Ahhh summer, summer, summer — and things seem to just slow down and so does our momentum around our goals and objectives. (Yeah, remember all those goals you set the first of the year!) In this episode, Kim and Cara give you tips and tricks to help you maintain your momentum through this slowdown so you stay on track.

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Hey there business animals. It's Kim with

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Be More Business

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and Cara with Fast Horse Photography. Hi, Kim.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Good morning. Happy Friday. It's Friday here in our world. And

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it's so hot. Oh my gosh, I'm just sweating nonstop right now.

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I walked outside yesterday, and I thought my skin was gonna melt

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off from the hot breeze or you guys are having that kind of

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weather over in Missouri right now.

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We had really hot weather this last week. And then

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Tuesday, we had a little rain storm and it cooled off to the

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90s. And it's within the 80s even one day so we were really

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happy with that and our humidity dropped down quite a bit. It was

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really pleasant. When I was out here just a few minutes ago, I

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went out because we were having a motorcycle race this weekend

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on the ranch and the guys are here to work on the trails and

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stuff. And so I was out telling the guy that was doing it to

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make sure he watched his dog so it didn't hurt our baby goat

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that's out there. So anyway, it was really really pleasant

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outside very pleasant. Yeah, my goats are quite the characters.

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So

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I'm not jealous at all. We're over here

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in Florida, we're basically sweating through our bras when

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we have to go out and be courses. So it's like melt your

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skin off hot. That's the only way to describe it. Which is why

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I think today's episode is so perfect because it's summertime

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right and I am 100% Feeling the summertime slump. Right now I

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want to be on vacation or just at a staycation I want to go to

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the beach, I want to go the barn, I want to do anything

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besides work. So I love our topic today, maintaining your

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moment, I

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totally get that because I feel you I'm right

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there with you. I've had such a stressful spring with health

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issues and trying to maintain my business. And I've decided to

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eradicate a lot of the stress out of my life. And I have to

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tell you, I'm thoroughly enjoying not living at a

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stressed out level. And I don't want to go back to that again.

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But I also want to maintain or actually restart some of my

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momentum. I had a lot of big plans at the first of the year.

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And some things got derailed for higher priority incidents. And

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now those things are put away and I need to move on and get to

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the next step. So I do think this is a very timely topic for

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people. And it's something where I think we get into different

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times here both the summer and for me also the dead of winter

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tends to be a little bit on the slumpy side, I just don't want

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to work, the holidays roll around and you want to spend

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time with friends and family or you're here in the summertime.

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And you get that moment where you're just like, Ah, I'm tired,

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I just want to go take a nap and drink lemonade under the tree.

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It's so true or in the air conditioning if you're in

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Florida. So we have three things for you guys today that Karen

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and I are both doing and that we think sharing with you might

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help you also through those times in your business when you

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feel like you've made a lot of progress. But you want to make

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sure that progress keeps going and you're able to maintain it

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over time. So I'm going to run down the big three and then

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we'll jump in the first one is to review and assess where you

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are with your goals and adjust accordingly. And then number two

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is to seize the slowdown, there is a lot of positivity that you

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can have around to this person my favorite part of the process,

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it's it's part of that circular process of our lives. And then

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finally play like you've reached your goals and celebrate your

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success for number three, going back and reviewing and assessing

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where you've kind of set your goals to be and adjusting them.

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I think that people sometimes feel like and I know I do, too.

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I set a goal. And then I feel like if that's the goal I have

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to reach and if I don't reach that specific goal, I either

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haven't been successful or a conversely, another problem I

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have is I reach that goal right away. And then I'm like okay,

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check mark, no reason to do anything more after that. So

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there's two sides to that coin, where I think that we need to go

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back take a look at the goals that we've set for ourselves in

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our business and decide if we want to adjust those. If you've

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reached the goal and you're early. Do you want to up that

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goal and make it bigger. Or if you haven't reached the goal,

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were you unrealistic when you started out? And can you set

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that goal a little bit better.

