#SYDWAC - Weekly Recap: Behind on a project?

Sam. Sa. Hey, welcome everyone. This is Sean Butner, certified high performance coach. And this is start your day. Great. Start your day with a coach. And this is the show where we help you figure out how to level up your life, how to live meaningful every day so that you are your best and can reach the level of abundance that you need for yourself and your family. So today we're talking about what to do when you're a little bit behind on a project because I think we can all relate to that one, two. There's a lot that can go around, like how you feel, actual tactics on how to get back on track, when to realize that it's okay to be off track and to also not trick yourself into getting into that. So, you know, as we go about today, if you know someone that it you think needs to hear this message today on one, sometimes it's okay to be a little bit behind. Sometimes, you know, you need to readjust, you need to shift in order to move forward quicker. Then please share this video with three people and let's go, guys. Okay, so why am I talking about this today on the weekly recap? Well, it's because I have a project that I feel behind on and it's something to do with my marketing project, with my business. And it's been, you know, like two weeks ago I had like a marketing sprint, if you're familiar with that. You know, I'm originally from a technology background, so agile type stuff, so I've been really struggling with some messaging stuff. So. And I share this, you know, as a humble high performance coach. Just saying that I also, you know, I'm not, I don't know everything. I'm still working on all this, you know, high performance stuff myself. But, you know, as, you know, part of it was kind of managing the ideas. Right. Sometimes if you're, you know, in a creative space, you have like 50,000 things you want to do and the thing you need to do is talk yourself down to focus on the one thing. So that was part of this last two weeks for me. Part of it was, was, you know, doing the work to get clear on, you know, what I really wanted to achieve, what I really wanted to say, how I really wanted to connect to folks in this particular context. And so it was a lot of doing research. There's a lot of refining ideas. There's a lot of really trying to focus on what am I again trying to put out in the world that I connect with that hopefully will connect with you guys. And so what I've settled on. And I guess this is kind of a little pivot in my business. But really, I think looking back at my career, looking back at the clientele that I've had in my coaching practice, the shift here in the last two weeks has been okay. I think the people that I'm trying to reach and trying to teach and trying to inspire and trying to elevate are people that are leaders and also introverts. Right? And I pick that because I'm, you know, said quite a bit, if you've been with me before, that I'm an introvert. I think there's a lot of great examples of introverted leaders out there in the world. You got a lot of people in tech. You have people like Warren Buffett, but, you know, you also have Steve Jobs, you have Bill Gates. You know, you have a lot of these people. I think Tim Cook right now would be considered a more introverted leader and really just kind of breaking that down. What does that actually mean? You know, if you're introverted, it just means you get your energy through not socializing. Right? If you start the day with an energy cup, right? The cup that represents your energy, you start with that, you know, full. And every time you do a social interaction, every time, you know, you're doing things in a group, you're pouring a little bit of that energy out. Whereas an extrovert would have that energy cup empty. And then every interaction they did that day, they pour a little bit of energy into it. So their cup would be full or overflowing by the. The end of. End of the day. Right. That's kind of a way to conceptualize what an introvert is. And what an introverted leader is. Is someone. They tend to be people that are more thoughtful leaders. Not exclusively, right? So this is not a either or type situation. There's a whole spectrum of. You could be mostly introverted with some extroverted tendencies. You can be right in the middle where you confuse a lot of people. You could be 100% introverted, 100% extroverted. You know, this is not a highly defined thing, but it's important to label it because ultimately leadership comes down to how are you serving your team, how are you serving the customers, how are you serving the world at large? Right? And understanding your leadership style is very crucial into being an effective leader. Leader, right? If you're trying to be the loud, you know, slap everyone on the back type guy when you're not, people see through that. They don't trust you. You're not as Effective as you are if, you know, understand yourself and can apply your traits, your abilities, your competencies to leadership. Right. And so I think that's a really important distinction. And you also think about the traditional, like business executive, the traditional manager, it's someone that is very extroverted, very people focused, and that's just not the case. Right. There's a whole other side to that coin and I think we need to be talking about that more. I think, you know, a lot of those introverted leaders can balance some of, you know, the. What am I trying to say here? They're really that different style of leadership is more for collaboration. It's more for pushing a good idea. It's less about, you know, winning at all costs, I think is a little bit more extroverted or trying to do things for attention. It's a little bit more extroverted instead of trying to do something for, for a cost. Right. So trying to get some distinctions and language around that. So with that said, so that's kind of the shift in my business now is to be focusing on those introverted leaders, you know, so. Hey, Dr. EG3 and Dave, what's going on, guys? Thanks for being on. So what do you do when you're behind on a project? Right. So again, you know, for me, like, that's why I was, I don't know, I am late on this big