✍🏽 What is your joyful productivity structure for 2024 of working your business?
To have a financially sustainable business will require you to have a sustainable time/energy management structure for you to work on your business. I'll call that your "joyful productivity structure". What does that look like for you? Comment below and share with us anything you'd like to share about your structure. Resource to help you create -- and keep integrity with -- your joyful pro structure: The 111 Formula -- Go to the BizPlan course and scroll down to the 111 Formula Module. The Weekly Plan -- Go to Joyful Pro course and scroll down to the module "Weekly Planning". The Q&A calls with me -- they start in January -- come to any Q&A call and ask for help to clarify your structure. Your monthly call with your Accountability Buddy (starting in January) is where you can revisit your structure, what you're learning about it (and about yourself), and recommit to the integrity of the structure. Besides adding your comment below, also look at some of the latest comments -- what do you appreciate about what they wrote? What can you learn from it? (If you don't see any comments below, it means you're currently logged out, or don't have access to this course.)
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What are "nichemates" and why they matter... vs "competitors"
Your most ideal connections are your niche mates: same audience, similar service. If there’s friendship, they can refer overflow clients to you... and you to them. You can also learn the most from them because their business (and marketing) lessons are applicable to yours too. You can perhaps share resources as well. There are no competitors. There are only niche mates who have the potential to become ideal connections. Unfortunately, not everyone is so open-hearted or abundance-minded… so please spread the word about this concept! A second tier (still very good) type of niche mate is someone with: either (1) the same audience and different service or (2) same service, different audience. You are professionally “adjacent” to one another, therefore can also refer clients or opportunities to each other. Comment below… describe a nichemate (without using their name) – what work do they do, and for what audience?
I love the piece about educating our audiences, especially within the context of newer modalities that are still freshly blossoming within larger umbrellas. For example: within Psychotherapy there are so many blossoming approaches (if you will) that sometimes people are less familiar with, even if you look at EMDR for Trauma Work or if you take IFS (Internal Family Systems).
When we (as providers) take the time to pause and provide information to the consumer regarding the service being provided, they will also get more out of it because they are then stepping into an informed consent for services. Otherwise, we run the risk of clients saying things like "this feels hand wavey" or "too abstract" or "where are you pulling this from?"
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Creating and refining this structure is one of the key reasons I've joined ABC! 😊
For now, I have these foundations in place: