How to Get Over the Overwhelm and Get Quicker Results in Your Online Business

There’s no doubt that starting an Online Business can bring up a whole heap overwhelm.

After all, there’s so much to learn, a tonne of conflicting advice and everyone selling you the magic answer - it’s easy to get overcome by shiny object syndrome and go down the rabbit of hole of overthinking and overwhelm. Before you know it, you’re spending hours in front of the computer but you’re no further along.

You THINK you're "working" on your business. You're learning a tonne, downloading all the freebies, you've consumed 10 webinars this week and countless podcasts.

But you're feeling more overwhelmed and confused by the day and starting to second guess and doubt yourself.

The problem is you're stuck in consumption over CREATION and it's making you feel inadequate, drowning out what YOU want and how best for you to run YOUR business that is unique to you.

If this sounds familiar but you’re ready to get moving then here’s how to reduce the overwhelm so that you can get clarity around your direction and right next steps. :-

1) Reduce the notice

You just can't watch a million different people sell a million different methods and expect to get clarity. Every person is selling you THEIR version of success and that's exactly what it is - THEIR version. Everyone has a different business model, strategy, background etc. Just because it's working for them doesn't mean it will for you. A random assortment of information is just confusing.

Unsubscribe, unfollow and delete anything not appropriate for where you are in your business RIGHT now.

2) Take away what isn’t necessary

Often we can become overwhelmed just by the sheer number of things we have on our to-do list. We say yes to everything and anyone because we don’t want to look bad and bite off more than we can chew so to speak.

Get into the habit of asking yourself whether the commitments that you are saying yes to support you in the life that you want to create and systematically take away what doesn’t fit that criteria.

Instead of making everything a priority and becoming overwhelmed look at what is truly essential for you to have in your life. A book that I loved that helped me with this a tonne is Essentialism by Greg Mckeown, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

The great thing about this book is that its lessons can be applied to both in business and life. Principles such as “less but better” can apply to your marketing strategies just as much as they can to social engagements. The same applies to the “power of a graceful no”, understanding trade-offs, taking responsibility to prioritise and crucially protecting your ability to do so by protecting your number one asset – you!
This is book is full of nuggets. So if you have tonnes of “stuff” going on at any one time and are doing way too much then this will help you realise the “unimportance of practically everything”.

As Richard Koch says

The great thing about this book is that its lessons can be applied to both in business and life. Principles such as “less but better” can apply to your marketing strategies just as much as they can to social engagements. The same applies to the “power of a graceful no”, understanding trade-offs, taking responsibility to prioritise and crucially protecting your ability to do so by protecting your number one asset – you!
This is book is full of nuggets. So if you have tonnes of “stuff” going on at any one time and are doing way too much then this will help you realise the “unimportance of practically everything”.

As Richard Koch says

““Most of what exists in the Universe – our actions and all other forces, resources and ideas, has little value and yields little results; on the other hand, a few things work fantastically well and have tremendous impact””

It’s time to get honest and take away the things in your schedule that have little or no impact on the bigger picture.

3) Listen to your inner voice

Now that you’ve reviewed and, where necessary, removed the things that are just noise and/or not essential to your goals you can finally hear yourself THINK and get some clarity.

Often the sheer volume of what you have going on reduces your ability to listen to your intuition. Now that the noise has lessened, it’s time to go within.

Take some time to go internally and connect with what YOUR message is.

Who can you help?

How do you help them?

Why is your service the no-brainer choice for YOUR ideal client?

What do you want your business to look like?

Why do you want to make this business a reality? (For an amazing insight into why clarity around your WHY is crucial listen to Simon Sinek’s TED Talk “Start WIth Why”.

Explore this in your journal and listen to your intuition and inner guidance. Get to know yourself and your desires.

4) Get to work

To help you get over the overwhelm reduce the time you spend in comsumption mode and instead spend your time on CREATION.

Creating your vision, creating what your ideal client needs, creating the next version of yourself.

Put in place powerful goals that are YOUR goals and then put the blinkers on start working towards them. The more you look externally for answers the less you’ll find them so being led by your vision is crucial.

And most importantly get the help that you need for the stage of business that you are at.

I help new entrepreneurs cut through the overwhelm and focus on the tasks that are going to move the needle in their business so that they can get quick results.

If you're ready to get over the overwhelm and know exactly which tasks to focus on to grow your business then book a Business Builder call with me to find out how I can help you. This is for the ambitious and determined woman who is DONE with stalling and playing small and is ready to create her dream business.

In this powerful 30 minute call we get clear on your big vision, address the challenges in your way and put in place a plan to get through your current overwhelm so that you can make your business a reality. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If you're ready to move forward with determination then schedule your call with me by clicking here.

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