Some of my best plans brew up in my beach chair.

I always thought I had a plan.  And I always kept myself just busy enough to ignore the fact that I really didn’t.

A typical day-in-the-life-of looked like this.

Coffee.  Coffee.  Coffee.

Bawk, bawk, bawk.

Coffee.

Bawk, bawk, bawk.

Exhausted.

I remember that crazy chicken with her head cut off.  {grin}

It wasn’t until recently though that a real plan began brewing in my melon.

Here’s my secret sauce.

Wake up.  Be grateful.  Quickly scan my phone for overnight e-mergencies – in small business, they do exist, but they are few + far between [unless you don’t follow a plan, of course].

Coffee.

Enjoy my morning with my family.

Coffee.

Send them with love off to school for the day.  Morning client work.  Personal tasks for the day.  Afternoon client work.  Woo hoo – school’s out.  Enjoy my evening with my family.

Coffee

[Insert any guilty pleasure here] – currently mine is Game of Thrones.

Be grateful.  Shut-eye.

Maybe this doesn’t sound like a quality plan to you, but it is for me.  I need enough structure to keep me on task + enough flexibility to avoid system-overload.  This afternoon, I saw, unwired, for two hours with my sons.  I hung a rope swing from them [my father is cringing with the thought of their safety].  I pulled out my beach chair + plopped myself on the front lawn.  Yup.  I did.

And it was grand.

Plans do not need to fit any mold but your own.

The truth is, folks, we need a system [There – I said it!] that works for us in order to put our top-quality output into the world each day.  I work from home.  No one knows if I don’t follow my plan.  But in the words of Henry Ford, “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

What is your plan?  Message me + let me know!

Now, go out there + be amazing.

N

xoxox