10 Ways to Reduce Entrepreneurial Overwhelm

Good morning, happy Monday everybody. Today we're going to talk about a topic that, um, is just really important and I don't think we understand how important it is. But today I'm gonna walk you through 10 ways to reduce overwhelm and I'm talking about it in Q4 because we're right in the middle of Q4, but I really think you can apply these year-round to really help you reduce that entrepreneur overwhelm, that small business overwhelm, that solo entrepreneur overwhelm, or if you have 16 team members like me. So it doesn't matter if you're a solo entrepreneur running your whole business by yourself, or if you've got a few team members, or if you have, you know, over a dozen team members like me, it doesn't matter because we could put all of these into place right now that are really going to help us. Good morning, everybody. I love seeing all of your faces. Good morning, Nicole. Hey, Rebecca. Good morning, Lexi. Good morning, Johnica. Hey, Andrea. Good morning, Susie. Good morning, everybody. It's Monday. And let me tell you why I thought this topic was important. I was feeling a little stressed yesterday, and I've kind of been feeling the stress over the last week. There's a lot of things that need to be done by me. There's a lot of things happening at the warehouse. There's just a lot of things going on right now. And when there's a lot of things going on, it kind of gives me some overwhelm. And when I've gone to a lot of therapy over the last couple of years, just dealing with being a business owner, having teenagers, I was going through a divorce a few years ago, and I went through a lot of therapy. And my My life coach basically told me that whenever I feel behind at work, it completely stresses me out in everything that I do. And it was a huge eye-opener because every time I would feel this level of anxiety or stress or overwhelm, it was always because I was behind at work. And so I was feeling this way yesterday. I had you know, worked a lot of the day on Saturday. I got up early Sunday and worked all morning until my brain was just done. Like, I just couldn't think anymore. And so I really didn't do much in the afternoon. And I thought, I'm feeling this way because I'm behind right now. I'm feeling overwhelmed because I'm behind right now. And so when we feel stressed, when we feel overwhelmed, when we feel behind, It leads to two things. It leads to burnout and bad decisions. I feel like that should be on a t-shirt somewhere. Like, it leads to burnout and bad decisions. And so over the years, I've really found some ways to help me deal with the overwhelm. And one of those I had to do this morning with my team at the warehouse, because when I feel overwhelmed, I project that onto them. When there's a lot of different things going on that's outside of the norm, that's not in their routine, they feel overwhelmed. And so I'm going to talk about these 10 tips. If you're a note-taker, I want you to grab a notebook because I think you could, you could help yourself, whether you're a solo entrepreneur, you could help your teams. If you have 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 people on your team, you can really help with these things. And if we can look at things logically, instead of in an anxiety state or a panic state, we're able to make better decisions and we can reduce some of that stress. We can reduce the burnout and the bad decisions. Okay. Because what happens when we make decisions when we're completely burnt out? They're not the best decisions. Like, raise your hand in the chat if you made a bad decision because you were stressed or burnt out or exhausted or just in the midst of chaos and you're like, oh my God, why did I do that? Why did I do that? And so I feel like we probably all have been in there. So I want to talk to you guys about that. Good morning, everybody. It's so good to see you guys here. So let's just— let's— tips, 10 tips. If you take 2 of these away today, that's what I want for you. It's not about putting all 10 of these in place. If you have the ability to do that, great. But if you get 2 light bulbs today from these 10 ideas. That's what I want you to, I want you to take away from today. I want you to, I want you to put some mechanisms in place so over the next 2 months we can reduce the amount of stress, we can reduce the amount of overwhelm, and we can ultimately reduce the amount of burnout and bad decisions that we're going to make over the next 2 months. Okay, the first one, it's almost too late for the first one, but I think you have time. And that's just early planning. I've been working on early planning this year further out than I have in previous years, and I feel really good about it. It helps me feel calm. We need to get ahead of as much as we can now. If you're not in the thick of things right now, I want you to take this week to really start planning out anything left for the rest of the year. I don't want you scrambling last minute trying to take care of things again when our brains are shutting down, we're in the burnout stage, and we can't think clearly. If