Five Simple Things to Know to Save You Time and Mental Energy

These are the FIVE simple things you need to know to save time and energy and get results FASTER!

Numbers 5 and 6 might be my favorites! ⁠
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The best five things you NEED TO KNOW to save time and mental energy and get results faster ARE… drum roll, please! ⁠
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Your top 5 priorities! ⁠
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That’s it! ⁠
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But why are priorities so POWERFUL? ⁠
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  1. When your priorities are clear, you know what to say yes to and what to say no to. ⁠
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  2. When your priorities aren’t defined, you think everything is important, which leaves you saying yes to the things that don’t complement your priorities, contributing to you being over-scheduled and not getting the important things completed. ⁠
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  3. Priorities help you set clear, intentional boundaries. When your priorities are defined, setting boundaries becomes easier. Whether it’s work hours, family time, or church commitments, knowing what’s essential allows you to stick to your boundaries, ensuring you’re giving your best (and your time) where it matters most.⁠
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  4. When you don’t live by and schedule from your priorities, you are letting yourself down by not doing to the necessary actions to create the life/results you want. ⁠
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  5. When you DO live by and schedule from your priorities, you don’t let anyone else down by
    • having to reschedule meetings,⁠
    • dropping the ball on tasks you said you would do⁠
    • being late because you were overscheduled & ran out of time.⁠

  6. Knowing your priorities makes your words more impeccable and trustworthy (to yourself and others)!⁠

Strengthen These Two Things

Are you feeling overwhelmed and stuck juggling the demands of motherhood and your burning desire to grow your successful business?

You’re not alone.

Every successful woman you admire once stood where you are now.

All the entrepreneurs I work with faced this same challenge at one point because I specialize in helping women like you strengthen the two most crucial aspects needed to create the success and impact you desire without sacrificing motherhood or the values you hold dear.

What do you need to strengthen?

NUMBER ONE

Believe in Your Success: believe that success is possible for you with the time and abilities that you have. God didn’t place a desire on your heart without blessing you with the skills and capabilities to make it happen.

Think of that ambitious woman you know who has achieved the balance you seek. She’s not just a figment of imagination but a real testament that with the right mindset and strengthened self-belief you can do it too.
Let her story inspire you to believe in your success, too.

NUMBER TWO

Mastering Time Management: Knowing how to use your time effectively is pivotal. Knowing WHAT to spend your time is just as pivotal!
I help women use their time to support the actions they must take to create the success they desire.

This is different for everyone, and there’s no one-size-fits-all to YOUR TIME MANAGEMENT!

Imagine if you had a clear plan aligned perfectly with your goals each day, leaving you feeling accomplished and closer to your dreams.

I know what you are thinking,

“But I have kids, and so many unexpected things pop up; how can I have a clear plan?”

Don’t worry, I coach on strategies to help you prioritize tasks, eliminate time-wasters, have time for the unexpected, and ensure that every action you take moves you closer to success.

Every successful woman you admire once stood where you are now.

They had doubts, fears, and numerous responsibilities, but they strengthened their belief and applied effective strategies to use their time and their mind to support their dreams.

I’ve witnessed transformation after transformation of women like you who create more success in less time while strengthening their motherhood and relationships.

Clutter Is Not Just Physical Stuff

Do you know that closet (or drawer) that you’ve been putting off cleaning out?

What’s even in there?

How much clutter is in that space that is

  • literally junk
  • stuff that should have already been throw away
  • things have no purpose
  • junk that hides the good things
  • crap you will never miss?

Our brains get like that closet too.

There’s stuff in our brains we don’t even know is in there too! Thoughts we think are helping us but are of little value. Old ideas just take up space, keeping us mentally scattered and physically exhausted.

If there was a way to clean out your brain clutter,
  • clear the thoughts that keep you stuck & Afraid
  • remove the lies you think about yourself
  • the bad habits you keep repeating
  • the junk thoughts that make you think you’re not capable

Would you want to hire that person to clean out your brain?
I am that person.

