Hey there, Cee!
As a business owner, I know it's easy to get overwhelmed. One goal leads to a task list of twenty things, and half of those things lead into rabbit holes and doom scrolling the internet trying to figure out how to accomplish it. (Never mind all the bullshit going on outside your biz.)
At any given time, your two or three goals create a crushing laundry list of things to do, things to learn, things to research, and things to "check into."
It feels like sitting at the bottom of a staircase with hundreds of steps after a long day of hiking. Feeling like you are already so tired, but have so far to go. Every. Single. Day.
But here's the thing: to move forward, you only need to take one step. Just one. Not all 354 steps.
It can be helpful to have the path laid out for you, but if you're anything like me, my spicy neurodivergent brain likes to remind me that following Task #1 is Task #2, Task #3, and Tasks #8961. And that makes Task #1 seem like way too much.
What you probably don't realize is that you are already doing great.
Every day does not need to be perfect. You will not make eleventy billion dollars in sales at every event. Every email you send will not see a 100% open rate. That post you make on social media will not get 1309741 likes and comments.
And that's okay. It's more than okay. It's amazing.
Because going to the event and learning to sell your products is progress.
Because writing and sending that email is progress.
Because snapping that photo and posting it on Instagram is progress.
It's good to have goals. It's not good to use those goals to bash yourself upside the head.
But also? You are probably pushing yourself to standards that weren't made for you.
If you are following traditional business advice, that is not meant for you. It's for able-bodied cis het white men with a supportive partner at home, taking care of every domestic chore and piece of mental and emotional labor.
And if you are chasing productivity hacks, they aren't meant for you either. They're for neurotypical white men, also with a loving spouse at home handling all their day-to-day needs.
The fact of the matter is that these things uphold systems that aren't designed for most of us - they never were and never will be. It's not our job to adapt to the standards. It's our job to create our own.
That means there is no single right answer because we are all different. Out in the world, there is a network of paths that all land in the same place: your success. It only makes sense that it's so fucking overwhelming!
And that is one of the core ideas that influences how I design programs at Modern Soapmaking.
The advice I give you is not cookie-cutter material stripped from the pages of a book or copied from another business coach.
The foundation of every program I teach starts with your individual journey, your unique goals, and your own abilities.
Your first steps always begin with self-awareness and self-honoring planning.
For instance, inside Soapmaker to Moneymaker, our entire first week of the twelve-week program is spent on this journey of checking in with yourself, realigning your goals to your needs, and designing your business for YOU.
And if Soapmaker to Moneymaker is too much for you right now? You need to meet our new Core Compass Club. Every month you get tailored action steps for your specific business at your specific level to help you move towards your goals without feeling like there's a whole staircase ahead of you. And you do it inside a supportive and accepting community of other business owners doing the same intentional work.
(We'd love to see you inside the Core Compass Club as a founding member! Join us today right over here.)
When it comes down to it, rockstar, it makes perfect sense why you're overwhelmed. So stop beating yourself up about it.
Instead, let's focus on the next step and remember that you are doing better than you thought.
Kenna |