What It Is, Who It is For + Why It Works

You both work nonstop making an attempt to catch up or keep away from your to-do checklist utterly — and it doesn’t matter what, it feels such as you’re falling behind.

If that sounds acquainted, this episode is for you.

Whether or not you’re new to the podcast or have been listening for years, I’m breaking down what Perfectionists Getting Shit Executed (PGSD) really is, who it’s for, and why it really works so nicely for perfectionist entrepreneurs who’re caught in overwhelm, procrastination, and self-doubt.

PGSD is a productiveness program that’s constructed particularly for perfectionist entrepreneurs. As an alternative of forcing your self to be extra disciplined or counting on willpower, you’ll learn to plan correctly, comply with via persistently, and construct actual momentum in your corporation. You’ll cease over-editing, overthinking, and burning your self out making an attempt to do all the things completely — and eventually grow to be somebody who will get shit achieved.

On this episode, I stroll you thru the PGSD Course of, share actual transformations from PGSDers, and assist you determine if it’s the correct subsequent step for you.

Discover the total episode transcript and present notes at samlaurabrown.com/episode529.

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Introduction

Hello, and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Challenge. A podcast filled with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My title is Sam Laura Brown, I assist entrepreneurs launch their perfectionism handbrake, to allow them to get out of their very own method and construct a satisfying and worthwhile enterprise. I’m the founding father of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Executed group teaching program, which is in any other case generally known as PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that will help you with your corporation, you may comply with me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.

Sam Laura Brown

Hello, and welcome to a different episode of the perfectionism mission, a podcast filled with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My title is Sam Laura Brown. I assist entrepreneurs launch a 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 Executed group teaching program, which is in any other case generally known as PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that will help you with your corporation, you may comply with me on Instagram at perfectionism mission.

I truthfully couldn’t be extra excited to be telling you about Perfectionists Getting Shit Executed and the way it’s gonna enable you to get out of your individual method in your corporation. And so I’m gonna be actually sharing with you on this episode who it’s for, the way it will help you, what’s gonna occur when you’re inside, simply all these totally different sorts of issues so you may resolve whether or not or not you’re going to be becoming a member of us. And simply so you realize the dates particularly, the doorways at the moment are open as you’re listening to this, and and enrollment is closing at 11:59PM New York time on Friday, April 11. So we’re strict with our deadline, so that you’ll want to enroll by then if you’ll be part of us. And you’ll go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd to enroll.

I’ll hyperlink that for you within the present notes. You’ll be able to head there proper now if you wish to to search out out a bit extra about issues, however this episode is de facto going that will help you get an actual really feel for what p g s d is like and if it’s for you. So let’s discuss, initially, why you had been right here, why you’re listening to this podcast. So most definitely, my guess is that you just’re listening to this since you are getting in your individual method in your corporation. You determine as a perfectionist, and you’ll relate to that type of factor once I discuss it.

And the progress you’re making in your corporation doesn’t replicate the potential that you realize you may have. So that you at the moment really feel like there’s this mismatch that you just’re placing in loads of work, both bodily or at the least mentally, nevertheless it’s not being mirrored again in your income, within the quantity your corporation is rising, in whether or not or not your family and friends are taking your corporation severely. And so that you need to reconcile these two issues and have your corporation really be what you realize it may be. And most definitely, you wanna have your corporation be one thing that’s financially steady, that may help you, and might provide the way of life that you really want. So my guess is you’ll be capable of relate to some of this stuff.

For those who get pleasure from listening to this podcast, perhaps you’ve simply began listening, however loads of our PGSDers earlier than they enroll, these are a number of the issues that they’re fighting. In order that they’re pushing aside sitting all the way down to work as a result of they don’t know what to work on first. They’ve obtained that lengthy to do checklist. It’s overwhelming they don’t even know the place to begin. They’re fluffing round once they had been meant to be having a productive day.

In order that they’re procrasti-cleaning. They’re principally doing something they will to keep away from doing the actual issues they know they should do. They’re struggling to belief that they’re engaged on the correct issues, and this results in loads of procrastinating as a result of they’re eager to see what everybody else is doing. And in the event that they’re doing it proper, they’re taking ten minute duties and having them grow to be an hour lengthy activity as a result of they will’t cease overthinking. They’re leaping from activity to activity to activity, leaving virtually all the things half completed doing, social media detoxes, scrolling social media lots, after which deleting the app to try to keep on observe and keep targeted and keep motivated.

They’ve lengthy to do lists that get longer all through the day, not shorter, and so they’re including an increasing number of to their plate. So unsure if you happen to can relate to this, however that is the place our PGFCs usually are earlier than they enroll. So, additionally, you may need a financial institution of social media content material you have to polish earlier than you may publish. So you may have been ending some issues, however with regards to really sharing it with the world, you’re feeling prefer it wants a bit of bit extra tweaking. You’re scrambling to fulfill deadlines and pushing off essential duties.

You’re ticking off the straightforward duties earlier than engaged on the essential ones, and you then’re working out of time for the essential ones. So that you’re spending loads of time in your corporation type of, like, doing issues and getting some stuff achieved, however you realize it’s not the actual essential activity that you have to do. You don’t actually have a lot to indicate for what number of hours you’re working, and also you’re apologizing to your associate for not ending your work day if you mentioned that you’d. Once you’re working, like, admin is looming over you, so that you could be up and down out of your desk doing a great deal of laundry. After which if you’re with your loved ones, your work is looming over you and all these half completed duties, and also you’re checking social media stats.

You’re resenting, and also you won’t wanna admit this to anybody. However if you happen to’re resentful of your loved ones, your mates, perhaps your job if in case you have one for the time that they’re taking away from your corporation, after which if you get time to work on your corporation, you end up losing it. You’re burning your self out and needing to take time away continuously to recharge and realign and remotivate your self and get readability. So if you happen to can relate to any of that, simply know that you’re the place loads of our PGSDers had been earlier than they signed up for PGSD and actually began to do the work to get out of their very own method. So what I really need you to know, if you happen to take something away from my podcast, please take this away, that you just’re sensible.

You recognize a lot about how one can market your corporation. You’re a steady learner. You’re filled with concepts, and but you’re not doing the issues you have to do. And the one purpose that’s taking place is since you haven’t been planning correctly as a perfectionist. So all the things that I discussed is all a planning downside.

That’s what it comes again to. You don’t want extra time. I do know. Particularly now they’re children. I understand how tempting it may be to try to add extra time to our schedule to try to resolve for any productiveness challenge that we now have, nevertheless it’s actually about planning.

And most planning recommendation doesn’t really work for perfectionists. It turns our perfectionism handbrake on and makes us overthink, get into overwhelm, get into the all or nothing mindset, go into individuals pleasing mode. There’s so many causes that standard planning recommendation doesn’t really work for perfectionists. Your comply with via downside, it’s only a planning downside. Your burnout downside, it’s only a planning downside.

And if you learn to plan correctly as a perfectionist in a method that will get your perfectionist mindset in your aspect so you may comply with via on an important duties persistently, sustainably, productively, and courageously, it turns into simple to do the issues that you realize you have to do. So that’s what I wanna ensure you know there’s nothing unsuitable with you, and you’re so near with the ability to create the enterprise that you really want, that you realize you’re able to creating. And it’s only a matter of studying how one can plan correctly in order that the time that you just’re placing into your corporation is definitely transferring your corporation ahead relatively than burning you out. And anybody can learn to plan correctly as a perfectionist, and that’s what you’re going to study and grasp inside Perfectionists Getting Shit Executed. So perhaps some stuff you’ve tried that haven’t labored with regards to that is to do checklist and planners and time blocking.

So that you wanna be extra productive. You wanna get an important issues achieved. You actually wanna really feel like you may have the wind at your again and also you’re making progress and creating momentum. So that you’ve tried totally different time administration methods. We perfectionists like to do checklist.

The the longer the higher. And we love checking off gadgets and actually feeling like we’re getting issues achieved. Like, we love that feeling of being productive. So perhaps you’ve tried loads of that totally different type of factor. I’ve achieved episodes earlier than on why to do checklist don’t work for perfectionist, however you’ve tried that.

So that you’ve been making an attempt to plan correctly. You simply haven’t realized how one can plan in a method that really works for a perfectionist. You could be including extra work hours, so waking up earlier, staying up later, working your lunch breaks to try to get extra achieved and catch up. You’re discovering in search of a extra aligned advertising and marketing technique and taking up new initiatives and duties to maintain your self feeling motivated and impressed and actually simply hoping that if you happen to can simply discover the correct advertising and marketing technique, the correct advertising and marketing platform, social media platform, then it’ll be simple to comply with via. Possibly you’ve achieved social media detoxes, purchased new stationery to try to preserve your self motivated, tried altering your work setting.