When we don’t have enough time or the success we want, that’s a sign that our brain is cluttered with a bunch of stuff we should throw away, with junk that hides the truth and good stuff.

Once your brain is decluttered, you will have more time to tackle the physical clutter and streamline your home and business processes to help you reach the results you desire in both.

Do you know how good it feels to clean out that closet and see the huge trash bag leave your home??

That’s the same feeling you get when you let a coach help you clear your brain clutter.
It’s liberating.
It’s powerful.
It’s the only way to make room for the good stuff!

Goal Setting Questions

As we dive into the new year, many of the ambitious women I work with are thinking about setting and achieving new goals!

What I’ve noticed working with women entrepreneurs is that it’s very easy to complicate the process with really, good intentions.

Elaborate plans, several action steps, and detailed strategies don’t often empower us as we hope but rather leave us overwhelmed and, ultimately, farther from our goal.

Let’s simplify 2024!

Instead of getting bogged down with an intricate plan that becomes more daunting than the goal itself, let’s take a step back.

ONE: Set your goal – be clear and concise, and know the result you will create when you achieve that goal.

TWO: Uncomplicate your goal-setting process by answering just two transformative questions:

1. What is one simple thing I can start doing to help me achieve my goal? 

This question prompts action. It encourages you to identify new habits, skills, or activities that propel you forward. It’s about adding something to your daily routine that aligns directly with your desired results.

2. What is one simple thing I can I stop doing to help me reach my goal? 

Equally important, this question is about elimination. It’s recognizing the obstacles or time-wasters in your life that hinder progress. Many think goals are about doing more but doing less of the time-wasters that hinder progress might be even more important.

By focusing on these two questions, you streamline the result-creation process. You make goal setting a simple and responsive experience, adjusting as you learn what works best for you.

This approach is adaptable to any personal, professional goal, or something in between. So, as you ponder your 2024 goals, keep these questions in mind and enjoy reaching your goals more simply!

Here’s to setting goals that inspire and motivate, not overwhelm.

Value Your Time

When working with women who feel like
  • they don’t have enough time
  • are always too busy and overwhelmed
  • feeling behind and failing
  • frustrated with the results they aren’t getting,

they tell me the reason why is about  “all the wrong things” they are doing with their time. ⁠

But that’s not why they are feeling overwhelmed!

Instead of wasting YOUR time blaming yourself for how you’re spending your time, I want to help you do something more effective with your time (and your thoughts about yourself)!

Here’s how!

Define your top 5 priorities and begin to spend your time doing things that complement them rather than compete with them. ⁠

That’s it!  Use your time (more often) in the way you genuinely value!  

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5 Things to Automate in Your Business

5 things you can automate in your business right now for very little cost.

1. Scheduling:

Say bye-bye to back-and-forth emails trying to schedule meetings. Automate regular meetings to the same time/day each week. For those variable meetings, create a free scheduling link using Calendly to automate that process.

2. Create canned emails, and responses, and use templates.

If you’ve sent out the same response, email, or invoice more than once, create a system (as simple as using the notes apps on your phone or creating a Google Doc page) to copy and paste your response or use templates to save time and mental energy.

3. Social Media Posting Service.

Batch your social media content creation and schedule it using a posting service such as Canva or Later (less than $100 a year). These services can be posted on all platforms. Saves time posting and keeps you off social media!

4. Automate Expense Tracking.

Platforms like Expensify, Receipt Bank, and Quicken can automatically track, categorize, and report your business expenses.

5. Automated Surveys & Feedback.

Use tools like Typeform or SurveyMonkey to collect customer feedback automatically after a product purchase or service completion.

Automation doesn’t mean losing the personal touch. It’s optimizing repetitive tasks to focus more on value-driven activities for your business.

Here are My 5 Tips For Productivity

I’ve got 5 practices for you to consider trying!

They are very simple!

But don’t let the simplicity fool you, these practices produce amazing results and save you time!

