 Here's a common question in regards to productivity that you might be able to relate to question is to be honest I feel like I'm spending 20 hours a week beating myself up about all the things. I'm not doing and Trying to work out WTF why the f I don't have any motivation Okay, can you relate to that? Someone else wrote something similar which I struggle with creating. I'm good at thinking about what I should do All right. So here's a couple of thoughts I had on this and you know, I'm you know, I'm not the only one with with Opinion about this. So please do feel free to comment below if you have any any tips for these question-askers And maybe for yourself as well notes to self, right? All right. The first thing is do you have? human accountability For whatever it is that you are beating yourself up about not doing which I hope actually maybe tip number one is to You know take put put the flagellation tool down and Understand that you are having a perfectly human experience that all of us are with you on you are in this giant club of People who would love to be more productive And the fact that you want to get some important things done already Bodes well for for your future. I think because you are you have a vision you have Goals you have a direction aimed towards which you know a lot of people don't so the fact that you want to get some things done means you have You have so that's good that you should you should congratulate and appreciate yourself for that And there's no need to blame yourself at all because what you're facing is what many of us who are creators and You know vision creators Take so that's the first one. The second thing is do you have human accountability? because Most of us need that we are you know, we are animals that are evolved in tribal You know in in tribes. That's how we evolved and and so human accountability is incredibly powerful for us. So If you have a friend or colleague who is working on something similar if you're in one of my programs There's a directory of students and you may be able to reach out to someone you resonate with and and get some accountability On working on this particular project and the simplest way for accountability is well If you have a friend or colleague who's doing this with you to say hey Can we check in once a week on this project that that's so important to me? And when we check in once a week, I'm gonna tell you what I aimed to accomplish this week That's realistic and how I'm gonna do it and when I'm gonna do it and So I'm gonna check in with you all about these three things. What about you? What's your product important project? You know and I'm gonna report back to you every week on how it went you can even report back to them You know if it's a close enough relationship, you could say let's do a brief check in every day every working day And just through Facebook messaging or Instagram or what we're email or whatever it is We can briefly check in so human accountability huge now if you don't have that available The the alternative which I use a lot is called focus mate You probably hear me talk about this if you've been in any of my productivity stuff I do have a focus mate community that I welcome and encourage you to join and I will put the link below The focus mate community basically means that if you join it You will be able to be paired up on focus mate with me and others in my community more often now If you're you're shy about being paired up with me if you see me show up on the focus mate Schedule you can click my name and snooze me. Okay, you could snooze anybody on focus mate They won't know they're being snoozed meaning they won't show up anymore for you as a pairing So feel free to snooze snooze me if you're too shy about it And you can still get paired up with others in my community So you could snooze me for a month or forever. It doesn't matter. I won't know that you've done that so So that's that's human accountability next next tip I guess tip number three is Give me one second here All right, so tip number three is this is huge for so many of us who are who are Intuitive more heart-based Perhaps more ADHD creators Of you know, I I share some of those characteristics, too I don't know if I've been diagnosed or not but I haven't been diagnosed but I haven't tried but a lot of entrepreneurs are ADHD You know on that spectrum So uh, here's a third here's a third tip Do you have a clear workflow process for whatever it is you're working on? Because this is often why we get stuck or don't even move forward and we just Checking email social media, you know coming to calls like this Nothing wrong that I'm so grateful you're here. Those of you who are live here But it's easier to come to a call and consume inform or or watch a video and consume information Then it is to create your own thing and oftentimes it's because we don't have a clear workflow We don't have a so so for what I mean by clear work I call it a hat manual because in business we wear multiple hats. Okay. Now. I'm wearing the blog Blog writer hat now. I'm wearing the Bookkeeper hat now. I'm wearing the preparing for a course hat You know every hat has a manual a manual can simply be a few bullet points for what do I do when I'm preparing for a course What do I do when I'm creating a new offer? What do I do when I'm writing a blog post because I I use a hat manual writing for writing Because uh, those of you know my story know I have struggled so much with writing all my life. I still struggle with writing I um partly because I you know immigrated we immigrate my family immigrated from taiwan to the united states when I was still learning The my first language I was still learning and then now I have to learn another language english and I was bullied for being quiet because I wasn't a mostly um I was one of the few minorities in my in my school all growing up one through 12. It was one of the only minorities So anyway long story short. I've struggled more