Get Shit Done Day

Hello and good morning, Katie. I'm Katie McManus, business strategist and money mindset coach for ADHD entrepreneurs, coming to you live today on The Facebooks, on LinkedIn, on YouTube, Twitter X and on Instagram. Over here on my phone, which you can kind of see in the corner of the screen over here. It is. It is a magical day in my world. So, okay, so I want to little housekeeping first. If you comment and you're coming from a place other than LinkedIn, sometimes the comment. The comments don't all come to me. Hi, Rohit. Welcome. So if you comment and I ignore you unless you said something really rude, it's just the technology not working. Okay. It's not me ignoring you. I promise if you do say something rude, then we'll have another conversation, but I don't think we'll have any issues that. Anyway, I wanted to go live and tell you a little bit about what I'm spending today doing because I think it's a great reminder for anyone who's running your own business to take time to get done. Hi, Laura. Welcome, Rohit. Oh, you're funny. Yeah, I'm in workout clothes. I'm gonna be going and working out in a little bit after I get some stuff done, but I'll be talking through my itinerary for the day. So when we. So when we run our businesses, we tend to get into very reactionary mode, right? Because we have this endless, endless to do list. This is like a fraction of my to do list. Oh, no, something fell out anyway. That's important. I can't let that fall out anyway. So we tend to just react and just do and try to chip away at that list endlessly. And if you're anything like me, and if you're anything like my clients, you know the feeling of having a brilliant idea, like just an amazing idea. And maybe you jot it down. Maybe you kind of like go into it. Hi, David. And hi, Sahil. I'm pronouncing your name correctly. Anyway, so we go into, like this. This amazing idea mode. We jot it down. We're like, cool, I'll get to that later. I'll touch that sometime. Like when I have time, I'll really get into it. Right. But best case scenario, it's still kicking around on a piece of paper and you remember it. Best case scenario, like you magically have a free afternoon, you actually get to it. Do I have to say this? Life is not always the best case scenario. Oftentimes the good idea loses its juice. Before you actually get to it, if you remember it. And sometimes you just kind of forget about it, just kind of fades into the background of your life along with all the other good ideas that have come to you and died with you. Right, we see. Kimmy. Yes. Yes. You know the feeling ideas are jotted. Yes. Yep. Yeah, they get jotted down and forgotten about. It's really sad. Hi, Sahil. Anyway, we can't do that. And so this whole idea of an innovation day, this get shit done day, it actually came from one of my incredible clients in my build your own business group program. He was describing just that. He was describing, like, just having too much to do. Client calls, sales calls, doing research, doing all this stuff and thinking, okay, well, I have this brilliant idea. When do I get to go and do it? There's no time. Right? And so one of the things that I assigned to him, and it was one of those moments where I'm like, assigning work to one of my clients and I'm like, oh, my God, I need to be doing this. I don't do this. Like. And if you're a coach, you know this feeling if you're. I mean, if you do any kind of service where you're giving advice to your clients because you have an expertise here, you know this feeling of being like, oh, my God, like, I really need to walk my talk. So, anyway, so today is my innovation day. It's my get shit done day. And I want to talk you through exactly how I'm approaching this as an entrepreneur with adhd. Okay? Because there are. There are very particular challenges that happen for those of us who get distracted, who have a lot of things on our plates, and also who have inconsistent dopamine. We need to hack it. Right? Jason, My to do list is effectively a good idea graveyard. Jot it down. It gets forgotten in the amongst and amongst all the crap. Yeah, yeah, that happens. But, like, isn't that sad? Isn't that so sad? Because I'm sure, Jason, you have incredible ideas and those ideas could be turned into just amazing like, like, programs for your clients or marketing ideas, and they could have real impact in the world. Right? And I know. I know some of my ideas too. So I want to walk you through exactly how you can approach your own innovation day, your own get done day, especially if you have adhd. Okay? So let's talk through having ADHD first. All right? So when you are planning on having a creative day, the number one most important thing is you need to have enough sleep. Okay? I know, Jorn. I have ADHD too. Welcome to the club, dude. Yeah, this is. You're with your people right now. Hence, I'm very interested in how you approach this day. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, cool. So let's talk through it. So when you have adhd, you need to have enough sleep. So I know you're, you're thinking, okay, well, this is a day that is carved aside. Let me see, let me see. You need emotional people around when you have ideas. Yeah, that can absolutely help. Let me see. And. Hi, Jake, welcome. Hi. So where was I? So. Oh, yeah. So when you have ADHD and you want to create, carve out a whole day to get work done, to be creative and all things, it's gonna feel counterintuitive to let yourself sleep in. Okay. Hi, Nate, welcome. Oh, my God, you have the cutest baby. Hello. It's gonna feel counterintuitive to not set an alarm to let yourself sleep in a little bit. But let me tell you, it's going to make the biggest difference because a well rested brain has far more capabilities of making random connections to random than a tired brain. Right? We all know this, all right? We, we tend to get our most creative ideas. We tend to be able to get the most done when we are well rested. I think a lot of us are of the age right now where we're kind of. We grow. Grew up in this time where sleep deprivation was like a badge of honor. Right? That whole saying like, I'll sleep when I'm dead was a thing. And really the studies that they're doing right now around sleep are just incredible. They did a study or they did like a whole. I don't know if it was like a proper study or if they just interviewed a bunch of people who played the violin. So professional violinists who slept less than seven hours a night played worse over time than violinist violinists who slept eight plus hours a night and got at least two hours of napping time per week. Okay. The violinists who slept more practiced less than the violinists who slept less than seven hours a night. Now that's like an hour difference at the. At the least. Okay? So that is how important sleep is to your brain. If you want to deliver good work, if you want to put good work out there, you need to be well rested. Okay? So giving yourself some time to sleep is going to be so important. And I want to shout out, Andrew Stout, good morning from Canada. Let me see. It can create new neural pathways at a fast pace. Yeah, exactly. Your brain has a lot more elasticity after sleep. Exactly. And hi, Nor. And hello. Welcome. Anyway, I had another thought. This is an ADHD brain happening when I've already, like, been spinning in creative ideas, just so you know. So, okay, so you've given yourself enough sleep. You want to caffeinate, you want to hydrate, you want to eat something. You want to also give yourself some quick wins, all right? Because you don't have consistent dopamine, right? So if you don't have enough dopamine in your system, are you really going to be able to tackle any big projects that have to do with these creative ideas you have? Probably not. Okay? You're probably going to look at it and get kicked into executive dysfunction, and then you're going to start punishing yourself for not getting anything done with the state that you set aside, and you're going to start this downward spiral and it's just going to end badly with you sitting at your desk at 9pm that night, having gotten nothing done and feeling like garbage. And we don't want that for you. Right? So first and foremost, I know this is your day to be creative, but you need to get some shit done. All right? So we know as people with adhd, we cannot eat the frog. Okay? When I say that, I mean we have a very hard time doing the hardest thing first thing in the morning. Okay? We need to do some simple things. We need to cross off some easy wins from our list first thing in the morning. That's how we get that dopamine drip going. For me, going live is one of those things. You may not feel the same way, but when I go live, I make very little notes. I do most of it through improv. And for me, it's. It's like the easiest thing for me to cross off. Okay? It also establishes I've posted like, once I've gone live, I've literally posted to all the social media platforms that I'm on, except for Tick Tock. Right? Because you can. I haven't hit a thousand followers on Tick Tock yet and they won't let me. It's really sad. Anyway, that's a story for another day. If you want to go follow me on Tick Tock, then it's KT K A T I E dot K D H D. Clever, I know. Anyway, so you want to give yourself some easy wins. So for me, my three quick wins that I'm giving myself to do this morning. So I have until noon to do it. It's 10:30 now. I need to write my emails, my newsletter emails, that need to go out this week and next week. I also need to write some quick emails that will remind people of the webinar that I'm doing tomorrow. If you haven't registered for it then I will be posting about it later today. It's all about how to post vulnerably on social media when you're not comfortable posting vulnerably. All right, vulnerabilities on the spectrum and you get to choose how much of your information about your life you want to share with people. Hi David, welcome. And anyway, so I have to post about that. I need to write about that, I need to