Sanity For your Business and Your Life
Every year, Christmas sneaks up on me.
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, I have a big (cross-country) craft show the first weekend in December and by the time I get home and unpacked, it’s too late to do anything that would end up in my shop in time for Christmas.
But not this year.
This year I’m planning it out, thinking it through and rocking the holidays.
This year, my focus is on having as much family-time as I want while still keeping the gears of my yarn company churning.
This year, I’m inviting you along for the ride.
For four weeks, we’ll plot, plan, hold each other accountable and learn what works best for our individual businesses.
This is not about having the perfect, Martha Stewart holiday.
This is not about fulfilling all those obligations you think you should do.
And this really is not about becoming another BUY BUY BUY holiday retailer.
It IS about paying attention.
Noticing and supporting what we want out of the season.
Building a sustainable business that weathers any holiday storm.
And it’s about ending the season knowing that you kept your wits about you, your shop running and you spread a little holiday cheer.
What is it?
4 weeks of meeting (on the phone and online), checking in and gentle accountability, starting November 9th, going through November 30th.
We’ll work together, with the aid of worksheets and exercises and noticings, on first figuring out what we want from the season and then, actually getting and doing it. All for $47.
How does it work?
Every Tuesday, at 3p ET, we’ll all call in to a teleconference number.
I’ll talk about our theme of the week for 15-20 minutes, and then we’ll hang up and work.
At 4p, we’ll check into the private chat room to ask questions, discuss and share our experiences.
The first two weeks, we’ll work on planning, organizing, plotting. The remaining weeks will focus on implementation. Getting the stuff we planned done.
For $47, you get:
- Weekly lessons on: planning, organizing, promoting a new item, integrating life and business. (see below for more details)
- Weekly online Check-Ins: join the online chat to ask questions, share progress and get ideas from me + other crafty businesses. In my classes, these are the most popular part of the package. It’s a chance to work with me one-on-one while getting excellent feedback from other smarties.
(If there’s interest, we can do these twice a week.)
- Weekly worksheets, exercises and recipes for baking up a tasty holiday season (metaphorically!).
These will help you IMPLEMENT your plans, but it’s more important to me that you have the holiday you want.
Thus: this is guilt-free non-homework!
- Bi-weekly email encouragements. Little friendly notes to keep you going.
Agenda
Week 1 (November 9): Exploring.
In this week, we’ll get ultra-clear on everything you want/need to do and we’ll piece it all together, in a low-stress, no-guilt.
Week 2 (November 16): Play.
In this week, we’ll look at how you usually plan/implement and we’ll work on different ways of focusing/scheduling/planning that may work. You’ll experiment with different methods, ditch the ones that don’t work and add new ones to your repetoire.
Week 3 (Novembern 23): Reassess.
We’ll look at what’s working and what’s not. What can really get done?
Week 4 (November 30): Wrapping it up.
We’ll keep the momentum going with a plan for December.
What are we going to talk about?
In the first two weeks, it’s all about planning.
We’ll start with getting really clear on the stuff you are already committed to, the stuf you want to do, and the new stuff you might want to introduce.
Since your business and your life are not in separate dimensions, we’ll include EVERYthing.
Once you see what you want/need to do clearly, it’ll be a matter of puzzle-piecing it together. How early do you need to start offering X? When will you want to be done with Y?
I’ll share my tips and tricks and for fitting it all together (not to mention, actually getting it done) and you’re welcome to share yours.
In the remaining weeks, it’s all about implementation.
We’ll work on the skills and the practice of bringing mindfulness into your business doing (you know, the step after planning).
These last two weeks topics will be determined largely by what everyone is working on. If there’s a few people launching new products, we’ll talk about how to do that in an effective sales-generating way.
If there’s a lot of members who just want to keep their head above water, we’ll talk about managing to stay present in both your business and your life.
Even though the lessons and worksheets will adapt to suite the needs of the members, you never have to turn in homework, speak up, or say anything.
There is absolutely no pressure to ever be clever, useful or friendly. I promise!
How do you join?
Click Register.
When you do, you’ll be taken to a Paypal page (but don’t worry, you don’t need a Paypal account to pay!). After you finish checking out, you’ll get a welcome email within a day that will give you the call details, the chat room and we’ll start talking about what YOU want to get out of this experience!
Wait, is this just for people with established businesses?
Nope! Every thing we’re going to talk about can be applied to whatever is on your plate this holiday. Crafting is crafting, whether you’re doing it for 15 aunts or 150 customers.
And all of us, whether we have kids, pets, jobs, mortgages or sheep to feed…we all deserve to enjoy the holiday.
Still have questions? Email me: taraATtaraswigerDOTcom.