Hello. So this week on a podcast, we're going to talk about things that you can do today right now, right this very moment to help you simplify success today. A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting at my desk and I had my notebook in my hand and all sudden, I was making a list, you know how that happens? 

Does that happen to you, maybe it's just me. And I was making this list about ways to simplify success, like right now. And it was driven by things that I was finding myself telling clients and talking to clients about over and over and over and over again. And so this list of turned out to be 25, things basically just like fell out of my brain. And then it sat on my desk for a couple of weeks. And what I realized is I'm going to sort of, I kept thinking, what am I going to do with this, so I'm going to share some of them here. 

The other thing I'm doing with them over time is sharing them both in my LinkedIn world, and in my Facebook group, like one at a time with some extra stuff. So you're gonna get five of them here. If you want all 25, come on, hang out on my Facebook group, or come connect on LinkedIn or on Facebook, and the rest are gonna roll through, they're always gonna get hashtagged. By now, if I can manage to remember to do that, I worked really hard to do it. And I have a note here, highlighted, but sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.

 At any rate, today, I want to share five of these. And they are meant to be like, here's the thing about these tricks that help us simplify things right now. They're ridiculously simple. So you're gonna be like, Oh, or like, Well, yeah, I know how to do that. But the thing is, is do we actually do it, because that's the difference between things being simple and hard, right? We know how to make things simpler for ourselves. It's whether or not we do. And so these are some of my favorite ways to do it. And they're meant to serve as a reminder to you because they're not things that you couldn't come up with on your own. But they're things that often don't occur to us in the moment, we need them. And this is the way to get them.

 So, number one, always, always, always, always, always walk into an event, meeting, a networking, session, a coaching session, a whatever it is, you're going to meet with a new person meeting with an old friend with an intention. And by intention, what I mean is ask yourself, what would I be thrilled to get out of this meeting? Like what would I be absolutely freaking thrilled to walk away with? Because here's the thing. Number one, when you don't walk in with an intention, often what happens is we find ourselves leaving sort of men, because we didn't like we walk away the feeling of like, not really getting what we wanted. But mostly it's because we didn't know what we wanted. 

So setting the intention helps us to be clear on knowing that we got what we wanted and needed as we meet whatever that meeting or event was. But it also ensures that we are more likely to get it. Because if you walk into a meeting, knowing what you're trying to get out of it, you're much more likely to actually ensure that happens. So like I went to a networking meeting last summer. And as I was headed out the door, my husband said to me ask those ladies for babysitters. And so I knew what I was going to do at that meeting, no joke and networking business meeting, it's a women's group was asked those ladies about babysitters. And sure enough, I walked out with three two who I use regularly still to this day, almost a year later. And I was relative it did I get a business went out of it. No. But did I get exactly what I needed in that moment? Yes. 

And so knowing what I wanted and needed as I walked in, made a huge difference. Okay, so that's number one. Number two, this is you're gonna roll your eyes like I can see it coming. But this is a very simple, very effective thing you can do to stop overthinking it is this decide right now that people understand what you mean and get what you're trying to convey? Here's the thing we spend a lot of time on. Will they understand it? If I say it like this? Do they get what I'm offering? Does it make sense? Is it clear? Listen, we're always practicing making it clear. 

We are always practicing saying what we say a little more effectively. But in concert with that you can decide actively in your brain. You are allowed to do this. I do that all the time, that people understand what you mean and get what you're offering. You can just think like the people that I'm meant to work with, get it? They get me they get what I'm saying? Understand, because here's the other problem, there are always going to be people in the world that don't get it. You're never ever, ever going to explain it clear enough that everyone out there understands it. That's okay. Not everybody's meant to get it. 

