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How did you get started then? So a husband has a healthy boundary. He's, you know, hey, we need

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you here. He's concerned for sick your family. And how did you make the transition? Yes. Yes.

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So it certainly wasn't easy, no doubt. And it's still a journey I'm on, right? I've certainly come

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a long way from where I was, but those old habits still want to creep in sometimes. But really,

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really started with saying, okay, it's a mindset shift. I have to think of myself as the CEO of

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my business. And to some people, especially solopreneurs, they're like, no, I'm not a CEO.

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I don't, you know, I've got, I'm not managing, I don't have a board of directors. No, it looks

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different, of course, but I'm responsible for the strategy and the vision, right? Where this boat of

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my business is going in the next 12 months, the next three years, next five years is my responsibility.

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That's right. And if I'm not clear on that, it's gonna be chaos. Right? So that's where I had to

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start was to say, okay, what is my vision? Where do I want to go? And then what steps do I need to

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take to get me closer to that? And it's not about I mean, I'm sure you can agree with this, not about

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creating that vision, and then stuffing it in the back of Google Drive. It's about having it front

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and center, right? So that when new shiny objects come in, I mean the podcast that because of that,

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right? Yes, exactly. And so it's, you know, when those new, some of those first steps you took,

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okay, yes. So those are still, yeah, for sure. I know I had to be clear on my vision. And then

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the other thing I had to do was look at all the things that I had to do in my business and be

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strategic with my task list. Because what I was doing is saying, oh, I'll start at the top and

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just plow through, you know, as many as I can get done. Or the other ways, depending on my mood,

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sometimes I would just cherry pick those things that I wanted to do. But I had to be strategic

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and say what things are actually going to move the needle forward and make sure I have time in my week

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to do those things each and every week. Right? So being realistic about my time and what how I was

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going to spend that time. That was a big one to start with. Another thing was looking at my

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calendar, because I had my calendar wide open, you could book whatever you wanted whenever you wanted,

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pretty much. Right? And so again, I had to be strategic about that. No, I have dedicated time

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when I'm working on my marketing system, dedicated time when I'm working on my sales, dedicated time

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for client delivery. And, you know, those are non negotiable. Those are booked into my calendar.

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I also have dedicated time for my family and my life.