send the emails out for that. I also have another webinar that I'm doing next Saturday that I want to at least get scheduled and get the link up. If you are thinking about doing webinars in your business and you think oh my God, it has to be like this long drawn out process and I have to plan. I have to make like a 20 page PowerPoint. No you don't. No you don't. You can do a pop up training tomorrow, you can do one tonight. You can do something without any PowerPoint slides. I have to tell you like the webinars that I've done with PowerPoint slides never get me clients. I never get clients from those. The webinars that I do where it's just like a zoom meeting where we're just talking and I'm sharing some information and I'm like involving people in the conversation. Those always get people who want to sign up for my programs. Don't overthink it. Just put yourself out there. People cannot give you their money if they don't know that you exist and that you can help their solve their problems. Anyway, that's a little side note. Let me see, let me see. Hold on. I'm behind on the. Oh my God. Sudeep. I hope I'm pronouncing your name correctly. Welcome. Good morning. Brain needs constant stimulus. Yeah, I know, it's the ADHD challenge is real meaning energy for constant stimulus. Yep. Jorn, really sad. I'm not sure what's sad. I can't remember. I mean it's the violinist story. Rohit, you don't need to do anything before you are happy to start your day. Okay, I'm not sure what that means, but sure. Yeah. Not very scientific but I complete wordle in one or two less goes when I have eight hours sleep. This is based on two weeks of research PhD income. I love it but it's so true. It's so true. Our brains really do function better when we have sleep, and yet we rob ourselves of sleep all the time. Sleep is so important. Seriously, like, if you think you're going to get more done by robbing yourself of two hours of sleep a night, you are actually setting yourself up to take way more time to do simple tasks and to fall way further behind. And you're also going to harm your body literally in the process. Okay, don't do that. So, okay, so for your innovation day, let me see. How do you turn your brain off to sleep? Oh, that's a great question. So I do a couple things. So I have, I have some, like, books on tape and some TV shows or movies that, like, I've watched or listened to enough that I know the storyline. So, like the whole Harry Potter series. Okay. Like, all the books. I. I have listened to the books on tape so much, especially the Jim Dale ones, like, oh, my God, he's incredible. You know, Good omens. The Hunt for October. You want to find stuff that, like, is engaging enough in story that you can pay attention to it, but doesn't have, like, a lot of really, like, high stress, anxious moments that you're like, I gotta stay awake to listen or watch this. And that you're familiar enough with so you can kind of like, go along with the story, knowing what's coming. Honestly, I have. I play those to fall asleep too. For people with adhd, falling asleep is really challenging because, like, our brain goes at a million miles a minute. If you haven't read the book. Building a story brand, where is it? I have it somewhere. Donald Miller talks about the only time our brains actually turn off is when we're engaged in story. Okay? It's the only time that we're not daydreaming or we don't have that, like, commentary of, like, all the shit that we need to do that day. When we use story and we harness it to help us sleep and we harness it to help us decompress, it is a absolute game changer for people with adhd. Okay. Because really, like, our brains work so hard throughout the day to make all these, like, insane connections. And it's one of the reasons why we are so creative and why we are such great problem solvers. And it also takes a lot more energy. So I'm a big fan of those. I'm also a big fan of, like, visualizations and doing, like, body meditations, which means, like, you, like, purposely tense your muscles, like, and you kind of go throughout your body and then relax them, if that helps. I hope it does. Anyway, that's how I fall asleep and that's how I turn my brain off to sleep. But I'm happy to give you more ideas if you want. Anyway, back to the innovation day. So we have given ourselves sleep, we have hydrated, we have caffeinated, we have eaten, we've given ourselves some quick wins. Now you need to go move your body. You have to go and move your body. So I have scheduled my day out. I'm going to go and get some stuff done. First and foremost, I'm going to give myself that dopamine hit. I'm then going to go to the gym and I'm going to do some cardio and I'm going to do some upper body. Okay. What we're aiming for, when you are trying to tackle some big projects, you want to do some kind of exercise that releases lactic acid into your muscles. The reason for this, and I'm forgetting all the scientific terms behind it, but there's something that happens when you have lactic acid and