Like there are times where I have like, there's a neighborhood dad, who always says to me, how's the happiness coaching going? And I just look at him, and he doesn't get it. But he's also not my audience. I don't care if he gets it. He's not who I'm trying to help. Like, I want to serve people. But, you know, if they're very clearly not understanding what you do it, possibly because they don't understand what you do, because it's not for them. So that's fine. You can No, decide that the people who you are meant to help. Who are in your world who need what you have, who want what you do, already get it. And that when you explain it, hang on. Yes. Right, you can decide that it connects that it's clear. Is it our placement entirely for doing the work? 30? No. But is it part of it? Absolutely. Because you are clear, and then you realize, you just haven't given yourself enough. But enough time saying it, right. The more we say it, the clearer it gets. We can also decide the people just get it. 

The people who want to hire you, they want to pay you they want to buy what you have, get what you have. They understand you. That's it. That's the truth. So you can just decide that today and stop spending so much time wondering, because they get it. That's number two. Number three, this one hurts my soul a little bit even to say out loud, but and this is a time one. Life is a lot simpler if you just listen to your calendar. I know, I know. Listen, here's the thing that your calendar wants you to know today. You put stuff on it for a reason. Prior you The you that put this on your calendar did it for a reason. 

That person that version of you that existed three days ago, or three months ago, or three weeks ago, that version of you was trying to set you up for success. And when you completely ignore those things on your calendar, you're ignoring that version of you that was trying to help. So listen, listen to your calendar, like I have a block on my calendar for today that I really need to spend, you know, shopping around for the kinds of speaking event that I want to be applying to in the next six months or a year. I have twice blown through that block in the last couple of weeks, I keep moving it. And today is the day that I listened to my calendar because it matters, I am putting it on my calendar because it matters. And so my job is to listen to my some people would call the higher version of myself that is actively blocking out this time to do this work, instead of just ignoring her. 

That's super good at ignoring her. Because I would much rather scroll tick tock to be quite honest. But I need to spend this time it is the thing that I know I need to be doing and I want to do. So I am going to respect my calendar. I'm going to respect the me that put that on the calendar and listen to her. And sometimes I have to have a talk with myself. That's like, Listen, you gotta listen to her just like I am right now, just like I'm telling you, but it helps if you do the same, to just allow your calendar to be your calendar and be like, Oh, wait, I put this here. I put this here for a reason. I'm gonna go ahead and respect it. I'm gonna do this right now. Great. makes everything a lot simpler, right? Okay, number four, I love you. And you're never going to feel ready. So you can go ahead and just stop waiting for it to happen. I know this is one of those simplifying for success, things that just is like an instantaneous kind of thing. So many of the things on this list are they happen in a moment?

 But here's the thing. You don't ever feel ready. None of us do. Like I have stood on the edge of a diving board. I swam all the way through college. I know how to swim. I'm very effective at moving through the water. I hate diving boards. I hate them. I don't want things that move under my feet and don't want to be a meter off the water. I don't want to be three meters off the water. I don't want to be 10 meters off the water. No, thank you very much. And I stand to the air. And I somehow think that someday I'm going to feel ready to deal with it. And you know what I never do, ever. In the 30 years I have known how to do that or longer, gosh, even longer than that kind of build right now. Don't talk about it. You're not going to feel ready. And not feeling ready is not a problem.

It's not we make it a problem. then it's like, well, but I don't feel ready yet. So now I have to wait. Or I don't feel ready yet. So something is wrong. And I think there are cases where it's like, you know what, it's not time yet. And that's okay. But that's not a readiness issue. That's a timing issue. And those are different. And oftentimes, in coaching, we sort of parched those two outright, I'll say to clients, like, is it that you're not ready? Or is it not the right time? And often, when I asked that question, people come back with one or the other, they know the answer. If you're waiting on something right now, to ask yourself, Is it because you're not ready? Or you're not feeling ready? Or is it because the timing is off somehow,? More often than not people know, you will know. 