So, like, you’ve perhaps tried working from cafes and getting out of the home, or perhaps you’ve tried doing up a nook of your own home, or if in case you have a house workplace, a spare room, making an attempt to do issues up so that you’ve a greater setting for work to try to preserve your self motivated, perhaps been researching how one can keep motivated. However your comply with via downside, your burnout downside, it’s only a planning downside. And as I mentioned, anybody can learn to plan correctly as a perfectionist. So simply know that if you happen to’ve tried all these issues I simply talked about with a purpose to get out of your individual method and do the issues you realize you have to do, there actually is nothing unsuitable with you, and you’re so near with the ability to be the one that follows via persistently, sustainably, productively, and courageously. So if you join PGSD and also you comply with the PGSD prod oh my goodness.

Why can’t I discuss right this moment? The PGSD course of, which I’ll discuss in a second, you grow to be somebody who does an important issues for his or her enterprise persistently, sustainably, productively, and courageously, somebody who can belief themselves to resolve on what’s most essential. That’s one thing that I feel must be talked about. That method, we will assume like, however what’s an important factor and the way will I do know what that’s and I can’t even belief myself to do this? However if you find yourself following this course of, you’ll be able to belief your self that what you may have put in your calendar goes to get you to your objectives and trusting your self to note if it’s not and with the ability to troubleshoot and proper for that.

So inside the first few weeks inside PGSD, right here’s what our PGSDers are sometimes experiencing. So initially, actually essential, they’re feeling relieved that they lastly have a course of to comply with that works with them and never in opposition to them. So it’s no extra uphill battle or making an attempt to repair themselves, however they really have a course of to work with that will get their perfectionist mindset on their aspect and helps them work alongside themselves. They’re planning their week out realistically so that they now not really feel overwhelmed. They’re studying and understanding extra about themselves than ever earlier than.

And these are individuals, like, inside PGSD, everyone seems to be tremendous into private growth and all of that. It’s not like we’ve by no means achieved that stuff earlier than, however inside PGSD and if you’re doing the PGSD course of and following that, which is plan correctly as a perfectionist, comply with via along with your plans, relaxation with out guilt, and repeat. Once you had been doing that, you’re studying extra about your self than you ever have in your life, even if you happen to’re somebody who has achieved so many hours of non-public growth. You’ve learn the books. You’ve listened to the podcast.

You’ve gone via the occasions. In order that they’re studying extra about themselves than ever. So that is inside the first few weeks. They’re recognizing that their enterprise is an actual enterprise, not only a pastime. And that is so essential.

In case you are feeling proper now like your corporation like, you’re simply type of plain enterprise proprietor that isn’t really an actual factor, then it’s so highly effective when you’ll be able to really acknowledge you do have an actual enterprise. As a result of when you may have that shift, that mindset shift, you begin displaying up otherwise, and your corporation begins making more cash. It naturally does as a result of now you really imagine it’s an actual enterprise. In order that they’re getting readability on their true priorities and what’s going to transfer their enterprise ahead in a method that feels aligned for them. That is actually essential for perfectionists as a result of we love what everybody else is doing, and we now have all these concepts about what we should always do.

However they’re really getting readability on what issues for his or her enterprise and for them in a method that actually feels in alignment with their values and isn’t filled with shoulds and have tos. They’re making essential enterprise selections that they’d been pushing aside making for months. And, I imply, in our personal half, perhaps even for years, this pertains to area of interest and what their provide is and pricing and packaging and branding and all these various things, like naming a podcast, for instance. These selections that we expect we now have to make the proper one, and so we will spend so lengthy in that indecision not making any progress. Within the first few weeks inside PGSD, most of our PGSD is, if they’ve selections like that that they should make, they’re capable of make them confidently and trusting themselves.

They’re implementing concepts which have been on their thoughts for months, if not years. So initiatives that they’ve wished to begin, They’ve researched. Possibly they’ve even began it, however by no means, like, printed something and put it out into the world. They’re capable of really begin placing that into actuality. They’re changing busy work with needle movers and clear relaxation.

So if you happen to can relate to what I mentioned earlier than about with regards to, like, you really sit all the way down to work and also you tick off the straightforward duties as an alternative of the essential duties, what occurs inside the first couple of weeks inside PGSD is that you just begin with the ability to with out, like, having to power or stress your self, you’re capable of begin doing these needle movers as an alternative, the essential issues. And as an alternative of spending a lot time working, you’re capable of do the needle movers and do them in such a method, like, with out overthinking and second guessing that it takes much less time, and you then’re capable of have time for clear relaxation as nicely. So that you’re getting extra of the essential stuff achieved in much less time with extra relaxation, and that’s inside the first couple of weeks inside PGSD that may start taking place. And starting to make more cash and appeal to extra purchasers and clients, that is apparent. That is what occurs if you begin displaying up absolutely and doing the issues that you realize you have to do, after which additionally having day without work your corporation in order that your mind can relaxation and recharge and provide you with unimaginable concepts.

And, really, even if you happen to’re not developing with unimaginable concepts that you’ll, as a result of that’s simply how our brains like to work. We’re not sitting at our desk and we’re simply, like, going for a stroll with the canine or no matter. We’ve got these impressed moments. However when it comes time to work, you’ll really be excited to do it and motivated as a result of it received’t really feel such as you’re spending all day on this treadmill that by no means ends. However as a result of there’s such a a transparent begin and end to your day and also you’re capable of keep on with that and honor that with out having to really feel such as you didn’t get something achieved or there’s all these things to compensate for, like, you’re capable of really honor that, that it means you’re going to overlook your corporation and, like, an absence makes the center develop fonder type of method.

And also you’ll be so eager to get again to work when that point comes relatively than dreading it, resenting it, feeling overwhelmed, feeling responsible about what hasn’t been achieved. In order that’s inside the first few weeks inside PGSD. After which right here’s what occurs sometimes after three months inside PGSD. So we discuss with energy planning that you just make the three month dedication to energy planning. I’m gonna discuss {that a} bit extra in a minute.

And I talked about energy planning lots on the podcast, however we discuss in regards to the three month dedication to energy planning as a result of it’s actually essential that, like, if you happen to consider it like studying to drive, that it’s not like if you get within the automotive for the very first time that you just anticipate your self to be an skilled driver, it’s gonna take a minute. However if you happen to do make investments that point, you’re gonna have that ability full life on autopilot. In order that’s what energy planning is like. So after three months inside PGSD, our PGSDers are beginning every day feeling clear on precisely what to do and when to do it. They know what’s essential and what’s not, and so they additionally know what’s essential however must be left for later, whether or not that’s subsequent week or subsequent month.

They’re not feeling overwhelmed about what they need to do. They’re so clear on, I do know precisely what to do, when to do it, and I can belief myself to do what I had deliberate to get myself again on observe if I get off observe, to make changes if there’s a disruption, to alter issues to a following week if that should occur. There’s a lot self belief that’s underpinning all of this. They usually belief as nicely that what they’ve put of their calendar will get them to their objectives. So in case you are somebody who has been doing loads of procrastinator studying and procrastinator researching, then that is going to actually assist to eradicate that so that you just’re studying and implementing and studying from doing your individual experiences, not simply from what different individuals have achieved, however you aren’t implementing it your self.

So it’s so essential that you’ll be able to develop this ability of trusting your self with what you’ve put in your calendar that it’ll make a distinction, that it’s gonna be worthwhile. That alone reduces a lot resistance. Like, if proper now, you’re feeling loads of resistance with regards to following via along with your plans. Most likely what’s happening there and perhaps another issues too is that you just don’t belief that it’s gonna be worthwhile, that your effort goes to repay. And so, after all, you’re feeling proof against it.

So if you’re planning correctly, you’ll be able to belief that what’s in your calendar is definitely the correct factor to have in there. And when our PGSD is round that three month mark usually this truthfully occurs, like, six to eight weeks inside PGFC, however I’m saying three months. Then they spend their work time that is what they’re doing. Issues like posting to social media persistently with out overthinking within the drama about it, creating the best high quality work and attracting extra purchasers and clients, doing massive image planning, and turning their concepts into actuality. So as an alternative of simply feeling like on this hamster wheel of making an attempt to do all like, put out these little fires that continuously come up and simply making an attempt to tick off the naked minimal to allow them to then have time to do this greater image planning.

