Dive into a 30-minute guided journaling session that will bring you to envision the dreamy future your business deserves. Together we'll illuminate your path to a more simplified and thriving entrepreneurial journey!

In this session, we'll explore how to simplify your business for growth and success. Let's envision the possibilities and create a vision for a thriving entrepreneurial adventure!

Transcript below!

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today we're going to talk about the
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Simplicity solution um this is the name
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of a program that I just beted and um
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I've been obviously thinking about a lot
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over the last months years to be honest
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but about what it takes to make our
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business simple and that looks a really
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practical
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standpoint um the Simplicity solution
The Simplicity Solution.)
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today even though this is also the name
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of my bigger program um we are going to
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be doing a prti practical guided
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journaling session had like it's a
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pretty quick journaling session I we're
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only here for half an hour today um so
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it's pretty rapid fire that's designed
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intentionally so that you don't really
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have a lot of time to like think too
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much about it you just go with your gut
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so um don't worry about perfectionism
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just get whatever pops into your head on
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the paper and um I can't wait to see how
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this goes um I ran this Workshop very
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recently for live for a small group and
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I had such good feedback I thought I
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have to do it I have to do it for more
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people so who am
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I I am Ellie McBride I am the founder of
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the capable Collective and the founder
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of calibrated Concepts which is my main
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business the capable collectives my
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podcast and the whole idea all my work
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over the years has really been around
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how to simplify your business through
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simple technology and websites and to
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meet your Community where they are um by
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having your message really consistent on
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your website by making it really easy
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for them to work with you to buy from
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you and then on the back end for you to
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feel like the admin of business doesn't
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feel so heavy both with websites and
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other simple systems um I'd like to joke
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that if I ever found a TV character that
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was like me in real life it's Claire
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dunfey from Modern Family but I'm also
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the Monica Geller of the group and those
Meet Ellie McBride (1:06
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kinds of things I love order order um
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and it's it's my happy place and I've
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also like but that comes with its own
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challenges I'm unlearning toxic
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productivity I'm unlearning
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perfectionism and um I think it's been
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quite a a really cool journey to get to
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here so the first prompt just jumping
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right in for your Journal is what does a
What does a Dreamy Simple Business look like for you.)
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dreamy simple business look like for you
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so I'd love you to take a couple moments
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and just write down what is a dreamy
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simple business and you're going to find
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that these prompts are sort of iterative
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um but that's very very intentional I
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hope it will help you get a lot of
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clarity
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What does an Easeful Business look like for you.)
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all right so as you're thinking about
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what a dreamy simple business looks like
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for you I want you to start shifting
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that
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into what does an easy or easeful
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business look like for you and I'm very
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aware that the terms easy and easeful
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are slight are similar but quite
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different in the fact that easeful
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doesn't mean that it doesn't I don't
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think that means that you're not doing
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work it just means that the work doesn't
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feel stressful or like a big
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struggle
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is
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okay so the next prompt is what does a
What does a Spacious Business look like for you.)
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spacious business look like for you so
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how does that how do you feel like you
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will have more space and room to breathe
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in your business what does that look
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like
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okay so the next prompt
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is what does a peaceful business look
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like for you I want you to take some
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time to think about what a peaceful
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business would look like for you and in
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your
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What does a Peaceful Business.)
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business
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What do you want your business to look like in 1, 5 & 10 years.)
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okay so think about in terms of space
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and ease and simplicity and all those
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things we've just been talking and
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writing about what do you want your
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business to look like in one
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year
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all right I want you to zoom out a
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little farther and start thinking about
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okay in terms of space and ease and
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simplicity what do I want my business to
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look like in 5 years or 10 years
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all right so moving
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on and kind of going from that future
How does your business feel right now?.)
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lens to back to the present I want you
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to think about how does your business
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feel right now take some time
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to right on
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that
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okay so as you're thinking about how
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your business feels in this moment in
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this time in your business I want you to
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start thinking about what steps you can
Steps for the Next 3 Months.)
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take in the next three months to move
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towards your
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business to move toward sorry to move
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towards your dreamy simple business the
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one you've journaled about the one
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you've that we're planning towards here
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what steps can you take in the next 3
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months to move towards your dreamy
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simple
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business
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Intention Setting.)
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so the next steps is I want you to write
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things down I want you
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to write it down in a way that's going
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to make you remember it every day so
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first off I want you to share what
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you're comfortable with what you've
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learned in the comments I would love to
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see what you're going to be putting into
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action or any realizations you've had
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today um here at the chat and I know
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some people struggle to find the chat
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and Google meet so I'm going to do a
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little message there so you guys can all
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see
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it the other things that I want you to
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do is to build it into your daily
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practice um use rituals so in my um
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business one of the things that I do is
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I build my these types of intentions
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into my passwords so that I'm having to
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type it all the time um or I have it on
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my vision board here on my wall or
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and those types of things so build it
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into your ritual build it into your
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daily
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practice
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um and yeah share it in the comments if
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you feel comfortable sharing
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anything and while you guys are thinking
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about your intentions and what you want
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to share and what you want to write down
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going forward
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some tips that I have around how to make
Practical Tips and Resources.)
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your business a hell of a lot simpler um
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my clients when they come to me they're
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usually really overwhelmed and a lot of
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times they don't know where even that's
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all coming from
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um so a few of my just really quick
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pointers want to start tracking your
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time what I did this for years in my
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business and I realized that I spend on
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average onethird of my time on actual
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client work onethird of my time on
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various marketing activities so that's
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probably you know networking
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writing social media posts creating
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YouTube videos and then I spent a third
