Welcome to a new year with the Coaching Hive podcast. To say last year was a whirlwind would be an understatement, but with action comes clarity. And this year, I will be guiding you in gaining clarity as you take action in your coaching business. We are starting off 2022 with a series of episodes focused on time.

Introduction

In thinking about the upcoming year, a few words come to mind: simplicity, clarity, and vision. In fact, we wrapped up 2021 with a series on your Mindful Vision for your business in 2022. What about you? When you think about the upcoming year and your business, what words strike you as most important? If you haven’t had a chance to think about that, it can be a powerful experience. I say this even though I’m not typically one to choose a word for the year. In fact, I still can’t do that, but I do have those three words in mind that will guide my actions, decisions, and path. They allow for flexibility and freedom as well as grounding and meaning.

Now, I know you aren’t listening today for me to expound upon three words that have been on my mind as I contemplate the new year, but I promise there is a path here. Think about building your business.

What would you like to say yes to in the coming year?

With your Mindful Vision, from episodes 45-48, do you now have more clarity?

You might be shaking your head no and I get it. It is really easy to say that everything will align with your vision because in some way it will all be linked. And you are right, many different activities can be directly linked to your business, but not every activity will be as important or helpful to your business.

This is where you have to stop and decide what to say yes to while keeping the amount of time you have in perspective.

Over the past few weeks, this has been a hot topic in our house. As an entrepreneur you can easily focus on the tasks that are interesting, quick wins and ignore the harder more daunting but infinitely more important tasks. Maybe those bigger tasks that seem daunting are what will move your business forward the most but you can’t find the time or energy.

What if you tried something similar to an Agile approach?

This is something that I recently implemented inside my business and we are even giving it a whirl in our homeschooling routine as a way to manage and master time. Using an Agile approach definitely makes you keep the time that you have in perspective, helps you get the big things done, and get those other satisfying, “yes” type tasks taken care of as well.

I don’t follow the letter of the law with Agile because Agile is not deadline driven, but I hope to get to a place where I can use Agile in the way it was intended. For now, I’m taking the pieces that work for me and building from there.

Remember, keep your time in perspective. You can’t do everything all the time in the exact way you’d like.

If you are ready, I’ll give you a sneak peak into how I’m keeping time in perspective this year in my planning and aligning everything back to my vision. Doing this is not only bringing clarity, it is bringing simplicity and ease. It's already bringing simplicity and ease. And I'm just getting started. Does that sound like something that you want to have inside your business? Probably shaking your head. Yes, I can. I can understand. And I can agree.

Agile Process Explained

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