In this episode, Sarah Thomson discusses the importance of setting boundaries and improving productivity in your business. She emphasizes the need to reassess goals and plans for the final quarter of the year and shares her own strategies for managing time and energy. Sarah also highlights the impact of good boundaries on overall well-being and offers practical tips for tracking time and structuring workdays.
Key Takeaways:
- It is crucial to set intentions and reassess goals for the final quarter of the year to avoid rolling into the new year without a plan.
- Good boundaries are essential for protecting health, energy, and overall well-being in business.
- Time tracking is a valuable exercise to understand how time is spent and identify areas for improvement in productivity.
- Setting aside dedicated time for working on business goals, such as a CEO day, can lead to significant growth and progress.
- Outsourcing tasks, even with a few hours of virtual assistant support, can alleviate overwhelm and free up time for more important activities.
Quotes:
- "If you don't start to do some of this planning now, it will get to December, and we just kind of roll into the new year without any plans or thoughts or ideas on what that is going to look like for ourselves and our business." - Sarah Thomson
- "If you do too much, you burn yourself out. You're exhausted, you get sick for a long period of time. That is all going to have a massively detrimental impact on your business." - Sarah Thomson
- "The easy way to start outsourcing is with a virtual assistant with just a few hours a week of support." - Sarah Thomson
- "There is nothing, how do I describe it? There is no magic behind the curtain when it comes to achieving growth and attaining the goals in your business. It is nothing sexy or special. It is simply a matter of setting aside time, preferably every single week, to work on those." - Sarah Thomson
- "We do not get anything back. This is not a do over. This is our one time to do the things we want to do." - Sarah Thomson
