Teaching Tuesday: Managing Digital Workflows II
Teaching Tuesday: Managing Digital Workflows II
Community class for paid subscribers and guests of Brighter Days, Darker Nights | Tuesday, March 20th, 2024 at 12:00 PM Pacific
When I first started working online, I logged immense hours—sometimes over 9 hours a day on the screen!
I relied heavily on instructions from others, and spent many of my hours seeking information and tutorials and correcting mistakes.
This was while I was employed and was earning an hourly wage.
In my next phase, I had left employment and was working on my own business.
Here, I learned some big-time lessons around efficiency and keeping a profitable bottom line.
But at first, I was wasting a lot of time:
I thought in great detail about how different ideas would work (many of which never launched at all)
I tried new ways of doing things all the time (new VA’s, new software, etc)
I wished I had the direction and validation of a boss or someone who could look at what I was doing and tell me how to do it better
And all this led up to:
unnecessary days and weeks passing between idea and execution (SLOW PROGRESS)
inconsistent output
extra stress and hurrying
it being more difficult that it needed to be to find clients and customers because it was difficult for people to understand what I was even offering
It was a feedback loop of mission-driven uncertainty!
I wanted so badly for things to be done “right”, that sometimes they weren’t getting done at all.
How my mindset changed to working quickly and having fun
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with going through what I described above—in many ways, I’m glad some of those earlier launches weren’t as successful as I had hoped.
Those experiences led me to where I am today, with a business where work doesn’t feel like “work” because I truly love every aspect of what I do.
I am grateful for the decade I spent optimizing online workflows as my profession.
I deeply appreciate the mentors I had that helped me along the journey.
And I am grateful I have been able to step away from all of that in order to start a new work life that I believe is much closer to alignment with my soul calling.
Now that my birth business and wellness teaching business are feeling established and I’ve been speaking with more wellness practitioners entering the online space.
Many don’t have the decade of digital experience I have.
Speaking with them helped me appreciate even more of the value in my past.
The mental frameworks I have built for myself along the way, of everything, keep me moving fleetly even though I’m using a completely new tech-stack and business model in a whole new industry!
This is because mindset is transferrable.
I invite you to come learn how to build a mindset of action and to streamline your own processes using a digital workflow mindset.
Here’s what a past participant in this Workflows class had to say:
I just wanted you to know that I'm so enjoying having taken your class!
I made some changes to the draft outline of the Motherline website to simplify it so we can build the "scooter" RIGHT NOW, and plan the rest of the difficult stuff later. Perfect!
Also I made a shared album to put favorite photos in on an ongoing basis, so whoever is working on the website can grab them, without having to ask every single person if they have such and such photo, every single time.
I think there's lots more scope for gathering and organizing information as we go, as you were describing with your Instagram technique.
Process improvements already!
One for stress reduction, and one for time saving.
Thank you for sharing, you've really got the methods dialed in!
~Managing Digital Workflows community class attendee