And actually simply , like if we take into consideration working within the enterprise versus on the enterprise, for your corporation to develop, you have to be doing a little work on the enterprise. As in that’s that massive image planning that’s long run considering. That’s type of if you consider I do know that is simply coming to me now, but when you consider, once I simply had this picture of, like, somebody in an enormous ship, like, a cruise ship type of factor, like, you have to have occasions the place you’re on the you realize, behind the massive wheel or no matter it’s referred to as, and you’re looking at the place you’re going, you’re planning the place you’re going, you’re, like, checking that you’re on observe, so to talk. And you then’re gonna have time, particularly if you happen to’re at a stage in your corporation the place you don’t have contractors, workers serving to you, that you just’re going to be I don’t know. Now this analogy is falling aside in, like, the underside chamber space the place you’re, like, placing the gas in and doing no matter individuals do to truly make the boat run.

So that you’re gonna be needing to do each these issues. I’m sorry. That was a horrible analogy, however I hope it’s coming throughout. However you have to have time if you’re wanting on the massive image and likewise if you had been doing the each day work, particularly earlier than you may have a crew to do this type of stuff. And so our PGSDers at round that three month mark are discovering that they’re doing a lot extra of that, and their enterprise is benefiting from that in so some ways as a result of they’re not simply, like, with their head down making an attempt to get to the place they wanna go, probably not understanding the place they even wanna go or in the event that they’re even on observe to that as a result of they don’t even have time to take a look at that massive image.

They’re self teaching and tremendous considering, so there’s loads of area of their day to be considering and reflecting and planning, as I mentioned, and never simply, like, you realize, writing and rewriting to do checklist. That’s not what I’m speaking about in any respect. It’s actually that massive image dreaming, which for lots of perfectionists, like, that’s one thing talking from expertise as nicely, that’s one thing that we will typically wrestle with as a result of we’re scared to have this dream, this massive imaginative and prescient, as a result of we don’t need to disappoint ourselves for if it doesn’t find yourself taking place, and we don’t wanna really feel silly or naive for believing massive issues can occur. However as you’re planning correctly and by advantage of that constructing self belief, you’ll be able to then begin to have these greater goals and visions with out that worry of disappointing your self and with out having to kinda squash these concepts earlier than you may even discover them. They’re calmly working in direction of essential deadlines, and so they’re placing themselves ahead confidently for alternatives.

In order that’s of their work time. Additionally having much more relaxation time, trip time, pastime time, time that’s spent away from the enterprise as nicely. So I discuss clear relaxation, which is resting with out guilt. They’ve versatile construction that helps them work at their highest degree. I can’t emphasize sufficient how essential and unimaginable that is when you may have this as a result of particularly if you happen to’ve come from like, I got here from a company setting earlier than I used to be full time in my enterprise, that in case you are used to having a structured work day with a boss to maintain you accountable, after which it’s you and your corporation the place there’s nobody to maintain you accountable and there’s no construction within the sense that until you create it via energy planning, that you’re then type of left with simply this open ended period of time.

Like, nobody’s telling you when the work day begins or the work day ends or what’s most essential. Like, you have to end this mission first after which that one later that it’s simply you and having construction that can also be versatile and actually takes under consideration the realities of life, that there are gonna be disruptions. There’s gonna be distractions. There’s gonna be days the place you’re not feeling it. There’s gonna be days the place you’re unwell.

There’s gonna be days the place if in case you have kids, your kids are sick or they want you much more for no matter different purpose, that if in case you have versatile construction and likewise construction that may change as you study extra about your self and the way you’re employed finest and the way you relaxation finest and likewise that adjustments as you navigate totally different seasons of life, totally different seasons of enterprise, that you’ll be able to actually be such an unimaginable boss to your self and actually deliver out your finest work. So after three months inside PGSD, our PGSDers are getting lots achieved as a result of they’re decisive and clear on what issues most. They don’t seem to be actually spending in any respect. I’m not gonna say zero, however scrolling on social media and unfulfilling display screen time is method down in comparison with earlier than. Like, method, method, method, method, method down.

They’re additionally discovering that in the event that they procrastinate, they will pull themselves of it actually shortly. It’s not this massive deal. It’s not gonna break the week. That beneath it, they’ve the idea about themselves that they’re somebody who can comply with via, that they’re somebody who will get shit achieved. And so when that type of individual like, after getting that perception, which you develop via the observe of energy planning, after getting that and also you procrastinate, like, you go off activity, you go down a rabbit gap, god is aware of that’s simple to do, that it doesn’t grow to be this massive downside and, like, oh, right here I am going once more procrastinating and, like, I’ve ruined the week once more and no matter.

It’s similar to, oh, cool. I observed as nicely as a result of you may have a brand new energy planning. Like, you really know what you had been meant to be doing. So you may see if you’re procrastinating, whether or not that’s procrastinating like scrolling or that’s procrasti working and also you’re out of the blue engaged on a activity that’s utterly totally different to what you had deliberate. There’s a time and a spot for positive.

You’ll be able to regulate that stuff. It’s versatile. We’ve got the little tweaks you can make to your calendar. However, additionally, it simply there’s a bit of alarm bell that’ll go off the place you’re like, oh, I’m really doing one thing apart from what I had deliberate. I wanna examine what my motivations are for that, and I can get myself again on observe, particularly as a result of there’s no overwhelm.

Like, we’re not procrastinating as a result of we’re feeling so overwhelmed and making an attempt to get out of that feeling. They end every day feeling energized, productive. They end the week as nicely feeling that method, and that is in it’s it’s all the things. I imply, all of that is all the things. It’s so so unimaginable if you’re capable of create this for your self with planning correctly and the three month dedication and studying this that you’ll be able to get to the top of the week.

And, like, not each week’s gonna go to plan, and there’ll be issues that don’t work out at occasions in your corporation. It’s so essential to know as nicely that, like, if you’re planning correctly, that doesn’t imply that each plan that you just put in your calendar will work. Like, this isn’t deliberate correctly, and also you’ll by no means need to expertise any type of failure or disappointment or setback or impediment. However since you’ll be within the development mindset about it, that stuff received’t be an issue anymore. And so that you’ll be resilient.

You’ll be capable of bounce again. You’ll be capable of downside resolve. And actually importantly, it is possible for you to to get to the top of the week it doesn’t matter what type of week that was and be ok with it. And never simply on this, like, you realize, making an attempt to be constructive and put a great spin on issues and silver lining, however due to the weekly assessment step in energy planning, you’ll really be coaching your mind to note what you’ve completed. So proper now, you’re really in all probability doing issues if you assume you’re you had nothing achieved that week that you just did really accomplish a number of issues, however your mind is dismissing it as a result of perfectionist or nothing considering.

And so if you’re energy planning and planning correctly, you’re retraining your mind to truly be extra sensible and goal about what occurred and really see the progress you’re making, that progress that as perfectionists, we are inclined to dismiss as a result of until we obtained all the best way there, then we expect, nicely, we didn’t get any of the best way there in any respect. And that’s merely not the case. So PGSD is at that three month mark have clear boundaries between work and residential life, to allow them to be absolutely current in each. So once they’re working, they’re working. They’re getting shit achieved.

They’re being productive. They’re doing what issues. And once they’re not working, as an alternative of feeling responsible, feeling resentful for whoever’s taking over their time, whether or not that’s one other individual or whether or not that’s their job, they’re capable of be absolutely current in that have and never having to be fascinated by, oh, there’s this stuff I must do later, and I’m unsure once I’m gonna get that achieved. And similar to, we all know that feeling. I do know that feeling from loads of expertise with that previously.

So our PTSD is already at that three month mark, are actually capable of have clear boundaries, begin work once they say they’ll begin work, and work once they say they’ll finish work. Which additionally, if you happen to’re in a relationship or have kids, it’s so highly effective to know that, like, if you happen to inform your associate that you just’ll be completed work right this moment at 04:30 and also you stroll out of your workplace or shut your laptop computer at 04:30, the sorts of issues that does in your relationship with your self, particularly, but additionally with them, simply the reliability it creates. And if you’d like them to imagine extra in your corporation, then that’s such a robust technique to do it that they will see you’re somebody that does what they mentioned you’d do. And sorry. I’m simply raving about this makes such a distinction.

You recognize what to do, and also you’re simply not doing it, and planning correctly is the reply to that. So in addition they, round that mark, shortly discover once they’re getting in their very own method and know how one can get again out of it once more. So we’re not saying at three months, you’ll by no means end up procrastinating or feeling overwhelmed, And also you would possibly already know in PGSD, a part of that PGSD course of falling via 80% of time, we don’t goal for zero procrastination. That’s that each one or nothing considering. We goal for 80% comply with via, and that’s what we deal with.

And there shall be occasions you may have a human mind. It likes to get off observe. It likes to do various things and be distracted. And so there’s different occasions that it’ll be and your self consciousness will develop a lot. It’ll be much less apparent since you’ll be procrastinating on one thing that may be very justified and that different persons are doing, however perhaps isn’t really a needle mover for you at that cut-off date.

