Should you’ve been questioning tips on how to keep motivated and present up constantly, week after week after week – this episode will show you how to perceive how following the PGSD Course of will show you how to keep motivated as you construct your enterprise. Particularly in the event you’ve been within the all-or-nothing cycle of displaying up completely for a number of weeks after which abandoning your targets and your content material calendar.
On this episode I’m going to be displaying you ways Energy Planning and Clear Relaxation will preserve you motivated to indicate up in your enterprise. You’ll hear about what we are able to be taught from youngsters about staying motivated, why the objective isn’t getting your total to-do record in your calendar, and the hidden advantages of resting with out guilt.
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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 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 referred to as PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that can assist you with your enterprise, you may observe me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
Sam Laura Brown (Intro to the Episode)
As we speak, I’ve a better of the podcast episode for you. So at this level, there are a whole lot of episodes on this podcast, and I need to ensure that the perfect episodes don’t get misplaced within the archives. So in the present day I’m sharing with you an episode that’s properly cherished and likewise one which I’m always referring to and linking folks to. And I need to be sure to can take heed to it as properly in the event you haven’t already.
Earlier than I get into it, although, I need to point out a few issues. To start with, ranging from the subsequent episode that’s going out after this one, I’m sharing a sequence on clear relaxation. And so in the event you’ve been questioning about clear relaxation, tips on how to get extra of it, the place to place it in your calendar, what counts, what doesn’t, and all these various things, then that sequence, it’s 5 episodes goes to be so useful for you.
So the primary episode within the sequence goes out on 27 March. Then there’s one each different day for all of the 5 to exit. After which after that the doorways to PGSD are opening on the 4th April for one week, the doorways will probably be open, and it is possible for you to to affix us inside Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished. And actually grasp planning correctly as a perfectionist utilizing the facility planning technique, setting your development objective doing all these issues that we talked about on the podcast, I talked about on Instagram.
And that is actually the place you’re gonna get the assist, the accountability, the teaching, every part you may need to have you ever really put in every part that you simply’ve discovered from this podcast into follow, I simply wished to let you realize concerning the clear relaxation sequence and the doorways to PGSD opening so that you simply don’t miss it. And you will discover within the present notes, a hyperlink to join the PGSD waitlist. And likewise, in the event you’re not following me on Instagram but, I’m @perfectionismproject. However anyway, that’s simply what I wished to start out with.
So with out additional ado, let’s get into the episode.
Sam Laura Brown
On this episode, I’m going to be speaking about how energy planning and clear relaxation preserve you motivated to indicate up for your enterprise. If in case you have been questioning, how do I keep motivated? How do I present up constantly and preserve doing that week after week after week after week? In case you are having the expertise, the place you get a whole lot of motivation, you present up constantly for a number of weeks, and you then simply utterly abandon your targets, and your content material calendar and every part else occurring.
And you end up on this all or nothing cycle, then that is actually going that can assist you perceive how planning correctly as a perfectionist, how that’s the key the key to staying motivated. And the way I noticed this, like I’m all the time serious about the enterprise regardless of all of the clear relaxation I get. My mind is all the time working to see analogies and similarities between random issues that I hear or expertise and what I speak about on the podcast, what I speak about in PGSD, and all of that.
So just lately, with Lydia’s toys, we have now began doing toy rotating. And that is one thing that I’ve discovered about by different dad and mom who’re mates of mine, and likewise by the great world of YouTube, and listening to completely different folks speaking about this follow of rotating your toys. And I’m going to be telling you and speaking about how this pertains to energy planning and clear rests in your enterprise. I believe it’s such a gorgeous analogy. And it actually goes to indicate as properly, that as a lot as we develop and evolve as people, that we’re actually not that completely different to infants.
We actually have these very elementary human wants and needs and the way in which our mind works, that we are able to typically take a look at what works for kids, and sort of replicate that in our grownup life and discover it to be very efficient. I’m not saying that it really works for every part. However I’m discovering that as we’re elevating Lydia, and I’m studying loads about that sort of factor, that I’m noticing how a whole lot of these methods and alternative ways of approaching issues additionally works for me as an grownup and toy rotating is considered one of them.
