[Part 2 of 5] Energy Planning covers all the pieces perfectionists should do to plan correctly. It’s a easy 3 step course of that anybody can study. And I stroll you thru it on this episode.
Right here’s a quick overview of how Energy Planning works however remember to tune into this episode to get all the small print!
You set a Progress Objective for what you are promoting (what I used to name your Unimaginable Objective) so you realize precisely what you’re working towards. Then you definately comply with these steps:
Step 1. Energy Hour – in your weekly Energy Hour you’ll put your needle transferring duties in your digital calendar and create easy contingency plans that make it simple to get all the pieces completed with out feeling overwhelmed.
Step 2. Little Tweaks – each day you’ll spend a bit 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 Overview – on the finish of the week you’ll do a quick weekly assessment to find what labored, what didn’t work and what to do otherwise so subsequent week’s plans are even simpler to comply with via on.
After listening to this episode, you’ll know tips on how to make the form of plans that get you out of your personal means – even while you’re scared to place your self on the market.
Doorways shut Friday: That is our remaining enrollment of the yr for Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished. While you join PGSD, you’ll get prompt entry to the Energy Planning Course so you can begin planning correctly as a perfectionist straight away and begin 2026 with PGSD by your facet. Doorways shut at 11:59pm EST this Friday, 21 November. To enroll right now go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd.
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Introduction
Hello and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Challenge. A podcast stuffed 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 means 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 will help you with what you are promoting, you possibly can comply with me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
Sam Laura Brown (Customized introduction)
You’ll love this. I simply know that is going to be excellent timing that I’m releasing these episodes right now. So what I’m doing is I’m releasing the 5 hottest episodes of this podcast, which is the Planning sequence on tips on how to plan correctly as a perfectionist, whether or not you may have listened earlier than, whether or not that is going to be your first time listening, when you have been getting in your personal means, in what you are promoting, when you’ve been having a tough time displaying up, if you realize that you could possibly be extra profitable when you might simply really comply with via with the plans that you just make. You realize what to do. You’re simply not doing it. This sequence is simply going to be the perfect factor for you. So I wish to invite you to hearken to all 5 elements of this sequence. They’re going to be profoundly useful. And I additionally wish to invite you to hitch us inside my program. Perfectionist Getting Shit Finished. So we are literally within the final enrollment of this yr, so doorways might be closing at 11:59pm jap time on Friday the twenty first of November. In order that’s just a few days away, and I wish to invite you inside, as a result of initially, there’s clearly by no means a greater time to get out of your personal means than the current.
There may be simply with the ability to create the compound impact and like be in that momentum earlier than the yr is even over. I do know we love to attend until January and all of that, however what if, as a substitute of ready for January to start out getting out of your personal means, you have been out of your personal means and on that path by January, in order that come January, you’re not ranging from a standstill. That’s what I wish to invite you into in December, we additionally do an annual reflection as a neighborhood the yr in assessment, and we do planning for the next yr. So I wish to invite you to be there for that, whether or not it’s being there reside with us, doing the replay, irrespective of your time zone, doing that’s going to set you up for the perfect 2026 and in addition, while you join Perfectionist Getting Shit Finished, you’ll get prompt entry to all the pieces, together with the facility planning course, which you’ll be able to watch begin to end in a day after which be planning correctly as a perfectionist, together with the help and the unbelievable neighborhood and different instruments which might be there for you inside PGSD as effectively. So I hope you take pleasure in this sequence, and I wish to invite you to hitch us inside PGSD, earlier than the doorways shut at 11:59pm jap time this Friday, the twenty first of November, you possibly can go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd, the hyperlink might be down there for you within the present notes to go and join right now and be a part of us inside.
Sam Laura Brown
This episode is the second episode in a five-part sequence that I’m doing right here on the podcast on tips on how to plan correctly as a perfectionist. Now, the primary episode that I did was on the distinction between procrasti-planning and planning correctly. And when you’ve listened to that episode, I actually hope that you just now have an understanding of why it’s so essential to plan in a means that makes follow-through simple and that really will get your perfectionist mindset in your facet. So you are able to do that work to get out of your personal means and get into the expansion mindset. So many perfectionists spend a lot time making an attempt to remain motivated and discover extra willpower when actually the issue is planning. And that planning drawback might be solved by studying tips on how to plan in a means that really works for you as a perfectionist, and helps you do your perfectionism work on the identical time.
So when you haven’t listened to that episode, I extremely advocate going again and listening to that one. After you hearken to this one. On this one, I’m going to be speaking in regards to the energy planning methodology, and the three steps which might be concerned when you find yourself energy planning.
So I educate energy planning in full element inside PGSD. So in order for you the teaching and help and to actually do that work and have this methodology be just right for you, I invite you to hitch us inside PGSD when the doorways open. You’ll be able to go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd to seek out out extra to hitch the waitlist to enroll relying while you hearken to this. And it’s actually going that will help you like that is what’s PGSD is all about. It’s going past mental information and understanding. And actually doing the work and practising the issues that you realize, and actually having a supportive container to try this, the place you might be surrounded by individuals who get what you’re doing, who get what you’re scuffling with, who get what your targets are, and who’re additionally in a position that will help you see issues that you may’t your self.
So for instance, if you’re energy planning, and you are taking what I share on this episode and work via this your self, there are going to be challenges that you just come up in opposition to which might be going to be difficult to resolve by yourself. There are blind spots, there are issues that we do as self-sabotage which might be actually laborious to see once we’re those who’re evaluating that. So I wish to invite you into PGSD, to actually apply this energy planning methodology, to study it, to reside it and to get the help and training that may actually provide help to to benefit from this methodology and actually have you ever energy planning and planning correctly as a perfectionist.
