Power Planning for Your Life and Your Business
Today I decided to Google the term ‘Procrastination’ and not to my surprise the search yielded over 7.5 million results. Procrastination is a major time killer in the lives of so many women. And today I wanted to deal with the subject matter so that we can get on with the business, the vision that God has ordained for our lives.
Procrastination is the underlying killer of your daily agenda. And so I have spent some time thinking about how we can diminish its power over us when we are trying to get our business dreams off the runway. What I do find with women that I am coaching and mentoring is that the idea, the vision that you have in mind is so GREAT we become overwhelmed when we start to think about PROCESS and when we think about PLAN. So I wanted to give you some strategies that I have implemented in my own business to try and help you begin to ignite and propel your business to its next level,
The first thing you want to do is to map out the basics. The basic elements are the tasks that need to happen in order for you to reach your desired goal. Those elements include:
- clear action steps,
- the resource/who will do it
- and then a timeline or date of when it needs to happen
You should then outline these elements which can be done quickly and effectively if you block out time the night before. I use my Project Action Plan template to help me to achieve this.
My next step is taking each one of those tasks break them down into bite size pieces. For example if my goal is to start a new online social media biz, the tasks in their unbroken state look like this:
Create a client contract, develop a blog site, create content for the site etc.
But if I really want to push the envelope I need to break each of these tasks down even further. So the developing a blog site would be first to purchase a domain, then set-up the web hosting, then choose a template that will work for it and so on and so forth. These bite size pieces gives me the energy and momentum I need to accomplish those task on action plan. Simplifying your business goals will eradicate the spirit of procrastination leaving the door open for unlimited possibilities in your business.
