Believe it or not there was a time I termed myself “a lazy person.”
Not because I was sitting around all day. No – just the opposite.
I was in constant movement and always busy.
BUT – I wasn’t getting the important things done, so naturally my mind went to thinking “I’m lazy”, which eventually led me to thinking “I’m just not good at this.”
I wish I could tell the old me what I know now.
“Girlfriend, you are NOT lazy or bad at this. You’re just overwhelmed.”
Big difference.
Laziness is a lack of energy or activity.
Overwhelm is a lack of control.
Lack of control shows up in many ways. In your:
- schedule
- systems
- team members
- onboarding
- billing
- routines
- diet
- morning
- ever-growing to-do list
And this shortfall of control is typically a result of two related things.
#1: Constant reactivity.
To your emails, texts, thoughts, and requests. AKA: Monkey mind, Hello squirrel!
#2: Insufficient systems.
When you don’t have a system for your to-do’s, distractions, and routines you fall into complete reactivity.
Your brain tells you — “Alert, Alert! You have no control. Jump overboard. You can’t handle this!”
So how do you send a signal to your brain that “I am the leader. I am in control.”
You tackle one micro change at a time.
This is what I help you with it.
I help you get control of your email, distractions, consistency, energy, billing, projects, to-do’s, routines, and even meal plans.
It’s not one fell swoop.
We do it in manageable baby steps. So you can tend to your life as usual, while making small changes to help you make business and life run smoothly.
Like with my client Shanai.
We’re carving out one hour a day to work on high priorities. That’s it for now.
All her focus is on figuring out how to make that one hour happen.
After that?
We might work on extending her focus to two hours a day. Or improve her project workflow. Or email inbox. Or sleep. Or getting one annoying task off her list.
Whatever we choose, it will be small, it will doable, and it will get FEEL amazing. That’s how habits that stick are built.
Don’t confuse your motivation, your skills, or even your actions with a lack of control. You’re not lazy and you’re not bad at things.
You simply have too much going on and are missing the right focus and systems.
They are 100% learnable.
Don’t let your brain tell you anything different.
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