How to Keep Going When You Don’t Feel Like It
The struggle is real. Sooner or later it will happen. You’ll wake up and the idea of getting started isn’t exciting, it’s downright uncomfortable. Realistically, it’s normal to face days when motivation is at an all-time low. Whether you’re dealing with work pressures, personal setbacks, or just an overall sense of fatigue, pushing through these moments is a challenge that everyone encounters. This struggle is universal, but what sets successful individuals apart is their ability to tap into their grit and resilience. These qualities aren’t just about powering through; they involve smart strategies that help you navigate tough times without burning out. In this blog, we’ll explore some foundational steps to stay motivated and productive, followed by three specific strategies that can help you keep moving forward even on the toughest days. Acknowledge Your Feelings First off, let’s talk about acknowledging your feelings. It’s okay not to feel 100% all the time. Recognize how you’re feeling and understand that it’s normal and neither good nor bad. Once you accept that, you can start working on ways to get back on track. Research shows that recognizing and processing emotions can significantly improve mental well-being and resilience. Our goal isn’t to dismiss our feelings or even to try to divorce ourselves from them. Rather it’s best to acknowledge our emotions and commit to addressing them. It’s also important to remember that it’s on us to recognize when it’s an appropriate time to work through and process our emotions. There are many instances where it’s preferred or even best to delay processing. Just be sure to carve out time for yourself to work through these sooner than later. Break It Down When tasks seem overwhelming, break them down into smaller, more manageable steps. This makes it easier to get started and gives you a sense of accomplishment as you complete each step. The Pomodoro Technique is a great example of this strategy, breaking work into 25-minute intervals with short breaks in between to maintain focus and reduce stress. It’s also helpful to work with a planner and written objectives and goals. If you have a resource where you can turn that already lays out the minimal steps you need to take, it becomes a lot easier to get started. Often, getting started is the most difficult step to take in overcoming motivational lulls. Set Realistic Goals Setting achievable goals is crucial. Don’t try to do everything at once. By setting smaller, realistic goals, you can build momentum and keep moving forward. Effective time management, such as prioritizing tasks and using tools like targeted to-do lists, can enhance productivity and reduce the stress of overwhelming workloads. When we achieve even the smallest of successes it can immediately help shift our perception and our emotions. Sometimes, this is all that is needed to overcome a lack of motivation or feelings of despair, dismay or simple loss of enthusiasm. In addition to the basics, I want to share three specific strategies that I use to keep going when the going gets tough. 1. Step Back and Do Something Different When you’re struggling, sometimes it’s best to step back and do something different that still moves you forward. This could be catching up on notes, updating your CRM, or processing conversations. By doing this, you get a chance to reflect on both positive and negative experiences, helping you to gain perspective and maintain objectivity. This aligns with research showing that shifting tasks can help manage stress and improve overall productivity. For instance, if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the thought of making another call, take some time to update your CRM with recent interactions. Not only does this give you a break from the immediate stressor, but it also ensures you’re staying productive. Studies have shown that task-switching can help reduce cognitive load and refresh your mental state, making you more effective in the long run. Redirecting ourselves is a great way to allow us to energize ourselves by taking action on something that is less challenging in the moment and still productive. 2. Lean In and Attack It After facing a setback, lean in and take the next opportunity head-on. Make the next call, have the next meeting, and put yourself in a position to succeed. The past is the past, and each new opportunity is a chance for a different outcome. This approach helps you move beyond the immediate disappointment and focus on new possibilities. Studies have shown that taking immediate action can reduce the negative impact of setbacks and increase resilience. This strategy is particularly effective in sales and business development, where rejection is part of the game. By quickly moving to the next opportunity, you prevent negative experiences from accumulating and weighing you down. Remember, each new interaction is a fresh chance to succeed and the more ‘no’s’ you receive the closer you are to a ‘yes!/ 3. Fill Your Schedule Keep your calendar full. When you have a packed schedule, you don’t have time to dwell on setbacks. Stay focused on the tasks at hand and process any negative experiences outside of your typical working hours. Reflect, journal, or meditate later, but during the day, keep moving forward. This strategy is supported by time management research indicating that a structured schedule helps maintain focus and reduces the likelihood of stress and procrastination. A full schedule means you’re constantly moving from one task to the next, leaving little room for self-doubt, rumination or negative thinking. This doesn’t mean ignoring your feelings; rather, it’s about compartmentalizing them so you can address them at a more appropriate time. So there you have it—three strategies I use as needed to help you keep going when you don’t feel like it. Remember, overcoming motivational challenges is all about acknowledging your feelings, breaking tasks down into manageable steps, and setting realistic goals. Implement these strategies, and you’ll be better equipped to handle those tough days If you’re interested in our other services provided through IVOLVE Performance and Development
Top Business Owner Mistakes With Serious Consequences and How to Avoid Them!