So let’s initially discuss in regards to the three issues that make perfectionists get in their very own means. So after teaching a whole bunch of perfectionists at this level who’re constructing companies, I’ve actually seen that there are three issues that make perfectionists get in their very own means in relation to enterprise. The primary is planning issues. The second is productiveness issues. So that is overwhelmed, procrastination, burnout. And the third is persistence issues. So once I’m speaking a couple of persistence drawback, what I imply is that perhaps you possibly can really, you realize, get your self out of procrastination for a short time. However then when you have a persistence drawback, after a couple of weeks, you’re procrastinating worse than ever, and you are feeling such as you’re proper again to your previous methods. You’re capable of present up for a short time. However upon getting been doing that you just’re like, “Okay, how lengthy is that this going to final? I’m fearful that this isn’t going to be sustainable”, that form of factor, then you may have a persistence drawback. And all of it begins with fixing your planning drawback and the PGSD course of, so we cowl planning issues, productiveness issues, persistence issues, however I needed to actually have this sequence be centered on planning issues, as a result of it’s a must to have that piece there in an effort to really be productive. And in an effort to persist on the proper issues and do this in a means that’s really sustainable.
So I’ve already talked about in that earlier episode, why perfectionists can’t comply with the identical planning recommendation as everybody else, but it surely’s actually essential to know that since you could be considering okay, I’m simply going to maintain making an attempt to plan in the identical means. And I’m simply going to strive tougher. I’m simply going to attempt to be extra motivated, I’m simply going to attempt to have extra willpower. However that doesn’t work. If it did work, it could have labored by now. You could have tried that my guess is for not less than a couple of years. And what I wish to invite you to contemplate is that as a substitute of making an attempt the identical strategies you may have earlier than and making an attempt them tougher, and with extra self-discipline, that as a substitute, you study and apply tips on how to really plan correctly as a perfectionist in a means that makes it simple to comply with via and helps you do your perfectionism work on the identical time. So while you’re planning correctly as a perfectionist, the opposite factor I wish to point out is that doesn’t imply it’s strict and inflexible. And really, that’s what occurs once we’re procrasti-planning and planning in a means that permits procrastination.
As a result of once we suppose for instance, in energy planning, we plan from a digital calendar. And we regularly suppose, Okay, effectively which means goes to be so strict and so inflexible, and what I do with all these little duties, and what I do if my weeks unsure, and I don’t know what’s going to come back up, and belief me, I’ve a child, I do know what that may be like. However energy planning is admittedly about serving to you adapt to the realities of life. And the truth is that it doesn’t matter what scenario you’re in proper now that feels, you realize, too unsure to have the ability to make a weekly plan, you’ve at all times been in a scenario that’s unsure. And there’s at all times been some impediment to planning. And once we discuss planning correctly, as a perfectionist, we’re not speaking about making excellent plans which might be assured to achieve success, and also you by no means must fail at something, and also you by no means must really feel uncomfortable. And infrequently once we procrasti-planning, that’s what we’re doing, we’re making an attempt to make the fitting plans in order that they positively work. And we by no means must really feel any unhealthy emotions, as a result of we don’t have that self belief there that might be protected if we really feel these unhealthy emotions.
And that might be okay on the opposite finish of that. However once we’re planning correctly, as a perfectionist, we’re really opening ourselves as much as the potential of momentary failure. To the potential of disappointment. To the chance that we could be making an attempt issues in a means that doesn’t work. And by opening ourselves as much as that chance, we’re really capable of create a speculation. Attempt it. So we would have our aim and suppose, Okay, I feel this social media technique, coupled with this e mail technique goes to get me to that aim, then we strive that we examined, we do the weekly assessment, we see what’s working, what isn’t working, what to do otherwise, we find yourself getting that, as a result of we have been open to the potential of failure and disappointment and disgrace, and all these different issues as effectively. However once we’re closed off to that, and this manifest is procrastinate planning, we wish our plans to be proper, we wish to do all the pieces the fitting means, we don’t wish to waste any effort. And this ends in a whole lot of busy work, doing issues that matter, a whole lot of planning to plan and rewriting plans. And it’s so exhausting to try this. But in addition, it by no means will get us there.
And so energy planning is known as a software, that it’s not going to have you ever making the fitting plans. As in you’ll expertise extra failure in a whole lot of methods than earlier than. And I do know now perhaps that is doing a great job at promoting energy planning. However I really need you to contemplate this methodology as a result of it’s so essential for perfectionists to plan correctly. However all I imply to say once I’m speaking about this failure stuff is that all of us intellectually know that success is constructed on a pile of failures. I feel we’ve all heard that saying or some model of it earlier than. And but, while you take a look at how we attempt to do issues, it’s as if we don’t know that to be true. And we expect that to succeed, we have to succeed completely proper from day one. And that’s the one means we’re ever going to get there.
And so energy planning, when you have heard on this podcast or elsewhere, the facility of being within the progress mindset, what that does for resilience, what that does for achievement, what that does, physics says which my favourite half about it, that the extra we’re on this progress mindset, the much less connected we really feel to our work, within the sense that we not really feel like we’re the enterprise and that if we’re having a great month in enterprise, then we’re a great particular person if we’re having a nasty month in enterprise and we’re a nasty particular person as a result of we untangle that we capable of present up extra courageously and extra totally and extra resourcefully and extra innovatively.
And which means we obtain extra as effectively. And we have now a greater expertise of getting a enterprise. As a result of on the finish of the day, I do know we will get so centered on reaching our targets and being profitable. However we get the day after day expertise. Sure, there are good moments once we obtain a aim. However for many of us, we get via that fairly rapidly. And we’re already on to the subsequent factor. So all we have now is a day after day expertise and one thing I’ve actually been contemplating lots currently. As a result of once I discuss these items, folks will say, Properly, why ought to we have now targets and like, shouldn’t we simply concentrate on you realize, what we take pleasure in day after day. And what actually involves thoughts for me, and I not less than really feel that is so true, is that to actually have a satisfying, gratifying journey, we want a worthy vacation spot, we want that aim as a result of that directs the day after day journey that offers the journey goal that offers the journey course. And as perfectionists, we have to discover ways to pursue our targets, not at our personal expense.
