In today’s video I am going to declutter my home office with the intention of manifesting a whole bunch of money! No- I’m not going to be showing you how to use an app to sell things you aren’t using online, today I’m going to talk about a formula that I have used in the past to bring in serious abundance and show you how I’m going to do it again!
In the video you will learn about:
✔︎ The exact process I use and how I implement it
✔︎ An awesome book you should read on the topic
✔︎ A simple but effective tool to keep you on track
✔︎ The AMAZING results I experienced in less than 2 weeks!
I hope this video and the process helps you maximize productivity and manifestation with your next declutter project! I’d love to hear your experience in the comments below and for more of the behind the scenes of my productivity, life and business, make sure you are following me on Instagram @MissTrenchcoat!
CALLING ALL BLOGGERS and aspiring bloggers as well! I’ve got a great FREE resource I want to share with you.
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After reading the book, you will understand:
→ Why blogging is a helpful tool for growing your influence online
→ Which platform to choose for your blog
→ How to name your blog (and online brand identity if applicable)
→ How to develop great consistent content
→ The Do’s & Don’ts of good blogging ettiquette
→ How to get organized and manage your time for blogging
→ The software and hardware essentials you’ll need
→ How to use other social media to promote your blog
→ How to take great photos for your blog
→ How to network with other bloggers to grow your following
I have just created a new FREE online business training class I thought you’d want to know about called The Female Entrepreneur Online Business Toolkit!
In this class I discuss 30+ essential tools I use and recommend for online business including:
→ HARDWARE: Computers, data storage, photo/video equipment and office accessories
→ SOFTWARE: Word processing, photo/video editing, and business applications
→ WEB APPLICATIONS: Website building, hosting, plugins, and email marketing
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When you sign up, you’ll also receive a FREE PDF Resource Guide + Checklist to use to keep track of all the tools you are interested in for your business.
As always I hope you find this video class informative and best of luck to you as you build your business!
Like most content creators, if I don’t post to my platforms for an extended period of time, I get a lot of messages and questions from members of my community asking “what happened?” or “where have you gone?”
The answer: Nothing happened and I haven’t gone anywhere.
If something ever happened that prevented me from fulfilling tasks and obligations to my customers and community, trust me, you’d hear about it!
If you have a productivity question or need help with something related to my content or products and send me an email, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can to help!
But there is a general expectation that has formed for online creators that sets a standard that a creator will continue to create unless they explain otherwise. I know not every person holds creators to this standard, and I don’t think we even do it knowingly much of the time, but when I started blogging and creating videos for youtube over 10 years ago, I didn’t agree to a lifetime of consistent content creation. I started doing it for the love of creating and out of a desire to help share my knowledge and skills with whoever was interested in learning from them.
One of the amazing things about online content is that it doesn’t usually disappear, and as I have focused a majority of my effort in the past 10 years to creating content that is “evergreen”, I now have a library of nearly 1,000 blog posts and almost 500 videos- I just had to look it up and I’m now astounded at myself for those numbers! So, you have access to nearly 1,500 pieces of unique content from me to enjoy representing a decade of work. It’s so much content that I’ve reached a point in the momentum of my creation process that I don’t always feel the need to create on schedule, and over the last few years, I have seen a trend with other independent content creators towards a similar attitude. Many big bloggers have shifted from frequent blog posts to focusing on longer form writing like books. Popular YouTubers have started focusing on creating video series where they can focus on quality over quantity with their work. Podcasters too, seem to be focused more and more on creating a structure of “seasons” for their episodes, instead of tying themselves to a weekly creation schedule. Of course, this observation doesn’t apply to all creators, however, it is also obvious that those creators who have been consistent for an extended period of time also tend to have a team around them geared towards the ongoing creation of content. I think these trends are meaningful, especially when we consider that most online content is free and therefore creators who have stuck to it for years ultimately have organized their efforts into some form of business. But not all creators have followed the same business model, because not all of us have the same goals.
