Episode 190： How To Plan Your Week As An Entrepreneur
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Summary
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
Transcript
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30 seconds. One time for the underdog. Ignition sequence start.
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Let me see you put them up. Reach the sky, touch the stars up above.
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Cause it's one time for the underdog. One time for the underdog.
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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.
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Number one. So first thing I do is I grab a blank sheet of paper and I categorize it in five different categories.
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Business, finance, health, spiritual, family, right?
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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.
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So it's a reminder throughout the week on what I need to do next.
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Number two. So once I have my to-do list sheet of paper right next to me on the table,
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the following thing I do is I go to my calendar and I go back 90 days.
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This is why I go back 90 days. A couple of reasons.
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One, I'm going back to find any leaks of people I need to follow up on.
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When I do that, I write the name here. I need to follow up with John.
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Family. I need to follow up with Bob. Business. I need to follow up with such and such.
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Personal trainer, health. I make my notes here.
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The next thing I do is accountability. I look at my daily monitoring activity.
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Let me explain to you what I mean by daily monitoring activity.
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Every single day I have a certain set of activity I need to be doing.
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So I score my week. Was this a 7? Was this a 9? Was this a perfect week? A 10?
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Whatever your numbers are for your business, I don't know what it is, you've got to have certain
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criterias to make it a 10. When you have a 10, you green it out. This week was a 10.
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This week was a 9. But I gauge my week after week after week.
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So once I have this set up, then I look at my following week that's coming up for my schedule.
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So one is 90 days. The other one is the next week coming up.
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This prepares me mentally on what's coming up the next week.
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Number three. So look, no matter who it is, whatever kind of a business you're on,
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everybody typically has a handful of people they can contact on Sunday night or Saturday.
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So I'll ask them, I'll say, listen, this week we have this project coming up.
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What's going on with this? And this week we've got this going on.
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Are we fully prepared for this one thing that's coming up tomorrow?
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I'm going to communicate typically on Sunday night with five to seven of my direct people
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that I'm working with so they are also prepared for the week.
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Because if I wait until Monday, we're already behind the eight ball.
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So the next thing I do is I make a list of people that need to hear from me this week.
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Meaning vendors, partners, executives, sales clients.
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Who needs to hear from me and what kind of message is it?
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Is it an encouraging message? Is it an accountability?
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I make that as a list of people I need to follow up with and I add that to my to-do list.
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So now that I've done that, my to-do list is going to tell me any big meetings I have coming up.
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I'm having a meeting with certain carriers, insurance companies.
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And what do I have to prepare for this meeting, right?
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So stuff that I need to prepare, data, quote, if it's a sales training, whatever it is I need to prepare for that.
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And others, if it's investors, what other deck do I need to have a presentation, a PowerPoint?
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If it is a lot, I'll make sure the people that are helping me with this start putting it together as well.
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So one of the things I like to do is I like to send gifts, cards, any kind of certain things, flowers, edible arrangement.
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Who is supposed to be getting something from me this week?
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By the way, this is family, business, finance, every one of them.
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Who needs to hear from me as far as a gift goes?
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So depending if you're married, you have kids, you're single, family, mom, dad, brother, sister, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever it may be.
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I need to know what is needed from me this week.
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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.
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I'm reading industry stuff that's taking place.
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I got to get my mind mentally prepared for the crazy week that's about to come up.
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And I feed myself for about an hour reading on Sunday night.
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So right after that, what I like to do is study numbers.
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I mean, I love studying numbers because it tells a story, right?
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So yes, I track my activity on 90 days and what I got coming up this week.
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But what I do next is study numbers, actual numbers.
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If you're doing real estate, how many homes did you sell last month, the month prior to that?
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I sit there and I look at how many people did we sell a policy to?
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I'm looking at all of those numbers together to prepare me and know exactly where my business
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Because I don't want to be caught with a surprise when I go and knowing, wait a minute, this
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I want to know all of it before I start my week.
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So this last one may sound weird to you, but I prepare my clothes for the following
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day because I don't like to wake up in the morning looking at my closet saying, what am
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If I had a mightwear, I'd wear a white shirt every single day with blue jeans and flip
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So I put my suits up to tie all this other stuff.
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I work at clothes night before so in the morning I don't need to do any thinking about clothes.
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So listen, the whole purpose of doing this is for two reasons.
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One, for you to be prepared for your week so you're not really stressed out going to sleep
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at night, and two, to actually have a strategy going into your week.
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By the way, think about what a small percentage of people actually spend a couple hours on
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You're beating 90% of your competition if you do this.
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So here's what I'm going to start doing on a weekly basis.
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And by the way, for some of you that are saying, man, I found so many leaks in my business
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This video itself for consulting could be $100,000 for me to spend time breaking down the leaks
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people have in their businesses, but this video is also on Valuetainment.
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The title of this video is, How to Find Leaks in Your Business.
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If you saw this video, go to that video as well because that's going to help you find
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other leaks in your business that you currently have.
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And by the way, if you haven't already subscribed to Valuetainment on iTunes, please do so.
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And if you have any questions for me that you may have, you can always find me on Snapchat,
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Just search my name, Patrick MidDavid, and I actually do respond back when you snap me