we can make planning things now that will help us through November, help us through December, that's going to help reduce the overwhelm that we're feeling right now. So early planning. I started planning a few months ago. I'm still not all the way planned out through December because there's last minute things. There's designs I have to make, there's products I have to, you know, make designs for. But the more that I can do this week, the better off I'm going to be. So number 1 is early planning. Number 2, I feel like a lot of us don't do, so I want you to write this down. Number 2 is to prioritize self-care. And I know that a lot of us, especially us women, feel like it's selfish to prioritize self-care. It is not selfish. It is vital to getting you through the hard times. And when I'm talking about self-care, I'm not talking about going to the spa, getting massage. Like, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a more simple thing that I want to make sure that you don't lose over the next 2 months. When we start working longer hours, we're working longer hours, we're working longer days, we have less time to ourselves, we give up a lot of our routines that give us peace and relaxation. So I want you to figure out what it is that helps you relax. For me, there's really two vital things that help me relax every single day. The first one— I have this weird hair that is just driving me crazy because it's sticking to my neck. We're gonna tuck it in over here. I don't know what's going on, but I can see myself, so it's driving me crazy. Okay, I'm fine. Okay, so there's 2 vital pieces that really help me day to day. And if I can— and it's more of like a routine or a ritual, but there's really 2 things that I need every day. And I want you to really think about what you need, because what I need is different than what you need. I need 30 minutes in the morning with my coffee. Like, you have no idea. When I take like my first sip of coffee in the morning, it's like this amazing rush I feel. I need 30 minutes to myself with a cup of coffee in the morning. That means I need to get up earlier so that I cannot— I can relax with my coffee for 30 minutes. Okay, I need that so that when I get to the office my day isn't just like crazy from— I need 30 minutes. And it might be 30 minutes of me just scrolling on social media. It might be 30 minutes of me sitting on the patio. Might be 30 minutes of me just drinking, just sitting there drinking the coffee, thinking about the day. I might be looking at my schedule. I need those 30 minutes, and that's non-negotiable for me. So if it gets to the point where I don't get those 30 minutes, my day doesn't feel right. That's self-care for me. And so I need you to think about what is that self-care. The second one is I need my bath. I need an— I need 45 minutes to an hour to just sit in my bathtub uninterrupted. And sometimes it means I'm answering questions with my team. I'm— I sat in the tub on Saturday night and answered Voxer messages from my mastermind. But I need that 45 minutes to an hour at night to bring myself down from all the things going on for the day. It's kind of like that. It's just the ritual that it helps calm me. It helps my body relax. It helps my mind relax. I need that every day. That's non-negotiable for me going into this fourth quarter. I need to have that 30 minutes to myself in the morning with my coffee to just sip slow, and not be rushed. And I need that bath at night. And I know it doesn't sound like much, but it is important. So what are your non-negotiables? It might mean I want to have breakfast with my kids every morning. It might mean I want to go shopping for an hour twice a week this week. Maybe I want to walk, I want to stroll the aisles of Target or Hobby Lobby. And that's my Zen place. So I, whatever it is that you need, I need, maybe it's meditation, maybe it's journaling, maybe it's, you know, I don't know what it is for you. But I need you to recognize what that is so that we can prioritize it. And we can build it. Tracy said it's exercising, I need to exercise 3 to 4 times a week, they're going to be a lot of days in Tracy's calendar that says, I don't have time to exercise today. You have to make time for that because you know that that is what relaxes you. So I don't want you to remove that from your everyday routine because we need that, because that prevents what? Prevents burnout and bad decisions. Okay. And I said that real country, that my real country roots just came out right there. Burnout and bad decisions. We've got to prioritize self-care. So I need you to figure out what does that look like for you? Okay, what does self-care look like for you? And let's make sure we prioritize that daily. Number 3 is real simple. It's real simple. But I need you to stay hydrated and get rest. It's really important when you reach burnout. We are shutting down. Did you know coffee counts as your water intake for the day? It does. I looked it up. You can fact-check me. It counts. Um, so I need you to stay hydrated and I need you to get enough rest. Those are non-negotiable. So if that means you've