Energy Planning is one among my favorite productiveness instruments (and the planning technique I educate in PGSD) however I not too long ago observed I used to be critically avoiding it. On this episode, I speak by means of why that occurred, what I used to be believing about myself and my enterprise and the way I acquired again into the behavior with out making myself really feel unhealthy about falling off.
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Introduction
Hello, and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Undertaking. A podcast filled with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My title is Sam Laura Brown, I assist entrepreneurs launch their perfectionism handbrake, to allow them to get out of their very own method and construct a satisfying and worthwhile enterprise. I’m the founding father of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished group teaching program, which is in any other case often called PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that can assist you with your corporation, you possibly can comply with me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
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So I simply felt known as to choose up my microphone and share somewhat bit about what has been occurring with me and my energy planning not too long ago. So only for context, in case you don’t know, I developed and now educate a planning technique known as energy planning. And it is a calendaring technique that works to your perfectionist mind as a substitute of in opposition to it. So lengthy story quick, I’ve all the time cherished planning and being organized regardless of not being as organized as I might like to be. However once I particularly, it got here up a lot in enterprise.
After I was beginning my enterprise, I used to be working from an extended to do checklist. Like, I attempted every little thing, the time blocking, submit it notes, like, all totally different sorts of issues, and I simply discovered myself having a number of key points. A type of points was that I all the time felt like there was a lot to do, and I didn’t know the place to begin. I additionally didn’t truly really feel like I used to be making progress although I knew I used to be getting issues performed. It simply felt just like the extra I acquired performed, the extra there was to get performed.
And so it felt very disheartening in that sense. I additionally felt like I wasn’t capable of actually make good use of my time and particularly I imply, it’s nonetheless the case at the moment. However particularly once I first began, the time that I needed to work on my enterprise was very valuable. I used to be working full time as an accountant. Nicely, technically, truly, once I first began, I wasn’t but graduated from my regulation and finance diploma.
So I had my uni research full time. I used to be working an nearly full time hours job on the facet of that, Pals, household, health, all of these issues. After which once I graduated in 2015, I then was working full time as an accountant within the metropolis, and I additionally had a number of different commitments as nicely, the identical issues. It simply felt like I didn’t have a lot time and vitality for my enterprise, however I actually needed to get it off the bottom. I simply knew that regardless of the worry, the doubt, the imposter syndrome, aka the perfectionism that was arising for me once I truly began displaying up as myself that I wanted to determine how one can profit from the time that I had.
And I simply felt like once I wasn’t capable of plan correctly for my mind, I wasn’t capable of get a way of that. I simply didn’t know what to prioritize. Every little thing felt necessary, which meant nothing actually felt necessary. I burned out quite a bit as nicely. So there have been all these causes that I simply felt like all of those planning strategies and issues, like, I actually wish to do them, however I’ve to be tremendous motivated or tremendous disciplined to have the ability to follow them and even then I fall off.
So, like, what’s the deal? As a result of I do know I’m good. I do know I’m succesful. I do know that I may truly be somebody who follows by means of, and but I’m not at the moment. So, anyway, I pieced collectively all of the various things that I realized into one thing that labored for me.
After which what I did was began sharing that with my followers, my purchasers, my folks in my world that had been studying from me in my enterprise. Like, hey. I’ve discovered what actually works for me. Do you wanna give it a go? Right here’s how one can do it.
After which simply the extra I did that, the extra that I noticed that everybody else who was doing it as nicely was simply discovering that they had been having large breakthroughs of their productiveness that they had been capable of maintain with out having to be good, with out having to be motivated, with out having to be disciplined, with out having to be higher. And that due to that, they really skilled their enterprise rising. And that was the identical for me as nicely. After I had the overwhelming to do checklist or the over scheduled time blocking in my calendar. I wasn’t truly capable of have the complete time enterprise that I needed to have as a result of I simply always felt like I used to be spinning my wheels.