Running and operating a business comes with its fair share of ups and downs. Owners today have so much on their plates that it’s not uncommon for mistakes to happen. Much of the mistakes we make in business are minor and have relatively limited consequences. Every now and then, however, we make some serious mistakes that have lasting and severe consequences. These are the mistakes that we need to be laser-focused on avoiding to the best of our abilities. Get this right, avoid these mistakes, and you’re likely looking at significantly accelerated growth, sales, and profits in a business. You’ll likely enjoy the work you do a whole lot more too! Decision Making Fatigue One after another, they don’t stop. As owners, regardless of the size of our business, we need to make a series of decisions every day that can have unimaginable consequences (good and bad!) for our businesses. Whether it’s early on in a small business or in the more mature stages of business with complex issues and multiple employees, our decisions have an impact on the business and the people around us! It should come as no surprise then that one of the biggest hurdles owners need to overcome is the fatigue that comes with decision-making. Decision-making fatigue is a deterioration of the quality of decisions we make. As we make more and more decisions and the stress and mental effort that comes with those decisions it’s common for the quality of our decisions to actually suffer. In other words, we’ll make better decisions when we aren’t tired, stressed, and worn out. There was a study done on parole hearings for inmates. The study looked at the decision-making of the judge on how statistically likely they were to release the prisoners at different times of the day. It was found that first thing in the morning and then shortly after a recess for lunch or a snack were the best times of day to be up for a parole hearing and the most likely times of day that the inmates would be granted parole. There was more than a 6x likelihood of release early in the morning rather than later in the day. It’s fairly clear that the decision-making process by the judges was influenced by the stress and effort of ongoing decision-making. This was corrected with proper rest and nutrition but shortly afterwards the inevitable load from the day again began to influence the decision-making of judges. Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-break Imagine for a moment your decision-making determined the quality of life of someone in front of you. You’d likely want to make the best decision possible. As business owners, whether we recognize it consciously or not, many of our decisions will have an oversized impact on the people around us including our employees, partners, and even our own families. Unfortunately, decision-making fatigue is a very real and very common mistake owners make regularly. In today’s culture, especially in the United States, overwork is not merely accepted, it’s lauded. Yet overwork is nearly a guaranteed recipe for compromised decision-making. On the bright side, there are a number of ways we can self-correct for decision-making fatigue that are easy to implement and execute on. Here are a few suggestions you can likely implement today. Take Breaks This should be obvious but it’s worth repeating. If you want to save an enormous amount of time, stress and money, take more small breaks more frequently. Healthy Habits Nourish yourself with healthy foods, enough sleep, exercise and methods to reduce stress. Decision making fatigue is at least partially caused by all of the above factors. By controlling what you can you’ll reduce the impact of poor decisions. Prioritize & Limit It seems like common sense but if continuously being put in a position to make decisions increases decision making fatigue, then we should be prioritizing what decisions are actually important to make and limiting our decisions to those. This should help reduce paralysis by analysis, overthinking and ruminating. It’s very hard to give up control and yet stepping back from too many decisions is an absolute game changer for a business owner. Develop Routines The great thing about routines is they put our brains on autopilot. The less we need to think about something the less willpower it takes. Willpower is a finite resource and when our willpower muscle gets tired our form will struggle. Not into the muscle analogy? The more routine you can develop around recurring decisions the less tired you’ll get and the better decisions you’ll make when it really matters. Dependency and Bottlenecks One of the biggest challenges to accelerated growth and ultimately selling a business for maximum value is owner dependency. We all want to be needed. It’s a natural part of being human. We want to be a part of a community and when we are the literal parent of something whether it’s children or a business it’s very difficult to let go and give up control. When we run our business out of this context it creates a fragile situation in which the business is dependent on the owner for critical operations and decision making. For a business to be run effectively it must be able to survive independent of the owner’s direct involvement. When a business needs to run through the owner it creates bottlenecks to accelerated growth. These bottlenecks might show up in many different ways but they almost always hamper the bottom line and they will certainly reduce and seriously discount the valuation of a business. It’s common for the bottlenecks to show up through roles, responsibilities and especially employees. As a small business owner the business may still be highly dependent on you for certain things such as business development, financial management and customer relationships among others. Now picture this…your business is functioning smoothly and suddenly you’re dealt a blow with a major health issue of your own or someone you are close to. You are pulled away from the
