How to Do More in a Week than Most Do in a Month

How to Do More in a Week than Most Do in a Month

If you often feel like your weeks just run away from you and there are so many things in your business that you would like to do or know you even should be doing but don’t get round to doing then this video is for you today I’d like to Share something with you that I’ve been using in my own business for the past five or six years which means that I get more done in a week than most people do in a month now that’s not a humble brag and this definitely isn’t some kind of Productivity hack video this is a simple system that I’ve been using and that we teach our clients to make sure that you actually get time working on your business I call it the weekly planner and it’s a really simple system that just allows you to prioritize your week And make sure that you’re focusing on the things that are actually going to move the needle in your business so it’s part of a bigger system that we use to help agencies really grow and scale systematically so I’ll talk you through the creative life planning system Quickly first and I’m just going to move my head up here a little bit so I’m not blocking anything so when we’re working with agency owners the first thing that we want to know is like what is the ultimate Vision or what is the end game And this can be a varied amount of time but usually 10 years into the future is a good time frame we really want to think about what’s the ultimate Vision what’s the long game do you want to sell your business um do you want to be working a certain amount of hours per Week what does life and business look like in a decade’s time and this is really just a guiding Compass it’s the thing that allows people to get out of bed in the morning and to maintain that level of motivation then what we want to do is look at Milestones so we take that Ultimate vision and break that down into one three and five year Milestones now this is just how we do it again this is a guide this is a system this isn’t a prescription so you can do it however you like to do it but ultimately we need some milestones and Our Milestones are our map now I’ve used the dots intentionally map is an acronym and it stands for measurable accountable and Purpose Driven the difference between the vision and the Milestones is the vision is ultimately where we’re going and it can be a little bit intangible the Milestones on the map are measurable Uh things that we can actually take in our business and say whether we achieve them or not as an example rather than saying I want to learn Spanish you might say I want to have a 5-minute conversation with a local in Spanish by the end of 2024 that’s a measurable goal then you Need to get some accountability well maybe you book a ticket to Spain or maybe you have a friend that speaks Spanish and you tell them that that’s your goal and you put a little bit of money as a bet can you hold that conversation or not and then the third Thing is you have to have a purpose you have to have a reason why that thing is important to you if you don’t have a big enough driver to actually learn another language you’re probably never going to learn it so maybe you organize to host a Workshop out there or maybe you um have that level of accountability where you know you’re going to have to do something where if you can’t speak Spanish it’s going to be quite painful for you or it’s going to be something that you don’t want as an outcome so That’s how we create milestones and then we look at those Milestones like learning uh Spanish learning to have a conversation in 5 minute conversation in Spanish and we break these down into projects right so what are the things that are actually going to get us there so you know the first first project Might be around how we’re actually going to learn so project number one might be deciding um how we’re going to learn the Spanish are we going to get a teacher are we going to use an app like what’s going to be the the method and there’s Going to be steps in that right there’s going to be maybe researching what’s the best way to learn Spanish um it might be reading a book and and deciding whether that’s how you actually learn testing a few things out then another project might be um actually getting good at the Grammar or the pronunciation so there’s going to be kind of elements or kind of big rocks as we sometimes call them that make up these milestones and then finally there’s going to be rituals that you do on a daily and weekly basis and in the context of Spanish this would be Simple things like practice right practice speaking Spanish every day spend five minutes on the app every day and so this whole system applies to business and it’s the whole system that we use to run our business but also the system we use to help our clients who are small creative agencies cuz if You’re anything like me and you’ve got a creative brain it tends to be a little bit scatty people talk about add or whatever really for me it’s just distracting being distracted by shiny new objects being distracted by things that feel creative and fun and often they’re not the things that are going to Move the needle in our business business so right now we’re going to be focused on this bottom layer here this is where the uh if I just get a highlighter this is kind of where the weekly planner sits it’s the things that are going to allow Us to make sure that we take these goals up here and projects and make them tangible so the first thing that I will always do is I will always brain dump and a brain dump is simply the process of going through and emptying out my entire brain onto a page everything that I think I need to do or everything that I need to think about and it could be related to clients it could be related to our website or our social it could be related to personal it’s just really about getting all of those things out of Our head down onto paper this works for a few reasons number one it means that we don’t forget anything but number two our conscious brain or our prefrontal cortex more specifically isn’t very good at storing lots of information and it makes us feel like we’re overwhelmed very quickly it’s often it’s been cited Why phone numbers are the length that they are cuz that’s about the maximum amount of digits that we can remember in our kind of um prefrontal cortex that kind of part of our brain that processes things so that’s the that’s the kind of reason why this is so important and it Just really clears up that Ram I like to think about our brain as a little bit like a computer and you have Ram that random access memory um that’s the shortterm memory where we try and store things and if we try and store everything up there we are going to fail Miserably so the first thing we do is going we’re going to brain dump get everything down onto paper there’s a system that I learned when I was studying NLP called chunking and what chunking is about is it’s about taking things that live in the same category and making them all part of one So you might…

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