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Volume 4,
Issue 4 Focus
Your Genius Getting
psyched for free teleclass; I am finally finishing up the details of one of my many projects. Yippee! If you are ready to GIVE YOURSELF A $10,000/yr RAISE, check out the teleclass announcement below! Also, I would love to get more interaction going with the amazing, wonderful, and highly diverse group of Renaissance Minds who are reading this newsletter. (And thank you for sending me such caring and thoughtful feedback - Look over there -->) So several times a year, or every newsletter, or once in a blue moon, or whatever tickles my fancy, I will be sending surveys out to you! (All feedback is completely anonymous through the service that I use.) I will have some quick check-box type, but I'll also be sending out some longer, free-form type questionnaires so you can really help me best serve YOU and what your biggest struggles may be as a Renaissance Mind. The current survey I'm sending out ties in to both the current economic conditions, but also think beyond and before what's going on, too. Were you able to manage money well, BEFORE "crisis" struck? Or did you struggle to balance your checkbook, even when times were booming? One of the biggest struggles with creative but scattered Renaissance Minds is FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. Especially around self-value. I am re-reading Barbara Stanny's "Overcoming Underearning," and it triggered some great questions I'd like to ask you; Renaissance Minds and Money Management Participation is encouraged and very appreciated! Note that it is a 2-page survey - you have to click the tiny "next" button at the bottom to get to page 2. As for today's newsletter, it is indeed a long-awaited continuation of the May newsletter, where I wrote about how to start to overcome overwhelm. (Read Overcoming Overwhelm - Take One Step Away From the Edge here!) While writing, I realized that this is ACTUALLY not a 2-part, but a 3-part series! ;) Now, I've learned the folly of making promises to WHEN I'll send the information, but this I promise you - you'll be receiving the third and final part of this series sometime later this year! Or maybe, next...! (How I crack myself up!)
Overcoming Overwhelm - "Containerizing" Your To-Do's In part 1 of this article, Overcoming Overwhelm - Take One Step Away From the Edge, I explained that the first step of digging out of complete overwhelm is to make a massive mind-dump of all of your unfinished tasks, projects, to-do's, and so forth, aka "Open Loops." Hope you did it, and more importantly, hope you can still FIND it, because now we're going to take that Open Loop mind dump one step farther. You will need the Open Loops page you already created (or go ahead and make an up-to-date version!), plus 2 blank sheets of paper. On the top of one sheet, write "TASKS." On the top of the other, write "PROJECTS." Here I want to pause, stand beside you, and say DO NOT underestimate the importance of this step. At this point, this giant "to-do" list of vague, undefined actions has been weighing you down. Especially if it was only kept in your head until now! It's an extremely heavy, draining, overwhelming feeling to have so many unidentified tasks on your plate that are just spinning around your head. This one small step has brought GIGANTIC breakthroughs for many of my clients. KK, now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Go down your mind-dump list. BRIEFLY evaluate each item on the list and guesstimate how much time it will take to complete. (It does not have to be broken down into its smallest component or step at this point.) If the time to complete is over an hour, it goes on the "Project" list. If it will take under an hour to complete, it goes on the task list. That's it. No purging, no decisions, no doing it. Just identifying where it belongs and logging it onto its new list. However, if the item's new home is on the TASK list, you do have one more step. Guesstimate - again, just a ballpark number will do, you're not being graded here - the total minutes it will take you to complete the task, and WRITE IT in parentheses next to the task. Ok, I will allow ONE exception to the "no doing it" clause above - if it's going on the task list AND it will take under 5 minutes to do, and you're feeling inspired, go to it. (Then you can still write it on the task list, and cross it off for your free "runner's high," that endorphin rush you get whenever you complete a task on your list!) I find that trying to estimate a project, something OVER an hour, can be quite unrealistic, so I usually don't bother until I'm breaking the project down into doable STEPS - at which point, I estimate how long the individual steps are going to take. So now your MIND DUMP OF UNFINISHED TO-DO's is no longer swirling around in that creative little head of yours. Now it's down on paper, sorted into two different categories (Projects vs. Tasks) AND furthermore, labeled as to how long it's estimated to take to complete. My guess is that, even though you have taken little to no action to DO any of these items, just going through this process brings you a sense of great relief. In addition to a little bit of validation - Geeeeeez, you probably have 18 projects and 64 and-a-half hours of tasks on your list - no WONDER you don't seem to be getting anything done! Still one more step to go to finalize the "Overcoming Overwhelm" series, coming (at some point) to an in-box near you. BTW-
Keeping aligned with my survey, I highly recommend Barbara Stanny's book "Overcoming Underearning: A 5-Step Plan to a Richer Life." It helped me a lot along my own financial path, and if you do all the exercises it truly is a life-changing financial management tool. Also a shout-out to Julie Morgenstern's "Time Management From the Inside Out" for her wonderful help with containerizing our tasks!
Give Yourself
a $10,000/yr Raise! Mark your calendars! In less than 2 weeks, I'm going to be sharing seven simple steps to creating your first "Information Product," a great way to start earning passive revenue! (And if you have no idea what an information product is, be sure and attend the free conference call - believe me, you won't be sorry!) More details will be released via email next week, but if you're interested, mark your calendar! Give Yourself
a $10,000/yr Raise! (Note that this is not a toll-free call; you will be charged for the call based on your long distance phone plan.) If you're a budding (or established) writer, author, coach, teacher, trainer, leader, small business owner, or candlestick-maker, you will DEFINITELY want to participate in this teleclass! All of the steps you need to take to create your FIRST Information Product - which will then become your first stream of passive, long-term income, woot woot! - are going to be shared in this 1-hour teleconference! And best of all, it's absolutely FREE!
Feedback Welcome I'd love to hear what you think about today's issue of Focus Your Genius. Please send comments and feedback to TammyCook@RenaissanceMinds.com. Comments and feedback may be posted in future newsletters or articles, unless you specifically request otherwise. Warmly, |
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with the name- Werner Erhard. I did the EST training back in 1979 or
1980.... I forgot that he said that! Hi Tam – I love reading your newsletters and can’t wait to hear more about your product launches – wow!! That is fantastic. Miss you. Lisa
thanks Tammy, ...Your sharing
of your journey is helping me (as I know others too) and I am finding
courage in my conviction to finish what I started. ...I’ve missed
your news letters and am glad to see that you have managed to get through
all the diversions and get back your focus. I can completely understand
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