Supercharge retention by creating greater engagement in education
When we educate ourselves or someone else, one of the most critical indicators of success will be retention. How long and well do we keep the information we learned? Today, we recognize that higher levels of engagement directly correlate with increased retention and make our efforts at educating ourselves or others significantly more effective. In today’s blog we’ll explore how you can create greater engagement in education to drive incredible retention! You may want to engage with this! We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you. Access it here! Le’ts take a look at how we can create greater engagement in education. Offer Choice and Learning Pathways Much of education has been constructed by the hands of the teacher and often students are left with a model they must follow. By offering choice and learning pathways you can provide options to students on specific lessons they can learn within broader topics. Allowing for students to choose how they will demonstrate their knowledge also provides them with more excitement and enjoyment as they engage with the material. Emphasize Growth Mindsets Failure is ingrained in us as a bad thing. Yet some of the very best learning tends to be driven from failures and mistakes. Emphasizing a growth mindset means that we can and should embrace failure in what we do! Plan and build out exercises where failure is expected at least half the time and celebrated at the same level success is celebrated. Incorporate Active Learning There are many types of learning styles and rather than wax poetic on the various learning methods that are widely used and accepted we’ll instead focus our attention on active learning. Active learning can mean many things and typically will include, group projects, collaboration, interactive discussions and hands-on activities. By integrating this type of learning into traditional lesson planning we can greatly increase engagement across many different types of people and dramatically improve retention. By implementing some of the suggestions above you’ll create much greater engagement whether it’s in your own individual learning or any education you’re offering to others. The best benefit of creating more engagement is you will supercharge retention for anyone involved in the learning process! How do you increase engagement? Let us know your thoughts, you can email us at info@jbandthedoctor.com! Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your soft skills to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
How To Become More Vulnerable
Vulnerability is shown to develop stronger relationships. Those of us that can practice vulnerability are able to overcome our bodies natural physiological response to the risk of opening ourselves up. Not only does it help develop our relationships with others, it allows us to strengthen the internal relationship we have with ourselves. In this blog we’ll explore some helpful tips that make us more comfortable with being vulnerable. Before we open up about vulnerability… did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you. Access it here! Be Brave It might sound silly, but vulnerability requires us to be brave. We’re doing something that leaves us open to attack and judgement and that’s not easy. If you’re struggling to be vulnerable, find some small ways you can be brave. Take it one small step at a time and given some consistency you’ll see great progress towards overcoming the fear and anxiety that often come from being vulnerable. Be Selective If vulnerability is something you struggle with then there are some great people to be vulnerable with and there are…others. By being selective with whom we share our vulnerability with we can help protect ourselves from our primary concerns and anxiety. Finding someone who is already able to express their emotions, is non-judgmental, and simply listens is a great starting point for being vulnerable. Practice Self Awareness Vulnerability requires us to be able to express our emotions, yet for many of us, understanding our emotions isn’t easy. Practicing self-awareness and becoming more aware of your emotions is an essential requirement to successfully developing comfort with vulnerability. Take stock in your emotions when you feel yourself reacting. Remember, feelings are often describe with a single word such as: anxious, attacked, defensive, scared, courageous, happy, sad, etc. How do you get vulnerable? Let us know at info@jbandthedoctor.com Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
How to Crush Your New Year’s Goals!