lactic acid is that you know when you're working out and you feel that burn and you can feel your muscles getting really, really hot. Okay, so weight training can do this and doing like hiit workouts, like sprinting on and off. Okay, you want to get that burn in your muscles. There's something that happens in the chemistry of your brain after that's been released into your system. It actually quite quiets a lot of those voices that want to distract you from doing big projects. Okay, so this is something that if you have ADHD and you're not consistently getting that level of exercise where you're feeling that burn in your muscles, you want to go and do that. And if you don't want to go to the gym and you don't want to do that, like I get it. Go into a wall, sit, like literally go and lean against a wall. Squat down and stay there for 60 seconds and wait for like your thigh muscles are going to start burning. Okay, go and do some like 100 body weight squats. Do them slow. Let your legs burn. The bigger the muscle, the more lactic acid will be released, the better this is going to be for your brain. And also you're gonna get fit while you're doing it. Duh. It's like another bonus. Hi, the gazelle. Welcome. Okay, so you're going to go and move your body, like, and I want, I want to be clear, do this within your ability to be safe with your body. Okay. If you haven't worked out in a really long time. Go for a walk. Go for a walk. Screen free. It's gonna help free up your brain. You're gonna be able to like let yourself get bored and all these ideas are going to come coursing through you and if they don't, then you at least have some peace. Right? Let me see, let me see, let me see. Andrew Stout. I love coffee chats over the phone. They help. Have a great day. Yep, those can help. It can also be a little distracting. They can kind of send you off on a spiral. So I would be careful with that. If, if you're someone who can convince yourself that you're getting stuff done by talking to other people, you know, don't. I actually wouldn't advise that for an innovation day. It can be something that you do on another day. Let me see. Rohy Turning off is a slow, gradual process. It really is. Andrew Barber. Watching other people think about work gives me that burn. Oh my God. I mean really, whatever works for you. Andrew hates squats. Yes, exactly. Okay, so finally, finally, you've got enough sleep. You've fueled your body, you've gotten some dopamine flowing, you have work out. You might want to shower before you get to the next, this next part. But here's where you really like. You get to get into your innovative innovation day. For me, the things that I have on my list of things that I would like to get to in my innovation day because here's the thing, we kind of have to follow our creativity. We have to follow where we're feeling juice on these days, okay? We can't force it, okay. If we try to force it, it's not going to flow. We're going to get frustrated and we're going to want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Which is a very odd saying. It seems very like someone wasn't really meant to take care of children anyway. So the things that I'm going to be mapping out today in my innovation day is so I'm creating a curriculum for my one on one clients for my top tier premium program. It's a whole money mindset journey. It is a whole curriculum that I'm going to be taking my top tier one on one clients through over a year long program. Okay? So my clients who work with me on that top level, they're going to do business strategy with me. So wherever they are in their business, they're going to really dive into where can they take themselves to the next level. We're going to scale their programs, we're going to expand, we're going to make them, get them making more money. Right now, I've seen it time and time again. I can teach my clients how to make more money until I'm blue in the face. But if they don't have a good relationship with money, there is always going to be this glass ceiling that they hit. There's going to be this wall that they just keep bumping into and they're never going to break beyond it unless they do this money work in how I work with most of my one on one clients. In my normal program, we just don't have the time. Like we are spending all of our sessions each month working on their business. And there's nothing wrong with that. Like that's the point of working with a business strategist. You need to be working on your business. This new program that I'm rolling out will ensure that 50% of the time we spend together is going to be devoted to working on that money mindset. And that's going to make the biggest difference in my clients who are really trying to break into that like seven figure income per year. It's just, it's going to be groundbreaking as soon as I get my shit organized and put it together. That's one of the things that I would love to tackle today. There's another idea that I've had in the back of my mind that I've been doing for myself