Hungry Customers

I'm working with a new client, and she came to me CRAZY overwhelmed.

She said everything at work was out-of-control.

So we worked on getting her to-do list in order.

And then we started tackling her email inbox.

Email is the invisible 700 lb. weight on your back; you don't even realize how much it weighs on you until you hit inbox zero.

A magical place.

Where birds fly and dance in the sky.

Seriously.

Okay, back to it.

She shared her screen, and I taught her the process I created to clean up email.

She was in a position where she couldn't even keep up with her top priorities.

And while processing her email she would see something (eNewsletter) and say, "oh, I bet there's something good in here that I can use (work-related)."

So she wanted to add "Read eNewsletter" to her running list.

Because she wants to do all the things and be the best!

Sounds like a good plan, right?

Nope.

It was creating the opposite for her.

Her attempt to be the "best" at her job caused her to show up far from the best because she was so far behind.

We had to cut all of the "would be nice if I could ______________" from her list.

And it was not easy for her at all.

Here's a good analogy to make sense of it because you won't know her industry.

Let's say that she is a chef.

She has ten customers waiting for their food.

But she wasn't cooking their food.

She was spending her time researching how to make the world's best filet mignon.

...while her customers waited for their food.

Oh, and then she wanted to research the best lighting for restaurant dining rooms.

And her customers waited.

And maybe even new techniques for plating food.

And her customers are starving.

And possibly research what her competition is doing so she can get ahead of them.

And the customers are pissed and leaving.

She needed to serve the customers that are waiting first.

Then, focus on "leveling up."

And to play this analogy out, the real reason she wasn't serving her food is that she was afraid it wasn't good enough.

And her brain convinced her that no food was somehow better than her "not good enough" food.

This is what an unmanaged mind will do. 

Just serve the customers that are in the dining room first.

Then, focus on "leveling up" and being the best.

Best regards,
Machele

Machele Galloway is a Certified Life Coach through The Life Coach School. She's based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and specializes in helping her clients manage their time and their minds. She firmly believes that you can't manage one without managing the other. She virtually coaches women nationwide. If she isn't coaching clients, she is studying concepts and techniques. And if she isn't doing that, she's probably playing with a dog or watching the Real Housewives of some city. - “Life is short. Play a little.”