Make Your Biz Plan Fit Your Life Plan... Not The Other Way Around

[00:00:00] Hi everyone! Thanks for joining me on my Elev8 podcast. So in addition to the awesome interviews, a few times a week I come on here just to share some quick thoughts and tips I think will really help you in a practical way.

[00:00:14] Either your business, your mindset or even your health. So while you're waiting for your Starbucks or picking up the kids or maybe just brushing your teeth, these are good quick hits to help you get on your way.

[00:00:25] Happy almost New Year everyone! We're not quite to New Year's Eve but we're inching up on it. In anticipation of that, today's quick hit I wanted to re-release something that I thought was so, so timely for this.

[00:00:40] So when we're going back through this last year of podcasting, my team and I were looking over all of the data, so many downloads. Thank you all for listening and supporting me and sharing and reviewing. I really, really appreciate it.

[00:00:55] It was super interesting going through the trends of what was resonating and hitting for you guys, what things get most downloaded.

[00:01:03] And one of them that was a top three was a quick hit I recorded way back at the beginning of the year and it was titled Make Your Business Plan Fit Your Life.

[00:01:11] As opposed to the opposite way around, which is try to squeeze your life in around your business or your business plan.

[00:01:17] And so as we're at that time of year where we're reviewing this last year, we're thinking about what worked, what didn't work, what was awesome about this last year.

[00:01:24] And we're forecasting or vision casting or planning or goal setting or whatever language you put around it, what we do this time of year for next year.

[00:01:33] I just thought it would be so good to re-release this. It's truly a quick hit. It's just a few minutes but it really is so, so important you guys.

[00:01:42] You get one beautiful life, one, one time around or if you think you're reincarnate, you're in this one time around.

[00:01:49] But right now you have this beautiful, beautiful life and we can easily get distracted and get so focused on the numbers and the goals and the metrics and the KPIs and all the things that we forget that we're living a life, those daily things.

[00:02:07] They are a part of it, but we have the rest of it. The human connection, the health, the things that bring us joy, the play. I mean what are we working for really? What is it all for? So please take a few minutes, listen to this quick hit.

[00:02:24] I hope you have a phenomenal New Year's Eve, a really beautiful New Year's. I'm wishing you all the absolute best and I will be seeing you soon in 2023. So crazy to see that. Happy, happy New Year's to guys. See you soon.

[00:02:41] I had the best day yesterday, Wednesday. This might be dropping on not a Thursday but I had a best day yesterday, Wednesday because I literally took the day off, went and scooped up my brother and my little baby three-year-old niece

[00:02:57] and headed to the ski mountains and hung out and played all day.

[00:03:01] And it was awesome. And I was thinking to myself this morning as I was selecting on my day how glad I am that I decided to get super intentional about building my life that I wanted first

[00:03:15] and then creating a business that supported that. So today I want to talk to you about the idea of deciding to build a life plan first, then a business as opposed to sitting a business in motion and then trying to fit your life in around it.

[00:03:32] So what does this all mean? And how did I come to this? Most of you guys know I had a pretty pivotal period of time in my life where I got real sick, right?

[00:03:43] So I was checked out, things got turned upside down. All of a sudden it was not in the day-to-day life and it went on for a long time, like years.

[00:03:53] So during that time I sort of watched life go by and I watched people, you know, my friends, my husband obviously, family. I saw how they were operating their life and I noticed that there were two distinct camps.

[00:04:06] There were the people who were intentional and they had a great life and a business was a part of that. And then there were the people that had incredible business lives but life, general life, just sort of got sandwiched around it and got the leftovers.

[00:04:19] And this light bulb went out of my mind and I was like, you know what? When I am better and when I'm creating this second half of my life, which as you know I've coined the second half best half, I am going to do things a little differently.

[00:04:32] I am going to take the path that I'm watching these people doing, which is they've decided what life they want and then they made their business work around that.

[00:04:40] So I'm proposing that idea to all of you today, whether you are starting something new or maybe you're in the middle of something and maybe you're feeling like, hey, this just isn't working for me.

[00:04:51] Like again in the real estate space in this crazy market, I know there's a lot of you that are making a ton of money but you're feeling like your life part is a little out of whack.

[00:04:59] So maybe it's time for like a pause and asking some big questions. Some of the questions that I asked when I was thinking about this building my life plan first was what kind of boundaries do I want on my time? When can I turn off my phone?

[00:05:15] Doesn't matter if I'm available by phone. Could I build a business where that wasn't part of it and it would still be successful? How much do I want to travel? Where do I want to travel? Do I want to take certain days off?

[00:05:27] Do I want to be able to take a Wednesday off and go skiing and it does zero impact on my business? Do I want to work remotely?

[00:05:36] Do I want to create it so that I start my day a little later or end it a little earlier so that I can have my personal routine which you all know is super important to me? How do I want to dress? You'd laugh.

[00:05:48] Today I'm still kind of having a little bit of the afterglow of this mountain experience so I have my hair and braids. It is a little Snoop Dogg-esque which I love Snoop but I don't know. This isn't a good look for a girl honestly.

[00:06:00] But I've got a trucker hat on and I'm just kind of casual and this is how I'm going to work today. It doesn't matter the people that I'm surrounding myself with and the calendar that I have for today, it supports that.

[00:06:10] What kind of people do you want to be around? Who do you want to be around? For me I wanted to be around people that I really really liked.

[00:06:18] I wanted to build a business that was super collaborative and I was kind of excited about the idea of bringing a lot more women along for the ride with me. And then lastly, does it matter if you have impact or not?

[00:06:28] I've talked about a lot of the journey of me landing where I wanted to be and one of the pieces of that is that I wanted to have positive impact.

[00:06:36] It doesn't mean that that's what you should do but that was an important thing for me for my why. So as you're creating these big audacious business goals, and of course I'm a huge fan of that, they're going to have a lot of schedule and demand around that.

[00:06:52] So I would just challenge you or encourage you, whatever you spawn to better. Some people like a challenge, other people like an encouragement, to really think about what is the life you want to create?

[00:07:03] What does that look like with your family and your health and your friendships and your fun time? You know, get those rocks in place first and then build the business around it. And by the way, it is possible to do both. There's always give and take.

[00:07:19] You're given a little more here and a take a little bit there. But what I know is this, life tends to just happen if we're not intentional. So add those big questions in and really think about the end goal too.

[00:07:32] Is this something where you're sprinting and you want to build something? Or is it something where, you know, I want to be doing this when I'm 60, 70, 80 and there's different chapters of it.

[00:07:41] But I'm going to build this as a platform to go on to the next thing and the next thing. What could that business evolve into? Make your business fit your life, not the other way around. You guys, you get one beautiful precious life. Make it yours. Be unapologetic.

[00:08:01] Do it your way. You can have a beautiful life and a beautiful business. It's going to take a little bit of work. It's going to take a lot of intention. You might have to pivot now and then, but it is all possible. Don't settle.

[00:08:14] I'll see you next week.