So, anyway, that’s a little bit of a little bit of context for those who don’t know what energy planning is. And it’s one thing that I educate together with different productiveness strategies that I’ve developed inside my productiveness program, which is named perfectionist getting shit performed, aka PGSD. And I’ve been doing energy planning now, I wanna say it’s 4 or 5 years, which is superb once I look by means of my iCal, and I can simply see, like, the place my time has gone for a number of years. And, like, I can correlate that with totally different seasons of development in my enterprise and issues like that. It’s so cool.
So, anyway, I’ve been constantly growing energy planning and now growing it out for not simply, like, if you’re first beginning your corporation, what sort of issues must go in there, like, what’s the construction that helps that. And I get a lot of that by means of the purchasers that I help inside my program and simply all the time being attentive to what’s arising for them as they’re studying energy planning, how they’re interacting with it, what’s working for them, what isn’t working for them, insights that PGSDers have of, like, I’m doing this factor and that factor and, like, integrating a few of that as nicely. It’s very a lot one thing that I’m constantly occupied with and adapting and studying and rising with. And, additionally, now on the a number of six determine to 7 determine degree, I’m additionally growing out by means of my very own expertise in addition to purchasers I coach at that degree, what changes would possibly must be made to energy planning at totally different ranges of enterprise, but additionally simply in several seasons of life as nicely. I’m nearly thirty seven weeks pregnant on the time of recording this, and so I’m about to navigate a brand new season of probably not even a brand new season, however the postpartum interval, at the very least.
That is child quantity 4, and I’ll have 4 below 4 for at the very least a few months till Lydia turns 4 years outdated. So, I simply actually really feel like particularly any interval the place proper now, like, I’ve a number of, totally different appointments. I’ve one I’m about to go to for my being pregnant and simply, like, common life admin, greater than I’ve ever had earlier than. As a result of for those who’re a guardian, you’ll know with every baby comes admin stuff to do to help them and assist them and all these issues. So there’s that.
But additionally enterprise sensible, I’ve simply been going by means of such a shift. I’ve talked about this in latest episodes I’ve recorded, however actually shifting right into a deep degree of self belief, the next degree of management, the next commonplace for the way we run the enterprise and never from this, like, strict how ought to I do it form of place, which it initially kinda began as that, after which I dropped into that self belief or developed the self belief. It didn’t simply occur. I did create it. So when that happened, it turned extra about actually working with myself as a substitute of in opposition to myself much more so than I used to be figuring out what the enterprise wants, what I personally want, and having my private wants met in my private life, but additionally having a enterprise that truly is aligned with how I wanna do enterprise and my distinctive methods of doing issues and enjoying to my strengths and various things like that.
So there was an actual shift behind the scenes in how I’ve been working in what I’m now keen to name out. And, by way of particularly, like, crew and various things like that, as a substitute of form of folks pleasing, going with the movement, like, you recognize, we’re all on this collectively. Not that we’re not, however I may see that in my management, there was a unwillingness in some circumstances to carry somebody accountable as a result of I simply needed to be favored and be pleasant and all of these various things. And now I simply really feel like my imaginative and prescient for the enterprise and what wants to vary within the enterprise, but additionally, like, the place the enterprise goes has actually crystallized a lot. I really feel like I’ve such a transparent imaginative and prescient of that that now it’s identical to my and I’m attempting to say this with out sounding so, like, intense as a result of the sensation isn’t intense.
The sensation is that I’ve a lot want and willingness and self belief, and, like, there isn’t this form of rigidity or stress or rush. And there have been a number of that within the final two or so years that I’ve needed to actually do some emotional and thought work on getting out of that cycle, like that form of shortage or money injection cycle or there’s plenty of other ways you might give it some thought. However I actually really feel now that I’m in a distinct season. And in a second, I promise, I’ll get to the place I’m desirous to get to, which is the ability planning and this season. However simply to offer context for the season, that there have been shifts within the sorts of issues that I’m engaged on, the way in which that we’re working.
I used to be initially planning to have a extra outlined mat go away interval, however that simply felt like I used to be being unnecessarily restrictive in a method that wasn’t truly supportive. It was extra like I ought to try this. So I’ve now acquired an undefined mat go away arising. Mainly, I’m simply trusting myself to work once I wanna work, to not burn out, and I really feel assured with that. I haven’t burnt out in a few years now, and I educate quite a bit about that inside perfectionist getting shit performed.
