserted it after a couple of days as a result of I needed to follow that plan and I’d deliberate it like I needed to be this robotic and it was too masculine and method that it simply meant if I couldn’t do it completely, I went into an all or nothing mode to need to discover that candy spot the place it’s that masculine and female coming collectively. You’re capable of have construction and circulate.

In order that’s actually what the expansion gone. palpating allow you to to do. It’s designed to your perfectionist mind. It calms it down. It calms your nerves. Have a system down, it helps you present up. And it helps you’re feeling secure exhibiting up and really implementing these selections that we talked about partly two. So I’m going to start out by speaking concerning the progress objective, as a result of that is the context to your weekly plans. After which I’m going to be speaking to you concerning the three steps of energy planning, and what that virtually seems to be like, and actually provide the alternative to attempt on what that may be like for you. Is that this one thing you need to attempt? So in relation to objective setting, SMART objectives don’t work for perfectionists. I do know that we would like them to we need to even have these objectives which are particular.

That’s the s in sensible objectives. Measurable, I feel it’s like achievable, actionable, sensible, is the artwork and time certain. It doesn’t work for our perfectionist brains. And right here’s why. When you might have a practical objective, which means not that the objective is definitely sensible. Like, we predict that that’s a sensible factor to do. I don’t need to be delusional, , I’m a realist. They’re the form of issues we are saying to justify setting these sensible objectives. That what that objective really is, is only a objective we are able to obtain with out rising, it feels sensible to us. As a result of we’re the particular person already who can obtain that objective, we would should be slightly extra disciplined or possibly slightly extra motivated. However in the end, it feels sensible as a result of our current day self is able to attaining it.

Meaning additionally it’s our current day self with out perfectionism handbrake on who’s getting in their very own means who’s procrastinating. It’s that current day self. So once we set a practical objective, it doesn’t really permit us to develop as a result of we don’t must. And in addition, we’ve already talked about how your mind doesn’t need you to develop. It simply desires to remain in what’s acquainted and secure and cozy. So our brains love this love that concept of like, don’t be unrealistic, you’re simply going to disappoint your self. And one of many greatest issues that comes up, should you go to Google or ChatGPT and ask about how one can overcome perfectionism, for instance, it’s going to let you know to set sensible expectations. And I don’t agree with that in relation to objective setting. There’s nuance right here that we’re not going to enter, we don’t need the objective to be so unrealistic that it’s in that fairytale considering. And then you definitely’re continuously desirous about.

Okay, effectively, sooner or later, sure, I can undoubtedly have a $20 million enterprise. And though you’ve by no means made $20 in your enterprise, we need to even have you might have an unrealistic objective that set on the proper degree. I educate this in my program, however I’m going to let you know a bit about it right here. So you may actually conceptualize what that is like. However you might have a objective that invitations you to develop, we name it the expansion objective. And it is a objective that’s set above what you presently imagine is feasible. It’s not so excessive that it’s on this fairy story considering you may say so optimistic and optimistic as a result of it feels so distant. And so out of attain, that it doesn’t have your mind really carry up that perfectionist considering that we need to work on.

So we need to have that objective be simply above what feels sensible for you. And I really like this and this particular issues we do that can assist you really get there and never simply freak out. However I really like this a lot as a perfectionist entrepreneur, and it really works so effectively for my purchasers. As a result of once we’re in that entice of setting sensible objectives, due to concern of disappointing ourselves, we solely find yourself disappointing ourselves. If you’re somebody who desires to study should you’re somebody who desires to develop, you’re going to be upset, even should you do obtain that sensible objective. As a result of in the end, , you aren’t reaching your potential. You need to expertise change, you need to while you meet up with your mates, they usually say The way you going, you don’t need to say usual, usual, I’ve simply been doing the identical factor. And nothing’s new with me. You need issues to be new with you, that’s the particular person that you’re having sensible objectives doesn’t really allow you to to try this.

