2021: Planning — Day 25

I tell myself I’m terrible at planning, well not terrible but that I put fires out, I don’t do things methodically.

Perhaps from the outside looking in, you might think differently but my mind tells me I’m not good at planning.

I’ve tried different programs and they’ve worked for a while but then I fall into old patterns — which is my issue, not the programs issue because I’m responsible for managing my mind.

Today I stopped and looked at my to-do list, and I finally saw a structure that can work for me.

Last night I wrote down the aspects of my business — the programs and what else:

• 1:1 coaching
• Membership
• Nourish You
• Soul Hour

The what else included:

• My Home is You
• Essential Oils
• My podcast
• Writing my story (book)

This morning, looking at my to-do list I categorised them as follows, watching for anything that didn’t align with any of the above:

• Daily tasks — these are things that have an allocated day in a Monday to Sunday e.g. Soul Hour happens on Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
• Other tasks — these tasks don’t fit into a Monday to Sunday but they have a designated time when they’re due or when they happen e.g. BAS is the 28th each quarter (Jan, Apr, July & Oct)
• Space for — these are tasks that are more ad hoc (at the moment) but I need space for them whether weekly or fortnightly or monthly e.g, Podcast interviews, writing copy, new client calls etc.
• Admin tasks — generally one offs e.g. update my podcast intro and outro now that I have an amazing microphone, or ongoing admin tasks like email
• Homework — outcomes from meetings, trainings or coaching sessions that I need to follow up on. For clarity, when I say coaching sessions — this is when I’m the student not the coach. Yes a coach needs a coach :)
• Projects — one off things that I need to create space and time for to deliver e.g. Soul Hour — the landing page, payment arrangements, booking system, content etc.

The next step is to define how I move forward with all the information I have.

Prioritisation is important, and I have an idea of what that could look like.

Capturing new ideas that come into my mind is important too, so where do I want to do that and can I use ClickUp to manage all of this — the answer to that is yes, but I need to sit down and create the folders/lists in ClickUp and then manage it going forward.

This is the exciting part, this is what I’m really keen to do and I’ll update you as it evolves.

Today I’m proud of:

• Not worrying about the things I can’t change. I forgot to put my alarm on last night for Soul Hour today — I thought I had put it on. I sent an apology email and followed up with apology messages to those who attend, and then started putting in place contingencies
• Playing music that lights me up. I do this regularly, but this is telling me to ‘let the old ways die’ — it’s time to get help and to trust people to support me.
• Eating nourishing foods regularly, and really listening to my body. Even though I prepared morning tea for Chris and Teddy, I wasn’t hungry but my mind was telling me differently — I didn’t eat, I waited 1 more hour for lunch and I wasn’t hungry in my body. There is a difference between mind and body hunger — tune in next time you think you want food xo