got to put water on your desk every morning, a couple bottles of water to make sure that you are drinking them, if that means that you make sure you go to bed at a certain time, like whatever that means for you. I have to take Tylenol PM when I feel overwhelmed and stressed. I'm not recommending anybody medicate themselves. I'm just telling you what works for me. It helps me shut the noise off. It's, it's light and easy. I take Tylenol PM. I'm not ashamed of it. I've talked to my doctor about it. He said rest is more important than not taking Tylenol PM. It just helps me shut the day off. So stay hydrated, get enough rest. Okay. Number 4. Number 4 and 5 are going to go together hand in hand. But number 4 is dedicating email support times. Stop checking your email all day long. Stop it right now. Stop it right now. If you have the email tab open, I want you to close it right now. Stop checking email all day long. That will burn you out faster than anything else. Email has a way of dictating your day for you. It's like, okay, I'm going to get my coffee, I'm going to open up my email, and I already got my day planned out in my head. And then boom, email, email, email, email, email dictating your whole day. It could be good, it could be bad, it could just be more things you've got to do. We gotta stop checking email all day. What I want you to do is dedicate some email support times for yourself. Okay, so if that means, like, I already did it this morning, I went through and spent 30 minutes running through my email box checking. I'm done. I'm not checking that again until the end of the day so I can focus on other things. I cannot let that email box dictate my day. We got too much going on. It's important. I need to reply. I need to check on things. If there's— if I'm doing customer service, if you're still doing customer service, you need that, but you can't be doing it all day long. It's going to affect your productivity. Set a couple of times a day. I do one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and I just spend the dedicated 30 minutes Set a timer if you need to. When I— when 30 minutes is up, that's all the email that I can reply to and I'm moving on. I don't have time to sit and deal with email all day, nor does my brain want me to. I got other things going on. The same thing is for number 5, is social media support times. A lot of times at lunch, I'll just try to relax, eat my lunch, and I'll start scrolling through social media. And then you know what happens? Our business social media is popping up. I got all kinds of stuff. There's comments, there's things that need to be taken care of. I'm like, stop, I'm trying to relax. I'm trying to relax by scrolling social media, not answering a bunch of questions on social media. If you don't have someone managing that for you, stay off of it until you have time to sit and relax and then do it. That could be while I'm in the bathtub. Okay, let me answer this. I'm relaxing. It could be while I'm drinking my coffee. But we got to stay off social media until we have time to deal with what comes with social media. There could be negativity on our pages. There could be customer service in our DMs. There could be— there's all kinds of things. We can't let that dictate our day either. So set dedicated social media support times. That could be once a day, that could be twice a day, that could be somebody else is dealing with it for you. Okay. So that's number 5. Now number 6 is set boundaries. Just like we're going to set boundaries with email and social media, I want you to set boundaries for yourself, for your staff, and for your customers. And it really depends on what your boundaries are now, what you need to change going into the next couple of months, okay? So what are the boundaries for myself? I know that I can't work all night long. My brain doesn't work all— my brain can't work 20 hours a day. It's just, I'm not— I'm gonna be burnt out and make bad decisions, right? So the boundary for myself is that when I start overthinking things, or I'm just— I can't find anything I like if I'm working on designs, it's time to stop. That's my boundary. Whether that's at 4 o'clock or 7 o'clock, whenever I hit the wall with my brain, it's time to stop. That is my personal boundary. So you have to figure out when your boundary is. And then do you have staff blowing you up all night long, expecting an answer from you? You need to set that boundary. I, I have a pretty good— like, we may talk sometimes in the evenings, but I know that I don't have to actually physically do anything till the next day. So there's a boundary that I, I'm talking to you via text. Okay, you're right, we need to do that. Let's do that tomorrow. There's no expectation that if someone sends me a message outside of business hours that I'm going to take care of that in that moment. I might, I might be on the computer working. Okay, let me take care of that real quick. But the boundary is you can send that to me all day long, but I may not respond and I may not do what you need me to do until the next day. That's the boundary. Same with our customers. My