How do you navigate a big change in your schedule? When kids get sick when they break for the summer when it’s a holiday? Maybe if you’re welcoming a new baby or you have a parent moving in with you.
Whether you know a big schedule change is coming, or whether it’s something completely unexpected, it serves you well to take a minute to regroup.
Today I’ll give you the TOP FOUR STRATEGIES other high-achievers in direct sales use when they regroup for a schedule change.
In an ideal world, it will serve you well to embrace the fact that your schedule is going to change. Get yourself to a place of acceptance.
And if you’re simply stuck in a place of resistance and dread, if you’re fearing the impact the schedule change will have on your business, know this is something almost every leader has to navigate.
Go ahead and let the process of working through these 4 strategies help you get unstuck. Know that your business doesn’t have to stay the same. This schedule change can enhance it in ways you possibly didn’t see before.
You’re about to get creative. Creativity can unlock ideas that you weren’t looking for otherwise.
A change in schedule can invite needed change elsewhere. Schedule changes typically force us to spend less time on our business. This always results in efficiencies. I promise you!
Four Strategies To Navigate Less Time In Your Direct Sales Business
Strategy number one: Priorities.
Take a fresh look at your priorities. Like really, is everything on your schedule that you’ve been doing, something you have to continue to do?
Maybe it still needs to get done, but who else can do it? Take a fresh look and truly sit with each thing.
Do you really need to start that home remodel? Do you really need to take that trip just because you have every year? Do you? And maybe these are the two priorities you want to move other things around for.
What are three to five most important things that you personally need to have as a priority?
Quality time with your kiddos? Spouse or partner?
Opening time for travel?
And what about a big business objective!? Yes, this can and likely needs to stay as a priority. Great! I promise you, you will be more efficient with even less time.
What Are Your Personal Priorities As A High-Achiever In Direct Sales?
Strategy number two: Create a “fun” list.
What’s a fun list? It’s a list of events, experiences, things to do, places to see, people to visit, and food to enjoy. Keep your mind open to things that don’t cost money.
What are the fun things you want to do in the near future?
This list will include fun your kids want to have (with or without you). Include them when you create the list.
Create a “fun” list for yourself!
Create a fun list for you and your partner/spouse/or friend.
And especially, create a fun list for your business. Something you get to look forward to during the coming weeks or months that help keep a spring in your step, and help you jump out of bed each morning, as you navigate this schedule change.
Having something each of you is looking forward to helps create a buzz of energy and forward momentum when you feel unsure about how this schedule change will have an impact. It helps the fear fade away.
Strategy number three: Decide what you can let go of.
Something may have to give. Or maybe it doesn’t have to, but remember a change in schedule can invite needed change elsewhere. Change we’ve been putting off. There are things that can stay with us that are simply there out of habit.
Let this change in schedule help you look at everything with a new set of glasses. Remember, if you let go of something in your schedule, it doesn’t have to be forever. You can always bring it back in when there’s room and desire.
Finally, strategy number four: Determine what resources and help you need in order to implement these strategies.
Who can you call on to step in or step up?
What tools or resources do you need to make this shift in schedule possible and dare I say enjoyable?!
This is a time to get creative! Keep an open mind to how you navigate this change in schedule.
You may end up enjoying not only the impact it has on life and business but you may also keep a lot of what you implemented.
It’s my hope that you’re feeling a lot less stuck and resistant to your next schedule change and you feel empowered with these strategies!
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Because the best is yet to come, friend. Always.
