00:00:18Welcome to women conquer business. My name is Jan McFarland. This podcast is for smart, serious business, owners, tired of the senseless chatter about growing a business. If you don't want to hear any more, get-rich-quick too good to be true nonsense. You've come to the right place. You'll learn my mindset is everything, as well as strategies for sustainable business growth and how to implement it along with the secrets. I learned leading large-scale business projects that also apply to five and six for your businesses. Are you ready? Let's go forth and conquer.

00:01:39I also wanted to thank all of you who have been listening whether it's since the beginning or you came along fairly recently. This show wouldn't exist without you without your experiences without the stories that you tell. And and that I myself experience in the business world.

00:02:04Let's get started. OK, Google confession to make.

00:03:11Maybe follow through on two or three.

00:03:24Give those ideas space and allow yourself to decide what the good ideas are. The bad ideas are and everybody comes up with bad ideas. Everybody has.

00:03:57And you can actually discern the difference. The key is to pay attention, and to have some knowledge and some framework around when you have 400 tabs, open in your brain for all of the ideas and you can possibly do all of the things and you can't harness it because you're so cluttered.

00:05:21difficult to harness the good stuff and let go of the

00:05:31Unbeneficial ideas and they're really just rabbit Trails rival holes that are brain goes down. It's kind of like, what if this what is this? What is that? What is that? So what we're trying to do is

00:05:57one of the ways that you can,

00:06:21You have been researching brain dumps in and how to how to work with it. So what a brain dump is, let's just start, there is it's a process for helping you unload all the clutter in your brain so that you can actually let go of it and you can either do a brain dump by yourself or actually recommend doing it with somebody else. Who can keep asking you questions to push you to clear even more out of what's going on in? Your head, is kind of this way of like getting out of your head, getting more in your body talking about things out loud so that you're able to move on and they're actually apps for this and they're actually lots of different ways of doing it. So here are some things that indicators that you may need to have a brain dump.

00:08:19Head that are stories from from before. It could be things that are going to be happening in two to three years. So what we're trying to do is empty out all of the little things that are nagging at us in our head, when you might want to think about,

00:09:09I know, it sounds like you could be doing a brain dump all the time.

00:09:27Kate actually makes it easier.

00:10:25What you've never heard of pocket, it's basically like read later, you know, if you're in Facebook, you can book Market. If you're in another app, you might be able to book Market to pocket, even if I'm in Facebook. Because then I have all these articles that are like, that looks really cool, but I can read later because one of the ways you can harness your ideas to reach your goals is to eliminate distractions. And that's something that we talked about a fair amount on the show. This is another form of distraction, which is that mental clutter kind of build up over time of all the shoulds and I have to stay and all of the, the nagging things that can that can keep you up at night or can keep you from getting things done. So there are all kinds of apps out there that you can you can connect to. You can even just use notepad or anyting.

00:11:47So the benefit of that is that you can then review it and read it and then discern like what's important and what's not important. And I found a really good out for this recently that I would like to share with you. It's called Eisenhower and it's because President Eisenhower came up with a methodology for how to discern what he wants to move forward with. And what he doesn't, it's actually very similar to what Stephen Covey, came up with later. He kind of adapted it a little bit but if you're the president of the United States, you have to constantly being bombarded with ideas, about what you should do, what you can do and what you can't do. And so, Eisenhower came up with this Matrix that helps people discern or help him anyway. Discern all of the tasks and what works and what doesn't work.

00:13:37And honestly on the Eisenhower. Me website, they don't really talk about which box you should be focusing on as a business owner. And the truth is that many of us spend more time on do first Urgent and important and we spend less time delegating and we probably don't have a list of what we don't need to do. So to me those are kind of valuable points. Like what can I Outsource? And what is it that clearly I just don't need to be doing it all. But the box, it is actually the most important for you and me and all of us out there whether we're in business or not or just trying to get stuff. Done is the schedule.

00:14:28It'll tell you why.

00:14:39The less urgent but important things are typically wear things, like Business Development goes. How often do we actually follow through with a schedule for these things?

00:15:07But, I'll take care of it after I do these things first.

00:15:35The things you need to schedule out.

00:16:01The most important box is, what is not urgent, but important. These are the things that nag at you. These are the things that, you know, in your body heart and soul are the things that will help you move yourself your business, your life to wherever it is that you want to go.

00:16:25it's about Discerning if you don't need to be doing and

00:16:44And if there's one thing that I think we can all relate to, we spend a lot of time with her hair on fire, especially when we're trying to balance all of the things or trying to balance, friends and family and business. And whatever else that it has an art, we have in our life, whether it's you, no Hobbies or friends or all of these different things. The most important box in our life is what we need to schedule out. It's not urgent but it's important things like going on a date with somebody. You love or making time for friends or really looking at where you want to be in 235 years and

00:17:44To build the foundation that is going to take in order to reach those goals.

00:18:19And I think it's important to thank those ideas.

00:18:45And with that, I'm going to close the show. I hope you have a great day and I'll catch y'all next week.