So right here’s a bit about how your progress objective works. And in addition simply know there are different sensible causes for having a objective we’re speaking about in relation to energy planning. For instance, you may’t prioritize your week, should you don’t know what you’re working in the direction of. In the event you don’t know your vacation spot, you don’t know which Road to drive on to get there. So it’s essential actually perceive objective setting from his perspective of prioritization and issues like that. However we need to have this objective so the place you’re working in the direction of, , what’s essential and what’s not. And in addition, we’ve this objective setter in a means that invitations you to develop over time, and acknowledges that you just’re not going to wake updated as a lot as we need to like have that contemporary begin and be totally different as of now that you’re going to must develop into this objective.

So the way in which that we do it the way in which that I educate it, and growing this idea actually was coming from working with over 1000 perfectionists entrepreneurs in all totally different industries from artists to ecommerce retailer homeowners, to actual property brokers, to dances, to therapists, to nutritionists, so many various entrepreneurs, and simply seeing how our mind desires to enter an all or nothing mode, and simply get to that objective immediately. And we are able to really simply as an alternative create a psychological staircase to get us to that objective, create these steps that we are able to step up on, we’re capable of really wrap our thoughts round it, our mind doesn’t freak out, and we’re capable of take motion. So the way in which this works is that you’ll set a objective a 12 month income objective for your enterprise, we don’t need to have a objective round exhibiting up persistently on social media, that is perhaps an motion step to get to your objective. But when that’s the objective, you can find yourself with 1,000,000 followers, and no cash, and no actual influence in your enterprise both.

So that you need to even have you might have a income objective, you might have a enterprise revenues, the oxygen for your enterprise. Additionally, should you had a charity, like should you actually simply need to assist folks, should you had a charity, you’d nonetheless be fundraising, earning money could be one in every of your essential actions as a charity, as a result of that cash is the oxygen for your enterprise. So we set a income objective, we don’t get particular about precisely what services or products it has to return from, or what the worth might be. We do some math in a while. However you might have that objective, to simply have your mind have one thing actually clear and particular stated a bit above what you imagine is feasible, prefer it via the precise steps in my program, however you might have this objective. So your mind can begin desirous about new concepts can begin entertaining new potentialities in a means that doesn’t freak it out. After which we break it down.

So for instance, in case your objective is 100k, your first quarterly milestone for the primary three months is 10k. After which for the subsequent three months is 20k. Then the subsequent three months after that’s 30k. Then in quarter 4, it’s 40k. That totals $100,000. Slightly than saying okay, get $100,000 divided by 4, that’s $25,000 per quarter. If you do it that means, you’re anticipating your self to already be the one that’s making 100,000, which you aren’t it’s essential develop into that. And giving your self house to try this. And giving your self this staircase in the direction of your objectives goes to mean you can really be capable of get shit completed. And obtain huge issues as effectively and never go into that freakout and freeze, perfectionist loads of us we simply freeze. And so that you need to be sure to’re not establishing your objectives in a means that they’re so huge, they make you freeze, or they’re so small, you’re feeling like what distinction will it make anyway, such as you’re somebody who you simply need to develop, that’s one thing that’s actually essential to you.

You’re keen on studying you’re keen on your personal evolution and feeling that so we need to have that objective that’s actually going to help that. After which in relation to what you do every week, you’re going to be taking that progress objective that you’ve got. And as an alternative of desirous about the entire thing, you’re simply gonna be targeted on the primary quarter. So I do know that relying the place you’re at in your enterprise, however for lots of the perfectionist entrepreneurs that I work with, desirous about a 12 month objective is loads. And also you haven’t but constructed up that self belief, to have the ability to actually belief your future self, to determine that out, and to determine the how alongside the way in which, and precisely what that can seem like you’re going to be on this house proper now the place you simply need to know precisely how that can work so as so that you can imagine in it.

