Its been kind of funny for me the last week or two. I have another podcast for military and first responders and with that I do a lot of social media work, so I’m on a lot and I’ve seen a lot of influencers and really just everybody talking about how excited or not excited they are about school starting. Or how one girl makes like 100 PB and Honey sandwiches, bags then and freezes them or this lady has a morning routine chart and this lady is redecorating her work space and is excited about getting into a better work routine. It’s been a little bit funny for me because we are about to move for the Army to Fort Campbell, so across the country drive, so we have pretty much nothing prepared for when we get there and the girls go to school. Haha but all of this talk about preparation got me thinking about the one thing I can control in my life right now and that is my business. Now, by have control of that doesn’t mean that everything always goes according to plan, I’m sure we ALL have had numerous experiences where we are working so hard and stuff just doesn’t go our way. But that’s pretty much the way life works right? Maybe not your life, but that’s my life for sure! BUT something I’ve learned the last 6 months or so is that with my business there is something I can do to take more control.

One of the biggest stressors in business, I think especially for women in MLM because we typically don’t have business training, but we are constantly reacting to whats happening in our world and business. We sit down to work and what’s the first thing we do, we check our emails and messages right? But isn’t that interesting. Because now we are going to spend 15 minutes to an hour reacting to what other people are saying. This customer has a question about this, This person had something to say about the last thing you published and now you have an idea to make a video about xyz to answer the question and then you’ll make this graphic to counter the comment made about your last post of Instagram. And at the end of the day you sit back and are proud of yourself for all the things you accomplished today but then in a month you’re trying to figure out why you haven’t made as much progress in your business.

But guys. If that’s what you’re doing, and I’m not bashing on you, I’m not putting you down or anything like that. That’s the OPPOSITE of why I’m here. Because that was me. What I just described is the exact scenerio that would happen every day the first time I did an MLM and even at the beginning of the one I’m in now. But if that’s what you are doing you HAVE to stop and take control back, and I’m not just saying Take control back and going to leave you to figure out how. You’ll have to do most of the work but I hate when people make some good point like that and I have this realization that I need to change something but then they end and I have no clue how to fix the problem they just made me see! Urgh It’s so frustrating for me.

Anyways, what we need to do is you need to create a work system for yourself. You need to have a plan a system so then that way when you sit down to work every day, or on whatever days you have scheduled for you to work, you know what you are going to be doing. If you need to start at the very basics, which I recommend because making some big giant leap from reacting to everything in your business to being a complete organized OCD boss is just not going to happen over night right? So if we take baby steps though then we can eventually get there where our system is near perfect and things run pretty smoothly right?

So first step is to simply make a list of what needs to happen this week. Now, don’t over schedule yourself, but give yourself 3 doable tasks each day, and don’t do ANYTHING else until those are done. As tempting as it would be to check your email, as tempting as it would be to see if anyone commented on your last post DON’T FREAKING DO IT! Get those tasks done. And if while you are doing those things something pops into your head that is making lights flash all over your brain and the emergency bell is ringing, take a breath and write it down to do later, or even another day. There aren’t really any big emergencies, especially when what you are working on is something you’ve previously thought about and decided was an important task to do to help you meet your goals. right? No one will die if you don’t respond to the email you read yesterday. Be the boss, not the radars in your brain.

Now, if you want to take it one step farther, you can create more of a system and flow to your business. Instead of just making a do to list based on what pops into your brain as important on planning day, you have certain focuses on certain days and you batch things together so then you can really get your brain juices going and get in the mode. So what I mean by this is you sit down and think, what are the tasks that I need to do for my business. Or what categories can I create that keep on needing to happen. For example, team building or training, personal sales, recruiting, Social Media content, funnels, collaboration work, all that kind of stuff. So you can create this system for yourself where for a few days ALL you are doing is working on personal sales. You are creating sales driven content, you are reaching out to new customers, you are writing emails that you’ll send throughout the next week or month telling them about promotions or reminders about reordering and stocking up, or just your personal testimonial about a certain product. Then after a few days, you’ve gotten a lot of projects done, and some just half way, but you move onto team building. And during these few days you’ve already scheduled out calls with team members so you can check in with them, or see what they need help with, answer questions, you create a whole bunch of training videos that you can send out again, over the next few weeks or month. Instead of making a training video every week and having to get in the zone of what does my team need or even just the training mentality, you get into the mentality and then you stay there for a few days and just create as much as you can. You aren’t reacting to the fact that you have a team and they need to be motivated and trained once a week. You are preparing and organized and know that needs to happen so you are getting it done on your calm, in control hands. The next few days you create everything you need for recruiting and then all your social media content and you take pretty pictures and think of captions and put it in whatever app you want so then it’s all saved, ready to be posted, or even will be posted automatically. But Here’s the THING! You have to stay in each of the zones. If while you are working on recruiting you have this idea of team training you go and write it down on a special piece of paper that you have in a binder that is just for Team Training ideas. Write down enough so you can go back and get back to your train of thought, but don’t sit doesn’t and work out the whole training. Stay in the Recruiting. Other beauty of this you can let your team know you have a system so they will be aware of that and when you ask what they need they will respond and know they can expect an answer when you are in the team building zone. It creates boundaries that really protect everyone. It gives your team security because they know you’ll be working on stuff that will help them and they’ll be taken care of. It most importantly protects you and your families tim.

This whole way of working elimates a lot of the quote un quote emergencies. So you aren’t having to take time from your life or your family. If a team member is breaking down and really wants to talk to you, sure, hop on the phone for 45 minutes and help them work it out. But if you have your system in place then people who need help will know they can go on your calendar and schedule a time and then they’ll be taken care of.

Another way to structure your system is to be batching like activities. So, you can have a writing day where you map out your trainings, your sales copy, your social media captions. You can have a video and picture day where you get fully ready and all pretty and make 4 videos and get some good pictures. Things like that. Batch it all together so then you aren’t setting things up, then taking them down, then setting another thing up, etc.

Honestly guys, if you want to successful at this you HAVE to create systems for your life and business. You can’t just fly by the seat of your pants. All the people you see online and social media that are making 6+ figures DO NOT react to their business. They are in control and dictate what is happening. Opening their emails and responding to people is the last thing they do in the day.

Now, again, I know this is hard. I still struggle with it but the longer I’m in it, working within the system I’ve created, the better things run and the more I’m meeting my goals!

So, if you guys want to get some more help with this, this is something that I talk about in my free 5 day video series 5 Ways To Boost Your MLM NOW. I go more into detail about how to structure your system and even have some printable to help you do it and actually implement it. If you’d like that you can email me at TheMlmMomsPodcast@gmail.com</sp