Valuetainment - October 17, 2018


Episode 190： How To Plan Your Week As An Entrepreneur


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How to plan your week as an Entrepreneur 1. Categorize your week into 5 categories 2. Go back to your calendar and go back 90 days 3. Score your week 4. Make a list of people you need to hear from me this week 5. Gauge my week 6. Plan for the next week 7. Get yourself mentally prepared for the week

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00:00:00.280 30 seconds. One time for the underdog. Ignition sequence start.
00:00:06.980 Let me see you put them up. Reach the sky, touch the stars up above.
00:00:11.100 Cause it's one time for the underdog. One time for the underdog.
00:00:17.320 I'm Patrick Bedevi, your host of AITM. And today I'm going to talk to you about how to plan your week as an entrepreneur.
00:00:22.600 Number one. So first thing I do is I grab a blank sheet of paper and I categorize it in five different categories.
00:00:27.860 Business, finance, health, spiritual, family, right?
00:00:31.320 And every time I fill this out, by the time I'm done with my strategy session, those to-do lists end up on my phone.
00:00:37.380 So it's a reminder throughout the week on what I need to do next.
00:00:40.340 Number two. So once I have my to-do list sheet of paper right next to me on the table,
00:00:44.180 the following thing I do is I go to my calendar and I go back 90 days.
00:00:48.100 This is why I go back 90 days. A couple of reasons.
00:00:50.580 One, I'm going back to find any leaks of people I need to follow up on.
00:00:55.820 When I do that, I write the name here. I need to follow up with John.
00:00:59.460 Family. I need to follow up with Bob. Business. I need to follow up with such and such.
00:01:03.200 Personal trainer, health. I make my notes here.
00:01:05.600 The next thing I do is accountability. I look at my daily monitoring activity.
00:01:10.640 Let me explain to you what I mean by daily monitoring activity.
00:01:13.220 Every single day I have a certain set of activity I need to be doing.
00:01:16.780 So I score my week. Was this a 7? Was this a 9? Was this a perfect week? A 10?
00:01:22.300 Whatever your numbers are for your business, I don't know what it is, you've got to have certain
00:01:25.840 criterias to make it a 10. When you have a 10, you green it out. This week was a 10.
00:01:30.120 This week was a 9. But I gauge my week after week after week.
00:01:33.740 So once I have this set up, then I look at my following week that's coming up for my schedule.
00:01:39.060 So one is 90 days. The other one is the next week coming up.
00:01:42.120 This prepares me mentally on what's coming up the next week.
00:01:45.040 Number three. So look, no matter who it is, whatever kind of a business you're on,
00:01:48.160 everybody typically has a handful of people they can contact on Sunday night or Saturday.
00:01:53.080 This is like your main core team, right?
00:01:55.320 So I'll ask them, I'll say, listen, this week we have this project coming up.
00:01:57.920 What's going on with this? And this week we've got this going on.
00:01:59.640 By the way, are you prepared with this?
00:02:01.160 Are we fully prepared for this one thing that's coming up tomorrow?
00:02:03.420 Because we have to be, yes, we are.
00:02:05.200 I'm going to communicate typically on Sunday night with five to seven of my direct people
00:02:09.460 that I'm working with so they are also prepared for the week.
00:02:12.420 Because if I wait until Monday, we're already behind the eight ball.
00:02:15.180 Number four.
00:02:15.780 So the next thing I do is I make a list of people that need to hear from me this week.
00:02:19.260 Meaning vendors, partners, executives, sales clients.
00:02:22.600 Who needs to hear from me and what kind of message is it?
00:02:24.700 Is it an encouraging message? Is it an accountability?
00:02:27.020 Is it a report? Is it an update?
00:02:28.680 Is it a direction? Is it a challenge?
00:02:30.220 We need to improve in such and such area.
00:02:32.120 What is it?
00:02:32.900 I make that as a list of people I need to follow up with and I add that to my to-do list.
00:02:37.560 Number five.
00:02:38.520 So now that I've done that, my to-do list is going to tell me any big meetings I have coming up.
00:02:42.600 A board meeting, right?
00:02:43.660 Maybe I'm having an investor meeting.
00:02:45.560 I'm having a meeting with certain carriers, insurance companies.
00:02:48.480 And what do I have to prepare for this meeting, right?
00:02:51.100 So stuff that I need to prepare, data, quote, if it's a sales training, whatever it is I need to prepare for that.
00:02:57.360 And others, if it's investors, what other deck do I need to have a presentation, a PowerPoint?
00:03:02.980 If it's not a lot, great.