So in the event you’re not accustomed to the concept of this, it’s mainly that so that you may need a complete bunch of toys to your baby. And possibly you’re getting toys from family members for birthdays, and Christmases and all of these completely different events. And as a substitute of giving all of these toys to your baby directly, and they’re taking part in with all the toys. And so excited to possibly if you consider like Christmas week, they get all these toys, and it’s oh my god, so thrilling to me from one toy to the subsequent to the subsequent, the subsequent. Sounding acquainted? And so they’re actually engaged with every part, after which they simply recover from it. And so they’re not even taking a look at all the brand new toys, they usually’re simply feeling like they’re going to waste. What you do or what an choice you have got is, is to rotate that toys.
So this implies as a substitute of presenting to your baby, all the toys directly, which could be very overwhelming. As an alternative, you curate a number of toys which can be going to serve them in several methods. So that you would possibly, for instance, choose toys that like there’s a building type toys and a musical one. And there’s a smooth toy and all these completely different ones which can be going to assist them be taught and develop and preserve them engaged. You’re not simply giving them you realize, 20 teddy bears, and letting them select which one. It’s all about giving them completely different sensory experiences and all that sort of factor, however you’re not giving them every part directly. You’re simply giving them a curated choice.
After which what you do every week is that you simply give them a unique choice and you’re taking away the choice from final week. And clearly there’s a lot of alternative ways you are able to do. There’s no proper or improper. This isn’t a podcast episode about tips on how to do toy rotation. And I’ve seen various things that speak about like if they’ve a favourite, preserve that favourite there till they lose curiosity. Different ones are saying that you simply simply rotate all of them out and in each week. So it’s, yeah, don’t take this recommendation on tips on how to rotate toys.
I need to speak about it when it comes to energy planning and clear relaxation. So you may actually get an understanding for the psychology of those instruments at the side of the expansion objective. That’s what actually helps us determine what to prioritize. What to place in our energy planning, what to not put in our energy planning, and all of that sort of factor that like this technique of toy rotation, does in keeping with the consultants, and lots of dad and mom who use it. There’s a lot, there’s so many wonders for his or her growth, as a result of once they have much less toys to play with, it offers them the chance to totally discover and interact with their toys with out losing interest, with out getting overwhelmed. And so they additionally expertise their previous toys as in the event that they had been new.
So once we’re doing our energy planning, let’s speak about that first, after which we’ll speak about clear relaxation. Once we’re doing our energy planning, what we’re primarily doing for ourselves, is we’re laying out our toys for the week. We’re laying out in our calendar in our digital calendar, with our development objective in thoughts, what we’re going to do, and most significantly, what we’re not going to do. So in terms of and it is a query I’ve obtained from PGSDers, how do you get every part out of your to do record into your calendar in per week? Like how do you really make every part match? The reply is that you simply don’t.
The objective isn’t to get every part to slot in your calendar. The objective is to essentially see that every part you have got in your to do record isn’t really mandatory. And whether it is, you don’t have to get all of it executed this week. It’s protected to not get all of it executed this week. So we’re making this mentality that we have now to get every part executed on this record to achieve success, like our success is conditional on this to do record, it then turns into very irritating, to then attempt to determine tips on how to get it into our calendar. And that is the place a whole lot of over planning occurs that we actually underestimate the time that it takes to do issues we’re imprecise we is likely to be doing. Should you’re not energy planning, in case you are doing like time batching, time blocking your calendar, the place it’s a imprecise like work on launch, or issues like that, that we are attempting to get all of it executed so we might be profitable. And the objective, the work is basically to acknowledge that there are a whole lot of pointless duties on that to do lists.
And what we need to do is we have now our calendar. And in our Energy Hour, the total course of for that’s in PGSD. Once we’re doing our energy hour, we’re planning out our commitments, after which our clear relaxation, after which our needle movers in that order. Creating contingency plans, doing all these different issues. Once we are going by that course of in that hour, we’re laying out our toys for the week, as a substitute of claiming, right here is that this pile of toys. And it’s important to determine which one you need to play with and the way lengthy to spend on each. And simply right here you go and have added which is so overwhelming for kids, additionally very overwhelming for us. And it finally ends up the place you sort of don’t play with any of the toys, metaphorically talking, since you don’t know which one is the perfect one to play with.
So once we’re doing our energy planning, we’re as our highest self laying out for the week, what we’re going to interact with. And it’s protected to be dedicated to our plans that we make to our energy planning. As a result of we all know that every part that does have to get executed will get executed over time. If you undergo the facility planning course of. And you’re doing all your Energy Hour, your little tweaks all through the week, your weekly assessment, and making the three month dedication to that. And that’s a dedication we make time and again every quarter. However you’re dedicated to that. And you realize that one other energy hour is coming. And also you’re not going to overlook any essential duties that really taking the time, your mind tells you you don’t have sufficient time to get every part executed. And also you undoubtedly don’t have sufficient time to plan. You simply want to love get in there and go.