However I’m actually simply, like, on this new period, in a way, it actually seems like for me within the enterprise. And there’s a number of frustration I’m having to deal with as a result of, Eddie, you is likely to be aware of this if you simply have such a transparent imaginative and prescient. However it additionally takes time to execute on that imaginative and prescient and to, like, get issues in alignment with that that you just simply need it, like, immediately. However I additionally know that the method of making the imaginative and prescient is as useful or, like, the method of executing on that or bringing that to life is as useful, if no more useful, than having it dropped at life and, like, the tip results of that. So I’m simply bringing myself again to that.
However, anyway, with my energy planning, I’ve observed in the previous few weeks particularly that my energy hour, in order that’s if you’re planning out your week, we now have a 3 step course of to your energy hour that you just undergo to essentially set your week up in a method that helps you, that works along with your mind, that doesn’t make you go into overthinking or invite procrastination or have you ever feeling a lot stress to get every little thing performed or, like, over scheduling your self. All of that’s catered for within the energy hour course of in order that you find yourself with a plan that you could truly comply with and one that may assist your corporation develop with out feeling fully insufficient the entire time since you’re so behind and it’s a must to rush or it’s a must to be extra disciplined or extra motivated or to be higher or no matter. So that you even have a plan that you could execute, that’s in alignment along with your objectives, and you may comply with by means of with simply as you might be. After which by doing that every week, you, in fact, improve your capability. You, in fact, improve the quantity of issues that you could get performed.
You, in fact, improve the standard of your output, your consistency, and so many issues like that. So the ability hour is the first step. Little tweaks is step two. So, in fact, life’s gonna occur. You’re going to distract your self at instances.
Like, issues will come up. And if you’re planning in a very inflexible all or nothing method of, like, I must comply with the plan completely or else, and you then simply abandon it after a number of days as a result of it didn’t go completely. And you then simply begin over on Monday, or possibly you don’t even begin over in any respect. You simply return to the overwhelming to do checklist with a number of highlighted priorities. Almost certainly, for those who’re just like the PGSDers, once they are available, they’ve acquired, like, an extended to do checklist, they usually spotlight, like, the highest three issues to do this day.
That if you’re simply both having such a imprecise plan just like the to do checklist, which is basically only a want checklist, or you probably have an over scheduled calendar, it’s actually arduous, actually arduous. Like, it’s simply setting your self up for failure to not be in that every one or nothing mindset and simply fully fall off. So we do little tweaks. You modify your calendar. Once more, the method for that is taught inside PGSD, however you modify your calendar and also you are also adjusting it to replicate what truly occurred in order that by the tip of the week, you might have a tough overview.
It’s not all the way down to the second. It’s not even all the way down to the minute. However you might have a tough overview of what truly occurred in your week to be able to see your progress and so you too can examine it with a screenshot of your energy hour after you end planning and see, like, okay. There are issues that I plan to do this now, like, aren’t on my calendar in any respect as a result of they didn’t get performed. What occurred there?
There’s simply, like, a lot alternative for self consciousness, self understanding, and truly creating everlasting change, not simply feeling annoyed you set it off once more, not truly understanding why, after which repeating the identical mistake the following week, after which happening like that for years. And, like, you’ve by no means truly began your e mail checklist that you just actually needed to begin, and it’s two years later. So we now have that. And ultimately of the week, you do your weekly evaluation the place you might be evaluating your earlier than screenshot of your calendar if you began the week with the after and gaining all of the insights that you could from that. You don’t want to achieve many.
Only one makes such a giant distinction. And, additionally, I simply wanna point out this too. You don’t want to have the ability to plan out every week at a time in full. Most of our PGSDers I’d say it’s, like, half and half. I’d say about half do a full week of energy planning, and the opposite half would do, like, planning out at some point at a time following the ability planning technique or two days at a time or three days at a time, after which having the ability to plan out longer and longer time durations as they construct their self belief and their comply with by means of and people sure issues as nicely.
