Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii,
It's Rachel Jane here.
Datta and I are here on a
writing retreat/visioning retreat
for 2020, and we're having
some big breakthroughs
around what is next for us
personally and professionally,
and I wanted to share a big tip this week
on Awaken TV to support you
before you do too much planning.
It has really been a
powerful practice for me
to get into over the last few months.
It's made a significant difference
in my ability to move forward faster
on those sorts of things
that have been on my to-do
list for, like, months,
if not years.
All those sorts of things,
you know what it like, when you're like,
"Oh, I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna do this,"
but you just keep hitting a brick wall,
and it gets further and
further down the to-do list,
even though it's something that would move
everything in your
business, or your career,
or your personal life, forward.
So, the tip is,
and you might wanna just
take a few notes here.
The tip is to find what is obstructing
the next forward movement,
that just, like, stops you in your tracks.
I'll give you a few examples.
One, I was talking to a small,
in a group of clients the other day,
and I asked someone who I
knew wanted to do videos,
hadn't shot videos before,
and I said, "What's the
first thing that comes up
"in the way of doing it?"
And he said, "Well, the
fear of this and that,
"and I'm not sure if
I'm really good enough,"
and all of that. And I said, "No, no, no,
"just hold all of the
emotional stuff first.
"Just hold that back, and
ask yourself the question,
"what's the logistics of what...
"Can you actually pick up your phone,
"and do you know which button to press?"
was my question.
And he said, "Oh, I think so, I think so."
I said, "Pull your phone up right now,
"and tell me which button it is
"that you press to record a video."
And he wasn't sure.
And that was what I would call
the first obstruction.
He didn't know which button to press.
Then I said, "Do you know the lighting?
"Do you know how to set things up?"
I'm just outside here,
and I know how to get some good lighting.
"Do you know how to do that?"
"No, I've got a tripod, but
I think I need to adjust it."
I said, "Good, pick up your tripod,
"let's put it up right now."
The tripod was in the car.
It hadn't made it into the house,
so I said, "Go get the tripod."
That's the second obstruction.
"Do you know the lighting, do
you have the right tripod?"
and things like that.
So, that's a very basic example,
but bring it into our business,
there's been some certain
things that I've wanted to do
around our social media platforms,
that just kept going
down and down the list,
because I don't know certain things.
And so, being here has
allowed me to write down
all the obstructions that are in the way
of this thing being completed.
And the first thing that I wrote down
from my wish around social media
was, "I don't know who the
YouTube SEO ninja person
"is going to be for our YouTube platform."
A long obstruction, but what's
where I keep getting stuck.
And so, pulling all this together,
what I do with the obstructions,
which I think is an important piece of it.
You've gotta see it, you've
gotta be able to see it,
and work your way down, yes, a to-do list,
but more like an issues
or obstruction list.
That's gonna get you further, faster.
So, what I have done on
my daily/weekly to-do list
is at the top of the list,
before I get to any of the to-dos,
I have what I call the issues list,
or you could call it an obstruction list.
And every time I see
that I'm not moving forward
on one of my items that I really wanna do,
and I know it would move things forward
and everything better,
and I go, "Why am I not doing that?"
I come to what the first obstruction is,
and I write that down on my issues list.
And that way, each week of the year,
I'm working on that list,
as well as my to-do list.
'Cause, can't you see it?
You've had things on your to-do list,
but they're too big, or you
don't know the first step,
and you haven't pinpointed
the obstruction,
the first thing you get to
that makes you throw
your hands up in the air,
and go, "I don't know how to do this."
Is it something you
don't know what to say?
Is it something you don't
know how to research?
Is it something you don't know
who you're gonna hire for?
That's the obstruction.
So, if this feels good to you,
which hopefully, you can
see the wisdom in it,
possibly start your
obstruction or issues list
on a page where you see it all the time,
and you can add to it.
Since we've been here in Hawaii,
I've been writing lots
of obstructions down,
and it's not a bad thing.
It's like, "Wow, now I can see
"where I can knock those off,"
and then everything starts moving again.
It's not necessarily about the to-dos,
but what is obstructing.
So, here's the practice.
You could do it right now,
or at least, sometime
in the next 24 hours,
is write down three things
that you have been trying to do,
"trying" to do, wanting to do,
and it has not been moving forward.
It just keeps getting down
and down the to-do list!
Write those three things down,
and then under each one,
I want you to write down
the first obstruction that you come to.
The first thing that you're like,
"Oh, I don't even know that."
And you can come to that with asking,
what do you not know,
or what resource do you not have,
that makes you easily follow through
on that one of those three things.
That's how you find the obstruction.
And usually, it's very simple,
and because that was not dealt with,
it keeps falling down the to-do list.
So, please share this
with anyone else you know
that has more challenge in
being efficient, and productive,
and moving forward fast.
2020, everything's moving faster.
You've gotta get with the picture,
you've gotta get more
efficient, more productive,
stay happy in the process,
and this is one thing
that has really supported me to do that,
and I'm gonna be taking it in
on a whole nother level for 2020.
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Thanks everyone, see ya soon!
Aloha!