And so what we need to do, if that’s you, as you might have that 12 month objective, you need to have that however you’re simply gonna then concentrate on that first quarterly milestone, and overlook about the remainder of it for now. And simply break it down in these chunks. It’s like for instance, should you’re going for a run, as an alternative of claiming I’m going to run 5 kilometers, you say, Okay, I’m going to run to the subsequent tree. As soon as I get there, I’m going to select one other practice, I’m going to run to that one. That’s what we need to do with our objectives, we need to break it down. And we do it with our week to form of break it down. So our mind doesn’t get freaked out or overwhelmed. Understanding our perfectionist mind desires to enter that mode, to guard us from placing ourselves on the market and experiencing the disgrace which may comply with with being a failure or being profitable. And we don’t need to expertise that.

So we need to really simply help our perfectionists mind and be capable of permit it to point out up totally and for us to place ourselves on the market. In my program, I educate precisely what to do when you might have that quarterly milestone what it’s essential be targeted on, however simply know for now it’s essential have that objective that’s going to work to your perfectionist mind. Perfectionists like to make imprecise objectives with like at some point I need to go full time in my enterprise or have a 10k month and I don’t know precisely when however I undoubtedly need to do it , the earlier the higher. Or we’ve 17 objectives you may need like for each space of your enterprise, you might have a objective for each space of your life. You might have three objectives, you simply have so many objectives. And that’s once we we sabotage ourselves and get to really feel like we’re actually sensible and clever and have loads of potential with out having to truly take a look at that.

That we are able to say effectively , I might have been doing higher my enterprise if I wasn’t so busy attempting to be according to figuring out and I might have been higher at that if I wasn’t so busy. Simply attempting to eat wholesome and doing all this analysis on that and like, we simply find yourself getting out of being dedicated and accountable to our objectives by having so a lot of them. Or we simply haven’t any objectives in any respect, as a result of we don’t need to disappoint ourselves. These issues don’t work. In relation to enterprise, it’s essential know the place you’re heading. And it’s essential have that arrange in a means that conjures up you with out freaking you out. So then let’s discuss energy planning. As a result of that is the way you really get your self to raise up one foot and put it down in entrance of you, after which raise up the opposite one, and put it down in entrance of you and get your self shifting, it’s essential have a option to really plan out your time. So we’re not going into this over planning the place it takes us so lengthy, like a full day to make this stunning coloration coded calendar.

I do love a coloration coded calendar, with energy planning you’ll have one, however we don’t need it to take all day it’s essential be getting shut down, particularly should you’re like me, and you’ve got little ones or possibly you might have a continual sickness that a lot of my purchasers do. You’re in search of an growing old mum or dad, you might have a full time job such as you don’t have the time to be spending a lot time planning. However we don’t need to simply be below planning when we’ve this to do listing or we’re like time blocking our calendar like we’re a robotic after which deserted after a couple of days after which having to do it once more. You’re continuously consolidating your To Do lists and writing them and rewriting them and planning and organizing. Like I really like a stationery retailer. I really like doing that. However you don’t have time for that you just really simply want to have the ability to plan your time and do it in a means that you would be able to belief your comply with via on it. And then you definitely comply with via on it. You try this along with your objective in thoughts. You might have the help and the setting round you so you are able to do brave issues. And then you definitely’re capable of really get your self to that objective.

So there are three steps to energy planning. And these are steps you can begin doing immediately. I clearly educate it intimately in my program perfection is getting shit completed. I present the teaching and help that can assist you do that are so many purchasers in PGSD, who’ve been capable of double their revenue whereas working much less like my shopper, Natalie, for instance, who she is a software program that and crochet has a YouTube channel. However when she got here into PGSD, she needed to launch a web based course she had signed up for a program to try this. And to assist her try this, however she couldn’t really get herself to tug the set off and launch it. And naturally, she didn’t, that program wasn’t serving to her with a perfectionist mindset, it was simply giving her the technical factor she wanted to know to launch that course.