However you’ll be capable of discover that and also you’ll have the ability set to get your self again on observe with out beating your self up, with out shaming your self, with out feeling responsible about it. You’d simply be like, oh, I see myself deviating, and right here I am going to being again on observe. So on account of all of this as nicely, they’re making more cash in much less time and doing it in a method that feels aligned and sustainable to them. They’re getting clear relaxation. They’re current with their households.

They’re feeling extra related to their purchasers and clients and followers. It’s simply if once more, if you realize what to do and also you’ve been making an attempt to unravel for this motivation downside, for this comply with via downside, you’ve been burning out, all of it comes again to planning correctly, and anybody can learn to do this. So the highest three issues which are actually gonna enable you to get out of your individual method is the PGSD course of. It’s all lined in that. So planning correctly as a perfectionist, following via, and resting with out guilt, and repeating that.

That’s the course of for getting out of your individual method in your corporation and with the ability to do an important issues persistently, sustainably, productively, and courageously. And the best way to make this sustainable long run, so it’s not only a section, not only a spurt of productiveness, is with accountability and help. And that’s what you’re gonna get inside PGSD. I’m gonna discuss {that a} bit extra in a second. However I wanna discuss to you about energy planning a bit extra and some questions perhaps you may need round that or simply serving to you actually perceive what that’s going to be like.

So planning correctly as a perfectionist entails two foremost issues. That’s setting your development purpose. That’s the very first thing you’ll do inside PGSD. We information you on how to do this. And utilizing energy planning on a weekly foundation.

So most purpose setting recommendation let’s discuss in regards to the development purpose. Most purpose setting recommendation doesn’t work for perfectionists the identical method that the majority planning recommendation doesn’t. As a result of actually planning recommendation and purpose setting tremendous associated. So loads of purpose setting recommendation has us with our perfectionism handbrake absolutely on and makes us get in our personal method. And so inside PGSD, we information you thru precisely what to do with regards to setting a purpose that’s going to be motivating with out making you’re feeling pressured and pressured.

And when it’s this development purpose, simply to provide a bit of bit extra details about that. I’ve talked about on the podcast many occasions earlier than. So we set the expansion purpose only a bit above what we at the moment imagine is feasible for ourselves in order that we have to develop into the person who can obtain that. As a lot as we love not disappointing ourselves and being sensible and being logical about issues and, you realize, not being naive or no matter, that it’s so highly effective for a perfectionist to set a purpose that’s only a bit above what we imagine is feasible as a result of it implies that we have to launch our perfectionism handbrake with a purpose to obtain it. Possibly not absolutely.

It’s not all or nothing. You get so many advantages simply from releasing it a bit of bit. Proper? However if in case you have this purpose that requires you to develop the expansion purpose, you then’re going to wish to get out of your individual method. Whereas loads of occasions after we set these sensible objectives, the sensible objectives, that we don’t need to get out of our personal method with a purpose to obtain them.

That’s why they really feel sensible as a result of current day us can get there. So we wanna problem that, problem our mind, and have a purpose that isn’t going to emphasize us or stress us, and we set this purpose in a selected method inside PGSD with quarterly milestones. All of the directions there within the first module within the PGSD course of, and we information you thru it. And there’s so some ways you may get help and training in order that you realize it’s set at the most effective degree for you if you happen to’re struggling to belief your self. Like, perhaps with objectives, you have a tendency to only have loads of objectives, obscure objectives.

Possibly you haven’t actually had a purpose. And this purpose, by the best way, is a income purpose. I received’t go on the rant proper now, however you may have a enterprise. Companies want cash to develop. That’s the oxygen.

And in case your argument to that’s that you just love serving to individuals, I would like you to show your thoughts to charities who additionally love serving to individuals. Properly, so do companies. A %. So do companies. However take into consideration charities.

What do they do? They fundraise. I e, they elevate cash as a result of additionally charities want cash as their oxygen. So it’s so highly effective to have your purpose round income relatively than followers or some type of different factor that you just assume, nicely, if I had sufficient followers, then they’ll purchase after which I’ll make a sure amount of cash. Like, we simply wanna have the purpose be the precise purpose that we now have, not a purpose round one thing we expect will get us to the purpose.

So the purpose is the income purpose. That’s one thing that you just’re aiming in direction of, and that’s gonna be a terrific match. However as I mentioned, we’re gonna information you thru it. It’s gonna be tailor-made to you. It’s not one measurement matches all, and right here’s what you ought to be aiming for.

It’s actually about the place you’re at the moment at in your corporation and likewise the place your perception degree is in the intervening time. As a result of loads of occasions, we expect like, nicely, I I’ve realized a lot about advertising and marketing. I’ve achieved all of the programs. Like, I understand how to construct a enterprise. Like, I may inform another person how one can construct a enterprise to one million {dollars}, in order that must be my purpose.

And this was a a mistake I made with purpose setting initially was that I assumed if I intellectually knew how one can get there, that that made it really feel doable and that was, like, the place I ought to set my purpose as an alternative of really what amount of cash would I wager on me making within the subsequent yr After which having the purpose be only a bit above that relatively than, you realize, what, what purpose do I’ve the mental data to create? So, anyway, all that’s inside PGSD. We information you thru it. Help, accountability, teaching, all that’s obtainable to you. After which we now have energy planning, which is the second half.

It entails three steps, your energy hour, little tweaks, and your weekly assessment. So in your energy hour, I would like you to consider this like sharpening the ax. So there’s an Abraham Lincoln quote that’s one thing alongside the strains of, give me six hours to cut down a tree, and I’ll spend 4 hours sharpening the ax. IE preparation issues. Like, the time that we put into getting ready pays off with regards to execution.

If we put together correctly, we plan correctly, we’re going to wish much less time executing. So that is what your energy hour is. Because the title suggests, it’s an hour. We information you thru the total course of for that inside PGSD. However, principally, what it entails is placing your needle movers and your clear relaxation in your digital calendar.

So after we’re energy planning, we work from a calendar, both iCal or Google Calendar, each of that are free, and also you commit. Tremendous essential. We perfectionist are inclined to over commit, which suggests we’re not dedicated in any respect. We’re beneath committing as a result of we all know we’re not gonna get all of it achieved. So it’s not actual dedication.

So we decide to what’s in our calendar understanding that we will make changes, which brings me to the second step, which is little tweaks. So we make changes to our calendar so we all the time know what to work on and are capable of get all the things achieved with out feeling pressured or overwhelmed. So I would like you to consider this step as, like, Google Maps. If you consider driving to a vacation spot, you realize, you place your vacation spot in. After which if you happen to get off beam, perhaps there’s one thing blocking you from going the highway that you have to go or a greater route turns into obtainable, the faster one, that it reroutes you.

It adjusts the plan so that you just nonetheless know the place to drive. It doesn’t similar to, if you must take say one thing occurs as an accident. Now Google Maps is fairly refined and noise that stuff and might inform you prematurely, however simply think about it didn’t have that. And also you’re driving and there’s an accident. Oh, this simply occurred.

There’s an accident. And you must go on a special highway to what you’re used to happening, like what it suggests. So what tends to occur with most perfectionists after we’re working from a calendar and perhaps you’re following, like, time blocking or one thing like that, that we aren’t updating our calendar to maintain it workable. So on this analogy, if you happen to needed to go on this totally different highway, it’s like if Google Maps saved telling you the directions as if you happen to went on the highway you had been meant to go on however couldn’t. And now you’re misplaced.

You’re utterly misplaced. It’s so overwhelming. You haven’t any thought the place you’re, what you’re meant to be doing, the place to drive as a result of it didn’t regulate. It didn’t preserve it workable. And so it’s nonetheless like, okay.

Now you ought to be turning proper if you’re like, there’s no proper flip. I’m in a totally totally different location, and it turns into utterly ineffective. So if you happen to’ve labored from a calendar earlier than, one of many causes that it may need been actually difficult for you and felt actually, like, stress y and you then felt behind was since you weren’t really doing little tweaks. You weren’t permitting your plans to replace and keep workable in order that at any given cut-off date, you all the time know precisely what you have to work on. And, additionally, if one thing comes up and also you’re not capable of get issues achieved, say, perhaps within the day or the week that you just plan to, you’re capable of transfer these issues ahead in your calendar understanding that future you is gonna take a look at them in your energy hour and be capable of put them in the correct place and prioritize them.

And, like, there’s this belief that if I can’t do it precisely once I plan, it’s nonetheless going to get achieved inside the time-frame it must get achieved. Or perhaps it wasn’t even essential in any respect, and that’s what it’s gonna divulge to me, and I can delete it utterly. However all the things goes to get achieved, and that simply creates such a way of calm and peace and ease if you find yourself going about your day. So then there’s a weekly assessment. That is the third step.