customer service person has been gone. She's off, you know, gallivanting around Europe right now. She'll be back tomorrow. So there's been some customer service that have fallen in my email box that I normally just send to her, but I have another team member handling that and her own job at the same time. So I'm like, I'll just answer this. I can't do that in the moment because what happens is the expectation from your customers is that you're going to respond in 5 minutes at 9 o'clock at night. I formed an answer and said it, scheduled it to send the next morning. They need to understand my boundaries too. I might be doing it at 9 o'clock at night, but that's okay because I can schedule it to send out the next morning. So we got to set our boundaries. If you have no boundaries for yourself, if you have no boundaries for your staff, if you have no boundaries for your customers, we got to pull that together right now. A lot of times people will email customer service without ever looking for things themselves. Give them an opportunity to look for it themselves and get back with them the next day. If you do that, it forces them to help themselves more and you'll get less customer service emails. Okay. Number 7, I'm going to take a drink of coffee for this one. I had to do this one this morning. Okay. And I'll tell you the situation. But number 7, we as leaders of our business, whether we have 1 team member or 20, we have to direct, delegate, and prioritize for our teams. That is our job as leaders. When we're in the midst of chaos, so are our teams. They're in the midst of chaos. But sometimes they can't see the bigger picture like we do, because we know all the moving parts that are happening, that have happened, that are going to happen today, that are going to happen tomorrow, next month and the next month. We know all of that. Sometimes they don't know all of that, so they get in a little bit of overwhelm themselves because they don't know what to do next. Here's an example. Right now we've had a busy few weeks at the warehouse. We sold our holiday boxes. Great. We sold almost 300 of those. They all have to be personalized, prepped, monogrammed. They all have different sizes. They have to be organized and monogrammed and prepped. That's something outside of the norm that they normally deal with. Okay, then I went and sold 100 gift bundles over the weekend, um, of products that we have in, in the shop, and they all have to be monogrammed and organized, and shirts have to be ordered and sizes need to be pulled and all the things. Overwhelmed. We're prepping for our November monogram box. They're monogramming everything for November. T-shirt Club tees are ready and they need to be folded. T-shirt teacher subscriptions have to go out today. So they have all these things that are going on at one time that they don't normally have, right? They're normally just dealing with subscriptions and a few orders that come in every day. They don't have 400+ orders that have to be monogrammed and out the door, and everything's added in to their daily routine. I knew they would, and we're short-staffed today. We have a couple team members out today, which I know about. So let me direct and prioritize for them so that they don't feel overwhelmed. I said, you know what, here's what we're going to do today. We're going to get teacher subscriptions packed and out the door, and then we're going to sift through all the bundle orders for the weekend. Holiday boxes can wait, those don't go out till December. November boxes can wait, they, they're fine. T-shirts don't go out till the 5th, they're fine. The problem is they have all this stuff staring at them and they're feeling overwhelmed. I need to prioritize for them because I know the bigger picture, and that will help calm them, which allows them— okay, we only have 2 things we need to do. We need to get teacher subscriptions out first. Once those go out the door, that's completed, they can get that off their brain. Then we're going to dig through all the hundreds of orders that came through the weekend that all have to be personalized, pulled, and packed. And there are a whole bunch of different orders. Then they can spend the afternoon on that. We're short-staffed, so it might take them the afternoon. Okay, so those are the only two things that they need to do today, and those are the only two things they need to worry about today. We'll worry about everything else later as it becomes a priority. And sometimes we have to step in and direct and delegate and prioritize for our team. I can't just expect them to know everything and everything I got going on in my brain. Did they know I was going to sell a whole bunch of monogrammed rain jackets? Last week? No. Did they know that I was gonna go do this special event on Friday and sell all these bundles? No. I didn't know I was going to sell all these bundles either. I thought we could sell 20, 30 things and move on. So I have to give them the bigger picture and let them know what the priority is for me, and that allows them to be more efficient, more focused, and get things done. So we've