It’s sort of like if you consider with the toy analogy, there’s this pile of toys you want I don’t have time to determine which of them to play with, and put them in a separate room and put these different ones apart. I’m simply gonna like get in there and begin taking part in with the toys. It’s not efficient, it’s not productive. It’s very overwhelming. And we’re not setting ourselves up in an surroundings that’s conducive to being absolutely engaged and that engagement being absolutely engaged with the duty that we’re doing and giving ourselves ample time as a substitute of dramatically underneath estimating how lengthy it can take. And by the way in which, when you have been noticing, you’re underneath estimating how lengthy issues will take if you’re planning, that’s an indication it’s working, since you’re getting that self consciousness. However once we’re underneath estimating how lengthy issues will take. Am I over planning, we’re placing weight an excessive amount of in our calendar, we’re not doing little tweaks, we’re not updating it as we go.
Then it’s actually going to be arduous to belief that every part goes to get executed. However once we are doing Energy planning, and we all know that there’s one other energy hour coming, and we all know that we have now a course of for capturing every part that must be executed and ensuring it does get executed, and we are able to belief ourselves to do it, then it implies that as a substitute of being like, Oh, my God, are these the proper toys that I’ve picked. And what concerning the different ones in there, possibly I’ll simply go and get a type of toys from in there. After which I’ll put it on this room, and I’ll play with it this week. After which all of that drama. We will make our plans and we are able to really feel protected doing so as a result of we all know, every part’s going to get executed. As a result of we all know there’s so some ways as properly to get to our objective that these circumstances that we’ve set out for ourselves about what must be executed with a purpose to achieve success, in all probability isn’t going to be correct, particularly for pursuing a objective have by no means achieved earlier than.
And a whole lot of instances, as I stated the work isn’t to get every part into Calendar, the work is to cease overestimating what it’s going to take. And energy planning helps us to cease overestimating how a lot work it’s going to take. We’ve got all these concepts about arduous work and all this resistance to ease as a result of we really feel undeserving if success is just too simple. So once we’re doing that to do record, this why we don’t need to do record. We’re doing that to do record we critically overestimate. And so we need to educate you, need to all discover ways to cease overestimating.
For instance, a baby, if given the selection would in all probability say I need to play with all of the toys this week. And so they’re overestimating what number of toys they should actually have the funnest week that they might presumably have. And once they’re given only a choice, possibly it’s 5 toys, possibly it’s eight toys, regardless of the quantity, that they’re capable of really take pleasure in every of these toys to not really feel burdened.
And this FOMO about all the opposite ones, they’re lacking out. And it’s like, okay, that is what we’re taking part in with. So I’m simply going to truly play with these, as a substitute of spending all my time this week, questioning which one I ought to play with, or which is the proper one to play with. So energy planning, we’re laying out the toys for the week. And we’re now not overwhelmed with alternative or the guilt of not getting every part executed. As a result of we’ve curated and we have now constrained ourselves. In order that we are able to really set ourselves up for fulfillment and observe by with our plans 80% of the time, not even having to get there 100% of the time.
However we’re actually creating per week wherein we are able to thrive as a substitute of per week, that’s simply gonna utterly kick us. After which additionally, when you find yourself energy planning, and when you find yourself taking this method, we really full the work that strikes our enterprise ahead. We’re doing the issues that matter. And in terms of this query as properly, I simply need to shortly contact on this as a result of I’ve been getting fairly a number of questions on it just lately. How do I inform what a needle shifting activity is and what isn’t? And we talked about this in PGSD. And I’m not gonna go into an excessive amount of element about it. However I just do need to say that oftentimes, once we are trustworthy with ourselves, we all know what a needle mover is, and what isn’t, however a number of issues that may show you how to is, would you be prepared to pay for another person to do it? So for instance, spending three hours making a Canva graphic, would you pay somebody three hours value of labor, say you’re paying them an hourly charge to try this? Most likely not, you in all probability say that may very well be executed in quarter-hour, or no matter it’s, relying on what it’s.