than most of you with writing. I don't love I don't I don't like to write. I still don't to this day every time I look at my schedule. I got my writing coming up. I'm anxious Oh my god. I'm writing today later today. I'm gonna do some writing I'm anxious about it But I've learned to regulate myself over time energy reboots and all that stuff so I could I can learn to ignore the fear and the judgment and and Having the hat manual is calming for me to say. Okay. How do I write? I don't know how to write. Oh, yes point one Take, you know, write the pick one topic for my ideas list And I go to my ideas list. Oh, which which topic resonates with me right now. Oh, that's hot. Okay, great step two Brainstorm set set timer for 10 minutes and brainstorm anything that comes to mind regarding this topic Imperfect crazy wild boring mundane Interesting whatever doesn't matter, right? So so in a step three. I don't have my hat manual right now in front of me and Doesn't matter what I'm trying to say is to have a process. You know step three might be okay Cut and paste the things that brainstormed into a possible order of ideas or whatever Do you see what I mean? Like have a workflow process for yourself or whatever it is you're struggling through Even simple as to you it might be simple, right writing in articles not to me, right? Making a video. Do you have a do you struggle with that? Well, do you have a workflow process? Including calming yourself and self regulation That should be part of a checklist. Why not? Of course. And so I don't The main thing is I I try not to think As much as possible. I try not to think throughout my whole day I simply do The only time I'm thinking is when we're creating a workflow process a hat manual to say well I got to think about how this process works Let me write this down and then throughout my process. I'm always updating my hat manual to say, oh, you know what? I realized this should go in between steps two and three Let me go and update that right now because I've got it in front of me, right? So do you have a clear? hat manual for whatever it is You're procrastinating on My guess is you don't right? That's how many of us procrastinating but once you do Now you just have to pull it up and and and when you when you still have the thing pulled up and you're procrastinating. Here's why One of those steps is too big It's like you're climbing the stairs from from floor one to floor two Okay, let's say you're climbing the stairs from floor one to floor two. There's only two steps That's not a stair. That's like you have to get a ladder to get to the next step That doesn't make well a ladder. Why does the ladder work? It's like little steps steps steps steps So if anytime you're stuck on one step, you're like, I am check my email now What what just happened? What happened was that one step was too high. You got to get a ladder now So step one a open google drive step one b type in this word to find the document you see when you have to Have your hat man it'd be so calming Because it's so like oh I can follow those steps And if the steps are are freaking you out because you need more space literally on the on the You literally need more space in the document, right? So for example, I'm on this document right now if it's freaking me out just by looking at this because there's so many words Then I need to simply create a lot more space in between each step I mean you whatever you need to do to make things calm for you, right? If I have to define what these steps are and I will go ahead and do that Oh, I'm getting freaked out now. There's too many words in a row, you know, okay Make myself calmer by creating more space Whatever it is you need to do you see what I mean to calm yourself, which is often writing me down and Tip number four is if you don't know if you genuinely don't know what the workflow process you're george It sounds nice. Why the workflow that it sounds nice, but I don't know what to write. I really don't for example, I'm launching a business And I don't know what the workflow should be to launch a product or a service or a business or to brand myself I don't know what the steps are This is where you Can have the benefit of a friend a colleague A coach if you can afford one or if you're in one of my programs come to my q&a calls This is what I love helping people through. It's like let's create a workflow document for you right now. All right Oh, you're trying to make a instagram reel here the steps step number one Uh, do you have the instagram app because you need the mobile app to to make a reel? You don't have an app Okay, that's step one actually you don't you can you can upload the reel directly from your desktop these days But you see what I mean like whatever you need in terms of business marketing productivity You don't have a workflow process come to my calls and let's work it out right now, right? So that's what I love doing with people and I hope I hope that this is helpful. So Last thing if any of these things aren't helping Please comment below. What else is stopping you from getting going? Now we can talk about boundaries with other people right that that's a separate segment But what else is stopping you from getting going? Let's say you've created some good boundaries with with your family members or your whoever lives with you Or whoever bothers you you've closed the door All right, you closed the door behind you and you told them I'm working right now for the next hour. Don't bother me. Okay. Go watch tv child Shouldn't here's my ipad. You know go and play play with that for an hour or do your homework if they're if they're good enough to do That or go play outside. Uh, don't run into the streets Um, and then you've done and then now you get to work quietly These tips I've given you If they're not helping please comment below and let me know what else where else are you stuck and let's uh Yeah, I'd love to reply to your comment below. So thank you so much