So with that stated, with that context, that for me, I observed that I’ve been avoiding my energy planning although I function so a lot better when I’ve that form of versatile construction that actually helps my creativity as a substitute of stifles it. Like, I achieve this a lot better. And I used to be not truly doing it. I used to be nonetheless doing little tweaks. So on the finish of the week, like, I can see the place my time roughly went.
Nonetheless doing my weekly evaluation as nicely, getting insights into the enterprise, into my very own productiveness, my perfectionism, and why that’s arising and why I must launch my perfectionism handbrake. However the energy hour itself was one thing that I used to be avoiding doing, and I used to be form of doing it however form of probably not. Like, you recognize, if you’re in that state of affairs that you just’re like, I’m I’m doing it, however this isn’t truly me doing it absolutely. And never that it must be good. It’s by no means good.
However I wasn’t following the steps. I simply wasn’t truly doing the factor in full. So the explanation for that that I used to be telling myself was as a result of the enterprise was navigating simply, like, a season of, as I discussed, like, me transitioning into doing totally different sorts of issues for the enterprise, but additionally returning to a number of issues that I used to do within the enterprise after which stopped doing in relation to content material creation and various things like that. Like, it’s simply been, like, a a reel during the last, I’d say, three months or, like, from the start of twenty twenty 5, to almost 4 months, simply, like, determining what the enterprise wants on this season of the enterprise and rising to that. And it has been, yeah, simply principally an adjustment or, like, a rediscovery or a reinvention.
And now, almost 4 months later, it feels prefer it’s all actually clicking collectively in essentially the most lovely method. However it has been a course of, and it’s actually necessary simply to say that as nicely as a result of we will, once more, simply get so annoyed when we now have this imaginative and prescient of how we wish issues to be and it’s not immediately occurring, that it’s a course of. It’s an unfolding or a discovery, and there are layers. Like, I’ve been having so many breakthroughs and epiphanies, which then results in the following one. I’ve had, like, this domino impact from getting coached, self teaching, having my energy planning to construct a lot consciousness, and simply additionally years of expertise with mindset and all these various things, productiveness, constructing companies, teaching purchasers, doing one on one teaching as nicely, all of these various things, my PGFC teaching that I do.
So all of that to say, I’ve simply been like, I don’t know precisely it is a story. I don’t know precisely what I must plan, and it feels prefer it simply advanced so quick. So I can’t actually plan. So I’ll simply have the construction of my energy planning so I do know precisely once I’m working, once I’m not working. And that’s one factor that actually helps me to have the ability to swap off in addition to I do, that I will be in work mode after which be fully not occupied with work in any respect, which I feel a number of entrepreneurs wrestle to say.
And it’s not as a result of it must be a wrestle, however I feel we’re simply not taught instruments like energy planning that truly assist with that. When you’ve got an infinite to do checklist, in fact, you’re gonna endlessly take into consideration your corporation. And even for those who love your corporation as I do, what it may well imply is then you might have an underdeveloped private life, then enterprise seems like actually excessive stakes as a result of it’s the one factor actually happening in your life. After which that reduces your braveness in your corporation, and that reduces your resilience and so many necessary issues like that. As a result of it seems like such a giant deal, that turns your perfectionism handbrake on.
Which may make you freeze. Which may make you go into doing a number of overworking and, like, that form of overfunctioning. After which it actually impacts the enterprise outcomes. After which, in fact, due to that once more, it seems like a giant deal as a result of your private life is underdeveloped otherwise you’re counting on your corporation. Nicely, truly, it’s often each of those collectively.
You’re counting on your corporation to fulfill your private wants, and it simply finally ends up getting messy. And I really feel like within the final, I’d say, six to eight months, I’ve actually performed quite a bit to untangle that, to develop out much more my private life, issues like hobbies, beginning studying once more actually persistently, like fiction books, private growth, however only for the enjoyable of private growth as a result of that’s the form of individual I’m. Not studying it in a enterprise context, however simply studying it for the love of the particular topic of it. So in relation to any change in season, any change in life, within the sense of, like, enterprise season, it might be literal season. Like, if you’re someplace I’m not.