That’s only a actually good option to see is that this really one thing that might transfer the enterprise ahead. If I used to be so possibly you do have staff members, possibly you don’t but. However is that this one thing that I might be prepared to pay for somebody to do? If it’s a scary activity, it’s in all probability going to be a needle mover. But in addition one of the best ways to determine what needle shifting duties are for your enterprise is to have a development objective, to make use of energy planning, clear rests to pursue that objective. And when you find yourself doing all your weekly evaluations and you then’ll do a quarterly and annual assessment as properly to essentially mirror on that.
And when you find yourself energy planning you don’t have to be your preferrred self at each second all through the week. Once we are energy planning we’re planning for our unmotivated self. We’re planning for the model of us that feels resistant. That doesn’t need to do it. That would favor to simply scroll by Instagram and never publish something. We’re planning for that model of myself. That doesn’t imply that we don’t put duties in our energy planning that require braveness, it simply implies that we’re not anticipating ourselves to be a robotic. And we’re not being a bitch to ourselves with what we placed on our plate.
So when that’s the method that we’re approaching our week, we’re solely actually needing to be our like larger future sort of self for 90 minutes throughout the week. In order that’s the 60 minutes, you’re doing all your Energy Hour, after which the half-hour you’re doing the weekly assessment. So if you’re within the thick of your week, it is likely to be difficult to inform what’s a needle mover and what isn’t. And also you would possibly end up doing a activity for longer than you’d allowed. And possibly it’s, for instance, making a Canva graphic or twiddling with issues in your web site, and that sort of factor. And within the second, it would really feel actually essential. However then if you’re doing all your weekly assessment and reflecting on that, or it won’t even be apparent on a weekly foundation, if you’re doing all your quarterly assessment.
Because of this we’re always reflecting, and never making this enormous, heavy activity, understanding you’re gonna really feel resistance round reflection, even in the event you love private growth, it’s regular to really feel that method. However possibly it’s if you’re doing all your quarterly assessment to take a look at you realize, you may scroll by your calendar and see the place did my time go this quarter, and I might be confronting, that’s okay, once more, to really feel resistance to it. The place did my time go this quarter? What had been my outcomes? And what’s my concept for subsequent quarter as to what to do in another way.
So for instance, in the event you look again, and also you spent a whole lot of time simply creating graphics for Instagram, for instance. And your outcome was that you simply didn’t hit your objective, then that may very well be a very good time to take a look at. Okay, was that really a needle mover for me? And let’s simply hypothesize and say it wasn’t. And clearly, it’s not all or nothing. There is likely to be, you realize, that you must do one thing to a sure degree, however you don’t have to spend the additional two hours on it every time. Let’s simply hypothesize and say it wasn’t a needle mover, what could be a needle mover? If I simply needed to activity my mind with discovering a solution.
It’s actually essential that we follow tasking our brains with discovering solutions, as a substitute of reverting to I don’t know, as a substitute of reverting to Google and YouTube and all these issues, to simply entry our personal knowledge, and develop that self belief and acknowledge we do know a whole lot of issues. And that we frequently have the reply proper there. And we’re simply pretending to be confused about it, as a result of it’s scary to implement what we all know.
In order that’s just a bit aspect observe on needle movers. As a result of that’s one thing that always once we’re doing a to do record, we don’t ever take into consideration what really makes an affect in our enterprise and what doesn’t. As an alternative we’re serious about being busy. We’re serious about avoiding guilt of not being busy. And we’re serious about, like, what we love to do, and what are different folks doing, what ought to I do, like there are all these items that creep on to the to do record, the one which we love, writing and rewriting that we really feel so responsible about being behind on. And but we preserve studying these lengthy ones, like when we’re not going by the facility planning course of, and actually being diligent with what’s on our calendar. And like if you’re doing Energy planning your calendar is your to do record.
So not being diligent with that, that we find yourself with this want record. And we use a want record as an excuse to really feel dangerous, as a result of we’re so snug shaming ourselves and beating ourselves up and feeling behind. So it’s typically when PGSDer stopped energy planning that they’ll come up towards like, oh shit, I don’t even actually know what does transfer my enterprise ahead. And that’s such a gorgeous query to be asking. Since you get to provide you with the reply, you get to discover that. And it’s gonna take time to determine what that appears like. And there’s going to be layers to it.