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That's so true. I'm doing I'm actually

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doing this right now in my business with I have a couple

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photography pals, Betsy from ride the sky photography and

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Tracy from pennywhistle photography we meet regularly

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and one of the next topic we're meeting on is assessing our

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goals to see where we are. And in anticipation for that

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meeting, I pulled up my goals and was looking at like what I

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said at the beginning of the year, okay, these are the things

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we're going to focus on this year. And some of the things I

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feel like I've done a great job on and on other things, it's

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definitely going to take some refocusing, or maybe doing some

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course correction around what I thought I was going to be doing

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this year, and then life kind of kicks you in the butt and you

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get kicked down the road to another direction. So anyway,

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just if this is such a good point in the year for that, to

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really figure out where you stand with those goals you set

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for yourself at the beginning of the year, you know, and ask

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yourself, What am I focusing on? And why and what am I not

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focusing on? And why like, there's reasons for those

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things, is it because it's fun or not fun? Is it because it's

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not a priority right now, or your business has worked itself

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in another direction, and you've had other priorities, and that's

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okay, that is totally okay to have those thoughts and to make

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decisions around that. And it's okay at this point to weed out,

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I think what you don't need at this point and start kind of

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making some cuts, it doesn't mean you're cutting your goals,

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but you're reevaluating the priorities and making some

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changes around the goals that are no longer a priority for

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your business. And I think it's a it's a great time to use it to

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reinvigorate and re motivate by looking at those goals again,

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and refining them doing a little course correction and get you re

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motivated just because okay, I now have new priorities. And I

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understand where I'm going with those goals. And there's still a

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lot of time. Yeah, we

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still have six months of the year left as we're

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recording this. But the truth is, even if there's only three

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weeks left in the year, you have time to reevaluate your goals

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and adjust your objectives. And I think here is a really good

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point to reiterate what goals and objectives are, because I

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think we talk about this and then we don't get really

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concrete about it, or we forget how to be concrete about it

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goals are overarching things that you want to add to your

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business or that you want to take away like you want to

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remove stress is one of my now goals. It wasn't my goal at the

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first of the year. But now it definitely is because I've seen

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the toll that stress can take on my life. So another one would be

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to make more revenue to have more customers. I mean, goals

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are these overarching things that you want to do for the

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year. And then your objectives are the things that you do step

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by step in order to reach those goals. And sometimes it may not

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be the goal that you need to adjust, maybe you want to leave

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that goal, but the objectives that you have defined to reach

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that goal maybe are what need adjusted. So for example, if you

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wanted to add more customers to your business, and you decided

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at the first of the year, one of the objectives that you were

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going to follow was to get 300 more Instagram followers, and

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now you've gotten close to that or you've tried it, it didn't

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work, you haven't seen that improve your bottom line, then

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it's time to readjust and say okay, what can I do differently

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to get that momentum back on track? Or if it started a little

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bit and just kind of fizzled out kind of short of what you wanted

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to do, then how can you up your game a little bit so that you're

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able to actually reach that particular goal. So I think that

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that's a quick little reminder and what goals and objectives

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really do mean to us. And to know that maybe you don't need

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to change the overarching broad goal, but you need to change the

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steps that you're taking to get there. If they're not working,

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or if they worked really well, then expanding the objective

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quantification to actually be able to expand it even further.

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I love the adage of ride the pony until it's done. So keep

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Cara Taylor Swift:

I would just add with that to like your goals

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that you're setting for your business and for yourself that

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they don't all have to be like work, you know, like it's okay

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to have an add in at this point of the year when you're feeling

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your momentum is slumping, add something fun, you know, have a

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fun goal that you could spend a little time working on to that's

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going to have something awesome at the end of it that's outside

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of your work, I think that sometimes we get so caught up

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and all of our goals are around moving the business forward or

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making our lives better or our family's lives better. And

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sometimes we need to just have the goal. You know, like Kim

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said, removing stress from the life we need to have the goal to

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get outside more or be horseback more, or take the dogs for an

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extra walk or get to the beach more often. You know, I mean, I

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live a couple of miles from the beach, and I'm never there. So

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you know, thinking about things like that can get us excited

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about okay, you know, we can talk about that when we get to

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number three. But I just think that that can help get me

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motivated when my goals are not all work related all the time.

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Absolutely. And I think one of my biggest lessons

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from this year thus far has been that I've been doing this

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entrepreneurship thing for a lot of decades. Now. It's decades,

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not years, it's a decade Hot Minute. And I've had a

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refocusing, like you said reprioritizing, what is

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important and what isn't. And many times I set my goals up

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until this year up until this spring, I set my goals based on

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what I thought was best for the business. And the truth is, is

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now I'm readjusting that view to say what is the best for Kim?