So ask. And then, you know, if it's like, well, I just don't feel ready. I'm just not sure. You gotta go. Permission to go proceed, go for a hunker do the thing, because we're never going to feel ready. And success gets simpler. If we just continue forward. Like, I don't feel ready for anything. I often, like write out my notes for a podcast, and then think like, I could do this later. I don't feel ready to do that. Yep. That's never died. And so when I catch that in my brain, I stop and go, Wait, oh, wait, Sarah, come on. Just record, it's gonna take you 20 minutes, right. And then I can continue on and do all the things. Alright, so that's number four. So far we have had, I'm just gonna recap really quick. Always walk into an event, or a meeting or something with an intention, what are you going to be thrilled to walk away with? Number two, decide that people understand what you mean, and what you're conveying, and that they get you. And then say it again, decide people get it. Number three, listen to your calendar. And the person, the version of you that saw fit, you put it on your calendar, because she's looking out for your best interests. Number four, stop waiting to feel ready, not going to like a bust. And that we're standing on the corner and waiting for a bus in a city that doesn't have a bus service. Like it's not coming, you have permission to just go forward right now. 

And number five is this. This is something I hear from clients all the time, they'll say something to me, like, you know, I really just wish it worked like. Like, I really just wish my in the system I have for doing this thing with clients would work like this. I really just wish I could, you know, share what I have with people this way. I really just wish it was possible for me to do X thing. Here's the thing, you you have all the permission you need right there. You the minute you catch yourself thinking, I really just wish you'll get to go do that then. So if it is a process that you want to change, change it. If it is a kind of way you want to present your offers, you want to talk to people at channel you want to use who use it, if you want to, if you're thinking about another way to access people, or meet people go try it. I really just wish it is you getting to go make it. 

So you don't have to wish you're an entrepreneur you get to just do. Right? And every time I say to a client, well, why do you have to wish you get to do it? Like let's just do that then and they go, Oh, everybody just kind of pauses because we're used to like, Gosh, I wish I could do this differently? Well, actually you can. It's your business, you get to do what you want. That's how this works. That's why you're here. That's the flexibility you wanted. And you know, do I really just wish you know, women were paid equally for sure. Am I going to change that overnight? By like just changing a system? In my own business? No. But are there things that I can do? Absolutely. So I'm gonna do those things one at a time, can I work with clients and ensure that their pricing makes sense and is in line with the rest of the world in a way that like doesn't find them constantly under paying? Yes. And so I do that. That is my How can I show up in that battle?

 Right but for you, whether it's something in your day to day in the larger world, in the fabric of society, in a system in our process in a schedule, the minute you catch yourself going, I really just wish think like wait, hmm, what do I want to do differently? Right, we don't have to just wish we get to decide we get to change, we get to go make it so and so that is number five. You have permission to go make it so just decide to do that. It really is that simple. And I know that it doesn't always feel that way. I get it. This is the magic of it. You know, the mindset and business like if everybody, if everybody was able to just sort of move their brain through it, and we forward, we'd all do it right? It would be really simple and feel really fun and easy all the time.

 But it doesn't feel like that all the time. Because we like to make things complicated. For me, this is a part of the magic of coaching in a lot of ways. Because I get to stand with people as they go much harder than that and go, yep, well, it's not actually. And I love you, and I have faith in you and go do the thing. Right? This is this is the role of a coach in a business relationship, or at least the way I do it. Because I get to stand with people and say you have permission, you don't have to wait, you can go ahead and do that thing. Let's change it. Let's figure out what that looks like for you. 

So if you need that kind of boost, or shove or support, I don't know what we want to call that. I am here for you send a message. You can reach me all the ways you can look at the show notes or the show description for this week. And there's a link to all the different kinds of coaching there and to one byte sessions where you can just sort of trying on coaching together to see if that feels good for you to talk more about coaching one on one and long term, which is the fastest way to get where you're going to and honestly. And then the last thing is, on Monday next week, I'm hosting a live workshop about making more offers that you really should come to please come join us for the simple, simple, simple, simple isn't the title way to make three offers a day, more than three offers. It is about mindset and isn't about process and you're gonna get the tools and then we're doing a 15 day challenge to implement them all so that you can get done what you need to get done. 

You can offer more to create more impact and more income with it. Because the more people you help, the more your business grows. So if you want help with any of those things, come onto the page with all links. And if you need me anywhere in between now and that you can find me on LinkedIn or Facebook or email. I'm Sarah at Turkey coaching.com And I'll see you on the next episode. Thanks