So she got here into PGSD, she stated her progress objective, she began energy planning. And she or he was capable of double her income and make over six figures in a really brief house of time and really not freak your self out from doing that. And go on to make much more cash and be working much less really having holidays together with her husband, be capable of go on a trip in a van. And really try this with out this looming guilt of all of the issues that hadn’t been completed. And simply being in chaos on a regular basis, and like feeling overwhelmed earlier than you even open your eyes. That’s how she described it. I’ve interviewed her on my podcast as effectively, I feel it’s episode 334 of the perfectionism challenge, if you wish to take heed to that, however there are such a lot of purchasers tales like that, once they stated their progress objective and began energy planning.

It was simply these lacking instruments and help that they wanted to have the ability to present up and get shit completed. I’ve so many purchasers who take heed to this podcast, they usually have been capable of begin altering their lives after which they arrive into PGSD. And it’s like, the subsequent degree of progress that they’re actually, actually, actually are capable of really be exhibiting up persistently. They don’t simply have little enhancements right here or there. They’re able to go full time of their enterprise, they’re able to be posting persistently. And like my shopper, Kristen, who I’ve interviewed on the podcast as effectively, I feel it’s episode 312. However she was capable of go from having a few decade the place she was simply stopping and beginning together with her social media. She’s a stylist, she had a YouTube channel, and he or she had a video that went viral and blew up.

However she wasn’t really capable of translate that into purchasers, she’s now capable of signal 2000 different purchasers straight from YouTube movies, as a result of she was capable of set her progress objective and do energy planning to truly help herself, to have the ability to present up persistently and to confidently put herself on the market. And so that is attainable for you too. And simply realizing remembering that me, I took three years to make my first greenback, due to my perfectionism. And since I didn’t have these instruments. And it took me six years to make my first $100,000 and have that first $100,000 yr, I’m now occurring to make over 2 million in my enterprise. However it was these instruments that made the distinction for me. And that’s why I’m so keen about sharing it with you about sharing the steps right here. So you can begin coaching on to ask you into PGSD. So you may have those self same outcomes to purchasers have are available in, they haven’t but began earning money from their enterprise. And so they’re capable of begin making that first greenback. After which past that, as a result of they really might make these selections and get themselves shifting and really feel secure whereas doing that.

So these are the steps of energy planning, you might have your energy hour, you might have your little tweaks, and you’ve got your weekly evaluate. And people are the steps you’ll repeat every week. So your energy hour is how you start the week, it’s gonna take an hour, it’d be and it would take slightly bit longer than that possibly 90 minutes, possibly two hours. However inside three months of doing it, you’ll be having an hour an hour, then day-after-day, you’re gonna set out 5 minutes on little tweaks, your weekly evaluate will take about half-hour. So all in all, right here we’re speaking about lower than two hours spent planning in per week, that’s loads much less time that you just’ve in all probability spent writing, rewriting the to do listing, feeling overwhelmed scrolling social media due to that overwhelm. That is one thing that’s going to suit into your busy life. I knew that as an expert entrepreneur, you want getting shit completed, you want retaining your self busy.

So that is one thing that’s actually designed to suit into that and also you’re going to interchange no matter you’re doing the time blocking the to do listing, all of that the publish it notes, the calendars, the whiteboards, all of that with energy planning, it’s going to change into your to do listing that you just work from. And also you’re going to make the three month dedication to this, which merely means and we talked about that. Partially two, when you might have a 3 month experiment, we try this with energy planning as effectively. So it’s not going to be this without end. In the event you don’t need it to be simply attempt it on for 3 months. And have this be one thing that you just permit your self to develop expertise round. You’re going to be a newbie at first, have a 3 month experiment with it. You may at all times return to the to do listing. You may at all times return to the To Do lists. You may at all times return to the time bucket You may at all times return to what you’re presently doing proper now that it’s not working. However it’s not horrible both you do generally get issues completed while you really feel motivated.

