What are you working on this week?

I realized today that not everyone may understand the concept of co-working. The Co-working Circle Live Call happens every Tuesday at 0700 EST. You will have access to the classroom tile to read about how the co-working session works. This is not a course and does not include the link to join. The link to join will be at the top of the community page at the time of the call if you are eligible to join. Working at home can often be lonely and it's easy to get distracted with other things that need to get done in our homes or personal lives. The Co-working Circle Live call allows you to have one focused hour each week where you are committed to working on something on your business and knowing that you are not alone. 🌻 When you come into the call, have your camera and mic on. We will all state what we are working on during that session. This helps us stay accountable to what we want to accomplish. 🌻 When everyone has named the project they're working on for that session, cameras and mics may be muted. 🌻 If you have a question that someone in the group might be able to help you with, turn on your camera and mic and ask the question. Think of this as working in a cubicle with another co-worker. You are separated by a wall and both working independently, but a quick question might come up that your co-worker may be able to answer. 🌻 After about fifty minutes, the facilitator will ask everyone to turn their camera and mics back on. We will then have a round robin to celebrate the progress we made.

If you can’t describe your core business process (from lead to delivery) in a clear, 5-step Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), you don't have a business; you have a paid hobby. The first step to operational precision is naming the beast. What is the name of your #1 most time-consuming task that absolutely needs to be turned into a documented system this week?

Ok, Visionaries. Don't think about it. Grab a pen and write it down now. Write down the first things that come to mind. This is a variation of the 3-2-1 goal setting method. Ready? 1-2-3 Go! 1 - What is your big hairy audacious goal (aka a goal that feels unrealistic right now)? 2 - What are two things you'd need to achieve/do/put in place to reach that goal? 3 - What are three things you will commit to doing this week that will push you closer what you wrote in number two? Don't overthink it. Your subconscious mind is already working on all of this for you. You are giving it permission to really get to work now! Are you in? Type Committed and add a GIF in the comments to let us know you're in.

Thank you for you helping me yesterday to think through how I describe what I do. That exercise very helpful. Fractional COO & Strategic Advisor for the win! If you Google Fractional COO, that's exactly what I was trying to describe. So now I need to refine my messaging just a bit, first by updating my LinkedIn headline. Please vote on one of the versions below and if any of them really hit, let me know why in the comments. Thanks in advance!