Saving Time When Building Your Business

I often hear people say that they lack time to build their business. I personally don’t believe this is true.

I think they lack the ability to prioritize their time, lack of knowledge for ways to say no – and often lack taking ownership for their choices.

This may sound harsh, but we have to move away from blaming outside circumstances for why things aren’t going how we want.

You are the one in control of what you do every day. You are not a victim. None of us are!

We all have the ability to shift and adjust our schedule if we want to. It might not be immediately, but it could be 6 months from now or even a year!

Some great tools that I use to help me save time when building my business are below:

HopperHQ: Scheduling app for scheduling my social media content. This allows me to open this app up and schedule all my content ahead of time.

Onestream.Live: I use this to schedule LIVE videos on Facebook and Youtube to go live every day. Then I can pre-record my content.

Calendly: This saves me time from back and forth scheduling with contacts and clients about what time I have available.

Virtual Assistant: Hire a VA to help you with the tasks you need help with that are repetitive in your business.

Conversion.ai: This is an artificial intelligence app that helps you write all your marketing copy! Get a free trial here: conversion.ai/free-trial?fpr=jeremykrak

After using some of these tools, the next thing you want to do is find out what to eliminate from your life.

• What activities are you doing every day that you can stop doing?

• What is sucking your time away that you could be spending building your business?

• Why do you have to do those things every day?

• What can you shift and adjust in your life?

When you get really honest with yourself about those questions, you will usually discover about 10% of your life that you can move around to make room for your business activities.

It’s going to take you time, but it’s worth it.

You’re not a victim or a prisoner to the amount of time you have in your life. It’s possible to prioritize things and shift them around to make room for you to build your business.

As a business owner you have to start working like a professional.

I’m always looking for ways to optimize my life and the time it takes for me to do things.

There’s no excuse for “lack of time” when optimization can save you hours.

We have to be intentional to create this optimization in our lives.

Make a choice to figure out where you can optimize your time and you will be able to get far more done in your business on a daily basis!

Successfully Dealing With The Opinions Of Your Friends and Family About Your Business

Everyone has opinions. It doesn't mean we have to listen to them.

When building your business, you're going to get many opinions about what you're doing from people.

You have to become really good at shutting out the noise from people who don't have experience and success, doing what you're doing.

People mean well - people you respect, friends and family - and they want to see you succeed, but they also don't want to see you get hurt.

One of the most important rules is do not spend time engaging with people who have negative opinions about what you're doing or try to knock down your dreams.

Seek out advice and wisdom from people who have experience doing what you're trying to do.

This challenges the way 99% of people live their life, always seeking the opinions of their friends and family.

Truth is, for you to be a successful business owner you're going to have to break free from your need to listen to other people’s opinions about what you're doing.

This may be hard but if you can grow in confidence and believe in what you are doing, you won’t need that validation.

They may convince you that you are neglecting them by not considering their opinion, you may even have family and friends angry with you and saying that you changed.

If you want to reach your goals as a business owner, you have to give up the need to be validated and approved by others. Even those closest to you.

I don't think you should end relationships with people close to you, but just leave certain topics off the table to discuss.

At the same time, find some people who are doing what you set out to do! Get some mentors and colleagues! Social media is a great place to do this, but beware - even people online present themselves as experts and really aren't. They just have many meaningless opinions.

Take a look at someone's track record. What have they accomplished? What have they done?

Has someone built a business to 7 figures like you want to - or do they just talk about it?

Pay attention to what people are doing, not just merely what they are saying, and learn from those who have done what you set out to do.

I've been helping companies grow to 8 figures and beyond for the last 17 years and would love to help you grow your business by getting more sales, leads, customers and clients online. Schedule a free call with me at jeremiahkrakowski.com/freecall and let's talk about taking your business sales to the next level!

How To Find Inner Peace Amidst Chaos In Business

Do you constantly feel like you are in a state of rush, hurry or stress?

With so much going on, these states of energy become our “autopilot” mode of operation in our activities, unless we intentionally do things differently.

And that’s truly what it is: intention to do differently.

The truth is, you will accomplish far more from a “peaceful” or “calm” state, than you ever will from a state of rush, hurry or stress.

“Peace” and “calm” are often words that we can quickly forget exist with so much going on in our lives.

With the constant hustle and bustle of life, and the need to get things done as quickly as possible, where is there time for peace and calm?

How can one exist peacefully unless they were a psychopath in these trying times?

The truth is, you neither have to be a psychopath or cease to “do” everything in your life to experience peace and calm.

Great things are accomplished from peace and calm.

We can train ourselves to be in that state during our days.

That’s why the saying “Anything that takes away your peace is not worth it”, is true.

We must prioritize our peace inside every single day, or life will take over.

We can either choose to be a victim of what’s happening in our life – or decide to live in peace.

With things going on our lives, it can be easy to just be tossed to and fro by chaos. But we can make the choice to have peace inside of us in the middle of chaos.

While it may seem as if we don’t have enough time to make our inner peace a priority, the truth is, we don’t have the time not to!

You will find that you will accomplish far more when you prioritize your own inner peace and take time for self care, than when you don't.

How do we do this?

1.)    Time in prayer

2.)    Using apps like Headspace for meditation

3.)    Going for a walk

4.)    Playing an instrument

5.)    Coloring

6.)    Playing a game (unless it’s frustrating haha)

7.) Legos / Playdough

These are some great ways to get reconnected. You don't want to be controlled by your thoughts. Ruminating in our minds about what’s not going our way – and constantly striving to “do more and get more done” leads us to have anxiety and stress.

It’s a choice to change what you’re focusing on. If you struggle to do this, getting help in therapy can be a great way to learn how to do this. Some of us have trauma in our lives that makes it difficult, and having a professional psychotherapist can help you learn how to control these thoughts and operate as your powerful self!