So we now have energy hour, little tweaks, weekly assessment. So that is if you replicate and debrief on the week. And I would like you to think about this like I’ve been nerdy about area stuff since I can bear in mind. I bear in mind I took a guide. Didn’t take it.

I borrowed a guide about Pluto from the library once I was in, like, yr one, and I didn’t return it in time. And I obtained in a lot bother, however I simply was, like, so obsessive about something area associated. So, anyway, take into consideration NASA. Everyone knows NASA, the astronauts. And what they do, they’re actually targeted on steady studying, after all, as a result of it’s catastrophic, like, life or demise in the event that they make massive errors and even little errors.

In order that they’re all about steady studying, and a part of that’s doing a debrief. So after a coaching train or after a mission, they’ll do a crew debrief the place they’ll replicate on basically what labored, what didn’t work, what they should do otherwise. And they’re going to do this taking full accountability and with full transparency in order that it’s the best debrief it may be. And in order that’s what we do after we’re energy planning. In our weekly assessment, we’re reflecting on the week and celebrating, which is one thing as perfectionist we frequently must observe.

And we’re additionally in a very form and self compassionate method. We’re noticing what isn’t working for us or the place we could be getting in our personal method or getting off observe or getting in our personal head about one thing. And we’re capable of downside resolve and answer discover for that. After which it means after we come to our subsequent energy hour, we’re capable of like how NASA would do their crew debrief, after which they go into the following coaching train. They’re not like, nicely, we’re simply gonna attempt it the identical method we did final time and cross our fingers and hope it’s higher.

They usually don’t simply go for a vibe of, like, that didn’t actually really feel nice, and so let’s simply attempt it once more. Like, they examine it to allow them to do higher, and so they have very tangible motion steps. And in order that’s what we do with regards to the weekly assessment That we’re not simply left with this obscure, like, I’m gonna procrastinate much less, and I’m gonna comply with via extra. No matter. We’re very particular about simply a few issues.

We don’t wanna have this, like, lengthy checklist. A few issues that we’re gonna deal with within the following week or change about our plans. Possibly we’ve been having our clear relaxation within the night as a result of we expect that’s what we should always do, however, really, perhaps it will work nicely for us within the morning and to work a bit later. So we’re gonna experiment with that. Like, we now have very tangible takeaways in order that subsequent week shall be higher, so to talk, than the previous week.

And if you consider even only a three month dedication, three months of doing that, like, the compound impact of week on week on week, that steady studying doesn’t even take lengthy to do it. And that is just like the irony of perfectionism. We love being productive. We love steady studying, that type of factor. And but, if we now have our hand break on, it feels very weak to replicate and to actually check out issues and to note what’s working, what isn’t working.

So we are inclined to wanna skip this step, have a little bit of resistance to it. If that’s you, completely okay. However I actually wanna encourage you to do that weekly assessment. We’ve obtained the prompts in PGSD, however I principally went via them. It’s alongside the strains of what labored or what didn’t, what to do otherwise.

And you’re like NASA finding out what’s simply occurred in order that subsequent time, it’s going to be higher. Even if you happen to don’t really even take these tangible motion steps away simply via the the character of reflection and doing that absolutely and transparently. And even when, like there’s gonna be so many issues within the week that occur that you just don’t get to take a look at. That’s the character of it, and that’s okay. It’s not all or nothing.

You’ll be able to simply have a fast look, fifteen, twenty minutes, thirty minutes if you’d like, and determine a few issues for the next week to work on. And three months of that, like, week on week simply compounds so quickly. In order that’s what energy planning is like. That’s the way it helps you get out of your individual method, and it’s actually a course of that, as I mentioned, offers versatile construction, helps your well-being. So it’s not nearly getting shit achieved at any price.

It’s about getting all the things achieved with out burning out. And by all the things, I imply an important issues and doing that persistently, sustainably, productively, and courageously. With the ability to present up for your self, with the ability to have your individual again, doing that in a self compassionate method, which perhaps you haven’t skilled earlier than. So there’s that to look ahead to as nicely if you’re inside PGST, that you may be getting extra achieved in much less time with out burning out, really having fun with the day after day of your corporation, being current in your day without work, being current in your time within the enterprise, not type of, like, one foot in, one foot out. And what I wanna share as nicely about energy planning is how essential it was once I turned a mom.

So I used to be already energy planning earlier than I had children, however simply with the ability to have a ability set and likewise self belief. And I’ve simply made a lot like, I nonetheless have work to do round that, however I’ve, oh my god, leaps and bounds. Come up to now with that, because of energy planning and my development purpose. Like, the expansion purpose is what helps you determine the needle movers and what’s essential. You should have that vacation spot within the GPS to know if you happen to’re driving in the correct path.

So once I turned a mother and, like, initially, once I turned a mother, loads of that point in my calendar was simply, like, days and days and days of fresh relaxation. Like, I wasn’t doing enterprise stuff, however understanding that I had this ability set round like, if I did have work time, with the ability to work and know what to do and never have the overwhelm, particularly as a result of I and particularly initially, I didn’t have a lot work time in any respect. And so I actually wished to verify I used to be utilizing that point correctly and that it was price not being with my new child in order that I may do the issues that I used to be doing. After which due to the facility planning as nicely, once I was with my children, I’m not excellent, my mind wanders off, particularly when you may have a new child who can’t discuss again or, like, even smile initially. I provide you with any of that interplay.

However I used to be capable of be a lot extra current as a result of I wasn’t pressured about all of the issues I must do and when are they gonna get achieved. Like, that query of when am I gonna do it was not there in any respect due to the facility planning. And in case you missed my announcement, I’m pregnant, and I’m so grateful that I’ve, pregnant, and I’m so grateful that I’ve energy planning on this ability set in order that I can take day without work with out guilt whereas nonetheless attaining my enterprise objectives as nicely. So it’s by no means at that is what I like about it, that it’s by no means like, nicely, you may have day without work, however simply, you realize, you gotta downgrade these objectives. There could be a time you select, like, I’m gonna, you realize, not have as massive objectives or no matter, and that’s completely legitimate.

However you don’t need to. You’re capable of really arrange a construction for your self so that you just’re within the time you must work in your corporation, it’s probably the most impactful. It’s as impactful as it may be. And within the time that you just’re not working, that you just’re capable of relaxation and really get pleasure from your life and never simply really feel such as you’re on this hamster wheel on a regular basis and it by no means ends, and you then’re resenting when you may’t be on the the enterprise hamster wheel. However then if you’re on it, you’re not even doing issues.

Like, it’s simply such an unimaginable ability to have as a guardian. And I additionally want I’d had this once I was navigating massive transitions in my life earlier than that. So, like, leaving my full time job for half time work, which occurred for me in 2017, after which leaving my half time job to go full time in my enterprise, which occurred in 2019. That, like for instance, once I left my full time job, I went to half time work, and I used to be working within the evenings at my job. So I had, like, just about the total day till 3PM to work on my enterprise.

And I assumed, like, for thus lengthy, I assumed, if I simply had extra time, I’d be as profitable as all these different individuals I see as a result of lack of time is my downside. Like, this job, I used to be working in accounting. It was draining. Took loads of psychological power. After which, principally, as a result of I didn’t have this, once I went, like, to half time work and principally virtually full time hours in my enterprise, I spent days and days and days simply, like, making Pinterest graphics and simply doing issues that didn’t matter as a result of I didn’t have this.

And so though I had a lot extra time, I wasn’t capable of really take advantage of it, and it was actually difficult to create construction for myself and to take advantage of the time that I had after which leaving my half time job to go full time in my enterprise. By then, I’d began to develop this. I had began to do that, and it actually helped that I used to be capable of create construction in my days and various things like that. However if you happen to don’t have loads of time otherwise you’re navigating a transition the place your corporation time is both going to dramatically scale back, so perhaps you’re having a toddler, perhaps you may have a well being challenge to deal with, perhaps there’s one thing else happening in your private life. So in case your time is lowering lots for your corporation or rising dramatically, that is actually essential as a result of we expect, like, nicely, I’m not gonna have any productiveness issues if I get extra time on my fingers.

For those who’re losing your time now, you’re simply gonna waste your time when you may have extra of it, however however there’ll be extra to waste. So So it’s actually essential then. So if you happen to haven’t elevated dramatically, for instance, you’re leaving your full time job, you may have that on the playing cards, then planning correctly is very essential. And the most effective time to study energy planning is definitely if you’re busy, So that you learn to make it sustainable if you’re busy. As a result of life, there’s all the time gonna be stuff happening.

