💌 What’s happening this week:

• Perfectionism vs. lack of boundaries

• Journaling prompt: What happens if I’m successful?

• Becoming a millionaire in a year…

• Change your life with this one tool

Have you ever felt like you put in lots of work but don’t see any progress towards your goals or projects getting finished?

For example, you spent hours working on XYZ this week and last week, but when you look back at your progress and the results for all this work…

You’re left wondering: “Why don’t I actually have results to show for all this work I’m doing…”

Which leads to feelings of:

• Frustration

• Busy-ness

• Stress

• Overwhelm

This is something that clients, friends, and family have shared with me just recently!

The feeling that they’re VERY busy all the time, working on small tasks and projects, and feeling like they don’t have enough time to get everything done.

Just this week I was talking to a 1:1 marketing client and they shared their frustration that they’re spending waaay too much time on small things that aren’t actually moving the needle forward in their marketing goals.

We talked about a few strategies on how to combat this feeling and how to clear the bottleneck with all the processes and projects they have in the pipeline. This client has ADHD and has been trying to find different productivity tools and systems to support them in their work that actually blend well with how their brain functions and processes information.

A few things we talked about were:

⏰ Measuring their time to see how many hours they’re spending on a task

This is something that they’ve done in the past but weren’t actively doing now. We talked about how measuring their time might help to give them an idea of how many hours they’re spending on big or small tasks, or even tasks that can be delegated.

🗒 A system that will tell them EXACTLY what they need to do every day

They want to start incorporating a project management tool that can help them manage all aspects of their business and track things for their personal life. Since they are nomadic, managing all the administrative tasks of moving, living abroad, and traveling was getting to be overwhelming, with tracking all the clients they support, alongside the professional mental health community they are working on launching. 

🗓 Organizing and time-blocking their calendar

After discussing a few ideas, we found that it wasn’t that they didn’t know ‘how much time’ they were spending on tasks or their immediate need was a project management tool…

It was actually that they didn’t have a clear system to their calendar and gave themselves TOO MUCH time to work on things. 

In my client’s words, “It’s not that I don’t know how much time I’m working on things, it’s that if I give my brain the option… I’ll spend too much time on things because I think there’s always something to be improved.”

Which… led to lots of bottlenecks, more pressure on them, and lack of progress on their goals for all the time they were putting in 😬

This got me thinking about how perfectionism creeps in when we’re working on our goals or trying to make a change in something.

Sometimes, perfectionism tells us that things “need to be perfect” before we put them out into the world. It also tells us that “there’s always something to do” because, of course, there’s always something to be improved…

My client said that she could ALWAYS be working on admin tasks in her business and life 😅 And I get it, because as an adult, I feel like the admin task list just keeps getting longer and longer (lol)

What we decided on to help combat her perfectionism and the time she spends going down rabbit holes Googling, fixing, updating, and tinkering with back-end things is:

1. Time block her calendar & get even more detailed: We decided she would time block hours for client work, administrative work, marketing review, etc. And getting even more detailed, in the admin time block, she would assign certain tasks a time constraint. Once time ran out, whatever was done was done.

2. Weekly check-ins for high priority tasks: She would check-in on Sundays or Mondays with her to-do list and decide on the highest priority tasks that would help move the needle forward on her goals. This means things that her team was waiting on, strategy pieces, and serving her clients. Everything else drops to the bottom and can get done after she’s crossed off the top priorities.

3. Being ok with the idea of ‘done is better than perfect’: Instead of trying to get everything right the first time, we’re adopting the idea that done is better than perfect which can lead to better feedback from her team, more progress towards her goals, and actually getting her ideas out into the world instead of hanging onto them as too precious to ‘let go’.

So my question is, if you’ve been struggling with the same things as my client…

Is what is stopping you from progress on your goals perfectionism disguised as a lack of ‘boundaries’ on your own time?

Only you will know! 😉

✍️ THIS WEEK’S JOURNALING PROMPT

“I’m afraid [XXX] will happen if I’m successful…”

One of the journaling prompts I included with the Plans to Progress Lounge Q3 workbook! This quarter, the group is focusing on mindset & confidence building to audaciously work on and achieve our goals!

Whew, when I wrote out this journaling prompt for the community,y I caught myself taking a sharp breath in 😬 I’ll be exploring this prompt in my own journal to figure out what mindset blocks are holding me back from moving forward (ie: getting that dang Spanish driver’s license!!).

💻 THINGS THAT STUCK OUT TO ME

• THIS SONG HAS BEEN ON REPEAT: I watched “K-Pop Demon Hunters” on Netflix this week, and now this song has been on repeat 😂 I’ve now developed an obsession with K-Pop and am adding inspiration to my Pinterest boards!

• MY MILLIONAIRE YEAR: I have been LOVING this series from Erin on Demand on her Instagram account! I’ll be honest, when I first watched it, I felt a twang of CRINGE because I had never even considered being a ‘millionaire’ for myself. But she’s got me dreaming of money differently and how it shows up in my life.

• THE BEST LESSONS FROM SELF-HELP BOOKS: The author of this article has read 100 self-help books and consolidated the best lessons here! I loved reading through these as reminders of how I can show up more intentionally.

🗓 PREPARING FOR THE WEEK AHEAD

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As you’re reading this, I’m back in Northern Virginia for the next 2 weeks to hang out with my family and see my long-time friends from high school and college 💖

I’ll have to share more later, but something that’s been on my mind as I prepared for this trip was…

How do you choose a place to call ~home~ if you’ve lived abroad for a long time or traveled extensively? Or maybe the better question is, what qualities do you all look for in a setting that helps you thrive? 👀

Until next time…

💖 #stayfierce,
Cassandra