got to direct and delegate and prioritize for our staff on a regular basis because they are feeling the same overwhelm that we are. Okay, they need the direction from you. It helps them feel good about what they're doing today, what needs to be done first, and not worry about all the other things that are undone right now because we'll deal with those tomorrow. Okay, now number 9, I want to remind you that it's okay to say no. We can say no to our customers when they have a special request. We can say no to our friends and family that want something from us. We can say no to employees that are asking for unusual things. It's okay to say no. If saying yes makes you feel stressed, the answer is no. Repeat after me. If saying yes makes you feel stressed, the answer is no. All right. Oh, I did skip one. I skipped 8. Hang on. We'll go back. This is number 9. Remember, it's okay to say no. Okay, if you need to write that on a Post-it and put it on your computer, if saying yes makes you feel stressed, say no, period. Let's go back to number 8. I skipped 8. Thanks, Sue. I want you to batch tasks. Okay, so kind of what we were talking about with the email support and social media support and things like that, I want you to batch your tasks. So if— what that means is, is we are so used to thinking that we have to multitask everything all day long. And, and it's called switchtasking. I'm going to, I'm going to help you with this. I saw a speaker last month, Jay Papasan, and I wish I had his book here. I can't remember what it's called. But what I realized while listening to him talk was that I am constantly switchtasking all day long. And I need to focus more on batchtasking. So when I say switchtasking, like, oh, I'm a good multitasker. I don't want you to be a good multitasker. Switchtasking is, okay, I'm writing an email, somebody walks in my office, hey Sarah, we're out of sweatshirts for the blah blah blah, we need to order some more. Okay, let me go order some more. And then, then I'm checking, email pops up, and I'm like, oh, we need this done by 5 o'clock today. Okay, let me go do this. And then, and I'm, I'm not completing anything, I'm not being efficient in anything. This is why we need to bulk task because our brains are switchtasking all day long. And what happens when we switch tasks? It takes, it takes time for our brain to shift. Okay, what sweatshirt are you talking about? I was emailing, I was setting up a campaign. Okay, hey, we're out of, we're out of, uh, sweatshirts for the monogram gift bundle. And I'm like, monogram gift bundle, okay, which, that's an olive color sweatshirt. Okay, what size do you need? Okay. How many orders do we have? Okay, I'll get those ordered for you real quick. I'm switchtasking, okay? So it just took my brain time to reset to think about what she's asking me about sweatshirts. Now I need to go back, switch back to the email. Okay, where was I at in the email? Do you see all this time it takes for our brain to go back and forth to things? So when we say I'm a great multitasker, that's not a great thing. I wanna be a complete tasker. I wanna be a batch tasker. I don't wanna be switchtasking all day long because we lose up to 20% of our day every time we switch task. And if we're switchtasking all day long, we're losing 20% of our time. It makes us super inefficient and it causes mistakes because we lose focus. We lose focus. So when I'm working on something, I have my door closed so that they don't interrupt me. If I'm working on, content or emails or anything that takes my concentration that I want to finish, I close my door. I also don't leave my email open because every time that bing, oh, who emailed me? Oh, I've got a notification on my phone. Oh, somebody needs something over in social media land. How many times a day are we doing that? We're losing 20% of our day every single day by trying to keep up with all the things. Instead, it needs to be okay. And I'm going to say this as if I'm a solopreneur, which I have been in my years. I've been a solopreneur. I've had one employee, I've had three employees. They grow. I've got 16 now. Okay, so if I'm solopreneur, all right, I know I got orders. I'm going to spend my first 2 hours doing orders. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going to check my phone. I'm not going to switch tasks. I'm going to do orders for 2 hours so I can focus on it and not make mistakes. Then I'm going to take a break. I'm going to come sit down, I'm going to go through my email for an hour, and then I'm going to go back and I'm going to work on content. I've got to do social media posts. I've got to do email marketing. Those are two things I can do together because they go hand in hand and I'm going to block an hour for that, whatever I can get done in an hour. And then I'm going to go check orders again because I'll be gone from orders for a few hours. Let me see if anything else has come through. Let me take care of that. We've got to batch task what we're working on so that we don't switch tasks all day. And that's what I want you to help, help you do by batch tasking. And for me, when