Most of us want to have a better year next year than we did this year. Even if we had the greatest year ever, it’s natural to desire more and aim higher. To help all of you out there looking to crush your new year’s goals, we have 3 very easy to follow tips in the blog below. Check it out! 6 Methods To Make Sure Your Business Doesn’t Fail Before crushing your New Year’s goals, did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you and you can access it right here. Don’t Set Resolutions Resolutions are broad, grand gestures, that fail for almost everyone. Goals are specific actions you can recommit on every single day. Resolutions do not work and there is a boat load of evidence to prove it. Goals, when put in place are shown to be highly effective. This year, don’t bother setting a resolution, set yourself goals. Get Started Today The very best goals shouldn’t wait. Put them in place and get started on them today. If you’re reading this on publication, that means you’ll have a full week of 2022 to get a head start on your 2023 goals. Ever been in a race with someone that got a head start? It’s a whole lot easier for the person with the head start to win. You can be that person by getting moving on your goals right now. Small Goals Win Ever heard of the BHAG? Big, hairy, audacious goals? Love the idea, in theory. But in practice, it’s the small goals that win every time. Win a minute you can win an hour. Win an hour and you can win the day. Win the day, the week falls into place. So on and so forth. Small goals are easily attainable, provide excitement, energy and traction and our brains are designed to want something now. Feed your brain what it wants, and it’ll be a lot easier to achieve those great things you have in mind. How do you crush your goals? Let us know at info@jbandthedoctor.com! Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
How To End Your Year Strong!
Most resolutions don’t last. People get a few weeks into the year, and they slow down, stumble or just plain give up. It’s hard to get started for a lot of people and sustain consistency. It’s also equally hard to keep that consistency up when we approach the finish line. For some people, they can break into a sprint, but for a lot of professionals out there, the holiday season can be very challenging. Thankfully, there are some great tips to help you end your year strong that we’ll be sharing in our blog today! 6 Methods To Make Sure Your Business Doesn’t Fail Before helping out with your end of year pushes, did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you and you can access it right here. End Your Year Strong by Getting Started on Next Year TODAY Ending the year strong doesn’t mean your focus needs to be on the current year. Many pros and businesses hit their goals well before December. Often that can lead to opportunities to get a head start on next year’s goals. Utilizing the end of the year to springboard into the new year is a fantastic method to make sure you crush your new year! Review Your Relationships to End Your Year Strong Business is never done in a vacuum and relationships are the fuel that keeps your engine revving. Which of your relationships fell off, which strengthened, and which are new? Reviewing and then reaching out to your relationships is an effective strategy to uncover last minute opportunities and future business. End Your Year Strong by Adding a New Goal Sometimes the best way to make sure you finish in a sprint is to leave yourself with no other options. Putting a large goal in front of yourself right at the end of the year can force you to sprint even harder through the holiday season. Identify a goal to put in place before the end of the year and go after it! What are your favorite ways to end the year strong? Let us know at info@jbandthedoctor.com! Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
How To Say No
Do you struggle with saying no? It’s a common issue for many people. Especially if you are being asked by people you don’t want to disappoint! For those of you that can use some help let’s dive into a few ways you can improve on and learn how to say no! 6 Methods To Make Sure Your Business Doesn’t Fail Before we go into saying ‘no,’ did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you and you can access it right here. Set Boundaries Up Front A great challenge with saying no is it feels like we’re rejecting someone else. One of the easiest ways to avoid this is to set boundaries early and up front. That way if you need to say ‘no,’ you have already communicated what your boundaries are and use those as a mutually understood reason. Don’t Try to Explain Saying no is hard. It can come with a need to explain as well. To get better at saying ‘no,’ do it quickly, cleanly and don’t try to explain. It usually is unnecessary. Keeping to a short and simple ‘no’ will make it easier than also trying to come up with an explanation. Ask For Time to Decide When someone asks you something you want to say ‘no’ to, we can often feel pressure to respond immediately. By changing your default response to ‘let me think about it,’ you give yourself the chance to really make a better decision and be thoughtful in your response. What are your tips for saying ‘no?’ Let us know in the lab! Join our community Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
3 Tips To Effectively Use Creativity in Marketing
If you want to get heard today, you need to be able to cut through the noise. One of the best ways to do that? Be creative! Creativity and innovation are the fuel for your messaging and branding. In this blog we offer 3 tips to be effective with creativity in your marketing. Embrace Experimentation and Failure The greatest challenge to being inventive and creative in our approaches is we never can know exactly what will or won’t work. Being willing to embrace failure and continue to experiment will allow you to dig deeper into your creativity and build something innovative and effective. If you’re too afraid to get creative you’ll limit your effectiveness. Push Boundaries What do the greatest and most memorable of us have in common? They push boundaries. Pushing boundaries allows you to see how far you can take your creativity and allows you to truly set yourself and your business apart. To be most effective in marketing you have to be willing to push boundaries on occasion. Be Contrarian Questioning the status quo is a fantastic way to inspire creativity in your marketing. One of the most effective ways to make waves is to take an established belief and turn it on it’s head. This could be serious or satirical in nature but it’s sure to create some waves! How do you make sure your marketing is creative and effective? Let us know, we still accept snail mail if you ask for our address politely! Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
Making The Most of a Joint Venture
When we collaborate or partner with other professionals, we do it because we believe that it will provide us something that we can’t achieve by working on our own. Belief by itself won’t get us improved result. If we want to really make the most out of a joint venture (JV), there are some actions we need to take to control the outcome and experience. In our blog below we discuss 3 things you can do to make the most out of a joint venture. Set Responsibilities Up Front If you want to be successful with a joint venture, you need to split responsibilities and make sure that all parties are accountable for their portion of the work. Joint ventures can work even when you fail to set responsibilities up front, but ultimately, they’ll fall far short of what they could have been if everyone is crystal clear up front on what they need to do. Nobody wants to relive being the kid doing all the work for the project and splitting half the credit. Make Sure The JV’s are Complementary While there’s nothing wrong with working along side someone that does the same thing as you, it doesn’t make nearly as much sense as finding a partner that complements the work that you do. Whether it’s bringing in an audience when yours is weak or establishing strong credibility as you build your own authority, it’s going to make a much greater difference in positive results to work with a complementary business. Address Problems Head On Open communication is one of the most important aspects to have a successful joint venture. Besides setting of responsibilities we need to make sure we address friction with partners head on, problem solve together and express gratitude when possible. Ultimately, any partnership requires two or more people and businesses to work together and the best results always come from active communication and strong EQ. Have you had success or failure with joint ventures? Let us know in our private Facebook community, the EML! You can join here! Join our community Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
3 Tricks to Hosting an Amazing Event
It can be great to go to an event and meet wonderful people, network, and find ways to grow your business. Some of the best relationships can be built this way, just ask many of our podcast guests how we connected originally! Other times events can fall short. Given time most professionals will consider hosting their own events. If you’re at this point and you want to do it right, we have 3 tricks that will help you host an amazing event! 6 Methods To Make Sure Your Business Doesn’t Fail Before we discuss our tips, did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you and you can access it right here. #1 Give more lead time than you think you need Events have a way of coming on fast. If you think you need 3 weeks to get an event together, plan on 5-6. Optimism bias is very real and very dangerous when you’re trying to host an event. Don’t get caught unprepared for all the moving pieces and coordination involved with event hosting. #2 You need to manage the venue We’d love to say that venues have their ducks in a row when it comes to event hosting, but you’d be surprised by how often venues drop the ball before or during events. Do not assume the venue will be a rockstar at event management. Take ownership of this or face the consequences. #3 Have a follow up plan Do you know the worst thing you can do when it comes to running an event? 100% not having a follow up plan. The event is being held for a reason and if you want to make the most of your time energy and resources you need to have a thoughtful and ready to roll follow up plan. Do this and even small events can have tremendous results! Do you need help with growing your business through events? Let us know in our private Facebook community, the EML! You can join here! Join our community Or we can work with you individually with our unique 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.