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**Technical issues this week, so bear with me on this one! The audio is a little bit wonky and isn’t synched up halfway through the video, so you’ll probably see some funny faces 😆 and hear a bit of static here and there. Sorry about this! Working on fixing it for fixed next week.**
I work with a lot of introverted solopreneurs and a thing that comes up a lot is feeling more motivated to do certain things in your business and feeling really unmotivated to do other things.
Like spending hours on your new website, but not sending out messages because you don't want to feel pushy. Or always going above and beyond for your clients but never looking at your expenses and leaving your tax return to the very last second.
Especially when you’re a solopreneur, you don’t have a team (yet) and you are the one doing everything in your business.
You’re also the one making the decisions. There’s no one there that you’re accountable to. There’s no one there to say: “Hey, this needs to get done today.”
There’s no one there to help you decide what’s the most important thing to do on a day to day basis.
There’s great freedom in that and probably one of the reasons why you’re an entrepreneur in the first place is to have that freedom and to be able to make those decisions for yourself.
But it can become a problem when you constantly find yourself working on things that don’t actually impact your business.
When the most important things never seem to get done, when you’re always putting out fires, or when you’re keeping yourself busy to the extent that you never have time to think about what you really want out of life.
In this week’s episode, we talk about what can you do about this. We’ll talk about why there probably isn’t anything wrong with your motivation, that many people talk about motivation when they really mean discipline, and you’ll learn a practical exercise to gain insight into what motivates you.
▶️▶️ Book a free call with Mariella to reveal your habit style:: https://forms.gle/XpVZp4LMPcBQGoVMA
▶️ Get Mariella's free training bundle "From stressed to focused introverted entrepreneur with this simple daily practice": https://www.thefrankermessage.com/subscribe
▶️ Connect with Mariella on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamfranker/
🎵 Andrés Rodríguez
I work with a lot of introverted solopreneurs and a thing that comes up a lot is feeling more motivated to do certain things in your business and feeling really unmotivated to do other things.
Like spending hours on your new website, but not sending out messages because you don't want to feel pushy. Or always going above and beyond for your clients but never looking at your expenses and leaving your tax return to the very last second.
Especially when you’re a solopreneur, you don’t have a team (yet) and you are the one doing everything in your business.
You’re also the one making the decisions. There’s no one there that you’re accountable to. There’s no one there to say: “Hey, this needs to get done today.”
There’s no one there to help you decide what’s the most important thing to do on a day to day basis.
There’s great freedom in that and probably one of the reasons why you’re an entrepreneur in the first place is to have that freedom and to be able to make those decisions for yourself.
But it can become a problem when you constantly find yourself working on things that don’t actually impact your business.
When the most important things never seem to get done, when you’re always putting out fires, or when you’re keeping yourself busy to the extent that you never have time to think about what you really want out of life.
In this week’s episode, we talk about what can you do about this. We’ll talk about why there probably isn’t anything wrong with your motivation, that many people talk about motivation when they really mean discipline, and you’ll learn a practical exercise to gain insight into what motivates you.
▶️▶️ Book a free call with Mariella to reveal your habit style:: https://forms.gle/XpVZp4LMPcBQGoVMA
▶️ Get Mariella's free training bundle "From stressed to focused introverted entrepreneur with this simple daily practice": https://www.thefrankermessage.com/subscribe
▶️ Connect with Mariella on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamfranker/
🎵 Andrés Rodríguez
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