1. Plan your day the night before

Look at your calendar the night before to prepare for the next day. Notice any obstacles you might have and solve them now. Write down your top 3 things you want to accomplish and set a time for when you will do them. When you plan when you will do something, it’s more likely to get done.

2. Use Results Based Planning in your blocks for time

If you plan to work in your business for 2 hours, don’t just block it off, write down what results you will create during that time.

Example: 9-11 am create 4 social posts, write and send out a newsletter, and follow up with Friday’s clients.

3. Use Automation

If you’ve done something once in your business and you know you’ll do it again, find a way to automate the task.

  • Canned email/SM responses
  • Templates for EVERYTHING newsletter, social media, invoices, etc.
  • Schedule posts, newsletters, & emails
  • Have set days of the week for certain tasks

4. Batch like tasks

  • Create all social media posts or weekly emails on the same day.
  • If you cook dinner, make 2 and set the extra in the freezer to save time for another day.
  • Have set days you run errands or appointments and stick to those days.
  • Laundry, ironing, paying bills, or other home chores on the same day each week.
  • Do specific tasks (client emails, chores, start dinner) at the same time each day to reduce decision fatigue.

5. Have set work hours & protect them.

Designate work hours and honor them. Don’t let anyone or anything (notifications, alerts, SM, the doorbell distract you.) If you honor your work hours, it will teach others to honor them as well.

Were these helpful?

You Gotta Know the Facts First

I was working with a client who was still not getting everything done each week despite daily planning and sticking to her schedule.

She contracts out one job and also runs her own business.

She asked if we could work on the mindset of not getting everything done, and I said sure,

BUT…

let’s understand the facts first!

We went through every task she does in her contract position and estimated the amount of time each one takes

AND GUESS WHAT??

We discovered she was working, scheduling, and planning for 5 hours a week in this position, and it takes her 10 to get it all done.

She’s not alone! This happens ALL. THE. TIME.

The good news…

So many people come to me trying to solve what they think their problem is with the wrong tools.

The first step to solving your lack of (fill-in-the-blank)

time, success, organization, revenue, etc.

is to uncover the facts and YOUR PRIORITIES so we can get to the real issue!

Four Ways to Own Your Goals Like A Boss!

As a special education teacher, I learned some
goal-setting secrets that will improve your results instantly!

NUMBER ONE: Make your goals super specific!

None of that vague stuff like create more post, get a new client, or become more organized.

In the classroom, I never said,
“The child will learn to count change.”

In special education, we are specific! A written goal sounds like this.
“When given pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, the student will count change up to one dollar with 100% accuracy!”

NUMBER TWO: Determine your mastery criteria.

Humans make mistakes, so 100% mastery is only sometimes going to happen.

Mastery goal criteria sounds like this.
“With 90% accuracy in three out of four attempts, the child will be able to X.”

For reading, I wrote things like,
“The child will, when given 2nd-grade text, read with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 attempts.

Remember you are human!

NUMBER THREE: Time frames!

Set the dates when you’ll reach that goal!
“Between now and September 30, 2023, I’ll create and post four IG posts each week, with 90% accuracy!”

But here’s the kicker, the time frame is your cheerleader, not the party crasher!
If you don’t reach it in time, don’t give up, just keep at it!
If you keep trying, you’ll eventually get there.

I’m not telling you this to make goal setting feel more complicated.

Being precise is the fastest way to reach your goals, boost your confidence, and keep you motivated on what it really is you want to accomplish!

Check your goals… if you even remember them!

This reminds me, I’ve got a NUMBER FOUR.

Write your goals down and look
at them often.
Each week when I was lesson planning for my students, I pulled out their goals to make sure what I planned was focused on their goals.

Did you look at your goals this week before planning out your actions?

Specific, vauge doesn’t make you fail less, it makes you fail ahead of time.
Mastery (decide ahead of time how many times, how often, and with what accuracy you will do each goal.
Time frames, they’re your buddies, not your enemies!
Write and review, if they aren’t reviewed often, most people forget about them.

Now go out there, create, and own your goals like a boss!

You got this!