And I do know we perfectionists like to assume like, nicely, we talked about this really in PTSD lately. Like, this perfectionist fantasy we now have about, like, if I may simply go in a cabin within the woods for every week, I may simply get this sure factor achieved. Or, like, if I may simply go to a lodge and, like, take away myself from my regular life, then I may do the factor. And whereas I too have had that fantasy that what about really studying how one can do the stuff you wanna do in the best way you wanna do them within the setting you’re in and can all the time be in? As an alternative of getting a productive week within the woods, how about having fifty two productive weeks?

Plus, I imply, loads of that’s in all probability gonna be clear relaxation and all of that, however think about really having this ability set if you’re busy, when life is occurring as an alternative of, like, nicely, I understand how to be productive within the cabin within the woods. In order that’s what we’re doing with energy planning. We’re studying how one can be productive in a constant, sustainable, brave method. We’re studying how to do this. And the most effective time to learn to do that’s when that’s already happening relatively than I’ll wait until I’ve some cabin within the woods time, after which I’ll study these things.

And also you solely must study energy planning as soon as, and you then get the advantages yr after yr after yr after decade after decade. So So I would like you to consider it like studying to drive. As I discussed earlier than, that, like, at the least for me, that was at first. So I realized to drive once I was 16. Like, principally, the primary second I may study to drive, I realized to drive.

It was difficult. It was new. Additionally at first, there’s loads of various things to deal with, like steering. You gotta learn to steer. Then you must do this whereas staying in your lane, not working into something or anybody, understanding when to merge, when to hurry up, when to decelerate, checking your mirrors, checking your present oh, I rotated to actually test my shoulder.

So doing all of your shoulder checks, like, all these various things. There’s lots happening. There’s lots to concentrate to, however you may have somebody there with you. You’ve gotten an teacher, whether or not that’s a trainer, whether or not that’s a guardian. You’ve gotten somebody there with you to information you thru it, that will help you navigate that, to assist remind you of, like, hey.

You should do a shoulder test proper now earlier than you merge. You’ve gotten somebody who is aware of what errors you would possibly make, and so they’re in a position that will help you keep away from them. They’re in a position that will help you, like, perceive them and be capable of appropriate for them your self. They’re capable of just remember to’re not unknowingly creating reinforcing dangerous habits that within the case of driving might be actually harmful if in case you have them, or they won’t be one thing harmful, however they could be one thing that’s gonna be exhausting to alter later if you happen to develop it originally. So you may have somebody there who is ready to information you as nicely.

So it’s not so bloody scary. Like, if you happen to’re studying to drive and say like me, you’re 16 years previous and also you’re by your self in a automotive and also you don’t know what all of the buttons do and also you don’t I imply, you technically know the highway guidelines, however you don’t even have that a lot expertise with them and totally different, like, totally different questions that come up that solely come up when you begin driving. For instance, like, when to merge. Like, if you happen to’ve been in a automotive your complete life and you realize if you’ve seen seen all of the individuals merge, like, you simply assume you simply merge throughout, however, like, what distance away do the automobiles need to be? And what’s the precise timing?

And do I pace up or decelerate, or do I keep the identical pace? Like, there’s issues that come up, and so having somebody there who is aware of how one can do it, who’s achieved it themselves makes such an enormous distinction. And that’s why PGSD is available in and having the accountability, the teaching, the help. It’s so that you don’t need to be on the market driving for the primary time by your self with nobody there that will help you keep away from these errors, that will help you create nice habits, like, so that you just don’t create the dangerous ones and find yourself simply solidifying them unknowingly. You’ve gotten somebody there as nicely when, like, one thing scary may need, like, one thing I don’t know.

A automotive pulls out in entrance of you, one thing. They’re there that will help you know, okay. That’s one thing that may occur typically. That’s regular. There’s nothing that’s gone unsuitable.

You’re doing a terrific job. Simply preserve driving so that you just don’t simply pull off the highway and give up when you may have a a lifetime forward of you the place you might be driving and having fun with the advantages of driving. You assume with driving too, when you’ve obtained it, you are able to do it on autopilot. It turns into really easy. Everyone knows, like, when you’re driving, you may get to, like, your office or, like, your dad and mom’ home or no matter, and also you don’t even bear in mind how you bought there as a result of it’s so computerized.

Despite the fact that at first, it was so difficult and scary, perhaps uncomfortable, you wanted to pay loads of consideration, that that interval in contrast with the way you get the advantages of the driving of that ability set, that interval of studying is so temporary and so worthwhile of going via, like, that few months of studying so that you could drive for the remainder of your lifetime. And also you get an increasing number of expert via repetition with out having to place in aware effort. In order you’re spending extra time driving, you had been getting higher at it with out even having to work at getting higher. It’s simply the character of repetition that’s mechanically taking place, and that occurs with energy planning as nicely. And I would like you to additionally think about that nobody has ever taught you how one can drive, however you’re driving, you’re behind the wheel, such as you’re bodily driving the automotive.

It’s going to deliver up every kind of fears round driving, resistance round driving. Like, you’re not gonna wanna get out of the highway. You’re not gonna belief your self to drive. You’re not gonna belief your self to have the ability to make selections. And a lot of that is solved if you learn to drive correctly.

Like, if you’re really taught right here’s how one can drive. You’re taught by some type of teacher who can present you what you have to do and what errors you could be making and how one can appropriate for them and , like, not simply telling you in principle, however , like, okay. I can see the place you’re putting your fingers on the wheel, and you have to place your fingers right here as an alternative. I can see that you just’re dashing up if you merge, and also you really simply want to remain the identical pace. So it’s it’s understanding that the identical with planning that we now have loads of, like, this resistance to following via and fears that come up round, like, what if I comply with via and I received’t be capable of maintain it?

Like, I’ll be capable of create a profitable enterprise after which proof it’ll be gone as a result of I’m gonna burn myself out. That if you learn to plan correctly, like, how if you happen to learn to drive, that the fears and resistance you may have round driving, a lot of that’s gonna go that you just solely have a very small portion left to truly work on simply from studying the correct technique to do it. So with planning, if you study to plan correctly, it simply resolves a lot of the, like, resistance you may have round following via. If that’s one thing you come up in opposition to of, like, I could make a plan, however then I don’t really really feel like doing it or one thing comes up and I wanna do this as an alternative. Like, if you’re planning correctly, that 90% of that simply type of washes away, and also you’re left simply with the ten%.

And in PGSD, you may have the instruments, the teaching, the accountability, the help to navigate that as nicely. And what’s even higher about energy planning than studying how one can drive is that it’s not going to take you extra time. So if you’re studying to drive, you may need to, like, schedule time in to exit and drive, and also you simply kinda drive across the streets in your suburb or no matter. And also you don’t actually go into any vacation spot, although perhaps you’re, and that’s nice. However perhaps you’re not, and also you’re simply driving for the sake of driving and studying.

However if you’re energy planning, it’s not taking you extra time. What you’re doing is as an alternative of doing no matter was in your, like, you realize, no matter you’re at the moment doing to plan so that you’re writing me writing to do checklist, like, spending loads of time in overwhelm, procrastination, and guilt, and scrolling perhaps. Or perhaps you’re not making any plans, and due to that, it’s taking you a lot time to, like, haphazardly go in regards to the week. That now as an alternative, you’ll be able to, in an hour every week, sharpen that axe. You’re capable of create that plan in order that all through the week, you may have a workable plan that helps you, that helps your objectives.

And I would like you to think about that that is principally wish to proceed with my little driving analogy. When you have been driving all over the place at 20 kilometers an hour now if you happen to’re not in, like, kilometers in your miles, principally, 20 kilometers an hour may be very gradual. You’re type of, like, going alongside at a snail’s tempo. And also you now have a driving teacher who teaches you how one can go at 60 kilometers an hour. So, like, on the correct pace.

So it doesn’t take you so lengthy to get all over the place you’re going, and you are able to do that safely and sustainably. And it’s really safer than if you had been going so gradual and tremendous scared to go quick since you didn’t know how one can drive correctly, and also you had been petrified of crashing or no matter. Like, you’re now really capable of drive on the correct pace, and also you get there faster since you’re driving like, you’ve realized how one can drive correctly. And that’s what occurs if you study energy planning is that it takes you actually not a lot time in any respect to study. Like, in your first month inside PGSD, you’re going to study energy planning.

You’re gonna find out about clear relaxation. You’re gonna study some issues about perfectionism too. In order that’s your first month inside PGSD. Then the remainder of the three month dedication is you implementing that and working towards that and getting help, whether or not that’s on a name, teaching name, or within the discussion board. Or if you happen to’re a lurker, you wanna be within the shadows, that’s okay.