Now, in terms of social media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc, content is significantly more disposable and because of that it’s become so much harder for smaller brands to “keep up” in terms of relevancy on those platforms. In fact, the competition has become so fierce that these platforms have, in many ways, become “pay to play”. Now, personally, I’m not mad about it! It is what it is and this is the evolution and development of social media. At the end of the day, I look at the situation like this: I can focus more of my effort on social media content or make the investment in ads to those platforms to remain relevant or I can see social media for what it is, an optional way for me to connect with my audience. Again, when I look at my goals for my business, the choice I make is to treat social media like an optional platform and share when I feel like I have something valuable to say. I would much rather put effort into content with a longer lifespan, like my products, classes, videos, etc then expend more resources to a stagnant platform.
So, I don’t post regularly to my social media anymore, I honestly haven’t for several years now and although there are times when I can harness my social media for specific business goals, guess what? Not being highly active on social media hasn’t hurt my business. Some might find that surprising, but I think that speaks to the efficacy of how I’ve intentionally structured my business.
Now, let me get back to the main point of this post because it’s absolutely not intended to be a commentary on online business, but I did feel like some of you might benefit from learning more of my perspective on the business side of things.
The point that I want to get across with this post is that I am dedicated to serving my customers and community to the best of my ability while remaining in line with my personal and business goals. Creating valuable and thoughtful content regularly is absolutely still my goal, however, I’ve relinquished the expectation that regular content means that I will post every single day or even every single week. And I really do believe this is actually a good thing, not just for me, but also for my community. I see the mission of my content and business as helping women create and live the life of their choosing, and I support those efforts by teaching about the science of productivity, planning and success. In my heart of hearts, I know that although my content and products support those ends, engaging in social media too much and consuming too much digital content ultimately takes focus away from engaging in real life effort and action to create the life of your dreams. There is a fine line between using digital content to educate and empower yourself, and using it as a crutch to procrastinate while feeling like you are engaging in personal development. The productivity science is clear on this and I’ve said it before, writing out a to do list gives you the feeling of organization and accomplishment even if you never take action on a task. Similarly, consuming educational or instructional content makes you feel like you are improving your life even if you never take action on the information.
I realize this situation doesn’t apply to everyone in my community, but I would truly like to encourage you to use my content and products as they have been intended- to enlighten and inspire you to take action and implement what you have learned in your life. If you take action and things aren’t working as expected, you can always reach out to me or come back to my content and find a new tool or strategy to try. I want to encourage and empower you to spend more time executing and less time educating. Spend more time in real life and less time online because real life is where you will see and feel the manifestation of results.
I want you to know that I do truly appreciate that so many of you reach out with curiosity and concern when you don’t see me posting. It does make me feel appreciated and loved. Sometimes, it can feel overwhelming that there are so many of you who reach out that I feel paralyzed or that my actions are under a microscope. That is why I wanted to take the time to respond to those inquiries in this way because although I am aware of how I have been shifting, I don’t always see that I should be communicating that information to you. Personally, I do feel like there is a fine line I need to walk as a creator between keeping my community informed and oversharing. Believe it or not, it does still feel strange to me that so many people want to know what’s going on with me and my business, but at the same time I am very cognizant of how dangerous oversharing can be online to a creators personal safety and/or mental stability.
So, I hope you can understand and appreciate my point of view with this post and that in the future it explains why I might seem absent, even though I’m exactly where I have always been on the other side of your computer screen, just a message away.
In today’s video I’m walking you through my monthly review process and showing you all the secret planning tips I use to keep myself focused on my most important tasks for the month.
Today, I’m sharing 5 Bad Habits that I am swapping for better habits to help me reach my goals in 2019! In this video I share the bad habits, why they were chosen, what will be taking their place and my easy process for determining which habits need to change if you struggle to achieve your goals!
✔︎ You have a plan laid for what you need to do, where you need to be and know by the end of the day all the most important things in your life will be taken care of.
✔︎ You feel like your life is together. Like the successful, productive and organized person you know you are.