marketing push that I'm doing right now is getting that clarity. So number one, you got to be clear on what you're doing, right? And you can waste so much effort, so much energy, so much time spinning your wheels doing work, but if you don't know where you're going, it's really going to, you know, hold you back, it's going to, to frustrate you, it might overwhelm you, it might exhaust you before you're able to get back on track. Right. So it'll prolong that, the deadline of you reaching that deadline. Right. So get clear. The second thing is, is to really make sure you're engaging your energy and motivation. Right. And high performance. We talk about how the power pack doesn't have energy, it generates it. So if you're feeling a little bit behind on a project, you have to generate the enthusiasm, the motivation, the energy to make sure you get it done and you can generate all the energy in the world. Again, if you don't know where you're going, you don't have that clarity where you're going. That's not really going to help you all that much. Right. So that's the second thing. So for me this week I've really done double down on my working out. So I've been, you know, I do weight workouts Tuesdays and Thursdays. Every other day I try to go for an hour walk. I've been doubling up on the Tuesdays and Thursdays and trying to take an extra walks or extra walks on the walk days just to kind of get the body moving. You know, I, I think part of being distracted sometimes when you work from home, part of when you're a solopreneur like I am, when you're the one mostly doing the business, you know, you need people you need to reach out to and talk to, which is very, very key. But it's also just shaking up the normal thing of, you know, wake up in the home, you know, have a cup of coffee, get dressed, start doing your work stuff for the day. So you know, that's that. So you know, having that, you know, doubling down on your energy is super important again. So we have get clear on what you're doing, generate the energy you need to make it happen. And you know, the third thing, it's a little counterintuitive, but sometimes it's okay to be a little bit late if it's going to be more correct. Right. And this is not perfectionism, right? What I'm saying is it's better to sometimes fix things earlier in the process than it is to try to fix it once you've implemented it. And I pull this directly from my experience in technology where in when you're writing software, you know, there's like a design for a feature like let's say like Facebook, right? So I have a social idea for features for social media where you can post pictures and text and all that stuff and that's fine and all. And then you figure out technically how you're going to do it through like a design document. This is kind of, you know, abstract here guys, but you know, you'd say, okay, so if I need to post a picture, I need to have a server, I need to have a connection, I need, you know, you go through the list of things and then you implement it. Now if you realize that you only want to post particular types of high res photos and you don't think about that earlier on in the process, you might a lot like so an easy thing. So it's like, okay, you upload a photo and you don't think like it should only upload photos, right? Maybe like more like Instagram and in the design document you say any file you can upload will work. Right. It's much easier to say, no, we should check to make sure that it's an image file before we upload it versus later in the process when we have people upload a bunch of different types of, like, garbage files, like, you know, documents, you know, Excel sheets, all that kind of stuff. But that wasn't our intention. Right. It's much easier to fix it and design before you roll out all the code than it is to fix the code later. Right? So that's kind of the. Sometimes, you know, it's okay to delay a project, so you fix it in the earlier phases of it, is what I'm saying. So at least that's how I'm thinking about that right now. And so how do you prevent yourself from continually tricking yourself into, oh, I'm just trying to, you know, make it more perfect going forward? And that is, you know, fourth thing, like, what are you doing actively each day? Right. The last two weeks, it's been a lot of journaling, it's been a lot of brainstorming. It's been a lot of, like, pieces of paper like this and then crossing stuff out and refining it. And so there was forward momentum. Right. And for me, I think that's the key marker for projects is like, are you getting closer to the mark? Right. Or are you gold plating and just doing things that don't really matter? That's the trick of it. That's maybe the art of managing a project and making sure that it's on time. But at the end of the day, it's something only you can answer. But I would say, how consistent are you at, you know, putting effort towards making that change? Right. In this case, it was brainstorming to get the messaging clear for my marketing projects, you know, building marketing pages. So that's done. Planning videos that I'm going to have to do for all this. I'll support it, you know, so there were critical things that happened this last two weeks that advanced the project. It just didn't get done when I thought of it. So what's the project in your life that you're working on either personally, like maybe trying to fix the bathroom, renovate the kitchen or something, or professionally where, you know, either deadline's been set arbitrary, arbitrarily, or maybe that, you know, once you started, you realized, oh, this is going to be a lot more work or we need to figure out a lot more. You've discovered that there's a lot more clarity needed. It you know, if that rings a bell for you, would you post it below? Just a quick blurb on what's going on so we can cheer you on and just know that it's part of the process. So that said, guys, I hope you liked this video. If you like these videos, every week I have a more in depth piece of content that I put on my blog and newsletter and you can sign up for that by going to shawmutter.com blog or checking the link in my bio. 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