So this is the reason in PGSD, we set an unimaginable aim. And we assessment that aim to make it possible for it’s really going to be helpful and never really work in opposition to you. After which we have now energy planning, which is these the weekly plans that you just make, to get to your unimaginable aim. So with the unimaginable aim, that’s a aim that’s set above what you consider is feasible, it’s not really unimaginable, it’s simply your mind is mistaken and thinks you aren’t able to it. As a result of it’s scared to suppose he could be as a result of oh my goodness, that’s gonna be so unsure, life’s gonna be fully totally different. So let’s simply fake we couldn’t do this. So we simply keep on this little protected bubble. So we have now an unimaginable aim, which is your worthy vacation spot.
And in PGSD, we set a income aim for what you are promoting. I don’t have time to enter it on this episode, as to why we do this. And we get a whole lot of pushback from PGSD on not desirous to set a monetary aim as a result of they don’t care about cash. And all I’ll say and invite you to contemplate is that having a monetary aim for what you are promoting, helps you do such unbelievable cash mindset work. And it additionally means that you can look once we self-sabotage by saying, I don’t care in regards to the cash, I simply wish to assist folks. After which we find yourself usually with individuals who say which might be very centered on a scarcity of cash anyway. So that they’re spending a whole lot of time fascinated about cash as it’s. However on the identical time, they’re letting themselves off the hook when it comes to actually displaying up totally. And simply form of saying, Okay, effectively, you realize, for me, I simply care about serving to folks, I’m simply going to try this in the easiest way doable.
And I’ve discovered and with a whole bunch of PGSD’s that we labored with that having a monetary aim actually lets you do such essential work on the worth of your work, and the affect you may make when you find yourself centered on working a worthwhile enterprise. And I’ll simply wrap this little facet up by saying charities want cash as effectively. So like, I don’t care about cash, I simply wish to assist folks, so to charities, and just about the principle exercise they do is fundraising. So with that stated, we have now a monetary unimaginable aim. After which we have now your weekly energy planning. And the work that these two mixed together with clear relaxation goes that will help you do is discover ways to really pursue your targets. In a means which means the day-to-day is fulfilling. Fulfilling, by the best way means you’re feeling challenged, and also you’re displaying up for these challenges. You’re not doing at your personal expense, you’re not beating your self up when it’s not going to plan. ie we expect to plan means it goes completely in flawlessly. And there’s by no means a bump within the street. After which we get very disenchanted when there’s a tiniest little impediment as a result of the plan was clean driving. And once we can actually begin to see there’s going to be bumps, there’s going to be detours, there’s going to be ups and downs. That’s all a part of it.
And energy planning is known as a software to assist us see the place that perfectionism handbrake is on, see how we’re getting in our personal means, in order that we have now the self-awareness to get out of it. In order that we’re met with the chance to do the work that we have to do. And on the identical time while you’re planning, you’re studying tips on how to really plan in a means that you may comply with via on that’s going to offer you a way of accomplishment and momentum that’s going to have you ever doing the issues that you realize it is advisable do in relation to what you are promoting. As an alternative of simply realizing stuff about advertising and marketing from taking totally different on-line advertising and marketing In programs, you’re really going to be doing the issues.
So in relation to energy planning, it’s so essential to know, as I used to be saying, it’s not strict or inflexible, you’re making the plans. And that it’s actually about with the ability to be resilient. With the ability to belief your self to make choices, and to belief your self, to know when to alter your plans, and when to comply with via with them. And all these various things. It’s such an unbelievable private growth, productiveness enterprise software, it helps on so many fronts. And I really like that a lot of the work that the unimaginable aim and energy planning do, and clear relaxation these three issues from the planning part of the PGSD course of, that a lot of it, you received’t even notice is occurring.
And also you’ll have this, like a acutely aware understanding and consciousness round enhancements and progress that you just’re making. And displaying up for your self extra totally, and placing your self on the market extra. And really, like if one thing goes incorrect, with the ability to alter to that and hold displaying up anyway. So that you’re going to actually have that profit that you just’re conscious of consciously. However then additionally, I simply love that, like, underneath the hood, there’s at all times different progress and developments that you just’re making with out even realizing it simply by advantage of utilizing these instruments.
So with that stated, I’m going to be speaking about how energy planning works. And I wish to point out right here that energy planning takes three months of dedicated imperfect apply to begin to get a mastery over and I’m going to do a separate episode on the three-month dedication, as a result of it’s such an essential state of mind to be in in relation to doing something new, together with energy planning.
So let’s undergo the three steps of energy planning. So that you’ve got an understanding of how energy planning works, how you are able to do energy planning, and in addition so you possibly can actually see the weather that actually provide help to plan correctly as a perfectionist. And that by following this course of, you’re going to be avoiding errors you have been making earlier than errors, you have been unknowingly making from following good recommendation, like recommendation, it was meant to be useful, however simply isn’t useful for a perfectionist, baked into this course of is all the pieces it is advisable provide help to plan correctly and in the end get out of your personal means.
So the first step is the Energy Hour, step two, little tweaks, step three, the weekly assessment. So I’m going to undergo every of these, what that includes what that appears like. After which I’m going to speak about what it appears like after you’ve been energy planning for not less than three months and actually speaking about mainly tips on how to know if it’s working like what, what your life will appear like, when you find yourself utilizing this methodology. And also you’re actually displaying up for it and doing the work. And also you’re somebody who’s such as you’ve had your fair proportion of points with planning prior to now. However you’re prepared to show a brand new leaf and actually go all in on planning correctly as a perfectionist, so as to construct a enterprise that you realize you’re able to constructing.
