So when you’re feeling stuck on what you want – you mentioned the room for growth, community, and wealth that you don’t feel like you have yet – I want you to ask yourself this question:
What do I want most – what’s my end goal?
‘Cause your motivator is always going to be your desire for something or other – meaning you have to tap into that. Even if it sounds selfish. Or too much. It’s what you want that’s gonna get you going.
OK, so as a generator, you need to delegate what doesn’t light you up.
‘Cause you’re meant to have the internal battery power to work a full day at your teaching job, then come home and work on your business – but only if you enjoy both your job and your business.
So there might be specific things you’re doing for the business, such as the reaching out, that either you don’t enjoy…. Or your energy has been used up by doing stuff you don’t want to do, possibly in your day job.
(Which it sounds more like? Given that you actually did do the reachouts that one day when you had only the business work on your plate?)
Just something to sit with.
And the fact that you even pointed out your own energy levels seems to me to point to a fundamental mis-match between what you’re doing and how you want to be spending your day.
Now, we can’t exactly change that just by saying “you might need a career realignment,” but we can make sure you’re aligning your work style with exactly what goes on during the day.
So for you, double check whether you’re working wherever you feel inspired – you don’t necessarily care about neat environments (or even regular work spaces that you return to day after day).
And you’re also going to want to be able to choose which thing you feel like working on (for different blocks of your day and also your week). You don’t want a pre-approved “must do this and this and this in exactly this order on these certain days” kind of schedule.
And the other thing your brain wants to do is to actually give yourself laid-out, step-by-step project plans or action steps for whatever that mood-chosen to-do is that you want to settle into.
So you’re very right brain about picking what you want to work on – but very left brain in terms of how you actually approach starting it. That make sense?
OK. So here’s what I’d recommend for you from here.
Obviously, big picture, you’re going to need to delegate quite the pile of stuff to make room for all this doing only what lights you up stuff.
And depending on what all’s on your plate – like do you have kids at home still, are you homeschooling, do you need to be helping with homework, are you driving them to band practice, are they neuro-divergent, how much of the house load are you carrying, are they in college prep season, are you driving them to tons of rehearsals, not to mention keeping them in clothes when they’re growing, right, and if you have any special diets you’re responsible for managing….
There’s a lot that goes into just having the space in your day to set up these new routines and outsourcing lists and family and client boundaries now that you know your energy type.
Plus avoiding the mindset icebergs that keep sucking you right back into your old ways of doing things.
(You know, like doing a whole bunch of stuff just because you “have the energy”….)
So you may not even have the schedule room to set up your proper right/left brain working style right now. (Let alone carve out all that free time to start ideating on what you need to do to fix the rest of this.)
Or maybe you do – hopefully you do.
But that’s where I’d leave you right now – you’re want to start telling your VA or your OBM or your kids or your husband that there’s going to be some pretty big changes around here in how you’re doing business.
Like in the nitty gritty, how you show up for work every day mode – and in what you’re going to be expecting them to do.
‘Cause I gotta say, it’s amazing how much less you have to push and fight and “square peg into round hole” yourself to make all these revenue goals and big rocks for this quarter, when you just scrap all the “standard” time management strategies, and start from the ground up making everything suit you.
Which is the totally fun part, to me – junking all the “normal” business advice you get on how to run your to-do list, manage your day, how much time you should expect for yourself, everything – ‘cause most of it really is absolutely counter to your Human Design nuances.
And there’s a ton of it – and I’m on a mission to change it.
‘Cause you don’t need to force yourself through your workday to make great money. You can hit every single big priority project this quarter to grow this business.
And you can even 2x your business without taking on 3 more people’s jobs (that you don’t have time for). Because being an entrepreneur gets to be the goal-crushing, non-stressful, count-on-able part of your life.
Not this angst-y, pressured, “how am I going to make this work” thing on top of your house and kids.
And 6 months from now, what I’d love to hear from you is that you can’t even remember the last time you forced yourself into the old way of powering through your day anymore – ‘cause that’s how much your normal way of operating as a biz owner has changed for you.
So work with somebody (or multiple somebodies) to get that all figured out – doesn’t have to be me – so you aren’t slowing down your biz like crazy ‘cause you’re fighting yourself and your natural way of working at every step of the way.
So, I hope that gives you a liiiittle more clarity around what’s going on under the surface of this biz-plus-teaching balance, plus some lightbulbs around how you specifically are designed to operate.
‘Cause the fastest way for biz to feel easy – no matter what your revenue and conversion rates and actual clients are doing – is to show up for all of it in a non-draining way, every single day.
That’s how you love business without getting sucked into performance.
Okay, that’s all for now, and have a great day!