and I would really love to roll out as a course. And that's a manifestation course. And so if I have the juices flowing around that I would love to dive into that and also decide like what kind of books I would love to bring in. It sounds ridiculous, but my favorite manifestation book for business is actually a relationship book called Calling in the one by Katherine Woodward Thomas. You can see I've gone through this book so many times. I've never actually used it for relationships, oddly enough. But it's a seven week course basically to attract the love of your life. And if the love of your life is money, then it works for that too, but it is just game changing. So that's one of the things I would love to create. And then I also would love to create like an organization pack that my clients and anyone in my world can just basically go and buy on gumroad for like 15 bucks. But that takes a little extra juice for me because I'm not the most like visually esthetically inclined. Okay. I have a really hard time creating graphics and things that look pretty and that are also useful. So that'll be really fun. Let me see. Rohit, cold shower. I mean, if you want to give yourself a cold shower, I support you in that. Counting big currency notes. Yeah, sure. Let me see. Jorn. I don't have a good relationship with money. Jordan, welcome to the club. Most people do not have a good relationship with money. I want you all to think about it. We get our relationship for money from our parents. Right? How they were raised to be with money is how they taught us to be with money. And. And probably not even consciously, because most parents don't teach about money. All right? They might give you, like, a couple pieces of advice that they heard somewhere, maybe follow themselves, but they're not. They're not, like, teaching you about how you need to approach this relationship with money. Where did they get that from? They got it from their parents, who, in the same vein, like, probably didn't do a whole conscious teaching about money. They just kind of, like, modeled and maybe gave a few, you know, pieces of wisdom that may have been wise or not. Where do they get that? From their parents and their parents and so on and so forth. So it goes back. Generally speaking, we all have a relationship with money that comes from about seven generations ago. I don't know about your. Your ancestors, but about seven generations ago, God, I think my ancestors were dealing with famine. They were immigrating, they were escaping their homeland. They were coming to the new world. They had nothing. All right? So there, There's a lot that gets passed down that no longer serves us in the here and now. All right? And when. One of the things that I'm really excited for this curriculum that I'm going to be taking my clients through is a. We're going to be going through and doing a whole assessment on what was taught to you from your parents that was taught to them from past generations. And what parts of those lessons actually serve you today? And what parts do you actually just need to get rid of because they're holding you back? The majority of it, you have to get rid of. I will be 100% clear here. Most people just have to get rid of whatever garbage was taught them. In addition to that, you know, like, what trauma have you attached to money over the years? And let me. Let me be clear here. Trauma does not mean violence, okay? Most of the time when people hear trauma, it's like, oh, my God, you've been through, like, a very physically violent experience and it caused you trauma. That's not what trauma means. Trauma is anytime the mind is made to feel unsafe, okay? And I want you to think back to being a child. There are a lot of ways in which a child can feel unsafe. If your parents were ever screaming at each other about money and not having enough, you as a child probably have some trauma around it, okay? Because A, mom and dad aren't supposed to scream at each other, right? And B, here's this thing that, like, means survival for you and your family. What if you don't have enough? Okay? So you have to really dig into where are you holding trauma when it comes to money and heal it. In addition to that, one of the things that I love taking my clients through is figuring out what their sacred money archetypes are. It's this model that was created by Kendall Summerhawk, which I know is, like, such a cool, like. Like, 60s, 70s name. But anyway, it's. It's freaky how accurate it is when it breaks down basically what your operating system is with money. And it's. Once you understand all this stuff about yourself and you understand what your core beliefs are when it comes to money, and you can really start shifting those things. That's when things change in your income. That's when you are far more comfortable asking for big money in your business for your services. That is when you are fearless in growing your empire. And it's just one of those things that I'm so excited to dig into. A lot of people think that they're