However in the end, you’re caught, you’re frozen, you aren’t capable of transfer your self ahead, you aren’t capable of present up persistently and confidently put your self on the market. So I need to have you ever begin doing these three steps, all you’re going to wish is a digital calendar. And it’s free. So you should utilize iCal, we are able to use Google Calendar, and you’re going to have both with it a pocket book and pen, or you’re going to use one thing digital. So you can use your Google Doc, you can use your iPhone notes, as a result of there’s going to be a mindset portion with this as effectively. So it’s essential have someplace to write down issues down. And it’s essential have a digital calendar to plan. So let’s undergo the steps. Step one in energy planning is your energy hour.

So on this step, you’re placing your needle shifting duties into your digital calendar in a means that you would be able to really comply with via on. So while you take a look at your calendar, after doing all of your Energy Hour, you’ll really really feel like you are able to do it and I’m like, Okay, effectively, if all the pieces goes to plan, and there are not any hiccups, and nothing disrupts me, and the children don’t have to return house from daycare, like I might really possibly do that, if I really feel motivated the entire time. And you’ve got all that strain and expectation, you’re not going to really feel like that, as an alternative, you’re going to really feel like I might really do that. And if life occurs, I can regulate this plan to have or not it’s one thing that works for me, in your energy hour, you’re additionally placing in your declare relaxation, which is while you’re resting with out guilt.

So in a second, I’ll discuss a bit extra about what to do along with your energy. The second step in your energy planning is your little tweaks. That is enormous, that is actually essential. You have to have adjustable plans that get up to date as you go. There are a few causes this works tremendous effectively, for the perfectionist mind. So the primary is that when your mind which desires to be an all or nothing mindset, sees the calendar, it’s actually onerous so that you can belief your self, should you suppose these plans can’t change. And it’s additionally actually onerous to plan should you suppose these plans can’t change. Since you don’t know what’s going to occur through the week, you don’t know what your motivation ranges might be such as you don’t know in case your youngsters might be effectively, you don’t know what’s going to occur within the week.

So it’s actually onerous to belief your self. And this makes it take ages to plan you keep away from planning all collectively and simply find yourself doing that to do listing. Since you really feel like effectively, I don’t really know what’s going to occur, I really can’t plan. So having this step of getting little tweaks, permits your perfectionist mind to truly get on board with planning out issues and placing in there some brave duties, these little movers that really gonna transfer your enterprise ahead. If in case you have some flexibility in that plan, we need to have versatile construction to help your perfectionist mind this little tweak step goes to provide you that versatile construction. So you can also make plans, you don’t need to spend a lot time on them. You may regulate and adapt as you go. And you’ll actually as effectively while you’re doing these little tweaks. The second cause that is so highly effective to your perfectionist mind is that you would be able to see now while you’re getting in your personal means, you can be updating your calendar to replicate what really occurred in your day, utilizing slightly test mark emoji to indicate that so you continue to get that satisfaction of ticking issues off.

However you can be adjusting your calendar and retaining issues workable as you go. So that you just by no means fall behind and need to abandon your plan or fake that you just forgot to have a look at it, you may really simply preserve issues shifting. And that is such an essential talent set in relation to entrepreneurship. In the event you don’t know how one can adapt a plan, you aren’t going to have the ability to get something completed. As a result of shit isn’t going to go to plan it’s essential study this talent set as an entrepreneur as effectively. So there are such a lot of advantages to this, and doesn’t take lengthy, it solely takes a couple of minutes a day. I work with my calendar open on my laptop computer. And I’m utilizing that as my to do listing. And it feels nice doing that as effectively. As a result of there’s a transparent finish to my day, I’ve really taken into consideration how I work once I work finest once I wish to relaxation how a lot time I wish to have for issues.

After all, loads of issues I must guess how lengthy they are going to take, as a result of I haven’t completed them earlier than. As an entrepreneur, I’m at all times doing new issues. However I’m capable of really work from that to do listing in my calendar work from that plan. And really feel like okay, I’m going to should be focusing creators to do a few of these issues. However I’ve buffer time the place I’ve deliberate break day after the brave duties, in order that my nervous system can settle down and I can reset as an alternative of considering I now need to go proper onto this different scary factor I must do. So all of that makes it so workable to your perfectionist mind and permits you to actually comply with via on it.