So for instance, for me, one thing that could be a needle movers for my enterprise is recording episodes for the podcast. However once I do them one by one on the final minute, that turns into busy work as a result of I have to get into podcasting mode, get issues arrange, which solely takes three seconds as a result of I simply have slightly plug in. What am I saying a plug in microphone, that’s USB one and I simply maintain it in my hand and I simply file on fast time. So it’s not this massive factor but it surely’s loads faster and loads much less busy worky, if that’s a phrase. When I’m doing episodes in batches, then once I’m doing them singularly.
However at first, it’s getting myself to do a podcast episode, and doing that constantly and displaying up absolutely for that was a needle mover. After which over time, as I grew to become increasingly snug with that, as my enterprise was rising, it grew to become much less of a needle mover to do it one after the other. And I used to be then on the degree of, okay, now we have to be batching these collectively. And that’s actually, when it’s a needle mover. When I’m doing it one after the other, that’s once I can name myself on it being busy work.
Anyway, you’ll do these layers of labor. However I’m simply sharing that as a result of it’s a follow, it’s a course of. Because of this we do the three month dedication and why we preserve engaged on this. So that’s how energy planning pertains to toy rotation. Now let’s speak about clear relaxation. So once we are taking our clear relaxation, we’re reaping the advantages of letting ourselves miss the work that we love. So on this analogy, the clear relaxation is the time that the kid has away from the toys, the massive pile of toys that they may have, and even it won’t be an enormous pile of toys, however simply toys usually, that does magnificence in lacking one thing and having time away from one thing. And you’ll love your enterprise. And that doesn’t imply that you must be engaged on it 24/7.
And I believe a whole lot of us get that confused that if we like it, we must always do it on a regular basis. And it’s okay to do it on a regular basis. And we sort of use that as an excuse to not take clear relaxation, or what I simply love what I do, and I relaxation higher when every part’s executed. Simply be onto your self with that. Being that executed that. I do know from expertise, however once we’re taking our clear relaxation, which if you wish to consider it actually merely. Clear relaxation, resting with out guilt is a time that you simply’re not engaged on your enterprise.
So that you in all probability produce other commitments and issues that you simply’re doing in your life. And we are able to undoubtedly get into this perfectionist mindset about what’s clear relaxation, and what isn’t clear relaxation? And we need to ensure that we’re being on to ourselves with our clear relaxation, and that we’re not simply letting ourselves spend all of that point doing productive life admin issues and by no means really exploring what we like doing that isn’t productive. However for the sake of this, and particularly in the event you’re simply beginning to clear relaxation, to simply take into consideration this enterprise time and there’s clear relaxation time, which is time you’re not allowed to work on your enterprise.
So once we are in our clear relaxation time, which is time once more, that we’re not engaged on the enterprise, we’re reaping the advantages of letting ourselves miss the work that we love. Simply as a baby, once they aren’t attending to play with their toys on a regular basis. After they get again to their toys, they’re excited to play with them, they’re able to discover them. But when they simply have toys out on a regular basis, and all of the toys out so it’s overwhelming.
Though you say, they love the toys, they need to have them on a regular basis. They only love toys. Like we all know, it’s so apparent once we take into consideration issues with youngsters, like a baby loves sugar. Does that imply they need to eat sugar 24/7? No! And a whole lot of instances our enterprise is the sugar that it feels nice within the second to be working. However it’s not really serving us at a sure level. And the actual work is to develop our life exterior of our enterprise to attach with ourselves in a method that doesn’t contain productiveness. And that offers us extra braveness and makes it simple to be within the development mindset with our enterprise. It’s a win-win.
However once we take our clear relaxation, we have now extra impressed concepts extra simply. It’s because we’ve taken time away from the enterprise. So in case you are feeling relating this again to the subject of motivation, in case you are feeling overwhelmed, and unmotivated, energy planning and clear relaxation are going that can assist you. And in terms of clear relaxation particularly which is a vital a part of energy planning. In case you are feeling like I simply haven’t any concepts and it’s simply as uphill slog and I simply dread engaged on my enterprise and I like it quote unquote, however I hate it on the identical time. Clear relaxation goes to offer your mind a break and in that break everyone knows like there’s a bathe concepts. And I really like how Sara Blakely the founding father of Spanx talks about how she created a pretend 60 minute commute to work simply due to that idle time. How helpful it’s for our mind and he or she’s working like a billion greenback plus fairly positive enterprise and I’m unsure if she does this anymore in COVID and all of that, however she was making a pretend 60 minute commute to work that was 5 minutes away.