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What is the best for me moving forward? And where can I have

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the most impact while also having the most joy and ease and

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passion fulfillment in my life, rather than what is the best

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thing for the bottom line of my business? That's a new step for

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me as an entrepreneur to really look at that in that light and

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sort of take my own medicine is I tell people that a lot. And

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I've started to chip away at it over the years, but having a

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health crisis where you look at your life and go, Okay, it's

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time to figure out what really makes me happy and what doesn't,

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and understanding the impact of the stress that it can be as an

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entrepreneur that can impact your life and going okay, what

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stresses me out, I want that out of my business. What brings me

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peace and joy I want more of so I do think reprioritizing is

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really important. And I think it's a nice time of year to sit

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and look back and say am I really in the right track.

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Because honestly, at the first of the year, we're all so

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wrapped up in goal setting. And I mean, it's it's like peer

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pressure, right? Everybody's on it. And this time of year, it's

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not as prominent, we're not having that discussion every

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single day. So you can take a little bit more time to relax

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and ease into how you want to do the rest of your year playing

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out. So I think it's time to move on to number two, because I

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know you have some great ideas around how to seize the moment

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of the slowdown, how to actually feel into this and let the

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momentum be flexible and mutable and allow it to kind of find its

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own path. So I'm turning it over to you. And I'm going to tell

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you right now, number one on your list I really am wanting to

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embrace.

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Well, it's time to seize the slowdown. And

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it is a time when a lot of businesses either slow down or

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they pick up and if you're one of those businesses like mine

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where we're slowing down right now it's hot out and it is a

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time when you can kind of reevaluate I say take a break,

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take the break, plan a trip, enjoy a little staycation if you

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can take a vacation take it this is the time and it's okay to set

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the auto responder the out of office responder on your email

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and enjoy a little time off you are you know it Kevin may had

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this conversation this morning. If you need a day your business

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isn't going anywhere he just need a day you know to relax and

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to catch up. I also think it's a great time to do a little spring

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cleaning. There's a reason that spring cleaning term is around.

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It's an awesome time to reset your workspace for me when my I

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think I've said this on here before when my space starts to

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get messy and cluttered from being busy. My inspiration and

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my excitement about being in the office is a downward trajectory

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the messier it gets the less I feel like being in the space so

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it's a nice time to reset your workspace. I recently had sugar

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ants in my car which is extremely awkward to talk about

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I guess on a podcast but I had a really bad sugar at issue in my

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car. It's part of having a child that eats junk food in the

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backseat I guess constantly and little crumbs are building up so

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part of my spring cleaning was attacking the sugar and

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situation I'd like to announce to the world that it's

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officially under control. But I was like my truck is everything.

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I take my truck everywhere. It's got all my work gear In it

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everything and it was like I couldn't get in without being

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covered in sugar in it. So everybody's totally creeped out

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now. You're laughing but it's like a real issue. Okay. And I

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Googled it. And apparently this is a very common thing.

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I am only laughing because I commiserate

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because we have had a sugar an invasion of our own. So somehow

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outside, I don't know how it happened. But outside the front

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door that we never used, there's gotten to be a conglomeration. I

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don't know if they're sugar ants, they're freaking ants, I

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their little tiny ants, little itsy bitsy once. And they have

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they have like, invaded our home. And like they've, they've

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started crawling up into our sink. And I there was one on my

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desk this morning when I came in here, and we keep spraying for

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them. So I totally commiserate with your ant problem. And

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you're gonna have to share your secrets and how you rid your

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life of these ants, because we are battling the ants right now.

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And the little shits are winning.

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All right, well, I, I believe that we are

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probably not the only two people on the planet that have this

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problem. So if you too are suffering from sugar hands,

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please send us a DM and let us know how you handle this

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situation. I also think that this year is a good time, this

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time of year is such a great time to try to complete one of

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those. I'm putting this in air quotes. But you guys can't see

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that. But Kim can if I only had the time activities, try to

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complete one of those if I only had the time activities, how

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many times have you found yourself saying gosh, if I if I

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just had the time, I would sit down and write this book or I

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would you know, record this song or I would do you know a total

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rework of my marketing materials like this is a great time to do

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that, like set that as a goal and set it as a priority and

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feel really good when you knock it out. And then the last thing

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I want to add to sees the slowdown is this is such an

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awesome time of year to really assess where updates are needed

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in your business. Is it time to update your website, your

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marketing materials, maybe you've been holding off doing

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that software update forever, because it takes forever and

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you're worried it's going to crash your computer, now's a

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good time to manage that situation, right? Update your

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client resources, if they're needed, maybe your social media

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descriptions need to be updated. And y'all it's probably time to

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update your bio. If you haven't, this is a beautiful time to do

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that I'm in the process. So this is that's what I want to add to

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seize the slowdown. Kim, do you have anything you want to add to

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that?