So then in relation to the third step, that is your weekly evaluate. And also you’re going to have the ability to see what went on along with your week by evaluating the screenshot that you just took at the start of your week. After you end your Energy Hour. You’re going to have that screenshot. And also you’re going to check it with what your calendar seems to be like now. And in relation to taking a look at how you bought in your personal means, all through the week, you’re going to have the ability to see that however while you’re working from a to do listing, you may’t, you may get caught in procrasti-research mode. Oh, simply caught within the modifying part of a reel. And it feels actually sensible and accountable to try this. That’s one of many issues perfectionists have is that once we’re overthinking, it doesn’t really feel like overthinking, it simply looks like considering, due to course, it’s important to do one thing completely.

So in relation to doing this Weekly Assessment, you’ll be able to evaluate your energy planning on the finish of the week with it at the start of the week, to see what these wins had been what did you really accomplish. In the event you go to the tip of the week, and proper now you’re feeling like I don’t even know the place the time went, and I’m exhausted. However I don’t even know what I received completed this week. That is actually going to assist with that it’s actually going to provide you that sense of accomplishment. We perfectionist we’ve a tough time celebrating wins as a result of we’re in that every one or nothing mode. And until we’re all the way in which to our objective, there’s nothing to have fun. And I don’t need to have fun something as a result of I’m going to demotivate myself. However you really must have fun issues to have the ability to step into the brand new picture you’re creating for your self, the brand new identification you’re having for your self as an actual enterprise proprietor and entrepreneur.

In the event you don’t have fun wins, you’re not going to create a brand new regular for your self. And due to the way in which our brains work, you’ll sabotage your self. So you may at all times do what’s regular for you. Our mind loves certainty, we love being sure about ourselves. So celebrating wins is what really permits you to create a brand new identification in order that it feels regular to comply with via persistently, it feels regular to make selections and really motion them and execute them. It feels regular to be earning money, it feels regular to have purchasers and clients attain out to you. All of that feels regular that occurs via celebrating wins. So in your weekly evaluate, you’ll be celebrating these wins, you’ll be taking a look at aha moments and realizations as a result of this energy planning and having it arrange on this means.

Not solely are the advantages that I’ve talked about, however one which’s so highly effective, it may be slightly bit confronting, however simply realizing it may be confronting helps with this. So I need you to consider should you’re doing a exercise, and also you aren’t doing it in entrance of a mirror, so possibly you’re performing some weightlifting. And there’s no mirror there to see what’s occurring, that you just may suppose like, oh, , I actually have the very best kind right here. If you don’t, should you had been to look in a mirror, you’d see really I must bend my knees over far more. And possibly you might have a coach or somebody who helps you see like, Hey, I do know you suppose you’ve received the very best kind right here. However really, let’s make these tweaks.

So teaching, so highly effective, however let’s simply say the mirror alone, as a result of we need to have you ever been capable of coach your self as effectively, you might have the mirror that helps you coach your self, your energy planning is your mirror. So while you look within the mirror, you may say okay, I’m going to have a relationship with myself the place I’m prepared to look in that mirror and see what’s occurring. So I can enhance it as an alternative of me eager to the exercise, by no means in entrance of a mirror. And simply residing in my very own head about how good it’s wanting and the way good it should be, I’m really prepared to have a look at myself and see what’s occurring and know that I don’t have to repair all the pieces directly. I’m by no means going to try this. And that’s by no means the objective, I can simply make one easy trick and dramatically enhance issues.