I’m in Brisbane, Australia. We don’t actually have seasons. We technically do, nevertheless it’s all the time fairly sunny. It’s all the time fairly heat. We have now the very best climate, I feel, on the planet.
And I’ve traveled to a number of locations. I actually assume Brisbane has superb climate. However you would possibly truly be someplace the place there are literal seasons of, like, it is advisable work in another way. In winter, particularly for those who’re someplace the place the times go tremendous quick after which in summer time, it’s tremendous lengthy and, like, there are totally different belongings you wanna do in several seasons, for me, there’s not that a lot variation seasonally by way of, like, the climate, so it doesn’t actually have an effect on it. However it is likely to be for you.
That is likely to be a factor. You might need all totally different sorts of seasons. Perhaps you might have a power sickness or one thing like that the place you might have flare ups and various things. So, like, there will be all totally different sorts of seasons, whether or not it’s enterprise season, a life season, and inside that, like, a management season in your corporation or a well being season, and that goes by means of totally different variation and alter, that you just wish to have a planning technique and gear that truly takes that under consideration and helps you rather than having a inflexible method of, like, it’s a must to get up at 5AM each morning. That simply isn’t gonna work in sure seasons of your life.
Postpartum, when you’ve had a child, is a superb instance of that. There may be large change to the way in which that you just sleep and to what it is advisable do to have the ability to get a baseline degree of hours of sleep. So I actually, particularly for perfectionists, deeply, deeply consider in having a planning technique and gear that works for you rather than in opposition to you. And so for me, with this season, I’ve simply been like, I don’t actually know what to place in my calendar. And so I’ll simply have the construction and I’ll fill it in as I’m going, however I received’t plan out.
And it hasn’t even seemed like that instantly in my head, However I simply observed that I wouldn’t do my full energy hour or I’d begin doing it after which I’d get I’d distract myself as a substitute of claiming get distracted. I might distract myself, by both saying sure to an outdoor distraction alternative or actually producing my very own distraction for myself. As a result of, in fact, it feels uncomfortable to sit down down and plan it out and have that degree of readability and dedication and all of that. Like, that does require a sure emotional capability to have the ability to sit with that. And so naturally, as people, we generate distractions from ourselves as a result of we’re wired to hunt pleasure, keep away from ache, and do what’s best, which suggests conserving vitality, considering the identical ideas again and again, doing the identical routine autopilot habits again and again.
So with that stated, what I did at the moment, I actually broke out of it of this, like, energy planning avoidance, for those who wanna name it that, although. I used to be nonetheless doing nearly all of it. However one of many key elements I wasn’t doing absolutely that I simply was like, okay. What do I really want? And that is simply how one can be considering if you undergo a shift.
And, additionally, it’s okay you probably have weeks and even months the place you’re like, I do know this works rather well for me, and but I discover myself not doing it. And I’m keen to simply let myself be annoyed, and that’s okay or no matter it’s. So identical to, I I actually am recommitting to doing my energy hour each week even when I must make so many little tweaks that it’s fully unrecognizable. And I’m already fairly comfy with making a number of little tweaks to my calendar in order that it’s not an issue for me mentally, emotionally if my calendar appears to be like very totally different to what I deliberate it out to be. I do know that that may generally occur.
I do know a number of instances that’s for actually good causes. Like, a plan evolves or I wanted to offer myself extra time or extra space for sure issues or no matter. So I do know and for lots of PGSDers, I discussed this as a result of once they first are available and be taught energy planning, there’s this, like, nearly this concept of for those who’re doing somewhat tweak to your calendar or making an adjustment, you then failed at comply with by means of. However a part of comply with by means of is having the ability to make changes. That’s how anybody is ready to comply with by means of.
It’s not from simply being, like, so strict and so inflexible with your self. And I’d say even when that was the key, that’s in all probability not the very best form of feeling in life that you might have. I’m such a giant believer in self-discipline, in actually having the ability to honor your phrase. And generally, the important thing to honoring your phrase and having that integrity with your self is definitely recognizing when your phrase or no matter you dedicated to must be up to date so that you can truly be capable to honor it. That’s such a giant piece, not simply this, like, inflexible strategy that perfectionists are likely to take with self-discipline.