An app that I use for therapy is: https://www.betterhelp.com

A great app that gives you access to talk with people for free is: https://www.7cups.com (I used this before I signed up for therapy. Even though it wasn’t a replacement for it, it helped me a lot).

Ultimately, it’s up to us, to keep existing in “rushing, anxiety, hurry, stress” – which will ultimately kill us. Or we can choose to grow in the skill of maintaining our inner peace. When you do this, you will find that you will get more done, accomplish your goals faster by slowing down and taking the time to exist in “peace” and “calm”.

Delivering Excellence In Business The Right Way

When starting a business, we want to do things with excellence.

We want to put out high quality products and services.

One of the biggest mistakes I see business owners making when they just start out, is the obsession with perfectionism.

To reach your business goals, you have to give up the need for everything to be perfect before you put things out there.

Give things your very best shot, but stop wanting things to be absolutely perfect before you launch your business.

Stalling, hesitating to launch because things aren’t “quite perfect” is really just insecurity – disguised as caution. Unfortunately, this will leave you stuck and wondering when things will finally move forward for you. You won’t reach your goals with this mindset!

I often see a direct split down the middle: successful business owners taking action imperfectly, and those who need everything to be perfect before putting themselves out there, struggling to succeed.

If you want to start growing your business, give up the need for all your marketing, logos, design, presentation, etc. to be perfect, and focus on one thing:

Reaching as many new people to sell to on a daily basis.

Bringing in more revenue opens up more opportunity for you. If you aren’t making $1 Million dollars yet in your business, then your responsibility is going to be to sales and marketing. Don’t waste your time and energy on perfection! 

Focus on sales and marketing.Take imperfect action and get some revenue in your business so that you can grow to that $1 Million dollar mark.

As you make more money in your business, you can afford to hire people to refine things and make them more polished over time.

Put out high quality products and services, and launch your business with imperfect action.

If you need coaching to build a business successfully, schedule a free 15 minute call with me here: jeremiahkrakowski.com/freecall

Get Paid What You’re Worth In Business

When building a business, you’re the one who determines your value.

This can be hard in the beginning because, if no one is buying from us, we may feel we are worthless.  

We have to realize one positive truth: Our value is not connected to other people purchasing from us!

Your worth is not related to how many sales you can get.

You have to decide your value first before you put yourself out there. The marketplace pays for value, but you’re the one who decides what that value is.

This is a major paradigm shift, especially going from employee to entrepreneur – realizing that your worth is not connected to your performance!

If you want to get paid more as a business owner, you have to ask for more!

Sure: in the beginning you might take less to pay the bills. I remember when launching this business 3 years ago, I did web design jobs for $70/hour, and now I’m closing coaching clients at over $1000/hour and consulting packages over $15,000/month!

This of course was part of my strategy to get some clients under my belt, get some quick wins, get some cash flow coming in. The last 3 years, we’ve been able to pay our bills, and grow our business.

I project we will double or triple our income in the next year by doing this, and you can as well!

I truly believe that anyone reading this right now can triple their income IF they do the work needed to grow to that place.

Here’s an example, Dawn has been able to increase her monthly income every single month since coaching with me in her health business. She’s not afraid to ask for multiple figures per client in sales!

In the beginning it can be hard to do this, but as we grow as business owners, we are able to step out in that confidence to ask for what we are worth.

If  the value of what you are selling is  greater than what you are charging, people are willing to pay for it!

My clients are willing  to pay me 5 figures per month because their returns are multiple 6 and 7 figures!

A That’s what will  happen for you as well.

I don’t think we should ever shrink back our worth.

Show up in your power today. You are worth far more than you even realize, and people are going to be willing to pay you more than you ever thought was possible!

Say this abundance mantra today: I am worth getting paid 7 figures for the value I bring to the table.

Repeat that over yourself. Start to believe it. Visualize what your life would be like if you were making over $83,333/month (that’s $1 million a year).

When you start to visualize it and write down your goals, you can paint a picture in your mind's eye of what that reality will look like for you!

Then, show up as a confident person who believes in themselves when you ask for the sale.

You won’t be able to sell yourself if you don’t believe in yourself. If you  don’t believe in yourself, other people won’t either!

Ask for the pay that you want. When you stand your ground, people will  respect that. In the beginning they may not understand, but the more that you put “this is what I get paid” out there, that is what the marketplace will start to pay you!

If you would like to get some help in building a business of your own and growing your income to that 6 and 7 figure level, schedule a free call with me here: jeremiahkrakowski.com/freecall

Your Business Will Grow By Asking For What You Want

When building your business, you have to be willing to ask questions and do so without hesitancy.

I see people often holding back on asking for help or asking questions because they are unsure how to or don’t feel confident asking.

To get what you want, you have to ask for it at the end of the day.

To get more sales, you have to ask for the sale.

To get more results from your staff, you have to ask people to do work for you.

Asking is a huge, underrated skillset that people need to start doing more of.

Many times we have limiting beliefs that are preventing us from asking for help with things.

We aren’t sure if it’s going to work. We aren’t sure if it’s the right time, etc.

At the end of the day, just putting yourself out there and asking is always going to be better than not asking!

Many of us have childhood trauma in our lives - or even adult trauma from friends, family, and coworkers that have belittled us for asking questions. This made it a bad thing in our minds to ask questions. We were even punished or judged for asking “stupid things.”

There’s no such thing as stupid, bad questions.

Now, it’s possible to ask inappropriate questions, but you can’t let the fear of asking an inappropriate question keep you from asking!

Start asking for things that you want more often.

You are worth asking for things. You’re worth asking for help. You’re worth getting your needs met.

Don’t let anyone silence you or keep you from asking for things!