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of the time on my own admin and on CEO
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tasks and on building my business um and
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I realized that I actually was only at
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the time paying myself for the time I
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was doing client work I was only paying
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myself for a third of my business and
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that was a big big thing for me when I
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started increasing my prices to pay for
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all the other things I was doing I was
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able to have more room in my business
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and more space and take on fewer clients
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um the other thing I would highly
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recommend is if you're doing
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things if you do something a lot or even
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often um or even sometimes but it you do
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something on a recurring basis don't
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repeat the whe like don't reinvent the
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wheel these slides I have used
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this um format of slides for every
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Workshop I've ever done I obviously
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changed the content to fit the
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presentation but the design um never
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ever changes and I usually there's
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different people on those presentations
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but also it's on brand I don't really
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have to think about it it's one of those
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things that I've removed that um
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stressor or that time suck in my
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business by just being like I'm going to
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do this the same way every single time
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so those are two quick easy wins um
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there's so many more things that I
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recommend my clients do got blog post
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YouTube videos out there about it but to
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help you pinpoint exactly what's going
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to make to move the needle forward in
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your business I do have a free quiz on
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my website it will help you discover
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your personalized path to Simplicity
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what is the um chunk of your business
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that is sucking up the most of your time
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that with a little bit of work you could
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like make hugely more easy for you so
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that is a free quiz on my website it's
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on my website um but it's it's actually
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like where is your business costing you
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and you will learn that it's either one
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of five categories it's a really fun
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takes 30 seconds there's gifts um and
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it's not it's not stodgy at all but I
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think it'll really help you you don't
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even need to put your email address in
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to get it um but there's a lot of really
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good resources about next steps to take
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in your business so I'm actually going
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to pop this just into the chat as well
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um and then I want to go through what
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you guys have talked about so and
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finally I'm not going to go into Hard
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Sell mode here but the Simplicity
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solution is live it's um my new service
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it's kind of a culmination of everything
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I've ever done in business in the last
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six years and it is a three-month done
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with you service to help you simplify
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your business so you can reclaim your
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freedom space and
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relationships um I finished the sales
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page yesterday I'm really freaking
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excited about it because it is just me
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being able to help people with all the
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things that stick up their time their
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energy and allow them to have a life
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first business so that they don't have
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just a worst version of a job that they
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get to make call the shots and step
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into properly a CEO role as opposed to
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being a freelancer and that's it's been
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a lot of fun to build so lots more
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information there I'll send it out in
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the email with the recording but no
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pressure but just if you could look it
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over and keep it in mind in the future
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or if you know someone that' be a good
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fit for I would love that all right so I
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want to go through what you all said
Audience Intentions and Goals.)
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before we sign off here um so your
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intentions for the next 3 months are to
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set more boundaries and make more time
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for work so it doesn't spill over into
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family life being intentional with your
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time and streamlining things so and
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seeing what you can automate I love that
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um if you're not already using a
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scheduling tool it's one of my favorite
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tools for setting boundaries means
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people can only access me at specific
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times um this is another thing I my
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phone number is not on anything um I had
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a client want to be like I couldn't find
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your phone number and I was like it's it
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doesn't exist you can book a call
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through my debado link thank you or send
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me an email um but that's it helps me to
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set really intentional times and days
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and I also have like really loose time
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blocking in my business where Mondays I
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do admin Fridays I do marketing and in
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the middle I kind of do client work um
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all right another one of you has said
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you want to look for an illustration
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agent to help you effectively Outsource
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some of the admin and marketing that's
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really really cool I love the idea of
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Outsourcing when it's going to really
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really help you with that cost benefit
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thing you're going to free up so much
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more of your time to do your actual
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work um tidy up your portfolio and
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online
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presence so you can feel confident in
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doing that and research what would be
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the best fit I love that because
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I think a lot of times obviously website
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design is my other side of my life and
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my business and I think a lot of times
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people really hold back promoting
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themselves when they don't feel
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confident in their in their website
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those are some really amazing
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goals and finally one of you wants to
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work a half day instead of sitting at
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your desk most of the day and not really
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getting anything
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done I love that too I think working
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half a day I think if I were to be like
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really really intentional I could
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probably squeeze most most of my work
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into about four days a week it used to
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be three but I taken more on um and I
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think it really does come from being
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really mindful of how I spend my time
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and what I need to do I think the other
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thing though is I find that most people
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who say that they're not getting
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anything done really probably should
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list out what they've actually
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accomplished for the day because most of
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the time I find that people have done so
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much more than they thought um and
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that's where I think project management
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tools come in a lot of Handy um so I use
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a sauna in my team and it means that
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every day I can see what I have to do
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when I sit down at my desk I can also
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see what I'm taking off and what my team
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is tiing off um and it's also how when I
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do the Simplicity solution or website
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project I can actually keep all the um
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resources and forms and everything about
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that project all in one place for me and
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the whole team and all of our clients to
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see so it's really
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handy all right well thank you everyone
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for joining me um I hope this has been
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really useful for you um if you have any
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questions feel free to ping me and I
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hope to see where you guys go with your
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simplified businesses over the next few
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months and if you I'm always on social
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media mostly hang out on Instagram which
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is Ellie May
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McBride um but you can find me anywhere
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so most of you have my email if not you
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will when I send out this recording feel
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free to hit reply and let me know how
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this went for you thank you so much have
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a good day bye everyone