I’ve taught hundreds of Creative Geniuses like you how to plan using the Plan to Succeed Formula. It brings together the three essential ingredients for success as a Creative Genius – the Achiever’s Mental Game, the Achiever’s Game Plan...
I’ve taught hundreds of Creative Geniuses like you how to plan using the Plan to Succeed Formula. It brings together the three essential ingredients for success as a Creative Genius – the Achiever’s Mental Game, the Achiever’s Game Plan and the Achiever’s Playbook.
Getting your Achiever’s Mental Game, or mindset, right is the #1 thing you have to do if you want to succeed as a Creative Genius entrepreneur. You can be the secret of your success, or you can be your own worst enemy.
THE Most Important Thing
The most successful clients are those with the right mindset and attitude. They’ve adopted the right beliefs about planning. (Yes, you need a Creative Genius-friendly approach to planning. But unless you believe that’s possible, you’re stuck.)
It’s myth-buster time! Time to re-align your perspectives and make things right.
Myth #1: “I can succeed as an entrepreneur without planning.” At least, I hope that’s true because planning never works for me!
Creative Geniuses struggle with planning (and/or following a plan once they make one). You struggle with making a business plan – “I don’t know what I’ll do next week, let alone over the next year! I can’t even plan for tomorrow!” So, you tell yourself…
“I’m my own boss. I can do what I want when I want!”
As an entrepreneur, you wear many hats. But the truth is, to succeed in business, you need to coordinate the efforts of a team (even if you are playing all the roles.)
If you want more than a glorified job, where you work alone and you’re always scrambling to deliver on your promise – all those balls you’re juggling WILL come tumbling down – you must create a plan (for today, tomorrow, next week and next year!) And you must be able to follow that plan.
Myth #2: “To plan, you need discipline.” But that robs you of your freedom, and stifles your creativity and spontaneity!
This is SO not true.
Creative Geniuses hate people telling them what to do. Rule breakers and out-of-the-box thinkers, you swim against the current. Make your business plan, or book an appointment in your agenda, your automatic response is “No, I don’t want to!”
Having a plan “feels” like you’re being controlled. But when you create your own plan, you’re the one in charge.
And the truth is, if you don’t create and follow your own plan, you put other people in charge. Without your plan, you’re at the mercy of other people’s demands. “You’re not doing anything right now. So, I want you to…”
The ultimate truth is that by creating and following your own plan, you have a “magic shield” preventing people from controlling you, your time and more importantly, your energy. When they ask you to do what they want, you can say, “Sorry. I’m already booked. Can I get back to you…?”
I have trained many clients, Creative Geniuses like you, who are able to make planning work for them, so I know you can too!
Myth #3: “No planning system can work for me.” I’ve tried all the most popular (and expensive) ones. None of them worked.
I can understand why you would believe this. I watched Duane, my Creative Genius husband, go through this same struggle. He tried Franklin-Covey, Day-Timer and so many more – some worked for a little while, but in the end, they all failed – thousands of dollars (along with lost jobs and failed businesses) out the window!
And as a coach, many of my Creative Genius clients tell me how they were burnt by systems that aren’t designed for them.
The truth is, your brain is unique. Your business is unique. Your life is unique. The perfect planning system for you doesn’t exist… YET! But by mastering key Creative Genius-friendly strategies, you can overcome time blindness, plan like the visionary you are and create your own custom planning system that will work for you.
Why is believing in these 3 myths problematic?
The Achiever’s Mental Game brings a new way of thinking about time. If you believe these myths, you will not plan. You will not even try to learn to plan. You won’t seek guidance or help. And soon you’ll give up on having a better business and a better life.
As a coach, I help Creative Genius entrepreneurs create plans and deliver on those plans for a living. I have seen breakthrough after breakthrough. I know it’s not impossible – it’s not even difficult – for Creative Geniuses to plan. But you need the right strategies and the guidance to create your own perfect planning system.
I’ve taught hundreds of other Creative Geniuses the Plan to Succeed Formula, which lets them plan their own way. And if they can do it, so can you. You’re right that traditional approaches to planning won’t work for you. But with a planning approach created for Creative Geniuses, you can do this.
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