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Ep #031 - The Key to Getting Shit Done: Do Less - BS'ing with Brandi

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Welcome to BS’ing with Brandi where my mission is to help you #GetShitDone. I'm your host Brandi Good and today we’re going to talk about how you can’t seem to get all of your shit done and what you can do to stop this problem from happening over and over again.

And what you’re going to notice is that for me, ‘doing less’ actually can mean 3 things:

  • Removing things from your to do list - delete them, move them to a ‘revisit in the future’ bucket
  • Tricking your brain into thinking you’re doing less but breaking down large tasks/projects into tiny steps
  • Outsourcing

    • January/February

    • I started the year with no team members and needed to simplify my 2020 projects - cutting it down to 1 project only!
    • I onboarded a VA agency to help with ongoing internal and client work so I could focus on that project and work more on business development.

      • March

      • I took on a new contract that required many more hours than I’d been giving to my existing clients; I had almost all of those existing clients all launching new websites and courses at the same time; and . . . the pandemic :/
      • March was a big old mess and I’ll 100% admit I almost didn’t make it through the month. I had to take time off at the end just to prevent a meltdown - luckily I have super compassionate clients. Sometimes doing less is just ‘Do nothing. Full stop.’
      • I stopped accepting new clients.


        • April/May

        • My time was not being freed up, and I didn’t want a repeat of March so took a long look at where I was spending my time. Working with the agency had just shifted a lot of my time from ‘doing’ to ‘managing’ so ultimately decided to stop working with them.
        • This meant that I also had to scale back the services I could offer to clients, which I had to make myself OK with.

          • June

          • Spur of the moment - rehired a previous VA who barely needed any onboarding, only needed training on things that were brand new or significantly different. She was a fast learner and a fast do-er, so I finally saw that extra time that I’d been hoping for since January.

            • July/August

            • Launch season again! Most of my clients all decided to launch all at the same time.
            • To prevent the March Meltdown, I did a much better job at prioritizing exactly what tasks were critical for the launches to succeed and moved everything to the backburner.

              • September

              So here we are in Sept, and all of that backburner stuff is catching up with me and I feel like I’m behind on everything. So in this exact moment here are the strategies am I brainstorming and trying out to get through this period

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