She simply drive round for 60 minutes due to the facility of resting your mind, and what that may do to your mind, piecing issues collectively. And I do know that when I’m actually taking my clear relaxation, that that’s when I’ve my greatest enterprise concepts. And as a substitute of working to file an episode, or write an e mail or no matter, I simply jot down sufficient of a observe about that concept. And I belief that I can execute that concept in my work time. And it is a actually essential level, as a result of a whole lot of instances, and there’s completely different faculties of ideas on this, however a whole lot of instances once we are feeling impressed and motivated, and folks will say like, it’s important to capitalize on that. And simply, there’s one thing to be stated for, you realize, working together with your flows and, and dealing together with your cycles and seasons, and all that sort of factor on the identical time.
Generally once we’re simply working solely once we really feel a rush of inspiration, we’re telling ourselves that we don’t belief ourselves to execute powerfully on that concept at a future time. And that it’s provided that we execute on it within the second that we’re going to have the ability to get probably the most from that concept, have it’s probably the most profitable and that sort of factor. So I really like the follow of getting an impressed thought having issues click on collectively and feeling enthusiastic about that. After which not having the ability to work straight away, in order that I can then similar to sit with that pleasure of I can’t await Tuesday once I get to take a seat down and file a podcast episode. And I can’t wait to place this collectively in an e mail or an Instagram publish or no matter it’s going to be or to inform my PGSDers about this, that we are able to actually create this pleasure from letting ourselves miss our work and from not dashing to our laptops.
Each time we have now an thought to simply follow trusting your self and creating the assumption that you could execute on it at a future time. And it would imply that that you must write down a number of extra notes concerning the thought. Then one sentence, I discovered this myself that if I simply write down one sentence and I get to work on I’m like, what are they even speaking about with this, I don’t actually even know. However now I’m within the course of and the behavior of simply writing out a number of extra issues. In order that when it does come to the time, I can execute on that concept. And that is as properly, the place the weekly assessment is available in that you could actually begin to see, okay, properly, I did have this concept. After which possibly I wasn’t capable of keep in mind what it was when my time got here. Okay, what can I do in another way the subsequent time I’ve an thought, as a substitute of dashing to my laptop computer, as a result of I don’t need to try this. As a result of I need to develop the self belief that I can execute when it’s work time. What may I do as a substitute?
And that’s when you may actually develop techniques for your self with the intention to seize these concepts that you’ve if you’re in clear relaxation whereas nonetheless honoring your clear relaxation. And on the subject of that it’s actually regular to consider your enterprise. If you’re in clear relaxation time. That’s not dangerous. That’s not improper. That doesn’t imply you’re not clear relaxation and your mind goes to wander. And it’s going to consider your enterprise. And that’s completely okay.
Additionally, as I stated, we look ahead to the time we get to work on our enterprise in keen anticipation, just like the baby if they’ve a favourite toy, and also you stated, Okay, we’re not really going to have this toy out this week, we’re going to have these different ones and you then get to see that toy once more quickly, that it then creates this pleasure. And searching ahead to newness if that’s the factor. We additionally procrastinate much less, as a result of our mind doesn’t have to drive us to take a break.
In case you are getting clear relaxation, your mind can get to work in work time. As a result of you realize, your mind is aware of, your mind that doesn’t need to burn energy on considering that doesn’t need to do scary issues, as a result of it desires you to outlive and it’s related doing scary issues and burning a whole lot of energy with not surviving that your mind can try this and do it in fairly an intense method. Intense and sustainable method as a result of it could possibly see the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel and it is aware of that when you find yourself attending to the tip of your day, when you have overachieved you then’re going to take a break early, you’re not going so as to add extra issues onto your plate as a option to capitalize in your productive day since you all the time have a productive day.
And once more, this isn’t about perfection. We’re aiming to observe by 80% of the time, however you’re a productive individual. So that you don’t have to capitalize on unproductive day as a result of that’s regular for you. However we need to be recognizing the facility of fresh relaxation with procrastination in the event you procrastinate loads. The very first thing I’m in all probability going to ask you is how a lot clear relaxation you getting. And also you is likely to be considering, properly, that’s for everybody else and never for me. However in the event you’re procrastinating that’s your mind, screaming, crying, begging for a break. And in the event you’re not going to offer you a mind that break deliberately it’s going to get it. By way of scrolling Instagram, by watching Netflix and scrolling Instagram on the identical time. By way of any means it could possibly. By way of simply sitting in entrance of Canva for 3 hours and modifying a graphic as a result of it wants a break.
