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It's Sunny Lenarduzzi.
Welcome to the Sunny Show for the bright side of branding, business and being your own boss.
Sometimes when you're running a business and also trying to have a life, it seems like
there aren't enough hours in the day, but I'm telling you, recovering workaholic, that
it's possible to have both.
You just need to have a few secret weapons in your arsenal to make it actually happen.
In this video, I'm gonna share my three secrets for how I get shit done every day.
Secret number one is my routines.
I am such a big believer in daily routines, and my morning routine, I swear, is one of
the biggest reasons why I can get so much done in the day and why I feel so productive.
So here's how I break down my morning routine.
First thing is, wake up at 6:30 and I figure out my "why."
So, my "why" is my goals.
So I've written out all of my goals for he year, and if you haven't watched it yet I
have a whole video on how to set goals that stick, and you can find that below this video.
I then meditate and get really and just focus on my breath before I touch any technology
or even get out of bed, 'cause I wanna make sure that I'm on my time, not anybody else's
time.
The next thing I do is, I name three things that I'm grateful for, so I always start the
day with a positive mindset.
The next thing and the final thing is get up and get moving.
So, I always do exercise.
Well, I try to always do exercise first thing in the morning, because I know if I don't
do it first thing in the morning, I'm gonna get busy and probably not do it for the rest
of the day, and then I won't feel very good about myself or about how productive I was
that day.
For my nighttime routine, one of the biggest keys for being productive for me is, I write
down my to-do list for the next day, and I highlight the top three things I have to get
done the next day.
Those are my non-negotiables.
If I don't get those done, I'm not gonna feel like I actually accomplished what I need to
accomplish, and it keeps me focused on the major tasks at hand as opposed to getting
distracted by all those little things that I need to do.
So, I know that I'll wake up the next day with a plan and exactly what I need to do,
and get those three big projects tackled first thing in the morning.
Secret number two is prioritize.
I'm not perfect.
Nobody's perfect, but I try to put my main priorities at the top of my to-do list and
my schedule for each day.
To be perfectly honest, my two non-negotiables every single day are to eat three healthy
meals and to exercise.
If I don't do those things, I'm not gonna feel good, and so I'm not gonna do my best
work.
So those are my absolute non-negotiables every day, and then I also prioritize ... And this
might sound selfish, but I'm okay with it ... I prefer to refer to it as self-love.
It's putting myself first.
So, every morning when I wake up I give myself at least an hour of not touching my phone.
Because, as I kind of mentioned before, if I go on my phone first thing in the morning
and I'm checking Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and my email, I'm getting requests
and comments and sometimes not so nice things sent to me, and that's how my day starts off.
So, it's starting off on a reactive note, as opposed to a proactive note, and on my
time, in my schedule, and being product, and actually getting what I want to get done that
day as opposed to reacting to everything else going on.
So, those are the keys to me to prioritizing my day, but other little things that I do
that really help are scheduling.
I schedule content ahead of time, so it frees up space for me on a day-to-day basis, both
mentally and also just for my time-wise, to focus on, like I said, the major projects
I need to get done.
So, scheduling content on Facebook and Twitter and even on Instagram well in advance, allows
me to not have to think about that content and what I wanna post on a day-to-day basis,
so that's another main key to being super productive every day.
Then, finally, this is a little secret that I always share when people ask about my productivity.
Email.
Email's such a time suck, as I mention, and so I try to save three blocks in the day for
when I actually check email, so I'm not constantly on it and constantly reacting to everybody
else instead of getting my shit done.
So, basically I block off 9:00 a.m., noon, and 5:00 p.m. to go into my email, check them
and respond to anything that's urgent, and I don't try and tackle everything at once.
If there's a million messages in there, I only go through and tackle the things that
need to be responded to in that moment.
But, yeah.
Trying to block off specific times during the day, three times a day, to check your
email, as opposed to constantly having it open will change your life.
Secret number three is ask for help.
Believe me, this took me a long time to learn, but I'm so glad that it finally knocked me
over the head and I actually did it.
So, the first step to asking for help, if you're in a position to, is hire a team.
And I did not feel like I was ready when I did hire my first team member, but I just
made the leap and it worked out.
Here's how you kind of have to think about it.
The moment you bring somebody on to help you in your business, you're actually investing
in the growth of your business, because you're gonna hit a wall and you're gonna hit a ceiling
if you continue to run things completely by yourself.
So, see team members and hires as an investment in your growth as a business,.
The other thing is, if you aren't quite ready to hire someone on full-time, outsource the
smaller tasks, I.e., video editing, managing your schedule.
You can do these things through Fiverr, it's a great resource, or Upwork, where you can
hire freelancers to do these little jobs for you, or hire for example, a graphic designer
on a regular basis, on a project by project basis as opposed to full-time.
Finally, having some systems and some processes for what you do on a day-to-day basis, a week-to-week
basis and a month-to-month basis set up in your business will save you so much time.
As much as you can, try and anticipate what is coming up and what projects you're gonna
have to work on, and create work back schedules for yourself so you know what needs to be
done by when, and you're not trying to figure it out on the fly, because that can drive
you crazy and also waste a lot of your time.
Now, here are a few of my secret weapons for actually getting this shit done on a day-to-day
basis.
The first one is Asana.
It's a project management system, and it also allows us to coordinate as a team and assign
different projects and tasks to different members of our team.
It is a godsend.
Seriously, start using Asana as soon as you possibly can.
The next thing is Hootsuite.
We use Hootsuite to schedule a lot of our content in advance, even months in advance
so we don't have to think about it.
iCal is what I use to manage my calendar and make sure that I have everything set up ahead
of time and have a clear view of what's coming, as far as events, speaking engagements, launches
... They're all there in front of me.
On top of that, we use a content calendar to plan our content even a year in advance
sometime, so again, we can anticipate what's coming and work back from there.
So, you now understand how I get shit done on a day-to-day basis, but you may want to
use this content calendar to get you up and running with these processes and these system,
so I've put a link below this video to explain how to use the content calendar in a video
tutorial that I created, and I also have a link to download my content calendar template
so that you can use it for your business.
If you're feeling frustrated and alone as an entrepreneur, or in your business, make
sure you join the Be Your Own Boss Mastermind group on Facebook, which is full of thousands
of entrepreneurs all over the world sharing tips and tricks and strategies to get stuff
done every single day and also to grow their businesses on their terms.
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Thanks for watching!