Are You Doing the Right Things?

What I see over and over again in coaching my entrepreneurial clients is that in order to truly succeed on the grand scale there has to happen a shift in HOW they work on their business. It is a shift from doing that they elect to do on daily basis to doing what truly needs to be accomplished in order to build the kind of company they dream of. There is a huge difference. I see many entrepreneurs who know perfectly well what really needs to happen to move their business forward the way they want to. Nevertheless, they spend a lot of time on activities that seemingly are related to their business, but don’t produce the needed breakthroughs. You know, like endlessly researching things, organizing, preparing, getting back to, responding, inquiring, etc…. I agree that there is time and place (or maybe even someone else?) for these, what I call, “peripheral” business activities. But if they consume your whole day or your whole week, you will feel like you are spinning your wheels and not going anywhere.

So how do you make this shift from the “peripheral” to the “core” activities? First, you have to clearly state what your core issues and actions are. Second, you have to treat them as your core actions when you plan your day or your week. This means that you either do them first before you touch anything in the peripheral list or you allocate and schedule adequate time for them. Third, you have to acknowledge and address your mindset around your core activities. Let’s face it: why you haven’t been doing what you really needed for your business has to do with you mindset, your beliefs and fears. Noting and acknowledging your beliefs fears gives them a chance to go away.

Today I invite you to put your attention of your daily activities and discern between core and peripheral things. Then decide what kind of balance between the two would be really healthy for you and your business. Schedule your time accordingly. When your fears show up in form of excuses simply notice and acknowledge them for what they are. They just might clear out of the way.

Be well,
Margaret Moczkowski/Evolved Business Coach
Momentum Coaching

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a free Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Action Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html

You Are 100% Attractive

Yes, yes, YOU! You are the one I'm talking to, the attractive, irresistible YOU. You are the magnet that attracts all things, people, events, opportunities, and, yes, sometimes even the "bad" things, to your life. Look around you - you are surrounded by everything you have attracted.

How we are inside, what we believe in shows up of the outside. The Universe serves us exactly what we have ordered with our thoughts and beliefs, and it always is exactly what we need. Even if we don't happen to agree at the moment. The Law of Attraction, for better and for worse, governs life unconditionally. So what do you do when you understand it? How do you work with it for your highest good?

Every morning I like to remind myself that I'm 100% attractive. First of all, it puts me in a really good mood. Second, it allows me to check with myself how I am that day, screen for any obstacles holding me back, check for my internal alignment with my grand life and business vision. Simply saying to myself that I am 100% attractive quickly cleans up any little internal messes, makes me sit up straight, puts a smile on my face, lets me relax into the present moment, do my best, and expect the greatest outcome.

Today I invite you to simply remind yourself gently a few times a day that YOU are 100% attractive. Check with you grand life and business vision and see if you need a little realignment in your thoughts and beliefs. Then put yourself in the open, receiving mode, do your best, and attract what you truly want.

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a free Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Action Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html

Survive Email and Prosper

A week ago I finally came clean and admitted to myself that I was an email addict. I found myself checking my email about 20 times a day, whenever I (thought) I had a minute, before starting any new project or task (to get mentally ready for it), in the middle (to take a break of course), at the end (to relax), etc. I was especially vulnerable in times when I had big and scary projects to work on. At some point it seemed like checking and responding to email became my life highest priority. Big projects were progressing slowly but I was all caught up with my emails. And that somehow didn’t feel like a huge accomplishment. At last I looked at how much time and energy I was wasting on reading and responding to things very irrelevant to my life and business vision. It also became clear how distracted I felt most of my days. I only work four days a week, seven hours a day, I love it, and I don’t intend to change it anytime soon. So I really want to work efficiently and on things the most relevant to my vision.

Could you possibly relate? If so, read on.

So I bravely decided to really evolve my relationship to email. Here it is: I’m committed to checking and responding to email for 5 minutes at the beginning of my day (around 7 AM), then at the start of my work day (9 AM) for 15 minutes at noon, and for 5 minutes at the end (4 PM). Specific times of the day give me reassurance that nothing important slips through cracks, and allowing myself certain amounts of time permits me to read and respond to things really requiring my attention. Of course there are also some specific project coming through email that require more time than just five minutes, and these I schedule in my planner at appropriate times so I don’t feel the urge to respond right away if it’s not an emergency. And I have rarely seen any emergencies coming through email.

It might sound to put so much structure to something seemingly so insignificant as email habits but believe me I needed it. And I know that what I’m telling you here is not a discovery of America and it’s raelly basic time management stuff, but, if it’s so obvious and easy, why so many of us suffer from it?

I’ve been sticking to my new routine for the past week, it works, and I love it! I found myself being much more focused. And I get important things done.

So for all of you fellow email addicts: If you feel in your gut that your email habits might be standing a bit in a way to your highest good, I offer you my love, understanding and support. And I invite you to create a structure that would work for YOU to get yourself back on track to YOUR greatness.

Let me know how it’s going.

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a free Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Actio Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html

Be well,

Margaret Moczkowski/Evolved Business Coach
Momentum Coaching
http://www.momentumcoach.net/

Take A Stand, Entrepreneur!

"When we take a stand, we can move the world - the world of ideas and people who act on them. Taking a stand is a way of living and being that draws on a place within yourself that is at the very heart of who you are. When you take a stand, it gives you authenticity, power, and clarity. You find your place in the universe, and you have the capacity to move the world." Lynne Twist "The Soul of Money"
What do you stand for in life, in business? Take a deep breath before you answer. What do you stand for?
It's an empowering practice to remind ourselves what we stand for. It connects us to our business on a much more powerful level. All of a sudden we remember the bigger why of doing what we chose to do.
Notice how different it is to take a stand from simply taking a position. Taking a position immediately disconnect you from the rest, you find yourself against something, in opposition to one idea over the other. When, on the other hand, you stand for something, it reconnects you back to the universe and you find yourself in a good and rightful place. So take a stand. Whatever actions you have to take in your business today, even the most mundane, remind yourself of the stand you are taking. And you just might find these actions easier, more joyful, more authentic to you.

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a free Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Actio Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html

Be well,
Margaret Moczkowski/Business Coach
Momentum Coaching
www.momentumcoach.net