So let’s discuss the first step, which is the facility hour. So your Energy Hour might be an hour planning session. To start with of could be 90 minutes, that’s okay however purpose for an hour. And that is in order effectively it doesn’t go into procrastinate planning the place you’re spending an entire day planning your week, after which you find yourself getting nothing completed in any respect. So we have now one hour. And through this hour, your mind goes to harm, you’re going to undergo a wave of emotions. So initially, you would possibly really feel a bit overwhelmed after step one.
However then while you comply with the opposite steps which might be a part of the method we have now for the facility hour, you’re going to finish up in a spot the place you are feeling dedicated to your plans, the place you possibly can take a look at your calendar and actually really feel like they’re supporting you. And never simply what you are promoting however your you personally, your relationships, your well being, your effectively being all the pieces that you’ve got happening in your life. And we have now to be so dedicated to getting via that entire course of. As a result of if we simply accomplish that at first, you’ll do a mind dump and you’ll get all the pieces out of your head and onto a web page. And I discussed within the earlier episode on procrasti-planning, how that’s procrastinating if we do exactly that and nothing else. As a result of it’s so overwhelming that we find yourself doing nothing in any respect it finally ends up placing us within the all or nothing mindset. And we expect I don’t know which job to start out with and it’s all essential, “Fuck it, I’m simply gonna watch Netflix as a result of that is too laborious.” So we don’t wish to be doing that we wish to be going via this entire course of within the Energy Hour, I’m not going to undergo all the ten steps on this episode that’s lined inside PGSD.
While you be a part of, you’ll study all of that it’s in module two. And also you’ll additionally, by the best way, have on demand entry to all the pieces inside PGSD as quickly as you join, together with the facility planning module, as effectively, and training and all of the issues. So you’ll write out this to do checklist and get all the pieces all of the little issues enterprise stuff, life admin stuff, something it is advisable do onto the web page. After which throughout this Energy Hour, what you’ll do is you’ll find yourself placing your needle-moving duties into your digital calendar.
So I usually get requested about what instruments do you employ for energy planning. So we advocate utilizing iCal when you have a MacBook or Mac pc, or Google Calendar, when you don’t, they’re each free. And in addition, they each ought to be capable of sync up along with your telephone as effectively. So for me personally, I like to take a look at my iCal on my telephone the night time earlier than and simply see like, Cool. Is there any cause I set my alarm within the morning, early. Presently I’ve a child, she’s my alarm. However I make it possible for I’m conscious of what’s taking place the next day. And so it’s simply actually useful to have it accessible on my telephone. This isn’t simply say there’s no place for pen and paper and totally different to-do lists. Exterior of that, for instance, I’ve a bit to-do checklist, I carry on Trello of life admin duties. After which I’ll put life admin in my energy planning and work via that.
However that’s an exception, I wouldn’t advocate working like that for enterprise duties. And it’s so essential to actually deal with the duties that you just put in your calendar for enterprise as not simply belongings you’re going to work on, however seeing them as outcomes you’re going to attain and having them be particular and time sure, and that form of factor. So I don’t do this in each space of my life. As I stated in life admin, I’ve a distinct method. In relation to enterprise, I actually deal with my enterprise with that respect. And that takes apply and time.
And that is one thing for instance I reached just lately coached on inside PGSD, certainly one of our PGSD is, was feeling annoyed that she wasn’t nearer to her unimaginable. And I used to be teaching her on self-image. And I received’t go into that on this episode. However she wasn’t fascinated about herself as even having a enterprise. Despite the fact that she had merchandise that she was promoting. She was considering effectively for it to be a enterprise, then I must be making a sure sum of money, I feel for her it was $1,000 a month, I must have a registered firm, I must have my taxes figured on the market was all this standards for having an actual enterprise. And so one thing that might be taking place is when you don’t but establish your self as an entrepreneur. And for me, this occurred even after I’d made cash, I nonetheless didn’t really feel like I had a enterprise. And it wasn’t till I made this swap over to considering of myself, as a enterprise proprietor, as an entrepreneur, no matter you wish to name your self, however really recognizing that you have already got a enterprise, you’re in enterprise, you’re a enterprise proprietor, it’s not a bit passion, that’s so essential.
And planning in a means that respects that and takes what you are promoting extra significantly, is a extremely useful solution to construct that self-image that then goes to have you ever executing that social media technique or sending out the emails to your e mail checklist or doing any form of tactic or technique to construct what you are promoting, that’s going to be a lot more practical. In case you really consider you may have a enterprise. In case you suppose it’s a passion, you’re going to indicate up in that means. And it’s by no means going to work. And also you’re going to suppose effectively, as soon as it really works, I’ll begin believing that I’ve a enterprise, but it surely’s by no means gonna work till you consider it. So it’s a must to consider in it first. And so actually treating what you are promoting with the respect of creating a plan and a plan that you may really execute on is so essential. And this could be an enormous piece of the puzzle you’re lacking that you just’re considering it’s a passion, or for me even earlier than I hit 10k a month, I used to be like somebody an actual business-like in my thoughts or making six figures. That’s while you had an actual enterprise. And so I ended myself from doing issues that may assist me construct the enterprise.
So I actually wish to invite you, particularly when you can relate to that to start out energy planning and to actually present up for what you are promoting in the best way that you really want it to indicate up for you. In case you’re annoyed. isn’t providing you with extra, and also you’re not giving what you possibly can to it? How is that going to work? What you are promoting and you’ve got a relationship. And it is advisable actually be dedicated to that relationship. And never saying, Oh, it’s only a informal factor, you realize, we’ll see the way it goes, like if you consider, and I’m on a facet tangent now, however I’m going to maintain going. If you consider a relationship along with your important different, when you’re like, Oh, it’s an off-the-cuff factor. And you realize, I’ll see the way it goes. And all of that form of factor. That’s not going to encourage them, to indicate up totally for you and to be dedicated to you want Are we dedicated, as soon as they’re dedicated, it doesn’t work, it is advisable present up the way you wish to be handled and with the respect that you just wish to be handled with. And energy planning is such a good way to try this with what you are promoting. In case you really feel prefer it’s a passion, it is a nice alternative, an awesome apply that will help you change that.
