Sometimes you just need to shut the door on something that you once thought was a great idea.

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After a few weeks without publishing a podcast, I have a decent excuse.

No, it's not COVID-19. It's YouTube. I got distracted by achieving my 15 minutes of fame on my YouTube channel. I had a video get 3000 views, and then another one which got 150,000 views.

This forced me to take YouTube more seriously, and to revisit my channel. I found that my topics were broadly under four categories:

technical how-to videos

pricing, marketing and business model

productivity

mindset and motivation

What I discovered was that all of these ended up falling under the broad category of confidence.

That's a theme that I'm developing more, particularly around where people lose energy or fall short of courage.

Listen to the episode and if you want to, have a look at my YouTube channel.

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Are you measuring what really matters are you keeping track of the things that really count or are you getting distracted by indicators that don’t really reflect the situation?

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What if you could turn your disappointments back into something productive? What if you could redirect all that energy you spend beating yourself up, and instead turn it into building yourself up?

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Nine months ago, I recorded a short video for my YouTube channel. It had nearly zero views.

The same video - on How to create a Zoom meeting using Google calendar, has been viewed 3,150 times.

My YouTube channel is currently getting 3000 views a day.

I say this, not to boast, but to show that sometimes you have to plant a seed and have no idea if it will bear fruit, or when that might happen.

The world has now had its rugged pulled out from under it, and we have no option but to adjust our footing. That may mean taking a jump in a direction that we never thought we would.

It could mean revamping your business model, or delivering in a way that you never would have done before.

What are you doing now that you thought you'd never be able to do?

(Need some help with mapping out your business model? Book a call with me.)

Credit: Photo by Sushobhan Badhai on Unsplash

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As we navigate the first few weeks of (re-)building our businesses and getting used to most people staying home, it's a chance for developing some habits.  On our group call today, we spoke about how to build some new habits. What we can learn from a lime tree that has just been transplanted. How you might learn a new skill, such as learning to cook better.  

11:00 What can you learn from the transplant of a lime tree 

22:30 The power of checklists (even if you're not a checklist person!) 

28:20 How boiling an egg can help you build processes 

33:10 The value of doing something badly 

34:30 How to assess risk and opportunities in your business 

38:35 The impact of procrastination 

40:30 "I could never do ... " 

45:40 Why confidence is not a great measure of how you're doing 

46:01 How I got confident on video in 10 minutes 

48:08 How video confidence helped me with writing confidence 

49:10 Why I don't measure success by the number of views or comments I get 

55:00 Switching from "I can't cook" to becoming a more creative cook 

59:30 Atomic Habits by James Clear - working example

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My 9-year-old daughter and I had to clean up the rumpus room (the children's recreation room). Rather than doing it myself, or nagging my daughter, or leaving it undone, I found a better way of doing it by breaking it down into tiny steps.

I think this is a valuable approach, especially for us now as a society, because we're seeing the importance of daily habits.

Another teachable moment I had was with another daughter - she's 12. She transplanted a lime tree on the weekend. I thought of this as a metaphor for what's happening to us.  

Transplanting can put a lot of stress on a tree.  A bit like what's just happened to us all.  

We hope the tree will do well, but most of the improvement will be barely noticeable.  In fact, most of the work is going to happen under the ground.  Just like us.

Pulling a single leaf off the tree won't make much difference.  A bit like a little habit that we miss for a day. Or a sharp word that gets said.  

Each time it happens, it's pulling off just one leaf. No big deal, until so many leaves get pulled off that the tree starts to fight just to survive.  

So, too, we don't see the improvements of tiny, daily improvements. 

Little things.   

😀 a smile.   

✅ a refusal to stress about something we can't control. 

 📆 an appointment kept, even with ourselves.  

⏳ a 15-minute "no-procrastination" date with yourself.  

Step by step. Under the ground. Miss a day? That's just one leaf. It doesn't kill the whole tree.  Limes are on the way.

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Everything looked like it was on the up-and-up, and now this! Just when you thought business was picking up, everything seems lost.

Everything is not lost.

You still have your:

relationships

skills

insights

versatility

And you know how to solve problems.

There are a lot of problems out there right now.

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We got a free coaching group together to help us communicate through COVID-19. 

We talked about how we're managing in the Coronavirus situation. 

Two from Arizona, one from New Jersey who is in lockdown, and myself from Sydney.  People are wondering how we keep coaching through COVID-19, and connecting when the Coronavirus is looming over us.  

Coaching and connecting are still possible!  Watch the group discussion yourself.  

We shared some ideas on how to get through this, and particularly looked at ways of serving others while keeping ourselves safe and not endangering others.

If you want to watch the conversation on YouTube, here it is: https://youtu.be/1FGuHi8QjZY

And if you want to follow the podcast, make sure you subscribe.

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When you're afraid, it's so easy to shut down, isn't it? To turn in on yourself.

But in the darkness, you can also get to see the essential things. What to work on, who you should get in touch with.

Here's an opportunity for a little spring cleaning.

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