So if we condense our work days, and put clear relaxation in first after which our needle movers, then our mind can get to work, understanding {that a} break is coming, understanding it’s going to have the ability to absolutely recharge after which some, and that you simply’re working in a sustainable method. And that is going to deliver up all types of issues about beliefs you have got about working arduous and being productive. And that’s nice. We would like that to come back up. That’s how we all know it’s working, when you have that arising.
And we’re extra brave in our enterprise once we’re getting clear relaxation. As a result of a satisfying life past enterprise, it means failure doesn’t really feel so private. In case you are feeling like you’re your enterprise, and lots of people speak about this, when you have a private model as properly, like oh, properly, when you have a private model, then there’s no different choice. Not true. You possibly can develop an id exterior of your enterprise and nonetheless have a private model.
So actually not letting your self use that excuse if that’s the sort of enterprise mannequin you have got. And letting there be a void, the place you have got day off and also you don’t know what to do with it. And you’ll really feel your self eager to work so that you simply really feel busy and productive and letting that void be there. So you may actually begin to discover what you take pleasure in doing that isn’t associated to productiveness, what you like doing for your self, what belongings you would possibly like we frequently have these tales about, properly, if I’ve extra time than I might XYZ and actually getting trustworthy about like, Okay, I do have extra time now, do I really need to try this? Am I simply doing that as a result of I like the way it sounds?
For instance, if I’ve extra time and browse extra books, and you then do get extra time since you’re planning in your clear and relaxation. Do you end up studying books? If not get interested in that. Do you like studying in the event you do, making that point, like creating that point for studying, getting out of the all or nothing mindset with it, simply studying 10 pages a day, for instance, as a substitute of needing to take a seat down for like two hours at a time.
You may also discover there are particular issues that you simply like, if I inform myself if I had extra time I’d meditate. And you then like really, I might a lot choose to go online. However I’m telling myself, I’m simply considering of browsing, it’s sort of like one other type of meditation, no matter it’s. However you’re simply telling your self that you’d meditate in the event you had extra time, since you need to imagine that you simply’re somebody who would meditate and you then get extra time. And it’s an opportunity to essentially meet your self and be like, do I really need to try this? Perhaps I do, however I simply have resistance round it. So I have to discover that. Or possibly I don’t have resistance round it. And I’m really simply doing this as a result of I believe I ought to as a result of I’ve learn all these items about CEO routines, and everybody appears to meditate. In order that’s a complete journey and journey.
So in the event you wrestle to remain motivated all through the week, backside line is, the reply is so simple as energy planning and clear relaxation. And these are instruments that I educate in depth inside PGSD. And by the way in which, the doorways to PGSD will probably be opening once more in April so you may go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd to affix the waitlist. Additionally, in the event you occur to be listening to this episode, sooner or later past that date, then you may nonetheless go to that web site and see when the subsequent time is that we are going to be open for enrollment. So when you find yourself Energy Planning and getting a clear relaxation, you’re deciding on a handful of issues to place in your calendar and doing them absolutely.
We’re not aiming for perfection. Let it’s okay that you could’t get every part executed this week. That’s not an issue. Once more, we’re overestimating what it takes to achieve success. So as a substitute of placing the overestimated to do record on our calendar, we’re studying tips on how to cease overestimating. And we’re taking time away from our enterprise, regardless that we like it understanding it’s going to make us extra linked to ourselves, extra linked to these round us. Extra brave in our enterprise, it’ll assist us make more cash in our enterprise. Impression extra folks with our enterprise.
And if you’re inside PGSD all of that is going to develop into second nature. So I really need you to think about becoming a member of us in PGSD in the event you’re not already. Get on the waitlist, enroll when the doorways open. I actually hope this episode has helped you to see how these instruments actually work and seeing that we’re not that completely different to infants and the youngsters and that our mind as soon as constrained. It desires us to be intentional. It desires to have optimistic limits on issues in order that we might be absolutely current for what we have now in entrance of us. So when you have loved this episode, please take a screenshot and tag me I’m @perfectionismproject. I hope you’re having a gorgeous day and I’ll discuss to you within the subsequent episode.
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In case you are able to get out of your personal method in your enterprise, I need to invite you inside my productiveness program for perfectionist entrepreneurs referred to as Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished. Our subsequent enrollment is going on for one week solely starting on the 4th of April 2025. To search out out extra about this system and be a part of the waitlist, go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.