So going again to the facility hour. So by the best way, you don’t want to do that on Monday morning. You don’t want to do that on Sunday morning, or Sunday night time or no matter time, your week can begin and finish everytime you need it to. So for instance, I used to do my energy hour on a Thursday. And that was the way it labored greatest for me with what I had happening in different areas of my life for me to consider my week as beginning on the Friday, and going via to the subsequent Thursday. So there doesn’t must be a particular time. And in addition, I feel once we perfectionist make-up, make it a particular time we have now to do it, then if we don’t really feel prefer it, then we simply don’t do it. After which an entire week goes by and we haven’t made plans and we’re simply winging it and underneath planning and all of these issues. So that you’ll put your needle transferring duties. So this pertains to your unimaginable aim into your calendar. And in addition as a part of that energy hour, you may be creating contingency plans that make it simple to get all the pieces completed with out feeling overwhelmed. So that is one other piece that we are likely to overlook is the significance of contingency plans, and accounting for the truth that we’re not at all times going to really feel motivated.
Or that issues can change, one thing can come up. What we do, once we’re not planning correctly as a perfectionist, have been doing that procrastinate planning is that we’re planning as if it must be adopted to a tee as is, and we will’t change it in any respect. And that is the place so many perfectionist will get caught. In relation to planning amidst uncertainty when you may have adjustments in your vitality and your temper. Or you may have adjustments in your commitments to your loved ones and what’s wanted from you exterior of what you are promoting, that when you have been considering the plans I make have to remain precisely as is all through your entire week. For me to have deliberate efficiently. And since I don’t know precisely what’s gonna occur this week, then I can’t plan in any respect. That could be a signal of procrasti-planning, that’s okay. However we wish to ensure that on this what we do within the energy hour that you’re creating contingency plans so that you’re anticipating forward of time what obstacles would possibly come up. After which you’re making a plan for in the event that they do, you have been deciding, okay, I’m going to push that job again. Or really, I’m going to maneuver that job to the subsequent week. Or I’m going to prioritize this over that if I’ve much less time. You’re making that plan forward of time. In order that if that does occur, you’re not like, oh, the plans ruined. I’m going to scrap it and begin once more subsequent week, which is what we are likely to do once we suppose the plan has to only it’s like this motionless factor that simply has to remain as is.
And as quickly as we fall behind. If you consider it, it’s solely doable to fall behind in a plan, when you suppose the plan has to remain as it’s. However as soon as you actually perceive how contingency plans work in relation to planning correctly, when you perceive tips on how to anticipate obstacles successfully, tips on how to overcome these obstacles, tips on how to alter and I’ll discuss that extra with the little tweaks, which is step two. However when you’re capable of plan in a means the place you might be really bearing in mind actuality, and that you just’re going to have totally different quantities of vitality and also you’re received your mind goes the entire time goes to attempt to derail your efforts. Prefer it thinks that you just following your plan, which goes to lead to you probably succeeding or probably failing and on the tip of both of these probably feeling disgrace. It thinks it’s unsafe to comply with your plans. So your mind goes to be pulling out its greatest ways to get you to procrastinate to get you to really feel overwhelmed to get you burned out.
It’s working to try this and we have to study and you’ll study it’s really it’s we really feel like. You’re both only a one who can adapt to that. Or really what we expect is there are different individuals who have their entire week they know precisely what’s taking place. There’s no form of uncertainty in any respect. And there’s me who has uncertainty, so I can’t plan. However when you study and also you acknowledge you’re in that progress mindset, that you may really discover ways to adapt, a part of the best way we do this within the Energy Hour is contingency plans and a course of round that. It’s unbelievable, how a lot better you may be at following via simply via that alone. So while you’re doing this energy hour, it’s a must to ensure that as I stated that, you realize, you write that lengthy to-do checklist to get out of your mind. And then you definately undergo the remainder of the method that I educate in PGSD in that energy hour to get your needle transferring duties in your calendar, which incorporates leaving issues for later.
And just lately, a PGSDer requested, however how do I get all the pieces on that lengthy to-do checklist into my calendar for the week? The reply is, you don’t. And I do know that may not be a satisfying reply. I’m not going to be instructing you tips on how to get that lengthy to-do checklist full of busy work and issues that don’t actually matter into your calendar.
So your to-do is predicated on an overestimation of what you suppose it is advisable do to construct a profitable enterprise. And it’s higher to discover ways to cease overestimating, as a substitute of tips on how to put that over-estimated too lengthy to-do checklist into your calendar. In order that’s what we’re doing once we are energy planning. We’re being okay with not getting all of it completed this week. Realizing that being okay with that enables us to get what completed what issues. Most wait, what am I making an attempt to say? How one can get. So once we are placing the needle movers in our calendar, we’re specializing in what issues most we’re doing the scary issues that we have to do to construct our enterprise.We’re implementing what we intellectually know in relation to advertising and marketing, in relation to getting prospects. And which means one thing’s going to be completed later. After which different issues are going to be completed by no means as a result of they don’t actually matter.
And in addition, I wish to say on this as effectively that I wish to simply briefly point out having a to-do later checklist as a result of this is a crucial a part of it that I like to consider it as being this metaphorical shelf, that we simply have issues that we resolve, okay, not now, perhaps later. And we will simply take it off our psychological plate by deciding, okay, it’s like on this shelf. So the best way I consider this shelf is like, think about there’s a shelf on the wall, and also you simply have all of those belongings you wish to do upon the shelf. After which you possibly can come again later and take a look at this shelf and choose a couple of issues off, if you wish to do it and go away issues on there if you wish to go away them on there for later. And there’ll be saved there. After which we ready for you, as a result of we have now this factor of like, what if I overlook this superb concept that I’ve, which is lack of self-trust, we don’t belief ourselves, to have the ability to bear in mind it, we don’t belief ourselves to have the ability to execute once we’re not feeling motivated. But when we had this to-do later, it actually frees up a lot psychological vitality that we spend feeling responsible about not getting all the pieces completed this week. However I wish to say as effectively having a to-do later checklist solely works if later will get specified. So that you want some form of system for placing issues in your to later checklist to do later. After which reviewing that checklist and deciding what’s going to get completed and what received’t get completed. And in addition deciding when you say okay, I’m going to try this subsequent week, when subsequent week.