✔︎ You’re not worried about anything, you’re not rushing to get things done or thinking about skipping meals or your personal tasks to make sure you get urgent priorities for others accomplished.
✔︎ You’re not putting out fires at work or at home, everything is under control and moving according to plan.
I truly hope this is how you are feeling today!
My students have these kinds of days often and I love hearing them talk about them because I know they feel in control of their lives and their is no greater feeling than that!
But for most of them, days like this were few and far between before they started working with me and my productivity resources.
• Their lives felt rushed.
• They had little time for themselves.
• They often fell asleep and woke up with a sense of exhaustion and overwhelm.
That is seriously no way to live, not when I know that just a few simple tools, strategies and skills can begin to transform your life in a matter of hours.
That’s right, I said hours! Because there are resources that you can access and implement immediately that can drastically change your productivity and release that sense of overwhelm.
Once the overwhelm is out of the way, you can ease yourself into a new way of living, a better way of living, by aligning your daily actions intentionally with your priorities and goals.
You, too, can wake up feeling refreshed, with a sense of purpose and direction, knowing that you have a solid plan in place for your day, and the knowledge and stamina to hurdle obstacles throughout your day.
If this is how you would like to feel in your own life, you owe it to yourself, your family, your job, your community, and anyone else that relies on you to show up and do your best work everyday, to invest in the resources that will make you an inspired, motivated, and productive person!
If you are ready to get started on this new path, I recommend you begin by purchasing your copy of YOU GOT THIS!The Goal Setting and Planning Workbook.
YOU GOT THIS guides you through 132 pages of real world productivity lessons, 16 instructive and enlightening activities, and 18 step-by-step worksheets to help you:
✔︎ Get clear on your priorities:Stop feeling like you’ve got your head on a swivel jumping from priority to priority working exhaustively but not making any significant progress for your efforts.
✔︎ Set achievable goals:Start putting your attention on strategic goals with action plans so clear you can practically feel the final result.
✔︎ Organize and simplify your life:Feel the relief that comes from systematizing mundane tasks, and enjoy the time you’ve earned back for efficiently managing your life.
Remember, if you are struggling to fight overwhelm, poor habits, and the downward spiral of anxiety caused by them…
NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES!
You need to take action and make a change if you want things to change in your life. I promise you, no matter what your situation, there is a better, more productive way to live and through learning and implementing my key strategies, you can feel relief in a matter of hours, you can create a plan in a matter of days, and you can see concrete results in a matter of weeks!
What are you waiting for? Make TODAY a very productive day for you and purchase your copy of YOU GOT THIS now!
Today’s video is a Goal Setting Mini Class where I walk you through setting SMART Goals and creating action plans to achieve them during the year! Access the FREE PDF Workbook to accompany this video here: http://bit.ly/smartgoalgetter
MY 2019 PLANNER SETUP VIDEO IS LIVE FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!
This year actually marks my 5th anniversary of sharing my planner setup with you all, so I decided it would be fun to do a little walk down planner memory lane together and talk about the different setups I’ve used over the years and what I’ve learned from them. Many of us within the planner community go through a bit of a planner evolution through the years, and I think it’s important before choosing your new planner for 2019, to take some time to look at the patterns that keep coming up with your planners year over year to see what you really like, what you actually use in your planner and what issues you struggle with. Hopefully, this video should give you some inspiration for how to review and analyze the planners you’ve used in the past to see what might work best for the future.
→ P.S. I didn’t mention this in the video, however, there are just a few days left to sign up for my New Year Goal Setting Workshop, here is the link: http://bit.ly/2PI7pH1
→ Or, if you want my full Goal Setting Process to help you map short term to longer term goals, definitely purchase my YOU GOT THIS Workbook + Video Intro Course because it teaches you all the practical aspects of goal setting as well as provides tons of activities and worksheets to help you get clear on your goals and how to achieve them: http://bit.ly/YOUGOTTHISBOOK