There’s additionally, like, the self-discipline to really be capable to have uncomfortable insights and make changes even when your perfectionist mind desires it to go precisely the way you initially deliberate it. So with my planning at the moment, I used to be identical to, principally, I’m going to have quite a bit greater. I’m utilizing my fingers, however you can not see them, so it doesn’t actually make sense. However greater chunks of time than reasonably than smaller chunks. So generally what actually helps me is having every little thing damaged down into, like, I like to recommend nothing shorter than thirty minutes or fifteen minutes on the shortest.
In any other case, it simply it’s too within the weeds, and it’s, like, not useful to have that degree of element except you’re very skilled with energy planning. And that’s additionally one thing that helps you and doesn’t really feel restrictive. However generally I like having, like, thirty minute increments or 45 minute increments of, like, very particular issues, very particular outcomes I wanna obtain. However proper now, what I’m actually feeling known as to do is have much more movement than regular. And energy planning actually helps movement, helps creativity.
I’ve interviewed PGSDers on the podcast earlier than, like, one among our PGSDers, Rachel Brown, on how energy planning helps you with creativity. She’s an artist. So it actually helps with creativity, however generally there’s extra I want, like, extra construction or inventive constraint to carry that creativity out. And generally I simply want extra of, like, flowy vibes and simply, like, letting myself do what I need inside some sure boundaries and parameters. I discover for me, everybody’s totally different.
Because of this energy planning is so adaptable to you, and we actually help you in PGSD to get it working for you. And currently, I’ve actually been leaning extra into my human design as nicely. I’m a two 4 emotional projector. Actually leaning into that and having that that construction, like flowy construction that’s versatile and actually helps me. And so at this cut-off date, it has actually been about having it’s much less particular than it was in different seasons.
However for me, I discover if I don’t have any boundary in any way so if I’m, like, not working from a calendar in any respect, if I’m simply working basically, we’re all the time working from one thing. So for those who’re not working from, like, a bodily to do checklist or a bodily calendar in your laptop computer or your telephone or no matter, you’re working from a psychological to do checklist on the very least. There may be some form of construction, framework, checklist, one thing someplace you might have, even when it’s not bodily, that you’re working from to determine what to do subsequent. And I’ve simply discovered for me that when I’ve an excessive amount of, I wanna say, like, unclarity. What’s the phrase for that?
Not being clear, basically, on what the objectives are. We assist with this in PGSD too as, like, having a development objective or a momentum challenge or each that actually anchors you, helps you prioritize, helps you get shit performed with out burning out. So you might have that in thoughts, after which you might have your issues that you just wish to transfer ahead to really be capable to accomplish that. And I discover that if I don’t have if it’s identical to I can do no matter at any time when I need. And on this, like, principally, in each second I’m having to decide on what I even wanna work on within the first place, that to me simply is overwhelming.
After which I don’t do issues as a result of it seems like there’s a lot to do. I don’t know what’s most necessary. I don’t know the place to begin. I don’t know the way lengthy it can take. And there’s that perfectionist all or nothing mindset that may are available of, like, if I don’t have a giant chunk of time, then I don’t have any time to get one thing correctly performed.
And so my mind likes to assume that form of thought. So I like having the, like, total like, these are the important thing needle movers for me, and that is roughly once I’m gonna do it. And I belief myself to work extra if I need. I belief myself to work much less if I need. I belief myself to have the ability to discern if I’m desirous to work extra, what’s the thought and feeling behind that if I like these causes.
And the identical with working much less if I like these causes. Not that I’m gonna have good like of the explanations on a regular basis, however I belief myself to discern that and to make changes. And, additionally, I simply and I wanna say just about each PGSDer, that is true as nicely. I feel it’s a part of, like, what attracts you to a program like PGSD is having that resonance with the core philosophy. And the core philosophy of PGSD is getting shit performed with out burning out, and that’s by means of versatile construction, self help, self belief, working with your self as a substitute of in opposition to your self, and having the ability to have issues that assist you to keep organized and never really feel overwhelmed and never overthink and never procrastinate with out then being restrictive or having you be inflexible or, like, I ought to do that as a result of I noticed this different individual doing that or I’ve to do this as a result of that’s what everybody else does at this stage of enterprise.