Then you definately’re nonetheless gonna be capable of hearken to teaching calls on the personal podcast and get all the advantages of PGSD. Even if you happen to don’t hearken to the personal podcast, like, you’re gonna get all of it. However if you need how PGS does love the personal podcast, particularly if you happen to love, like, listening to podcasts, you’re gonna be capable of hearken to it on just about any podcasting app and simply, like, put it in your present each day routine anyway. And it’s gonna simply encompass you with simply that feeling of, like, I’m not alone on this. There’s somebody serving to me.

I’ve obtained the driving teacher subsequent to me who’s serving to me. And perhaps they’re not instructing me how one can drive, however they’re instructing somebody who has the identical mindset as me how one can drive. And I like about, like, now it is a tangent about watching different individuals getting coached, however there’s been so many occasions the place I’ve been in a program myself and watching another person getting coached. They usually’re getting teaching one thing I might’ve by no means thought to say, however was happening for me. And I simply have the most important breakthroughs as a result of it wasn’t even in my consciousness, or I didn’t even assume it was an enormous deal or had any significance.

And when another person obtained coached in it, I used to be like, oh my god. That’s precisely what I wanted assist with. And I simply love that feeling of, like, that’s precisely it, and that’s what our PGSD is skilled. So that you’re going to be with energy planning, studying to drive in order that, like, your fears round driving, your resistance to it evaporate, so to talk, with this analogy, 90% of it. It’s going to be one thing that originally will take a little bit of effort and focus in a way to, like, how would if you’re driving a automotive, you have to take note of steering and checking the mirrors and no matter.

However very, in a short time, you get that ability on autopilot and you then get to drive for the remainder of your life. And all the advantages that include that as an alternative of getting to stroll all over the place or as an alternative of getting to, I don’t know, take the bus after which the prepare or no matter that appears like. Like, the period of time you get again from with the ability to drive instantly, like getting your automotive and driving as an alternative of getting to be transported in these a lot gradual methods or counting on another person to drive you or ready for an Uber to come back. It simply is it simply pays off, and the identical with energy planning. So I wanna discuss accountability, and that’s so it’s so essential.

So I simply wanna contact on that, after which I’m simply briefly gonna cowl a bit extra about what you get inside PGSD, the funding, how you realize it’s for you, and the way to enroll. So accountability, there are three sorts that flip principally a brief burst of productiveness right into a sustainable and pleasant lifestyle. So there’s self accountability, peer accountability, and skilled accountability. You get all three of these in PGSD. However let’s discuss self accountability first.

That is with the ability to preserve your self accountable to deadlines, to plans. To start with, it’s not gonna be very dependable. That this could be one thing that you just assume, like, that is the issue. I can’t keep on with my plans. I plan one thing.

It doesn’t get achieved. So in the intervening time, it’s not dependable. That’s okay. This tends to occur when we now have our perfectionism handbrake on. It doesn’t imply it might probably’t be developed.

And you may be creating it if you find yourself energy planning with out even having to consciously work on it. However while you’re engaged on constructing your self belief and holding your self accountable, you want the 2 other forms of accountability. So there’s peer accountability and there’s skilled accountability. So peer accountability is the place you may have a peer group. So you may have this inside PGSD the place everyone seems to be working in direction of the identical objectives and is in it collectively that you just aren’t simply now, like, the one one you realize who’s engaged on the type of enterprise you may have, like, working in direction of the objectives you may have, that’s a perfectionist, that’s studying how one can plan correctly.

Like, you’re in a group. Even simply if you happen to’re missing that you just simply know you’re a part of this group now. You’re a PGSD. You’re a part of this group who’s working in direction of one thing collectively. Like, you’re a part of one thing greater.

And a group the place you’re feeling protected to be your self, share what’s actually happening for you, not similar to, oh, enterprise is sweet or no matter, however you really are capable of share the ups, share the downs, and, like, that inevitable ebb and circulation expertise that we now have with enterprise. And also you’re inspired to have fun your wins, like, having a peer group the place you’re really like, individuals have fun you for getting cash. It’s nonetheless such a taboo factor. And particularly, like, perhaps proper now, this won’t really feel like a factor, however this may occur to you that you’ll begin making more cash than the individuals in your life who’re working skilled, actual, quote, unquote, jobs. And also you would possibly discover that perhaps you might share, like, you have fun you realize, I made a few thousand {dollars} or no matter it’s and even $10,000.

However when you’re making lots of of hundreds of {dollars} and also you’re working much less hours than them as nicely, that you just would possibly end up wanting to only, you realize, preserve it to your self, say enterprise is sweet, not really share what’s actually happening. You want that peer group the place you may have fun that absolutely, and you’ve got that help if you want it. Like, if you wanna discuss cash stuff in enterprise and never really feel like persons are gonna be like, nicely, what’s your downside? You’re like, you’re making greater than me, so simply don’t complain. Like, you even have a group who get you.

And simply once more, that feeling of, like, engaged on issues collectively that you just’re a part of one thing that’s so motivating, and it’s so highly effective that you’re not simply driving alone, hoping you may determine it out your self, however you’re round this group of different people who find themselves studying to drive, so to talk, as nicely. It simply helps take away a lot disgrace since you now not really feel like there’s one thing unsuitable with you, that you just’re the one one. This is without doubt one of the foremost causes I began PGSD is as a result of once I was doing one on one teaching, all of my one on one purchasers had been telling me they felt alone, and but the issues they had been telling me about their life and what was happening for them was precisely the identical. And I used to be like, oh my god. For those who may simply hear what the opposite individuals had been saying that I coached, you then wouldn’t have this disgrace about there being one thing unsuitable with you.

However you want that pure accountability, particularly when you’re engaged on self accountability after which skilled accountability. So that is just like the driving teacher, somebody who will help you notice widespread errors and pitfalls and enable you to keep away from them, who may give you customized recommendation that’s related to your scenario. And even if you happen to’re missing in PGSD so we now have PGSDers who within the PGSD discussion board who’re on the teaching calls every week or, like, say as soon as a month or no matter. Then we even have PGSDers we don’t hear from. They’re not posted within the discussion board.

They don’t seem to be attending the teaching calls, however they’re getting all the advantages of this anyway as a result of they’re listening to the teaching calls even when it’s simply as soon as a month on the personal podcast. And likewise simply, like, the act of turning into a PGS right here and signing up and all of that, it simply provides in that peer accountability, like, with out even actually having to, like, be utilizing it. However when it comes to the skilled accountability, like, this makes me take into consideration once I had a private coach and the way I turned the fittest and strongest I had ever been in my life. And Steve was simply perplexed as a result of he was like, however you know the way to work out. Like, you realize what to do.

And I used to be additionally, like, doing it, quote, unquote. However I knew that I might be like, I knew my potential and that I wasn’t reaching it. And having an skilled, somebody who’d helped many individuals like me earlier than to maintain me accountable. And, additionally, that is, like, with skilled accountability, it’s a technique accountability, which is so highly effective. I like that with peer accountability.

It’s just like the help and also you’re supporting one another. However there’s additionally a lot profit in simply being supported by somebody with out having to help them again. Like, them holding you accountable with out you having to maintain them accountable and there being there might be typically resentment or it simply be, like, grow to be extra work. And so with regards to skilled accountability and having somebody that you just don’t need to preserve accountable, however they’re holding you accountable and so they’re holding you on observe, and so they’re in a position that will help you keep targeted on what really issues. When you have one thing come up that’s not really essential, they will help you see, like, okay.

I do know you would possibly assume that’s an enormous deal, however don’t fear about that in any respect and simply deal with this. Like, having that accountability, as I mentioned, takes this all from you simply have a, you realize, couple weeks spot of productiveness and motivation to it really being one thing that’s sustainable for you long run. One thing that turns into a lifestyle like driving. Simply one thing that you just do with out having to consider it, prefer it’s simply your new regular that you just comply with via in your plans, that you just do what you mentioned you’d do, that skilled accountability alongside pure accountability, since you additionally want the friends. You want that group.

After which self accountability, which you’re going to develop over time, that that’s what’s gonna flip it into one thing you can follow long run, particularly if you happen to’re considering like, you realize, this sounds nice, however I’ve tried issues earlier than and it hasn’t lasted. You want these three kinds of accountability. And at first, particularly the peer accountability and the skilled accountability, and that’s what we offer alongside different issues inside PGSD. So in PGSD, you get the PGSD course of. So these are the teachings which are going to show you the PGSD course of, which is how one can plan correctly, comply with via along with your plans, relaxation with out guilt, and repeat.

