152 Removing Your Greatest Weakness

Hey it’s Anne with your Coaching on the Go.

Last Coaching on the Go, I talked with you about pinpointing the top things limiting you, keeping you from your next level of operation, keeping you from your vision, the things that keep derailing you, that keep having you drop the ball.

What are those things?

So for me, I’ll give you an example today; for me, it’s my calendar.

I’ve had a lot of things I shifted and worked on over time.

I’m stepping into my next level, engaging with land easements, funding, raising massive amounts of money for big projects, expanding my coaching program, offering retreats at the retreat center, collaborating with groups of people while seeing massive amounts of incredible content people are offering that I don’t want to miss, and my social things…my life, family, downtime, other things I am interested in beyond work, or my career.

Those are all in motion, and a couple of months ago, I felt like I could hardly figure out just how to do it?

I looked at all these people I admire, asking how they do it.

How do these people, who are doing a lot more than I am, succeed?

There has to be some way to figure this out.

My calendar was something I picked.

The way I engage with time was the thing that I felt was going to get me to my next level, the biggest thing that stands out, if I improved, would change things for me.

Once you locate the number one thing you want to work on, the focus is to shift it in a month.

It may take more than a month because there is more in there than you realize.

What if you shifted in 2 months?

By the end of the year, your life is different because you have risen to the challenge of becoming what you need to become to be and do and have that next level YOU that you envision with everything fitting together.

So back to my calendar.

This is what I did.

I started first looking at the calendar.

I mapped it out.

This can support you in whatever you’re doing because I am talking about how I picked apart one particular area and looked at it.

I first looked at my calendar.

I wasn’t following it.

I put things in there, but do not follow them.

It starts out great in the morning, but if something derails me, then I didn’t have enough built-in flexibility.

Another thing I discovered as I logged how I operate with time, is that I am most productive for work at different times of the day than I had plotted the blocks of time for.

Over the first month, I began to see the pattern in the way that I use time.

Things that I liked and things I wanted to shift.

The things I liked were that at certain times during the day, I am more productive and interested in focusing on work, and it is not necessarily the times you would think a person would be working.

For me, late afternoon into the evening, after dinner when the energy of the day is waning or waxing, I don’t know which one is which; when the energy of the day is starting to quiet, I get super productive.

For a block of three or four hours, I get extremely productive in the late afternoon or early evening.

I also discovered that if I work out early in the morning, if I get up right away and don’t put on my incredibly luxurious bathrobe, and put on my workout clothes (like my 100-year old father), I don’t start relaxing.

I get up, have more purpose, and if I work out early, my whole day is better.

I thought I would have this taken care of in a month, but I still wasn’t abiding by the calendar and I wasn’t getting the things done that I wanted to or needed to.

I discovered I could listen to some other content, coaching, teaching, educate myself, and have meetings during the day.

Then I found that later in the day, at a time when most people are hanging it up for the day, is when I really get productive.

So sometimes during the day, I might take a nap, a walk, do something else, some cleaning, or do things that give my mind a break.

As a result, I’m becoming highly productive, and I don’t feel guilty about the blocks of time in the afternoon I am taking to do some non- work activities because I know I am setting myself up for a super productive work time later in the day.

So what am I saying to you?

Sometimes when you start digging into the thing that you get the shift, you learn unexpected things and you can figure out what works best for you, and adapt.

Sometimes the solution to what your challenge is isn’t what you think.

Sometimes you navigate to it, but if you’re not thinking about it.

I could just be telling a story about time.

“This is how it is for me.”

“I have a hard time with time.”

I could just be making excuses.

You can make excuses and say that particular thing is you, or you can decide how to master it.

You can still be yourself, but you rise to the next level.

That’s what we are working on now for you.

We are working on, YOU in constant expansion, YOU constantly being curious about yourself, and if you don’t like the way you are operating, how can you change it?

How can you shift it so you can continue to the next level?

You cannot be, do and have the next level of life if you are not in alignment with it, not functioning at that level.

You can not just have it because you want it.

You get to step into it.

You get to embody the characteristics of it so you can be it, then it can show up, and you can step right into it because it is where you are.

If that doesn’t make sense, ask me some questions at our next Pod Session or Masterclass.

Have a beautiful day.

Do the homework.

Start working on it.

What is the one thing?

How are you focusing on it this month?

Think about how you want to master it.

If you need some support (coaching), ask me some questions.