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I do? I? Of course I do. How could I not. So

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the title of this episode is maintaining your momentum. And

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I'm gonna tell you from my perspective, there's also

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another thing that I would like to add here and that it's okay

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to coast. So, you know, as an entrepreneur, it's sometimes it

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feels like when you're building your business up, it's like

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climbing a big giant hill, you are going up and up and up and

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up. And you have to take moments and breathe and then you get to

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the top of the hill. And, yes, now is the time to look at the

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next hill. But it also might be the time to just sit down, take

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a Zen moment, breathe and let yourself coast on the progress

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that you've made. That's one of the things that I have enjoyed

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for the last couple of months is that I did make some big changes

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in my business a few years ago. And I did change a lot of the

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things that I was doing that weren't making me happy and to

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things that were and I shifted my business model quite a bit.

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And I was able to actually sit back and really take care of

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myself this spring and coast a little bit on the business karma

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or the progress that I had made prior to that. And I appreciate

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every one of my clients who's been super patient with me

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through this, I promise you I am I'm back in the office and on

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the on the track for getting things done again, but the fact

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that I did all of that work ahead of time made it so nice.

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And you know what I just want to give everyone who's at that

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point where they're at kind of at the top of the hill, just,

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you know, go ahead, take a minute, take a deep breath,

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enjoy the view coast for just a few minutes and enjoy it and

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really, really be present with yourself and with your success.

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It's completely okay that things are going to slow down.

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We never feel like as business owners that that's okay. I mean,

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we're on social media, we're hearing from our other business

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owner friends, you know, in our groups and stuff, and it feels

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like in order to keep your business going, you have to keep

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going and doing all the time. And it's part of that is because

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a lot of us are solopreneurs. And we're the only person and if

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we're not working it, nothing's happening. But the other piece

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of that is we're always feeling like we're in competition. And

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if I decide to take a vacation and take some time off, and I

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don't, for example, if I take a social media break, I feel like

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what does that mean? Like what's happening with my competition?

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Or does that mean that my business isn't being successful

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this week? And I think that we have to give ourselves that,

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okay, and say, it's totally fine. We're not going anywhere.

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Our friend Marcy Joe photography, said to me the

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other day, I said, Oh, I haven't posted in three days. And she

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said, No one is noticing that you're not there. It's when you

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are there that they see you. But they don't say to themselves, I

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haven't seen a post from you know who in a while. It's when

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you're when you do post that they see you. And I think that's

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the truth. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, no one's sitting

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around going, Oh, I haven't seen anything from Fast Horse

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photography this week. I mean, come on, they're following

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10,000 people online, they could care less. So it's totally fine.

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Like you're not hurting anyone's feelings by not being out there

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doing something all the time you're not. And with that being

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said, this is an awesome time to take a social media cleanse, I

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mean, I will tell you, the only downside to doing it is when you

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start, it's really hard to get back into it. I just took a week

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off from social media. And it was really hard. And it almost

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felt sickening to have to like get back on all the platforms

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again and get back to work there, I was really enjoying the

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break, I really want to take a little break, and just enjoy not

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being social for a while.

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Absolutely coast, just enjoy the coast and the

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progress that you've made, and appreciate it and be thankful

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for where you are gratitude wise, as you're standing at the

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top of that hill. Or if you're halfway up it, it's okay to take

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a break too. I mean, I totally agree with all of that. I think

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that our culture just tells us push push, push, push, push, and

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you're not being successful if you aren't pushing, and I'm

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sorry, but the reason we push is so that we can take a break. And

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so push, push, push, take a minute, breathe, and enjoy the

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view. So the third part of what we want to impart today is to

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maintain your momentum to play like you've reached your goals,

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and then celebrate your successes. And I think we've

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talked a little bit about that in this series, The slowdown

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just now. But one of the things that I've noticed in a lot of my

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clients, businesses, as well as my own, not so much now, but in

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the past in particular is I'll set a goal, I'm I'll just throw

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myself under the bus here, but I'll set a goal, then I don't

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feel like I've reached that goal, right. It's a new goal,

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maybe for me, and I haven't, I haven't made as many inroads

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into being able to achieve that goal as I would like. And so I

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don't, I don't fully step into it with confidence, right? I

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don't have a lot of confidence around it. And then I find

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myself when I do that, that at the end of the day, I fall short

