A summer action plan is an essential ingredient to help you take action in your Direct Sales Business.
In Day 24, I’m helping you create a weekly plan you can turn into a ritual every Sunday night. Read this blog and create your own Sunday night plan in your workbook.
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As entrepreneurs we love to work our own flexible hours, but many times we find this wonderful advantage can actually be a great drawback if we don’t have any structure to those flex hours.
If you had a 9-5 job you would arrive at work at 8:30, break at 10:00, eat lunch at noon, and leave work at 5:00 pm. This is a structure you get used to and follow because someone else has set this rhythm for you.
When you don’t have structure with your time, other things get in your way. You get distracted very easily by bright shiny objects and next thing you know you are feeling overwhelm. There’s just too much to do and not enough time! This is when I say you’re growing your business, but you’re growing it randomly.
As entrepreneurs you have to figure out and find a way to get a regular schedule to become productive and get things done. I was feeling this way myself, and that’s when I decided to take one hour from my Sunday and sit down to plan out my week. I call it my Sunday Night Planning Ritual.
Planning your week on Sunday will not only help you be more productive but it will help you feel in control of your busy life, and more importantly it will help you focus on earning the income you want.
I make this so easy for my clients when they follow the weekly planning 
pages in the Direct Sales Planner that is a custom-designed system for direct sales entrepreneurs. It’s a ritual that helps you achieve weekly, monthly and yearly goals.
In the Direct Sales Planner my clients follow FOUR simple steps to help them plan their week on Sundays.
Step #1 Set Weekly Goals. It’s important to know your big yearly goal, or perhaps you’re working on a 90-day goal or your goal is to achieve the top leadership level in your company, but when you break these goals down week-by-week, you begin to see progress. These small week-by-week goals are driving you towards your big hairy goal and when you write them down each week in your direct sales planner, it helps you feel a sense of accomplishment as well as knowing your on track to the big picture.
Step #2 – Time blocking exercise. Now you’ve set your weekly goals, you want to know how much time you have available in your busy life. In Day 2 of this blog series, I take you through a simple time blocking exercise. It’s this weekly exercise that shows you how to structure THREE HOUR Blocks of time from Monday through Sunday. Three hours is the key, because it usually takes about three hours to hold a party. (Driving time, party time, and finish up time.) It’s this simple exercise that’s laid out in detail in the Direct Sales Planner that helps you be super productive knowing you have at least FIVE or more, three-hour blocks of time to work your business every week.
Step #3 – Three Daily Action Steps. Weekly goals are clear, and now you know the time you have available for the week, now it’s time to create some actions steps. What do you want to achieve each day of the week? The magic of the Power of 3, writing down 3 things you want to implement each day of the week, allows you to get things done from your to-do list.
And lastly, Step #4 – Dinner Menu. Write in your weekly dinner menu. Some of you may be thinking what does this have to do with my business. So many of my clients have loved this feature this year, to write down their weekly menus. I believe when a busy Mompreneur knows what’s for dinner for the week, it frees up her mind to be more productive in her business. Try it yourself and let me know.
You can do this Sunday Night Ritual in 30 minutes or one hour, but taking the time every week to sit down with yourself and plan out your week, will not only help you have that structured time in your business, you will actually begin to feel the rhythm of working as a successful entrepreneur.
Planning your week on a Sunday night helps you focus on
- scheduling time to make phone calls
- how many parties you do each week
- planning follow-up time every week (this is one most people leave out)
- organizing your team events for the week
- meeting prospects for coffee chat conversations
- following systems that work
People who have more to do, tend to be more disciplined when they have a structured schedule. I challenge you to begin your week with a Sunday night Ritual and create your own weekly structured timetable.
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