bad with money when really they just don't understand how they're making decisions with money. Okay? I like. If we talk money archetypes, my archetypes are top. I'm a maverick. Okay? So mavericks tend to be very, very comfortable with risk. A little too comfortable with risk, okay? They can make gambles that don't always pay out. And so a lot of mavericks actually believe that they're bad with money when actually they just don't understand how they make decisions with money. My second archetype is I'm a nurturer. Okay? So nurturers are very well known for prioritizing everyone else's needs beyond their own. Okay? So nurturers, very much like mavericks, don't tend to hold on to a whole lot of money for themselves. They can accumulate money if it's in service of other people, like their children or their older parents or whatever. And then my third one is also not a money keeper. It's the celebrity. The celebrity loves spending money on things that, like, make them feel successful, right? All of these. All of these Archetypes have different strengths. Right. So, like, this comfort with risk. That's incredible for someone who is an entrepreneur. All right, so I'm really grateful. I'm a maverick. I have to figure out different ways to create guardrails for myself to keep myself in my strength and not in my challenges. But that is something that I get to do when I need, know what my limitations are. The same with nurturer. Like, I know that in my businesses, there has to be some component of giving back. I know that in my finances, I have to have a fund where I get to, like, help those I love when I can. But I also need to plan it. It can't be something that it's just like, it's coming out of my normal income. It's coming out of my normal budget. And then for my celebrity, I mean, there are so many strengths that come with celebrity. I mean, here I'm going live. Like, I don't have any problem being the center of attention. Right. For the celebrity, finding ways to use those strengths. Oh, no, I'm losing connection on Instagram. Hi. Okay. Finding ways to use those strengths is going to be a game changer. And also maybe not making money decisions for my celebrity, it's probably the best idea. But whenever. And there. There are eight different archetypes. So, I mean, like, yours could be absolutely different than that. And the combination comes together very differently. I have a couple people in my world who I've done readings for, who are both accumulators first, leaders second, and nurturers third. I think that's the split. They're the exact same, completely different problems, like how it's showing up in their life and how they are holding themselves back. Like, there are a lot of similarities, but it also just shows up differently depending on what their. Their upbringing was like. So I. I can already tell this is where I'm going to be spending my time with my Innovation Day, because the fact that I am already, like, getting so into this, this topic, this is going to be where I spend most of my time today. Let me see. Calling in the one. See, today you don't see your money and running behind. Gathering money. Not sure what you mean. There brain stops is trauma. You have to move your money ahead as you move up in life. I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not sure what you mean with that, but I want to agree with it. Sounds good. Anyway, so that's how you do an invasion. Innovation Day, guys. That's how I'm gonna be tackling the rest of the day. Um, done this quick win. I've gone live for over a half hour now. That's pretty badass. Um, I have to do some emails and posts and make that webinar. Need to go work out and then I need to get into the creative work. Okay, if, if you curious about anything that I talked about today, go to my bio and book a generate income strategy call. I'm more than happy to talk you through this. And if you want to come to the webinar that I'm doing tomorrow on vulnerability, how to use it in your marketing, how to use it to leverage your personal brand, and how to decide how vulnerable is the right amount of vulnerability for you while respecting your privacy. Just keep an eye open for that post. I'm going to be sharing it in all the places later today and it will be happening tomorrow at 4pm Eastern Standard Time. Anyway, thank you all for joining the Gazelle Free the Laugh, Rest and relax. Boston Di Klein, Nora Del Hawari, Nate Peters Posts Sahel, Sud, David J. Freeman. Let me see. Who else? Rohit. Let me see. Jorn, Andrew and Andrew. Two different Andrews, Jason and Jorn again. And Sudeep and Jake. My gosh, you guys like and Kimmy. Just want to make sure I'm not jumping over anyone. Laura. Thank you all for joining. I hope you found this super useful and if you are planning your own Innovation Day, I would love to hear what comes out of it. So keep me in the loop. All right. I'm Katie McManus, business strategist and money mindset coach for ADHD entrepreneurs. Thank you for joining me and I will be live with you again tomorrow. Bye.