Like a lot of people, I used to believe that I had to be everywhere, handling everything, all the time and at the same time, to have any chance of growing my business & audience.
As it turns out, all I ended up doing was burning myself out with a pile of unfinished projects and ideas, and a whole bag of overwhelm.
Yup, I was bottle-necking my own success. I was the anchor stopping this ship from setting sail.
I’ve always understood that the best goal planning is to keep things as simple but as effective as possible. I quickly found that having a to-do list and content plan that is brimming with ideas is great, but if you don’t have a strategy in place to execute those things it all becomes so overwhelming that not much ends up getting ticked off, and eventually nothing at all.
In my experience I’m far more productive when I only set myself tasks I know I can achieve in the time that I have. This helps me keep my posts across different channels consistent while all the other parts of my business get the attention that they need too.
The key that I’ve learned, over many years of frustration and start-overs is this – break down your tasks into bite sized chunks.
Take your big goal, and break down the steps needed to get there. Then take each step, and break that down into those bite sized chunks I mentioned above.
Right now you might be thinking, well yea Jen Duh! Because it sounds too easy and simple. And it is!
Thats the beauty of this approach, it’s easy and simple.
Over complicating = over thinking = overwhelm = nothing done = anxiety meltdown + 1 tub of ice cream + 3 Oh Henry bars.
You get the picture.
Listen, Things in life are only as complicated as you make them
(now read that again and let it marinate)
With those bit sized chunks that I described above, start with the first one or two (if you’re a multi-tasker like moi) and tick them off the list as you go.
It’s manageable, it’s motivating, and it’s realistic.
Now go get’em Tiger, You’re gonna be unstoppable!