Creating Your Ideal Support Plan
Hey, just in case you missed it – today is the last day of our Bigger Dream sale on tickets to our Big Comeback Event, which is coming up on December 7-9. At the event, we will create a 14-step Certified Revenue Breakthrough Plan so that you can step into your Bigger Dream for 2023 and build a business that really lays out a support plan and whatever that looks like for you.
For many of you, as you think about your Bigger Dream for 2023, you also start to think about why it’s unattainable or how you’ve failed to create that Bigger Dream in the past.
There are so many reasons why you might feel or think that way – but one of the biggest is that we’re trying to do our dreams alone.
We think about all the steps we’ll have to take, all the places where we could fall down, all the questions we don’t have answers to. Most of us eventually realize that we need more support – and then we’re at a loss as to how we can get that support.
This is one of the reasons why creating a support plan is the final – last but not least – step in our Certified Revenue Breakthrough Planning process that we’ll be working through at the Big Comeback Event.
Because we’re not meant to build our dreams alone. We’re meant to build our dreams with the support of one another.
So today I’d like to talk through the three basic kinds of support that are important as you start to step into your bigger dreams.
The first is accountability. Most of us grew up with people around to hold us accountable. As kids, most of us had parents and teachers keeping tabs on us. When we got jobs, we were accountable to our managers.
And then we stepped into running businesses, and suddenly it didn’t matter whether we got things done. Suddenly, there was no one breathing down your neck.
In some ways that’s really nice, but in other ways, it means that we put off our deadlines. We procrastinate. And when things get hard, we take a very long time to do them.
So the first level of support is finding an accountability partner – another entrepreneur – to support you on your path of achieving your goals.
And a great thing to do is to have a 30 minute accountability meeting every single week with that partner. Each of you can take this time to announce your celebrations, your deadlines, and your plans for the next week.
Now, the number one mistake that people make with accountability partners is that they pick someone who they really love, who they have a great friendship with, but that can make it really difficult to step in and call each other out when you’re not hitting your respective goals.
For me, my most effective accountability-partner relationships were with people who scared me just a little bit, so that I really didn’t want to show up at our meetings without having met my goals.
In fact, our accountability meetings were on Thursdays, and my husband would joke that I always worked the hardest on Wednesdays because I wanted to finish all my work in preparation.
So whomever you choose, make sure that you’re willing to really stand strong for your accountability partner and that you have permission to call each other out.
The second support mechanism that I recommend putting into place is home support or personal support.
This could look like asking for more support at home from friends and family, which could mean, for example, that they have to stop calling you in the middle of the day while you’re working.
Maybe you start to clean out a room in your home that will be solely yours for your business.
The third – and perhaps the most intimidating – support mechanism that I recommend is actually hiring someone for your business.
We’re going to delve a lot further into these levels of support at the Big Comeback Event, but I want to start with the reason why many of you don’t have more support in your businesses – and that’s because you feel like you don’t have enough money to pay someone.
So I want you to actually do the math.
Let’s say you pay an assistant $40 an hour to work for you five hours a month.
Five hours times $40 is $200 that you’re going to be paying each month to free up five hours of your time.
Let’s say you use those five hours to set up three sales conversations. If you close one client for a thousand dollars, that’s a five times return on your $200 investment into paying the assistant.
One of my first hires early on in my business was a personal assistant who came to work for me for five hours every Friday.
I paid her $15 an hour to do things like get groceries, send out my returns, organize my folders, file things and take care of the tasks that I just didn’t have time for.
Those five hours per week allowed me to reclaim 20 hours every month – and those 20 extra hours allowed me to do more sales conversations and easily doubled my income.
It’s absolutely worth it.
So as you’re thinking about creating your Bigger Dream, I want you to think about what level(s) of support you need in your business.
It’s OK if you’re not ready for a virtual assistant yet. If you’re not ready for a personal assistant, maybe now’s a good time for you to find an accountability partner.
Whatever you need, I want you to know that you’re not going to step into your Bigger Dream alone. And I want to invite you to come create your Bigger Dream with us at the Big Comeback Event.
Today is the last day of our Bigger Dream sale, which means it’s the last day to get a ticket for $95 with the code save400. I’m so, so excited to help you create a vision of the life you want, step into your Bigger Dream, and build a business plan that supports it.