So for instance, once I’m doing my Energy Hour, if there’s one thing I’m like not this week, however subsequent week, I put that in my planning for subsequent week. After which once I’m doing subsequent week’s Energy Hour, I’ll assessment that and put it on the time that really is smart based mostly on the higher data I’ve then. However I’ll really allocate a sure time to it. In case you don’t get particular about your to-do later checklist, it’s best to give that checklist a brand new title, issues I’m pretending to do. Issues I’m pretending I’m going to do later. So we wish to make it possible for once we’re leaving issues to laid out, we’re not doing it in a means that creates overwhelm. And that finally ends up with us nonetheless feeling all this guilt that we haven’t completed sufficient. So on this energy hour, you’ll know as I stated, What duties go away for the long run. As a result of so many issues really feel essential. It’s laborious to inform which of them however you’ll resolve on this energy hour. And you’ll go away issues for the long run and we’ll begin your week feeling on high of what you are promoting. Even when you have a full time job. You’re elevating younger youngsters. You could have a lot uncertainty in your week that you just don’t know while you’ll even be capable of work on what you are promoting. That energy hour when you undergo that entire course of that’s concerned in that you’ll get to the tip of it, and the overwhelm might be gone. The guilt about what hadn’t been completed prior to now might be gone. And it is possible for you to, like, you’ll be capable of take a look at your calendar and truly really feel like I might do this, I can get that completed, I would must be a bit brave. However that’s really achievable.
So many people once we are planning from a calendar, and we don’t know tips on how to plan correctly, we take a look at our calendar, and we already know we’re not going to have the ability to do it. So if that’s how you are feeling on the finish of your Energy Hour, that’s tremendous. I imply,It takes apply, three months, not less than. Three month dedication to studying energy planning, practising that studying by doing. So that may occur, you get to the tip of that energy hour, you’re like, Oh, my goodness, I can’t do that.
And that is a part of the Energy Hour is you assessment workability and also you take a look at okay, I’m going to mentally zoom into Monday morning, how do I really feel this? is there sufficient time for relaxation? Is there sufficient time for me to eat and journey and all of the various things that I want to try this day, after which adjusting. And you retain doing that till you get to the ultimate step of the Energy Hour, which is committing. While you’re like, I’m dedicated to following via with this plan.
Now, this leads me to the second step of energy planning, which is little tweaks. Day-after-day, you’ll spend a bit little bit of time tweaking your calendar so you may get all the pieces completed with out ever feeling behind with out burning out. Even when one thing sudden comes up.
This is among the half that the majority perfectionists missed. Once more, we expect, okay, I must make the plan and it may well’t change. I simply must comply with via with it completely. I don’t wish to fall behind. However it additionally must be such an ideal plan that I’m positively not going to fail. And if I succeed, it received’t be greater than I might deal with. And it’s very difficult to play in that mindset and to do it in a means that really ends in productiveness and reaching our targets and all of these issues. However once we’re not approaching the planning session with the view of this may be up to date as new data comes up. And this may be up to date. relying on what I uncover all through the week, then it’s so difficult.
However once we give it some thought, Okay, I’ve made contingency plans, I already know that issues may need to alter on this, I’m nonetheless dedicated to the plans and the outcomes that I’m reaching. So once we rely needle movers, we calendar them as outcomes, not as actions. So actually centered on the result of the work we’re placing in not simply being busy engaged on this and a bit bit of labor right here and a bit bit of labor there. And a bit bit of labor on that. It’s actually about getting outcomes, like being productive is producing outcomes, not simply shuffling papers round or you realize spending an hour searching for a sound that you should utilize in your TikTok or your Instagram reel or no matter that you may remix prefer it’s really doing issues that produce outcomes that transfer the needle.
So throughout the week, you do little tweaks. So for me, what I love to do is, and even proper now I can see my energy planning, I can see my calendar, I’ll have my calendar open, and I’ll because the day goes on. So it’s mainly treating it like a to-do checklist, but it surely’s time-bound. And there’s blocks, you possibly can transfer round. And there’s a transparent finish to my day, I do know what time my day is ending right now. It’s all laid out. It’s not this infinite checklist of all his 50 issues I hope to get completed right now. And oh shit, there’s no means I might really do this. However I don’t wish to purpose for much less. As a result of what if I’m not productive in any respect. And okay, that is to everybody, Oh, I can do something. We’re not doing that. As an alternative, I’ve deliberate in my calendar, what I can obtain right now. And I’m working via that.
And as issues come up, so for instance, I’ve a child. I’m at the moment breastfeeding on demand. In order that’s such an awesome instance of when there’s uncertainty. I additionally don’t know if she’ll be unwell. I additionally don’t know if she’s going to be up all night time, and I’ll haven’t any vitality. And really, the subsequent episode goes to be an interview with Michelle, who’s the opposite PGSD coach about energy planning amidst uncertainty. And we each have infants and speaking about how we have now been capable of nonetheless energy plan even with that uncertainty. However I do know once I’m doing my energy planning that I’m going to be needing to feed Lydia six occasions a day, and I don’t know when. And in addition I don’t know what time I’m going to wish to get up. As a result of it’ll be each time she wakes up that I’ll get up and typically that’s 4 am and typically at 7 am and if I can take the sleep in, I’ll. so I don’t know what time of day I’m gonna get up however I’m capable of make these little tweaks and once I’m doing my energy hour I take that every one into consideration in my calendar, in order that I’m not falling behind, I’m not making an attempt to plan as if I don’t have a child or plan is that if each day, I’m getting a full eight hours of sleep and bouncing off the bed.
