Time Management Your Why Your Why Your why

Time Management

Your Why

Your Why “Your why is what drives you to wake daily with a passion and fire to own the day. It is what keeps you moving forward in your business. It’s said that your why should make you cry. ” You have to own your why. When you’re backed into a corner, your why will shine through. If your reason for building a business doesn’t rock you to the core, it might be time to do some self-evaluating. It’s also ok for your why to change! Once you know your why, you must look at your business to take action.

Identifying Your Why When identifying your why, ● You must identify your priorities. These are your non-negotiables that you aren’t willing to sacrifice. For me, it will always be my family and Jon. If someone approached me today and told me to choose between Monat and my family, I would always choose my family. ● Learn to make sacrifices around your non-negotiables. ● For example, spending time with Jon is a non-negotiable for me so on the weekdays i try to get all my messaging, follow-ups, nad potential calls done before he gets home and on the weekends i’ll wake up an hour or 2 early that way i can work my business while he’s asleep and I don’t have to give up our time together.

Your Why What are you doing now? ● Are your actions moving you closer to your why? ? ? ● If not you need to reevaluate and make a conscious decision to focus on actions that do! ● Be aware that obstacles will arise that try to take up the time you’ve set aside for your priorities. Don’t be afraid to say no to activities that don’t align with your goals. ● Ask how will I get to my goal? Realize how much time it will take and what sacrifices you’ll need to make to get there. Be purposeful with your time. ● Be clear about the necessary sacrifices, and know that focused time produces better results. ○ ● This business WILL take sacrifices - every good thing does. Sacrifices will be worth it because your effort will be rewarded.

Maximizing Your Time

Maximize through discipline Time management takes being disciplined. ● It’s just like your fitness and nutrition goals – you must have a plan of action and the correct mindset to succeed. ● As the CEO of your business, you must be self-aware of what’s robbing you of your time and stopping you from moving your business forward - if you aren’t disciplined enough to become self aware you will keep making the same mistakes ● Successful people haven’t found a 25 th hour in the day or a loophole, or magic secret to success they’ve simply used discipline to make use of the time that they do have. Successful people make a plan!

Maximize Through Planning One of the biggest things you need to do its get organized and make a plan so that you can get rid of these distractions and stop making the same mistakes. So what did that plan involve? ● Setting business hours is key in your business. ● Create a master list of activities you need to accomplish during the week. ● Become self-aware of distractions that are keeping you from advancing your business forward and create a plan for how you will get rid of these things ● Set intentions for your time spent working. (Here’s where that to-do list comes in handy!) Know exactly what you plan to accomplish in the time you have.

Setting Business Hours Setting business hours is key in your business. These are NOT hours to create images, improve content for your groups, or create training. These are hours to grow your business. These hours won’t always be the same and they may be spread throughout the day with 15 minutes here and 15 minutes there. Use this time to do business building activities like: ● inviting, ● adding contacts, ● follow-ups, ● Prospecting.

Setting Business Hours Utilize your “golden hour” wisely. ● This is the time you spending building your business when you are laser focused. ● This should be the time when you make the most progress as a CEO. ● You must own that CEO mindset as an entrepreneur. You are responsible for yourself. One thing to think about when setting these hours is again your why. What are you hoping to get out of this business? How much money do you want to make?

Create a Master List of Activities Create a master list of activities you need to accomplish during the week. From there, ensure you complete 3 -5 activities off that list daily. You should also have your daily non-negotiables like messaging and following up. You have to take responsibility of your actions and stay disciplined enough to say no matter what else happens today I’m going to do these certain things It is crucial to make the time to make a plan. I sit down every Sunday and create my weekly to-do list, marking things off as I go!

Minimize Distractions ● You can clear distractions by: ● turning off notifications, ● putting your phone on silent, ● setting a timer, ● not overthinking it! ● If you’re guilty of letting distractions get the best of you, what are you going to do to change it? ● PRACTICE! ● Are you actually doing business building activities or deflecting to your comfort zone? Use each

Track Your Business

Tracking Your Business ● Do you track your business? - If not, now is the time to start! ● Not tracking your business can give you the perception that you are doing better than you think you are. ● Know where your time is being spent! Any successful CEO knows what’s going on in their company. You should, too. Taking time to reflect and be honest about how your time is allocated is another key component to success. ● Did you know athletes know there stats? A professional basketball player knows every missed shot, every layup, every misstep so they can constantly strive to beat their personal best. You should be doing the same. If you don’t take the time to reflect on what is or is not working, how will you expect to beat your best?

Tracking Your Business If you aren’t tracking your business and what you are doing, the time you spend on your business won’t get you anywhere. Your business won’t grow if you aren’t keeping that door of contacts open. It all comes down to the number of people you talk to. Time management and tracking go hand-in-hand. ● Set your intentions for the day to know what it is you want to accomplish. ● Work from a to-do list to stay on track with business building activities. ● Use a timer to avoid losing track of where your business hours are going. If you don’t track your progress, you don’t know where you stand. ● Understanding where things are going right or wrong will let you to make adjustments as you go. ● This business works, but you need to ensure you’re both putting in the time and spending that

Tracking Your Business With tracking, be sure you aren’t deflecting to administrative tasks. Don’t get lost in the stationary section at Target trying to find the prettiest tools to make sure you start off perfectly (you know what I mean!!). Don’t spend hours organizing lists to eventually work from. Remember that efficiency and effectiveness lead to performance. Good or bad. ● Stay in business building mode. The minute you get lost in the fluff is the minute you start becoming inefficient. ● Remember that busy work is NOT an excuse for not prospecting. Also, stop scrolling and know the difference between mindless scrolling and truly working your business. Create that boundary. Kill the newsfeed busywork. Never open your computer unless you have an actual plan of action.

How To Be Successful

What Makes Some People Successful? Your life and your success are reflections of the choices you make It’s easy to make excuse about why this won’t work but we all have the same 24 hours in the day So what makes anyone more successful than anyone else? ● Creating a CEO mindset ● Making the business a priority ● Treating this business like business not a hobby (no matter what point you’re at in the business). If you want this to be a real business, you have to treat it like one. You have to get rid of excuses - be disciplined enough to not necessarily stop making excuses but to call yourself out when you do make excuses and get back to work

Set Goals for Success Know your goals weekly and strive to reach them. Your goal for this week, and every week moving forward, is to track your business and nightly evaluate it to see if progress is being made toward your goals.