Like, letting go of these guidelines, making your individual, trusting your self to execute on them, supporting your self by means of the ups and downs of that as a result of it’s in all probability not gonna immediately work. There in all probability is gonna be some determining that should occur. So that actually is what energy planning is about and PGSD as nicely. Energy planning is simply one of many instruments we educate in there. However for me, simply truly having the ability to be like, I don’t must be as particular with my work time and the outcomes of that, like, what I wanna have performed as I usually am.
And on this season, I can simply have greater chunks, so, like, two hours, for instance, or three hours, the place it’s a bit extra imprecise. It’s nonetheless final result centered of, like, what I wanna full, nevertheless it’s a bit extra imprecise than in different seasons, and that’s okay. So for those who’re already energy planning, you’re already in PTSD, I simply wanna invite you to recollect or be taught that you’ll actually have a distinction in how your energy planning appears to be like season to season, enterprise sensible, private life life sensible, all of the issues in between. And that isn’t an indication that you just’re doing it fallacious. That’s truly an indication that you just’re utilizing it to help your self.
It’s regular to have resistance, particularly in durations the place maybe it feels extra turbulent, maybe it doesn’t, however the place you’re form of, like, reconfiguring and reinventing that additionally, naturally, there shall be a shift that should occur in the way you’re planning your time and occupied with your self and your corporation and all these issues. So doing it the way in which you’ve all the time performed it isn’t the objective. It’s to consider, okay, at the moment, on this second with what I do know now, this week, on this second with what I do know now, what’s the most supportive method for me to have energy planning be one thing that helps me? After which give your self permission to do that, to really ask these questions. That is, like, key basic underlying premise of what I educate and what this system is about and the software is that it’s not , like, how does everybody else do it and I ought to try this too?
However, like, turning it inwards of, like, okay. I’ve a construction and a philosophy and issues which might be there to help me. And now what would it not appear like to belief myself to use that, to ask questions and ask for help, crucial as nicely. After we belief ourselves, we additionally are likely to ask for help, however not in a, like, is that this proper or is that this fallacious form of method or what ought to I, shouldn’t I do? However simply asking questions that assist us belief ourselves extra, that assist us implement in a method that’s extra true to ourselves.
And so, yeah, I simply needed to share principally me being in a brand new section of energy planning. The instruments are saying the steps are the identical, however making use of it in another way as I’m now getting into or, like, in or really feel like I’m form of, like, solidifying a distinct season. And I’m so glad that I simply stored at it imperfectly throughout that point as nicely and that I simply let it’s what it was with out judging it or, like, I needs to be doing higher. I’m identical to, okay. I’m noticing.
I’m noticing that I’m not doing energy planning the way in which I usually do. I’m noticing that I’m not doing it on the frequency that I usually do. Like, I’m not finishing the ability hour, and that’s okay. And I belief myself to return to it. So with that stated, I actually wanna simply invite you as nicely to affix us in PGSD after we open for enrollment in July is the following enrollment.
So samlaurabrown.com/pgsd is the place you possibly can go to join the waitlist for this system. I hope you’re having a good looking day, and I’ll speak to you within the subsequent episode.
Outro
When you get pleasure from this podcast, I like to recommend signing up for the waitlist for my program known as Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished (aka PGSD). This can be a program designed that can assist you get out of your individual method in your corporation. You’re gonna discover ways to launch your perfectionism handbrake by setting a development objective for your corporation, planning correctly as a perfectionist with Energy Planning and getting common guilt-free clear relaxation. You’ll be taught the abilities required to get out of your individual method and be supported each step of the way in which to do it.
Whereas the doorways to PGSD are at the moment closed, they are going to be opening once more quickly. So to search out out extra about this system and be a part of the waitlist at the moment, go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.