As a result of typically that may occur. Not too usually, at the moment, however some days, different days it doesn’t. However I’m capable of make these little tweaks. So I can nonetheless hold going, and not less than obtain the essence of what I had got down to do. Even when it doesn’t look precisely the best way I assumed it could. And typically all through the week, you notice that one thing you set in your calendar was really busy work that didn’t even must be completed in any respect. Or if it was simple, certainly one of my favourite questions, what would this appear like if it was simple? That if it was simple, you’d really do it in a very means that may take half the time. Otherwise you wouldn’t do the factor you have been planning on doing in any respect, and also you do one thing else as a substitute. So as a substitute of getting you caught with it being a sure means, and once more, that is the place we get so fixated on like I must make the fitting plans as a result of I can’t change them throughout the week.
In case you’re on this mindset of truly, I can replace my plans. And I’m going to study via doing the weekly assessment, which I’ll discuss in a second, tips on how to inform when to relaxation, tips on how to inform when to push via, I’m going to study when it’s self-sabotage. And when it’s self-care, all of these issues are going to have the ability to study through the use of energy planning. And so when one thing does come up, you’re not going to be like, now I’m so behind, I’ll be feeling responsible, it is possible for you to to actually simply stand in your energy and in your resourcefulness and resilience and adapt these plans as wanted. As a result of none of us ever have this like certainty that all of us suppose everybody else does. That they simply, have this excellent week laid out. And nothing that might interrupt that. And I do know that it’s tempting, like having a toddler now to suppose, oh, all these folks with out youngsters. They don’t have that.
However I had that earlier than I had Lydia, like I had interruptions I had life taking place earlier than. So it’s simple for us to be on this like pity occasion as effectively, like, effectively, different folks don’t do shift work, or effectively, different folks don’t do XYZ, no matter it’s we expect different folks don’t do to acknowledge, regardless, everybody has components of uncertainty of their week. And the one means any of us can successfully handle or not even handle that’s not the fitting phrase, successfully use that and use it to our benefit is to do these little tweaks all through the week. What I love to do is once I’m doing my energy planning, I deal with it like a to-do checklist that I add a bit checkmark emoji once I’ve completed one thing. And I hold it up to date to mirror what I really did.
In order that transferring on to step three, which is a weekly assessment. Once I’m doing my weekly assessment, I’m seeing in my calendar, what I really did that week, it’s to not the minute. It’s not like an absolute correct reflection. However it’s shut sufficient for me to have the ability to see, oh, I plan to are you aware, I do know I had that factor deliberate on that day. And I ended up not doing it in any respect that week and that occurs. I’m a human. This can be a apply. And it’s so highly effective to have the ability to do this weekly assessment, have that compassion, see what labored, what didn’t work, what to do otherwise, and make these changes in order that you’ll be able to plan extra successfully for your self and your values and your way of life the next week.
So for example, right now, I’m recording that is the 14th of December as a result of I’ve energy deliberate out about 5 weeks of duties suddenly. Realizing that I’m going to have the ability to comply with via with all of them. Realizing that I’m going to have the ability to do that promotion for PGSD does this planning sequence. Whereas transferring again into our home. It’s simply been renovated. Having Lydia’s first Christmas, going away to the seaside for 5 days. Doing all these various things. I do know that I received my plans in my calendar, and I’m going to have the ability to comply with them and I don’t know precisely what’s gonna occur. I didn’t know what date we’re transferring in. This so many issues that I don’t know.
However I’m capable of after having practiced for a couple of years now. I’m capable of confidently plan that period of time in my calendar with a child, with the home transfer with all these different issues as effectively and know that it’ll all get completed due to the self-trust I’ve been capable of construct via energy planning due to the best way that I’ve been capable of apply making these little tweaks, doing my weekly assessment, actually attending to know myself Like when you’re a private growth nerd like I’m, and you like attending to know your self, and actually seeing what works for you, and what doesn’t be just right for you. And even like in latest episodes, I’ve talked about human design, that is such an unbelievable software to assist with that. If you wish to actually perceive your self, doing the facility planning methodology, so the Energy Hour, little tweaks, weekly assessment, that’s going to place you in such an unbelievable place, not simply when it comes to your productiveness, not simply when it comes to what you are promoting, but additionally when it comes to your private progress.
And one thing you are able to do while you do your planning at first of the week, is take a screenshot of your calendar. After which on the finish of the week, so while you’ve up to date it to mirror what you really did just about, then take a screenshot. And while you’re doing all your weekly assessment, you possibly can examine them and they are going to be totally different. Like I do know, for instance, once I plan out the final of PGSD, which is in Could 2021, that I deliberate once more, about six weeks in my calendar, and I really did this, I took screenshots of my calendar, and the duties that I had in that and the clear relaxation that I had, and buffer time and all these various things.
After which by the tip of it, as soon as I had completed all of that work, it appears fully totally different. However it had all been completed. Once I was I feel on the time 30 one thing weeks pregnant, I didn’t know once I was going to have my child, they’ll come anytime. So I had no concept any of that any little hos, I wanted to have a couple of sudden hospital visits, that was capable of be labored into the plan. Like I didn’t know any of that forward of time. However while you’re actually capable of perceive tips on how to make contingency plans and tips on how to hold your plans workable. And also you don’t simply intellectually perceive that however you’re doing the apply, you’re getting the assistance it is advisable actually see the place your blind spots are, the place you could be self-sabotaging you didn’t notice all of these various things, you’ll be able to then get to this place the place I’m now, the place I’m capable of plan amidst a whole lot of uncertainty, weeks at a time. And every week once I do my Energy Hour, I simply go in, and I make changes. However I hold it workable. And the entire thing finally ends up working doesn’t look precisely how I assumed it could I had at first and a speculation as to what I assumed I wanted to have completed. And once I thought I must have it completed by however after all, when you begin doing the work, you’re like, oh, really, I completely forgot this factor. And I didn’t notice we’d must work on that as a crew and different issues that come up. However as soon as you actually begin to perceive there are at all times issues that come up, you add in time for stuff to come back up. So it may well come up with out throwing issues off.