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of that goal. And what I want to encourage people to do,

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especially to help maintain momentum in their businesses is

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play like you've already reached the goal. Like if you want to

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add 10 more customers to your business, play like you already

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have those 10 Customers added I work with a lot of people who

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are starting coaching businesses. So I have a great

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many of clientele that are starting into coaching

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businesses, and at the beginning of a coaching business, they

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don't have a full client book. But when they come to me and we

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sit down and we talk about their coaching business, what I

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recommend is that they take a look at their schedule, and I'm

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a big proponent for how do you want to spend your day How do

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you want to spend your week how do you want to spend your year

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and when we look at the day or the week, I'm like, how do you

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want to spend that if it's in a perfect world and everything is

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the way that you want it to be? How many clients do you want to

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see in that week? Well, I want to see six clients every single

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week. Okay, mark out those six client time periods, whether

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they're 30 minutes or an hour or whatever it is, and show up.

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Even if you don't have a client show up, like you're gonna have

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a client be at your desk, be in the barn be wherever it is that

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you see your clients, and spend that time in that space. Like

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you already have those clients. Now on the backside of that you

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got to go after the clients, you can't just just let that drop

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and just hope that they appear in those time periods. The world

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isn't that magical. But what happens in that is because you

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play like you have those clients, like you have a full

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client book, when you have a person approach you and say,

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hey, I want to work with you don't tell them Well, I have all

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of these six slots open, say, Well, I have a coaching slot

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that I think will work for you. And then shuffle around and see

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what would work for them and add them to it. But play like you

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already have that book mostly done like you have filled your

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coaching slots up for the week, and you just have one left to

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fill up. And you'll notice that it really does work in that you

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get in the mindset of you're going to be there at those times

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when you said you were going to coach and you're showing up for

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yourself you're showing up and proving and I know Cara's gonna

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go You're being too woowoo here to the universe, that that that

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that time is perfect for what you've designated it for. So

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don't just say, Oh, I don't have a client this afternoon. So I'm

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going to sit down and watch all my children or something. I

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think all my children is off the air at this point. But I used to

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be addicted to that show. By the way. I've wasted a lot of my my

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early entrepreneurial years watching all my children versus

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seeing clients. I miss all my children. But anyway, so just

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make sure you're focusing on that Kara's laughing Did you

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ever watch any soap operas

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days of our lives? I started with my mother.

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You watched the one after the one I watched a

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nude into college. I was Yeah, I can't use

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came on.

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I was I was definitely all my children was

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always my favorite. I just I loved that show so much.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Well as a 10 year old I think more than two

Cara Taylor Swift:

hours of soap operas was probably plenty and my mother

Cara Taylor Swift:

was probably like, Okay, you need to get outside and play

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now. You've seen Days of Our Lives as the days of our lives.

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She's the things that we did. I don't think

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anybody watches soap operas anymore.

Cara Taylor Swift:

We have reality TV. Yeah, I

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guess we're watching Real Life soap operas.

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So who cares about the made up

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when it's right, it's way more exciting.

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I don't know. I still love the fact that anybody

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could die on all my children and they could come back. They were

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their evil twin or they're identical. At any point,

Cara Taylor Swift:

it was the same thing. We're like, Yep,

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we've really gone down a rabbit hole here. With that being said

Cara Taylor Swift:

it spent a little more time enjoying your soap operas. So if

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the way you want to celebrate your success at

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reaching your goal is to watch your soap opera in the afternoon

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and give yourself that hour. By all means do so. But definitely

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play like you've reached your goals. And when you do reach the

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goal or get close to it, celebrate your progress, for

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God's sakes, take yourself out to whatever makes you happy. And

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it doesn't have to be work related. You know, take the

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staycation take a weekend off and say, you know, I've worked

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really hard, I'm going to take the weekend off. And I'm not

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going to think anything about my business for three whole days.

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I'm gonna just concentrate on self care and my family and my

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animals and just enjoy my life.

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All right. Well, I think that wraps us up

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for today. Ken, what do you think?

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I do? I do. And I think that I hope that well, I

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hope that people have gotten a lot of good out of this because

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I know I have. It's made me feel a whole lot better about where I

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am just talking it out like this and understanding it from the

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perspective of being able to take that break and to

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understand that that momentum will continue.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Absolutely. Well, you know what, we hope

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that this episode helps you guys get through your summertime

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slump and helps you maintain your momentum with your animal

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ours. My hope you guys are having a good summer and we'll

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see you next week.

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