So if you enroll, you get so that you’ll get an electronic mail, and it’ll have the hyperlink to the PGSD web site, and also you’ll go there, and also you’ll see that you just get entry to all the things immediately. So if you happen to simply wanna, like, watch it suddenly and work via it in day or in a pair hours, you may. After which if you happen to wanna area it out a bit extra, if one thing comes up and you have to, you realize, do a pair weeks after which not do a pair weeks and no matter, it’s utterly versatile like that. You’ll be able to actually do what works finest for you. Like, that’s what we’re all about in PGSD, doing what really works for you whereas having that accountability there.

We’re about utility, not simply studying, but additionally making use of. We’ve got movies to information you thru the workbooks, movies of after we’ve had all PBSEs collectively, working via them. In order that if in case you have any resistance, you simply hit play. It’s like going to a gaggle health class. You simply know if I simply get within the room, I’m gonna, like, be motivated.

That is the accountability once more. I’m gonna, like, be motivated by everybody else being there. And I do know if I can simply get myself there, then I’ll be capable of do the exercise and I’ll, like, keep until the top of it and get it achieved. Identical factor with the workbook replays we now have in there. Anyway, so that you get that the PGSD course of.

And all of the issues I talked about when it comes to what our PGSDers expertise after a number of days in PGSD, after three months in PGSD, That’s going to come back from working via that PGSD course of. Then as a bonus, on prime of that, we now have weekly group teaching calls the place you get coached by the PGSD coaches. Additionally, you may have the PGSD personal podcast, which is the place you may hearken to the teaching name replays. You don’t need to log into your pc. You’ll be able to hearken to them on the go.

And as I discussed, like, having the accountability is so essential after we discuss sustainability long run that we don’t simply wanna change for a number of weeks. We wanna really create change lengthy lasting. That’s lengthy lasting. And so the teaching calls, I consider it just like the driving and construction that’s going to have the ability to level out, like, hey. You’re doing this factor that I do know that feels, you realize, like the most effective factor to do.

However really, what if you happen to tried it this fashion as an alternative? And, like, you’re going to have somebody there, whether or not you’re getting coached otherwise you’re listening to another person getting coached, both method, as a result of everybody is aware of a perfectionist entrepreneur, All the pieces’s gonna be related to you no matter what sort of enterprise you may have. We’ve got, dancers, actual property brokers, writers. We’ve got photographers. We’ve got coaches, stylists, style designers, like, ecommerce retailer house owners, any type of enterprise, you title it, we’re in there as a result of what we’re is our perfectionist mindset and getting out of our personal method.

So all the things on each teaching name is gonna be related to you, and you’re going to have the ability to see blind spots that you just didn’t know you had and resolve for them. You’re going to have the ability to get again on observe. For those who additionally discover that your motivation ebbs and flows all through the week, then hearken to a training name is gonna be one thing that helps decide you again up, and also you’re going to complete listening to that. Possibly you’re driving round and doing no matter, grocery procuring, however you’re going to only really feel grounded and centered and calm, and also you’re gonna know what your subsequent steps are. So it’s personal podcast to hearken to that.

The PGSD discussion board the place you may join with different PGSDers. We even have a group supervisor. I’m in there occasionally as nicely. You get the help out of your friends. Once more, so highly effective to have that.

It simply removes a lot disgrace. However having that having that encouragement, having individuals to who really get what it’s like, you realize, when issues aren’t going nicely, who aren’t simply gonna dismiss it and say, nicely, you need to simply be grateful or, like, no matter. They’re really gonna be capable of maintain area so that you can navigate that if you’re going via, like, the inevitable dips that include constructing any type of enterprise. And also you’re additionally gonna have lifetime entry as nicely so that you’ve the help for so long as it’s taking you to develop the behavior of planning correctly. And and so many PGSDers, like, they only love hanging on the market due to the group and the help.

And, yeah, it’s simply an unimaginable place to be, particularly if in case you have spent your life feeling misunderstood and, like, you don’t have family and friends who get your objectives and who get what you’re engaged on. In order that’s gonna be there as nicely. As I discussed, like, with driving, you study it as soon as. You get it for a lifetime. The identical with this.

Only a ripple impact it has in your life is so worthwhile. And I simply need you to think about what can be totally different in your corporation and your private life if you’ll be able to do an important activity for your corporation persistently, sustainably, productively, and courageously. You weren’t overwhelmed. You weren’t procrastinating. You weren’t burning out.

You weren’t overthinking. You weren’t second guessing. You had been extra current with your mates, with your loved ones. You had time to even discover hobbies. Possibly proper now, you’re like, I don’t even know what I love to do for enjoyable.

You’re capable of really discover that with out feeling pressured about not being in your corporation and dealing twenty 4 seven. You’re getting all the things achieved in much less time. You’re making more cash in your corporation. You’re capable of get to 100 thousand {dollars} full time in your corporation, no matter your objectives are for your corporation. You’re capable of like, you realize, you’re sensible.

You recognize what to do. You’re simply not doing it. And studying how one can plan correctly as a perfectionist is the reply to that. You’re so near with the ability to have the enterprise you need, and that’s simply this one piece you’ve been lacking, and it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault as a result of most recommendation on the market doesn’t really work for perfectionist, and we’re not informed this.

So this piece simply brings you and your potential into alignment. And all that is inevitable if you grow to be a PGSD er. So PGSD is for you if you realize what you have to do, however you’re not doing it. So you realize stuff about advertising and marketing, social media, no matter. You continue to have issues to land.

Certain. But when another person asks you what are the following steps to construct this sort of enterprise, you’d be capable of inform them, however you’re simply not following via on the issues you have to do. You’re uninterested in being in your individual method. You’re dedicated to doing one thing about it. Like, you’ve had sufficient.

You’re sick of getting in your individual method. You wanna be capable of do an important issues in your corporation and do them in a constant, sustainable, productive, and brave method. That’s one thing that’s essential to you. You’re able to make a 3 month dedication to energy planning. This isn’t a dedication to perfection and doing it completely each single week.

This can be a dedication to displaying up and giving it your finest photographs and being development minded about it, so letting your self be a newbie at first, that you just’re a steady learner, you’re keen on studying new issues, and also you’re getting cash in your corporation, however you’re not making the amount of cash you need. So you realize that, like, you’re placing hours into your corporation, nevertheless it’s not being mirrored within the amount of cash you’re making. And that’s only a comply with via factor that’s happening and a burnout factor, which is solved by planning correctly. So because of PGS, I simply wanna discuss to about a number of PGS deers and refer you to some podcast episodes if you happen to wanna hear extra from them. So Natalie, who was a knitting and crochet trainer, doubled her income to 100 okay over 100 okay in a yr with much less work, like taking holidays, taking day without work, having time together with her husband.

So I interviewed her in episode 332. Kristen, who was a stylist, is signing $2,000 purchasers from her constant content material. I’ve interviewed her in episode 312. Aditi, who’s a coach of her enterprise full time with ease and alignment, I interviewed her in episode 303. Rachel, who’s an artist, is getting cash from her artwork whereas working full time and balancing the 2 and displaying up absolutely episode 357.

Erin, who’s a copywriter, doubled her income whereas having extra household time, being extra current together with her household. So episode three three three, I interviewed her. So know that if you happen to can relate to what I shared on this episode and also you’re nonetheless listening, then I wanna invite you into PGSD as a result of all of that is doable for you, and it’s time to get out of your individual method. I understand how that will help you. I wanna enable you to inside PGSD.

It’s the most effective place for me to do this. So the doorways shut at 11:59pm New York Time on the eleventh of April. And as you’re listening to this, enrollment is open, so you may go and enroll. You’ll be able to go to samlaurabrown.com/pgsd to enroll. This week is gonna be the week you begin planning correctly and getting out of your individual method and simply, like, seeing that there’s nothing unsuitable with you, like, seeing that the explanation you haven’t been doing the issues that you realize you have to do.

And it’s been such a wrestle to get issues achieved, to remain motivated, and to do this, to indicate up absolutely, to place your self on the market, to be seen, like, that that isn’t as a result of there’s one thing unsuitable about you. There isn’t. You don’t want fixing. You simply must learn to plan correctly. And PGSD has a course of for that in addition to the accountability you have to make that sustainable long run and to place that on autopilot.

That’s what we would like. We wish this on autopilot. So I invite you in. Once more, samlaurabrown.com/pgsd is the place you may go to enroll. I wanna invite you in throughout this enrollment.

As I mentioned, if you’re busy is the most effective time to study. Getting out of your individual method, it pays itself off over and again and again. The earlier you study it, the higher, and you’ll study all of that inside PGSD. So come on. Be part of us inside.

And, yeah, I’ll converse to you within the subsequent episode. Bye.