Welcome to episode 51! I’m so glad you’re here today! We’re talking about eliminating chaos as a leader in direct sales.
This is a crucial part of being able to realize your most important, biggest goals for your business and for you personally.
You can find the full transcript at crazybigdreams.biz/51.
The first step is to identify for yourself what chaos looks like in your life and business. I urge you to take a step back to get a true look at how this is showing up for you.
It’s incredibly common, as high achievers, busy moms, and ambitious, successful women to have a high tolerance for chaos. But oftentimes, before we know it, it’s built up and we’ve been a high-functioning leader with an ability to live and work with a good deal of chaos.
Totally normal. Not ideal. Because it’s not sustainable. We get burnt out. We get tired. We start looking for ways to buffer the chaos. We end up just trying to get to the end of the day, to the next appointment, to the upcoming weekend.
Your first step is to identify what the chaos is for you. Both in your life and in your business. Because what chaos feels like for one leader isn’t the same for another. Some thrive in chaos. Others very much do not.
Where is chaos currently showing up for you?
I’m going to ask you to take a look at different areas of your life, your home, and your work. I want you to look at the most common areas this happens for leaders.
As we’re going through these spaces pay attention to how you respond to these examples. Which ones are eliciting the strongest reactions, the most uncomfortable sensations, what’s repelling you? Ready?
The first area: Your home. Where are there physical spaces of chaos? Your entryway? Is it where everybody drops items and goes their separate ways? Is it your office space? Does it capture your personality and does the workspace flow with how you spend your time? Do you feel drawn in and energized when you walk into your workspace?
What about that room in your home, that closet, or the drawers you’re avoiding because it’s a catch-all, it’s cluttered and not organized?
How about the inside of your pantry? The inside of your refrigerator. All of these spaces and places are important because we’re in them every day, multiple times a day. And if we’re not, it’s because we’re avoiding them, like those closets. It hangs over our heads and drains our energy.
Next area: your technology. Is your laptop organized? Is your desktop a catch-all or do you have a system to save and store your documents, downloads, and pictures?
What about your phone? Are you in a chronic state of low storage space? Is the screen cracked? Do you need a new case or protector?
This next one is a big one: Relationships. What relationships in your life hold a space of chaos for you right now? Is it a friendship that occasionally drains you when this person pops into your life?
Or is it a close family member where there’s simply always drama? Maybe there’s a family member that’s left you feeling hurt and disappointed because she or he isn’t capable of giving you what you truly need.
Relationship chaos is a big one. I haven’t worked with anyone that is free from chaos in this area. Know you’re not alone. It can be quite draining to endure relationship chaos. It can also be incredibly freeing to address this type of chaos.
Let’s take a closer look at your business. I already mentioned your office space, both your home office space and your phone.
What about your systems and documents? Are they outdated and need updating?
Do you feel excited about the future of where you’re taking your team? Or do you feel unsettled about the direction you’re leading them? Is there a level of chaos in the direction you envision your team is headed?
What about your company? Is there a big change or a big inefficiency somewhere that’s turning up the chaos meter for you?
I’ve asked you to look at different areas of your work, life, and home. Maybe you feel a little bit of all of these is holding some chaos. You wouldn’t be alone in that.
Don’t sit in overwhelm about this. I want you to identify the one area where when chaos is eliminated here, it would make the biggest measurable and positive difference for you. You have to first identify one, and only one, area of chaos to address.
It could be the easiest one to fix. Or maybe it’s the one contributing the most chaos right now, eliciting the strongest, most uncomfortable response when I brought it up.
Step one is to identify one area of chaos. The second step is to get to work on addressing it. Make a plan. Determine approximately how much time you need to implement your plan. Schedule a day and time you’ll start. It’s simple. It’s not easy.
But you get to start somewhere in one of these areas. The work is worth it. Eliminating chaos is a crucial step in being able to succeed and sustain your efforts and energy in accomplishing that big, most important goal you’re after in your business.
Don’t go it alone. Jump over to Instagram @yourcrazybigdreams and let us know what area you’re experiencing chaos and looking forward to being free of.
The best is yet to come, friend. Always.