So we’ve you along with your energy planning, you’re actually making a mirror for your self to see what’s occurring with you. And should you’re like me, and you’re keen on understanding your self, and finding out your self and you’re keen on psychology and private improvement, you’re going to love energy planning as a result of it’s your teaching software, it’s creating that mirror for you, so that you can really see what’s occurring. So there are prompts that you’ll comply with in your weekly evaluate that can allow you to uncover what’s going on for you with out it turning into this overwhelming laundry listing of oh my god, there are 20 issues I did mistaken this week and issues that I would like to enhance and I procrastinated right here and I overthought this and I used to be scattered about what I used to be doing that it’s none of that. It’s actually about understanding, okay, there are such a lot of issues at any cut-off date any human might do to optimize and enhance.

And probably the most strategic and smartest means to try this is to simply choose one factor, and really make that change, after which choose one other. So when navigating to this concept of it’s essential repair your self. Private improvement isn’t about fixing your self. It’s about loving who you’re, and altering since you need to try this. Energy planning actually lets you really try this. So you might have that mirror. In your weekly evaluate. You’re taking a look at what’s working for you. What had been the wins and aha moments and realizations. What isn’t working for you simply discover it a few little examples. Okay, procrastinate on this I can see once I take a look at what I deliberate. I had this job right here to publish my gross sales web page. After which I can see on the finish of my week, that’s nowhere to be seen on my calendar. I deleted it. I pushed it off to the subsequent week. I’m wondering what’s occurring there.

And you should utilize the instruments that we share inside PGSD to unpack that and see what’s occurring and that’s sufficient you don’t must then go into Okay, what about this overthinking however We need to try this and perfection may be very effectively like I need to get to the foundation of all the pieces. It’s not about attending to the foundation, your current day considering is creating your current day emotions, actions and outcomes. Your calendar is exhibiting you what you’re doing. As a result of our mind doesn’t need to see what we’re doing. We don’t need to see that we’ve been scrolling, we don’t need to see all these issues. Simply know that as effectively. If you’re doing a Energy Hour,

you’re going to plan your week in a means that basically helps you. So robotically, your want to scroll social media or be on TikTok goes to lower since you’re not going to be attempting to flee your personal plans, you’re going to have plans which have inbuilt help, buffer time, clear relaxation, so that you just really can comply with via on them. And if you’re on TikTok or Instagram, is since you need to be not as a type of escape, who’s in a to do listing should you’re doing time blocking? In the event you’re texting issues to a buddy saying, Hey, are you able to ensure I do that as we speak, in fact, you need to be scrolling, you are attempting to flee the strain and expectations you might have for your self to do issues completely. And so we need to create for you a construction a versatile construction to your week, that permits you to present up totally and confidently in a means that doesn’t freak you out or burn you out.

So whether or not your weekly evaluate as effectively, you’ll be taking a look at a few different questions inside there. However in the end, what you had been doing is studying about your self, you’re finding out your self. In order that subsequent week, while you do your Energy Hour, you had been really capable of carry that with you, as an alternative of attempting to be like, Okay, I simply should be extra motivated. I simply must have extra self-discipline, it’s understanding, that’s not really the issue. That’s means too imprecise to even do something about. However understanding that is precisely why I procrastinate on this particular job, I can see the ideas that had been occurring, I can see what I must suppose in another way, or what I would like to permit myself to really feel as a way to really get it completed, I can see that I preserve planning for the tip of the day, that doesn’t work, I don’t have braveness on the finish of the day, I must put that at the start.

After which give myself two hours afterwards to go for a stroll or have espresso with a buddy. And then you definitely attempt that. And also you see how that goes. And over time you simply begin to get this actually deep understanding of your self. It helps you create extra self belief, as a result of then you definitely’re really planning for you not this preferrred self. That’s a robotic that you just hope might be completely motivated. However think about should you went to work, so that you’re working for another person. And your boss involves you. And I say right here I’ve this plan for you to your week. You realize precisely what you’re working in the direction of. And all the pieces right here is definitely essential. I prioritize it. So that you haven’t received busy work on right here, you’ve simply received a couple of issues which are actually essential to do, they’ll take a little bit of braveness.

