 So, Wella Marie, thanks for asking about a question that actually hope more of you will ask in TLC, but any, some of you may be watching this outside of TLC. The question is, how do we prioritize and trying to find it again inside the chat, how do we prioritize our time with regards to actions done doing our business versus doing things for our business or sometimes people say working in the business versus working on the business. So, and Wilmer chime in anytime but the example you gave before we started recording was, you know, doing working in your business might be planning. Well, I guess you could say one or the other. You could say planning your upcoming class that you're teaching, like planning material, the curriculum, right. Yeah, curriculum, the lesson plan, lesson plan, etc. versus working on your business might be getting the word out about the the upcoming class. For me actually that would be considered working, working the business as well but anyway we can talk about the layers of it but so. So, so the key, the key here I'd say is, do you have a time limit for each of these activities. Let's start there. I know for me. Well, you know, each of these activities can actually be done as you can spend as much time as you want on them like planning the class especially the curriculum development, content development. And that is certainly a kind of a recall those things accordion right like you could spend 10 hours planning the the content for one hour class we can spend three hours, or you could spend 30, 30 hours. There's a there's really a great danger in in not setting a time, a specific time limit, which is why you know in our in our TLC program we talk about, you know, having a structure for your week, so that you naturally when you have a structure for you naturally say well, I can't spend 30 hours planning my class because I have to spend, you know, if I had to carve out the 30 hours for these 10 other activities so I really can spend on average three hours per activity some activities only need half an hour some activities need five So that is, well, first of all, to to answer your question. Originally, which is how do we plan the priorities of our business. I'll give you to resource well I'll give you one resource to make it really simple. The camera just turned off there it is the the one resource I'll recommend is the blog post that I have on business time, and I'm going to try to see if I can pull it up here. If you Google George cow business time, it should pull up. Yes, that's the one. Okay. I'm agreeing with myself. Okay, so this is the one. Yeah, you, anyone who's watching this video later can just Google it George cow business time. And it should be this one are you spending enough time with your business. Now it's not meant to be a judgment I actually funny thing was I tried changing the time, changing the title and then my blog was having a glitch that day so I couldn't change the title but the idea is that this post gives you a 10 hour a week. See 10 hour a week structure for your calendar. And basically, if you haven't yet worked through this blog post to structure those 10 hours a week I recommend doing that first. Now, if you have any questions about the structure I'm happy to answer to some of you may end up taking up to 20 hours a week for the structure that I say 10 hours a week. Some of you are more efficient and you may be able to do 10 hours a week. I would say do that that's the that's my prioritizing structure. And, and then once you've done that, then we have this next level question of, Okay, you've structured those 10 slash 20 hours a week. But now you have additional time that you can structure. How should you prioritize that. And you gave me these very good examples of planning a class versus marketing for class planning class should definitely have a time limit marketing class. For most of you watching this, you probably say why don't know what else to do I've spent two hours marketing class I don't know what else I can do like, like it's almost like you have too little time marketing the class. I would encourage you will marry me ask you this question do you have a launch checklist or marketing checklist when you are announcing a class. Um, no, yeah, no, not like the way you say right steps out. No, I'm not. There's resistance because I yeah, yes, marketing resistance. A lot of, you know, most people watching this are are with you on that. It's not natural, right to do marketing. And number two, it's not natural to be so to be so in this mindset of checklist where like okay I'm going to. So this is what my encouragement to you is starting today. Right. Start a marketing checklist for your class launches every time you announce the next class or program. Start that marketing checklist now and you might say well George what's in the marketing checklist that's a separate video we can talk about that. That is that is a highly valuable action of working on your business rather than just working in your business so working in your business will be following a checklist. So that's a really good kind of way of describing it working in your business is following a checklist and working on your business is working on the checklist. So every activity that you do including course preparation. So when I prepare a class to teach I have a checklist for how I prepare the class including how much time. Do I do for each section of the checklist and I'll show this again for those who haven't yet seen it. My hat manual hat manual is when we when we run a when we run a clock when we run a business we put on different hats. And essentially it's just it's my series of checklists. I call it session steps. I have various names and all these confusing hat manual session steps checklist. It's all the same thing. It's basically, okay, by 10 minutes, you know within the first 10 minutes, if I'm preparing the first class session I bring all on paper. Okay, this is specifically about SEO but bring all course ideas to a bullet point. Anyway, 10 minutes I do this. The next 10 minutes I do this sometimes I take longer than 10 minutes to do this I need to work on my checklist a little bit better. But it's basically, you know, an overall checklist, the details are going to confuse you right