00:03:04.160 If it is a lot, I'll make sure the people that are helping me with this start putting it together as well.
00:03:08.480 Number six.
00:03:09.780 So one of the things I like to do is I like to send gifts, cards, any kind of certain things, flowers, edible arrangement.
00:03:15.640 I will make a list.
00:03:17.060 Who is supposed to be getting something from me this week?
00:03:20.700 That list is also made on my to-do list.
00:03:22.560 By the way, this is family, business, finance, every one of them.
00:03:25.560 Who needs to hear from me as far as a gift goes?
00:03:27.820 And that goes out the following week.
00:03:29.420 Number seven.
00:03:29.980 So depending if you're married, you have kids, you're single, family, mom, dad, brother, sister, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever it may be.
00:03:36.200 I ask, what do we have going on this week?
00:03:38.440 Do we have a birthday going on?
00:03:39.480 Do we have wedding?
00:03:40.180 What do you need me at?
00:03:41.600 I need to know what is needed from me this week.
00:03:43.740 Especially if you have kids, it's very critical for you to know, hey, we have a family thing going on with the teacher here on such and such date.
00:03:51.360 Great.
00:03:51.920 I'm ready for it.
00:03:52.800 And we move on.
00:03:53.660 Number eight.
00:03:54.360 So next thing is I'm reading.
00:03:55.620 I'm reading a book.
00:03:56.280 I'm reading articles.
00:03:57.060 I'm reading news.
00:03:57.640 I'm reading industry stuff that's taking place.
00:03:59.480 I'm going out there and studying, right?
00:04:01.360 I got to get my mind mentally prepared for the crazy week that's about to come up.
00:04:05.400 And I feed myself for about an hour reading on Sunday night.
00:04:09.640 Number nine.
00:04:10.500 So right after that, what I like to do is study numbers.
00:04:12.500 I mean, I love studying numbers because it tells a story, right?
00:04:15.660 So yes, I track my activity on 90 days and what I got coming up this week.
00:04:20.480 But what I do next is study numbers, actual numbers.
00:04:23.720 If you're doing real estate, how many homes did you sell last month, the month prior to that?
00:04:28.500 I sit there and I look at how many people did we sell a policy to?
00:04:31.900 How many people was the week before?
00:04:33.660 How about the week prior to that?
00:04:34.780 What are we doing Q1 to Q2?
00:04:36.580 What's Q3 looking like last year's Q4?
00:04:39.020 I'm looking at all of those numbers together to prepare me and know exactly where my business
00:04:43.860 is at today.
00:04:45.000 Because I don't want to be caught with a surprise when I go and knowing, wait a minute, this
00:04:48.920 one, that is low.
00:04:50.080 This one's high.
00:04:50.720 I want to know all of it before I start my week.
00:04:52.400 Number 10.
00:04:53.400 So this last one may sound weird to you, but I prepare my clothes for the following
00:04:56.460 day because I don't like to wake up in the morning looking at my closet saying, what am
00:05:00.360 I going to wear to?
00:05:00.860 If I had a mightwear, I'd wear a white shirt every single day with blue jeans and flip
00:05:05.440 flops, right?
00:05:06.060 But some days I'm meeting with investors.
00:05:07.540 So I put my suits up to tie all this other stuff.
00:05:10.260 I work at clothes night before so in the morning I don't need to do any thinking about clothes.
00:05:15.180 So listen, the whole purpose of doing this is for two reasons.
00:05:17.540 One, for you to be prepared for your week so you're not really stressed out going to sleep
00:05:20.580 at night, and two, to actually have a strategy going into your week.
00:05:24.680 By the way, think about what a small percentage of people actually spend a couple hours on
00:05:28.940 Sunday night preparing for their week.
00:05:31.160 10%?
00:05:31.640 You're beating 90% of your competition if you do this.
00:05:34.280 So here's what I'm going to start doing on a weekly basis.
00:05:36.060 And by the way, for some of you that are saying, man, I found so many leaks in my business
00:05:39.720 if I'm not doing this.
00:05:41.000 There's a video.
00:05:42.360 This video itself for consulting could be $100,000 for me to spend time breaking down the leaks
00:05:47.560 people have in their businesses, but this video is also on Valuetainment.
00:05:50.740 The title of this video is, How to Find Leaks in Your Business.
00:05:53.860 If you saw this video, go to that video as well because that's going to help you find
00:05:57.960 other leaks in your business that you currently have.
00:06:00.160 Thanks everybody for listening.
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00:06:21.900 With that being said, have a great day today.
00:06:23.640 Take care everybody.
00:06:24.360 Bye-bye.