In talking to wellness pros, we often hear, between the lines, “I don’t have enough time to do what is most important.” In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss the importance of strategy, organization and project management in pro healer career success.

Overwhelm is a choice. While you might just think you’re really busy, and you might think everything is working, the fact is that if you’re not leveraging your time, if your business isn’t scalable, if you don’t have enough time on any given day to do what is going to make the biggest difference for you and your career months or years down the road, you’re just spinning your wheels and and setting yourself up for more overwhelm.

Learning or creating a good strategy is the key to stepping out of overwhelm. Once you have a good strategy, you need to know how to implement it and make it real with time, attention, and rhythm. The first step is to identify which of your activities are optional, which are enjoyable, and what is scalable. Talk to Grace. She can help you identify the leaks in your time and energy and put you on the path to doing what is most important.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What’s at stake when we don’t have a way to efficiently meet our goals.
• How to managing your big goals.
• What tools work best for goal and project management.

Links:

• Have a Conversation with Grace
• Detox with us this spring
• Body Thrive
• Catch Your Dream to Live Your Life at the Next Level

Show Highlights:

• 4:30 – Overwhelm doesn’t always seem like overwhelm. Sometimes overwhelm looks like multiple streams of income. But if those multiple streams of income are keeping you from living the life and having the lifestyle you want, it’s not working.
• 7:40 – When things aren’t working that well, and you’re experiencing a loss of integrity, you need a better strategy. YHC is a better strategy.
• 9:30 – Scalability is increasing your level of impact and income without increasing the amount of energy you’re expending or the amount of time you’re working. With yoga health coaching, it’s possible to increase impact and income while decreasing the amount of time you spending working.
• 11:20 – While YHC teaches Cate’s strategy for scalability, Awake Living teaches you how to develop your own strategy.
• 15:00 – Once you have a good strategy, you need to know how to implement it and make it real with time, attention, and rhythm.
• 17:00 – Your strategy needs to be simple and you need to use the right tools for the right job.
• 18:40 – Time blocking and using a project management tool is crucial to the success of the implementation of your strategy.
• 22:20 – YHC finds the “leak” in your time faucet and teaches you to focus on activities that will allow you to scale your business. Schedule a conversation with Grace to get started!

Favorite Quotes:

• “When you have a loss of energy over time, you have a loss of integrity to the structure.” — Cate Stillman
• “Don’t be scared of what’s real. . . . You know how to do what you’re doing.” — Cate Stillman

How do we set the right goals to lead us into our next stage of growth? And how can we actually achieve them? Tune in to find out.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why you might be setting the wrong goals to get you to your next growth step
• How to set the right goals to actually achieve them
• Why you should time budget for all of your goals

Links:

• Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• Have a Career Conversation with Grace

Show Highlights:

• 0:45 – Setting the wrong goals can lead us down a path that doesn’t build our competencies in a way that gets us to our next growth step efficiently. We can make broader, three-year phase plans in order to guide our smaller goals.
• 2:30 – How can you tell that a goal is too big? Sometimes our ambition is high, but we don’t know what actually needs to happen. Body wisdom and check-ins can guide our intuition to recognize if that is the case. If it feels ungrounded, then it is.
• 3:40 – Our goals should have a metric, a measurable number often representing impact or income. Once you have an impact or income goal, map it backwards to the strengths you have to leverage right now, and which ones you need to develop.
• 5:50 – It’s helpful to have someone weigh in on whether you have the skills or capacity to reach your goals. This person should be someone who cares about you and who knows your tendencies, and who is also grounded in reality.
• 15:00 – If you want to accomplish something, talk to people who have done it before, and make sure it is what you really want to do. Then inquire about how you can get more information, and make a plan to get it done.
• 20:45 – Instead of trying to get it right every time, allow yourself to build the habit of developing a system around your goals, and grow from your lessons learned along the way.

Favorite Quotes:

• “There’s this bigger goal, and then we have to work it back so it doesn’t feel foreign.” – Grace Edison
• “It should be a fairly linear path.” – Cate Stillman
• “If it feels ungrounded, then it is.” – Cate Stillman
• “What do I need to develop to hit that goal?” – Cate Stillman
• “This is part of the exhale of life. The exhale gives you the time to reassess.” – Cate Stillman