now, but I just wanted to show you that I have a checklist by 40 minutes into an hour. I want to have done this by 50 minutes into my hour have done that my second session for for preparing for class first 20 minutes, you know, but the idea is that I have a checklist that has a time limit for each section. Now, of course, as I already mentioned, we can always improve our checklist. And every time I work on the checklist I improve it just a little bit. 1% better is my mantra. I borrowed that from James Altucher but yeah so that so essentially how do we know whether to work on our business or in our business. The answer really is, it should always be both. You know, I have in my calendar. At least two hours a week where I'm working on my business one hour a week is working on my marketing checklists or experimenting with a future marketing technique, or and then one more hour is working on my client service development client services, meaning how do I, how do I improve calls like this, or how do I improve, you know, my structure with my clients or whatever. Kind of like, yeah, that's how I think about it, you know, one hour a week and I'm sure if I have extra time in the week, I'll spend more than an hour a week. You know, on each area. So, and then the rest of my time, you know, is spent working in the business. But basically, working on your business is looking at the future how can you improve working in your business is you know, just being an employee of your business but yeah Will and Maria is that helpful. Yes, very much so thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for asking appreciate it. A follow up question here from Moitza thank you for asking is, you know, those 10 minutes 20 minutes that refer to that you spend on marketing activities or. Okay, so like these 10 minutes or 20 minutes is actually like for example this checklist. This is this is kind of a confusing checklist let me see if I can find a better checklist for you for those like okay so yeah this is a good example. Okay, so this is my checklist. This is my, I have, I have a, you know, this is the beginning of my checklist for launching a class launching a course. So for 25 the first 25 minutes, I will work on my Mailchimp automation content, meaning when people sign up for the class, this is the emails they get so I give myself 25 minutes to do these items. And then the next 15 minutes, I spend working on the intake form for the class the thank you page the PayPal button, etc, etc, and then the next 10 minutes, I work on the Zapier. Clear what I mean by the 10 minutes 20 minutes. So basically for everything I do in my business throughout the week, I have a checklist. And I'm always improving that checklist bit by bit over time. So that's why I can work with calm joyful productivity because you know, I don't have to worry about what I'm doing I'm always just following my calendar which, if you think about it the calendar is a checklist. The calendar is a checklist for how you run your day. If you don't have a checklist. It's tough to run a day. If you don't have a checklist, it's hard to run it's hard to fly a plane. It's hard to do surgery. You know, pilots and surgeons, they're doing such important work that especially they need checklists. Those of us who don't need checklist to run our life. It's because the things we're doing are not life and death. But the more right the more you care about your work and doing it with calm productivity, the more you'd like to have a check the more it makes sense to have a checklist. And that includes your day if you don't have it if you don't have a checklist for your day, you might feel some anxiety my spending my time well. If you have a checklist for your day, some people call it to do list, right to do list is a checklist. But so is a calendar a calendar is simply a checklist with time limits. A to do list drawback is it usually doesn't have time limits so you end up spending too much time going down a rabbit hole for one item versus another item, etc. Yeah, carry you just you just asked that exact question. Can you have a checklist that you had time frames that list. So that's what I do. So for example, my, my calendar says a course launch part one. I know exactly what to do course launch part one I go to my checklist if it says an hour to do course launch part one. I know that this is my course launch part one. Now it might say what's one of two it's, it's because before my long pre launch week, I have two hours set aside so for my first pre pre launch hour this is what I do and my second pre pre launch hour this is what I do. And then my pre launch hour, the Monday of the pre launch this is my 50 minute checklist 30 minutes I do this five minutes I do this so. So everything is very calm for me because I can just follow my checklist all day long in my calendar tells me what to do. And then my checklist tells me what to do within that hour. So, that's what I mean by capture categorized calendar we capture things we think we're going to do. We categorize them into checklists, and we put those checklists in the calendar to say ah, 9 to 10 am I do this checklist 11 to 12 am I do that checklist so and therefore your business move is along very consistently over the years. You know, so, and yes, Alexandra says time logging helps you to understand how much time you need for each task how did I figure out 10 minutes here 20 minutes there. I didn't figure it out. I timed myself say, how long does it take me to write an automation content from milch and well let me time myself. Oh, it takes me about 25 minutes. All right, that's my checklist 25 minutes for this. Now over time as I get faster at these things if I had create more templates for myself, then I don't need 25 minutes maybe I'll end up needing 20 minutes or 15 minutes. Checklists, and then templates templates are. Okay, every time I do this checklist item do I have a template for it, you know, maybe that template is included in your checklist notes, but it could be a separate document but those things we could talk about. And then we could organize these kinds of things. So I hope this is helpful. And I think that's all we have time for today. So, thanks for being here and I hope this was helpful any other questions coming out below.