I started batch tasking, I had to set my timer on my phone. Okay, I'm going to do email for an hour, timer 60, 60 minutes. I'm going to— and I'm solely focused. It allows me to reduce everything else that's going on. I'm going to focus 60 minutes on this. Then if I need to work on social media, I'm going to batch that for 60 minutes. Set my timer again, and I'm gonna focus on that only for 60 minutes. And what I found when I started batch tasking was that I could get so much more done than, oh, I need to go do a post today, oh, I need to send an email out today, oh, I need to go check email for today. I was only doing things for today, but when I could batch task them, I was getting multiple days done at a time. It was making me more efficient, It was making me more focused, focused, and it was helping me be a better use of my time. And I can stop all this switchtasking all day long because it's affecting my brain. It's creating overwhelm. It's making me super inefficient. So we have to eliminate some of the distractions when we're batchtasking. And you don't have to do that all day long. There's some days that in the afternoon, I'm kind of switching from this to that. That's fine. I need to focus on something, I need to batch it so I can quit making mistakes. Okay, that was number 8 that I skipped. Number 9 was remember it's okay to say no. If saying yes leaves you stressed, say no. That's the rule. We're just— that needs to be on a social media post this week. Okay. And then number 10, and I think this is really, really important, maybe the most important. I want you to do— I want you to create an end of day wrap-up routine. Okay, so a lot of you are like me, we want to check off boxes, we want to feel good about the day. But there are a lot of days that I don't get all the boxes checked off, that I don't get every task done. And so instead of feeling like my day is done, I have all this lingering things like, oh, I need to do this, oh, I need to do this. But when my brain is done, I need to be done and I need to close out my day. That helps me relax, that helps me sleep, that helps me not think about work 24/7. Okay, so when I close out my day, I go through and look at my tasks for the day and mark off anything that I got done. And I also want to adjust for anything that I got— I don't want to have this overdue, overdue, overdue. I'm behind on this, I'm behind on this. I need to adjust it into my schedule for the rest of the week so it's not looming over me. Like this morning, I didn't do this yesterday. I should have done my closeout yesterday. I think that's why I woke up stressed today. Um, I had 6 overdue tasks from the weekend that I didn't complete. So I just sat down and I kind of closed out my Sunday so I could start fresh on Monday. I needed to start fresh today. So I took those 6 items. I slid a couple of them in today that I know I could get done today. I slid a couple of them in tomorrow, which I know I can get done tomorrow. And I slid 1 or 2 of them in later in the week because I knew I didn't have time to get them all done today. Once I cleared out that column of overdue tasks, I instantly felt better. I don't have anything left to do. I don't have anything left outstanding. Now I can focus on today. So every day I want you to close out your day. What didn't you complete? Where are you going to slide it into your schedule so that you can feel like you're done? Because the problem with being an entrepreneur is that we are never done. We are never done. There is always something to do. There's always more we can do. There's always something else that we can do, right? We— our brain never feels done with our day, and we need to create this end-of-day wrap-up routine where I feel done with my day. I've moved everything I didn't complete into a different day, and I'll try again tomorrow. I also try to end my day with a win. Yesterday, I was working on a bunch of stuff. I got all my holiday collection designed yesterday. That is my win. I'm like, yes, I got all of my holiday collection designed yesterday. Now I gotta have it printed and, and, and do pictures and all the things, but that was my win for yesterday. What's going to be my win for today? I want to close out that routine with just a small win. You know what their win's going to be for today? They got teacher tees out and they got through all these crazy orders that I sold this weekend. I want, I want all of you to end your day with a win. What did I accomplish today? What is one thing that I feel great about today? We need to process that. And Nikki says, do you keep your list on paper or digital or a calendar? So I use Asana and I can show you really quickly, but I love Asana because You're gonna, you're gonna see my crazy things. I love Asana because I can make myself a checklist and I can check it off and I know what I need to do. So here's where this had 6 overdue things in it this morning. This is my Asana thing. And so I just slid them all. I changed their dates. OK. And so this is what I have to do today. I've got to accomplish these things today. This is what I've got to do tomorrow. This is what I've got to do. This is my week. Okay, and you can see I have a ton of tasks. They're on here, we're planned out, but I know what needs to be done today. I can go through and check off all my things. And then if something becomes overdue, like there was one, this one was overdue from the weekend. I just changed it instead of it saying I needed to do this by Friday and now it was, it was in my overdue. I'm like, oh, I've got to get this for my podcast interview. You know what, I can do this today. I'm gonna change that to today. I feel good about it. I'm gonna get it done today. And I don't have any of these overdue tasks anymore. And now I know, starting my day fresh, and I can get it done today. So I use a SANA. You could use paper. You could use Trello. You could use a little note thing that has the check-off box in your notes app on your phone. And that is a SANA, A-S-A-N-A. And we use it for everything. I can— not that I'm going to give you like an Asana lesson here, but I'll just show you different ways that we use it. We use it like Trello, if you're familiar with Trello. We have boards. So here's Frame. We've got our fourth quarter promotions. So this is where we have all of our stuff going on for fourth quarter. This was the Christmas collection that I designed yesterday that I felt really good about. So you can see that I got it designed, I popped my pictures in here, I, I wrote notes on, you know, this was a— here's the design, here's the mock-up. I also wrote a note on we're going to use the 3001 CVC Silver Tee for this one. So this is where we put all of our information, and it just started with empty cards that said T-shirt 1, T-shirt 2, long sleeve tee 1, long sleeve tee 2, and sweatshirt. This is what I had. They were just blank, and I was like, okay, Let me start with the t-shirts. Oh, I got an idea for a sweatshirt. And I just started working through these and checking off my tasks for the day. So you can do this in lots of different ways, but all of that is in Asana. And so that's what I use. But you don't have to figure that out right now. Okay. Asana is a little bit of a beast to get set up. You can start and just make yourself task lists for now and then get more comfortable with it and make boards for your different projects and things like that. We have our subscriptions in there as well, but What I'm saying is I need you to find a day, find a way to wrap up your day every single day so that you can put closure on the day. You can stop, enjoy your family, go to dinner, take your bath. I need you to put a closure on the day. You're never going to have it all done. You're never going to have it all done, period. We're entrepreneurs. We never have it all done. Everything's all— there's something always rolling to the next day, to the next day, to the next day. Don't beat yourself up about not having it all day. Create an end of day wrap-up routine. Check off your things, slide things into other days for the week, celebrate a win, and call it a day. This will help you sleep better. This will help you stop working 24 hours a day and help you make— it'll make you feel good about what you've accomplished each day and know that there's always time. What I, what I love to say when people get completely stress and overwhelmed. Y'all, we don't work in an ER. We don't work in an ER. Nothing we do is a life or death matter. All you need to do is do what you can each day and start fresh the next day. We don't work in an ER. Okay, so quit stressing yourself out like it's a life or death— a subscription box is not a life or death matter. Okay, it's not. And I also want you to remember that this is temporary. What we deal with in the fourth quarter is temporary. We got 45 to 60 days. We can do anything for 45 or 60 days with the right mindset. I want you to just go into each day with a positive can-do mindset. Forget What dumpster fire happened the day before? Reset and move forward. We can do this. We need these next 45 days in our businesses. We need the cash flow. We need the sales. We need the energy. We need this. So I want you to use these 10 tips to help you get through it. If you take 1 or 2 of these away, Tell me what they are. Tell me which one you're going to take away from it. You don't have to take away all 10, that's a lot. Change your habits one or two ways from this 10 list and let me know what you're going to implement, because it's going to help you get through the next 45 to 60 days. We don't work in an ER. If it causes you stress Don't say yes. That's not what it was. If a yes causes you stress, say no. I don't know, I'm just making stuff up on the fly. And remember, we don't want burnout and bad decisions. That's— this is the— this is the summary for today. All right, so let's move forward. Let's have a positive mindset. We're going to work hard, we're going to stay focused, we're going to be efficient. And there's some little tiny tweaks that you can put into your daily routine that's going to help you. All right, all right, let's go. Hey, end of this week is November. End of this week is November. Let's go. I'll see you guys soon.