However I’ve actually supported you with this. I’ve put loads of relaxation and break day in your calendar. So you may learn books, you may watch Netflix, you are able to do no matter you need to wind down between issues, you may have breaks through the center of your day, go to yoga class, if you wish to do you may have a full day without work, I’ve taken into consideration possibly issues like your cycle, I’ve taken into consideration issues possibly like your human design, I’ve so many purchasers who take these two issues into consideration, or astrology when they’re doing their energy planning, I’ve taken you into consideration and created a plan you may comply with that can get you to your objectives. That’s what you had been doing when you might have your progress objective, and you’ve got your energy planning.

So I hope that’s been useful to simply mentally attempt on energy planning. It’s one thing you can begin doing, I’ve gone via the steps right here, you may actually start to do that in PGSD. I educate how to do that and undergo all these little steps of precisely how to try this energy hour, and how one can resolve what’s a needle mover and what’s really essential, what must go in your calendar, what doesn’t, since you’re not going to have sufficient time to do all the pieces that you just need to do. So should you’re attempting to squeeze it into this into your calendar, it’s going to be actually irritating for you. So know that there’s a bit extra to it. However I’ve shared right here the essential rules of it. So you may actually simply begin attempting it on and feeling into it. And desirous about is that this one thing that I’d need to attempt? Do I actually suppose this might assist me as a result of I’ve helped so many individuals, simply by sharing this and growing this software myself, together with the expansion objective.

I follow and preach energy planning. Anybody in my life is aware of I do energy planning we use it as a enterprise behind the scenes. Everybody who works for me, does energy planning as effectively. So simply perceive that that is one thing that you would be able to begin utilizing. You don’t have to attend until you’re extra motivated. And extra self-discipline, it’s come as you’re and it’ll give you the results you want. And while you take into accounts that three month dedication to energy planning, and realizing that it’s a talent set you’re growing. So while you first method it, you’re going to method it like a perfectionist, you’re going to need to be good at it. You’re not going to need to really feel new at it, you’re going to need to really feel like precisely what you’re doing. However should you will be in that progress mindset round it, get your self into that experiment of it is a three month factor that I’m going to attempt on and I invite you to return into PGSD to try this.

We actually help you with that with setting your progress objective and all the pieces I’ve talked about right here going via all of the steps having a group of like minded folks round you who’re additionally doing it, you may as well reply actually particular questions on it. So I need you to actually attempt that on, and know that you would be able to begin doing it as you’re as we speak. You don’t should be extra motivated. You don’t even must have made the selections but you can begin placing determination making time into your energy planning. That is the way you really get your self to point out up persistently and to confidently put your self at that. So I need to invite you this up, how are you going to set your progress objective and I need to invite you to try this inside PGSD, you may go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd, to enroll in the waitlist, we’re opening for enrollment at 6am, New York time on the 14th of March 2024. And shutting at 11:59pm, New York time on the twenty first of March.

So should you haven’t already mark your calendars get on the waitlist is actually one of the simplest ways to be sure to don’t miss these dates, and you’ve got all the data it’s essential discover out extra about it and signal as much as be a part of us inside as a result of I actually need to ensure as effectively with this yr for you such as you may need been actually motivated in January and actually simply feeling like that is your yr. And possibly now we’re in March, it hasn’t panned out that means. Now why you bought a human mind additionally that perfectionist mindset and also you haven’t been utilizing the appropriate productiveness instruments, you haven’t received that help that you just want. And that versatile construction in your week, that clear objective that works to your perfectionist mind.

After all, it hasn’t been the way in which you need it to be but, however you are able to do one thing about it. So I’m going to ask you into PGSD and be a part of the entire different purchasers I’ve had been capable of create wonderful outcomes and being so caught in so in their very own means and so frozen. And really simply with a few adjustments to the way in which they’re considering the instruments they’re utilizing with the ability to change that without end, and get the compound of that without end. So yeah samlaurabrown.com/pgsd I hope you discovered this useful and I’ll discuss to you partly 4, the place we’re going to be speaking about how one can create and use optimistic time strain so you are able to do your finest work with out burning out.