So I actually wish to invite you to start out practising energy planning. And I wish to invite you to try this with us inside PGSD. So within the subsequent episode, I’m going to be speaking as I stated about tips on how to plan amidst uncertainty. And Michelle and I are going to be going into that which goes to be actually enjoyable. After which I’m going to be speaking in regards to the three-month dedication to energy planning. And in addition actually the place planning matches in, when it comes to getting out of your personal means and what the total PGSD course of appears like.
So that’s your alternative, your invitation to hitch us in PGSD. And actually do that work, do that apply, get the help and help that you just want. For instance, in PGSD, we have now the PGSD teaching calls, and our most profitable PGSDers, sure they get coached, but additionally they get a lot worth from seeing different PGSDer getting coached and seeing others coached on energy planning. And the way they’ll make it work for his or her scenario. Its gonna offer you so many breakthroughs about what it is advisable do in your scenario with out you even having to get coached on the decision. And we have now the PGSD personal podcast we will hearken to all of the teaching name replays. And there’s so many superb issues about PGSD. I’m going to indicate you that in a future episode. And if you wish to take a look now go to samlaurabrown.com/PGSD. You may get on the waitlist if you’re not already on it. And when you’re listening to this sooner or later sooner or later, you possibly can nonetheless go there and see if it’s open or be a part of the waitlist.
However I actually wish to invite you into PGSD to do that work to actually deal with what you are promoting with the mindfulness and care and thought and willingness to fail and to do new issues and all that what you are promoting deserves. In case you hearken to this podcast commonly, then you understand how a lot I discuss in regards to the significance of the expansion mindset and energy planning and the unimaginable aim and clear breath that every one designed to get you into the expansion mindset with out you even having to consider entering into the expansion mindset. The instruments themselves are arrange in a means that let you do this work, with out even realizing it.
And in relation to issues like the expansion mindset, we hear issues like, reward the method, and benefit from the journey and that form of stuff, which what does that even imply? These instruments are the instruments that really provide help to do this. So that is simply going to be a bit overview of what energy planning will provide help to to attain, like what this may appear like, as soon as you might be energy planning. You’ve completed it for greater than three months. So that you’ll be capable of set huge targets for what you are promoting and pursue them totally. You received’t be petrified of disappointment, and petrified of setting unrealistic targets, since you’ll be capable of belief your self to determine tips on how to do belongings you’ve by no means completed earlier than. You’ll know tips on how to be with your self via disappointment via failure. And also you really benefit from the problem, not simply the cliche benefit from the journey. Yeah, yeah. Such as you’re really be experiencing challenges, and discovering your self being thrilled with discovering the answer to them. As an alternative of being in despair, it’s not working.
You’ll make plans that aren’t overwhelming, and that you may comply with via on constantly, your weekly plans might be a software that may provide help to nourish what you are promoting, your well being, your relationships, and also you’ll be reaching greater than you ever have. Whereas almost certainly working much less. Whereas really engaged on different areas of your life, in addition to the way you do one issues, the way you do all the pieces. So by actually going all-in on what you are promoting and never being half-assed with it anymore. That can simply move over into different areas of your life, the profit is that you just’ll be capable of alter and adapt your relaxation with out guilt. And be brave and progressive in what you are promoting because of that since you received’t really feel like whether or not folks like what you are promoting or not as a mirrored image of whether or not they such as you or not, and whether or not you’re lovable or not, you’ll belief your self to make the fitting choices. And to try this with out overthinking, you may be self-aware and know the indicators that you just’re in your personal means.
As a result of you will note that in your Energy planning, you will note that in your weekly assessment. And you’ll know what to do to get again out of your personal means. And you’ll perceive that with every new degree of enterprise, there’s going to be a little bit of perfectionism work that comes up. And also you’ve received the instruments that will help you with that. You’re feeling assured in your skill to get out of your personal means you don’t count on that, it’s simply you get out of your personal means. And that’s it endlessly and by no means have to do that work once more. That is why we alter PGSD from being a month-to-month membership to being lifetime entry. As a result of there’s going to be time for you actually need to do the work to get out of your personal means and apply what you intellectually know. Then there’s going to be occasions when it is advisable go on the market and study extra issues. After which there’s going to be a time when it is advisable do the issues you realize it is advisable do and also you’re getting in your personal means and also you’re self-sabotaging or perhaps you’re going to procrasti-learning and studying these new issues for too lengthy. Prefer it goes backwards and forwards. And PGSD goes to be there for you at each degree to get lifetime entry while you join.
So anyway, this isn’t about energy planning, and actually promoting you on planning in a means that really works for a perfectionist. So we have now the facility hour, we have now little tweaks and we have now the weekly assessment. That’s how we do energy planning. And I invite you into PGSD when the doorways open quickly to actually embody this and provides it the time and apply that it deserves. And I say this time it would prevent a lot time as a result of procrasti-planning is a big time suck. So with that stated I hope you discovered this episode useful once more samlaurabrown.com/PGSD is the place you possibly can be a part of the waitlist for PGSD. You will discover out extra about this system you possibly can join when it opens. I hope you’re having a good looking day and I’ll discuss to you within the subsequent episode.
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I hope you loved that episode within the planning sequence, I wish to invite you into Perfectionist Getting Shit Finished so you may get out of your personal means in what you are promoting and get what you are promoting off the bottom. In case you battle with displaying up constantly, when you battle with procrastination, with overthinking, with burnout, with overwhelm, with having a tough time making choices. PGSD is for you. We’re doing at the moment our final enrollment for the yr. So the doorways are closing at 11:59pm jap time this Friday, the twenty first of November. So to hitch us inside, go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd, right now.
