Introduction

Welcome back to a new episode of the Coaching Hive podcast. I am so excited. You're here with me today. We are starting a brand-new month, November, and we are heading into the end of 2021. And I, for one, want to make sure that I'm ending the year on a strong note. Last month in October, the podcast really focused on getting on stock.

This is something that we focused on inside the Coaching Hive with the members. And it's something that I talked with you briefly over the month with last month. So when you get unstuck, that's a great thing. It means that you are starting to move and movement means progress. So how do you measure that progress? That is where the coaching had members are focusing their month of November.

And today, what I'd like to do is kind of bring you into the loop with our Coaching Hive members just a little bit, and give you a taste of what things you might think about as you start to explore your next steps. So if you are getting unstuck, that means you're ready to take some action, right? And one of the places that can move you right back into feeling stuck is this overwhelm chances are you have some sticky notes somewhere, maybe it's on your phone. Maybe it's an actual sticky note and it has 8,000 things listed. You have a nice long to-do list. You're excited you have all of these things to do. And I know this to be true because I have talked with many of you over the months, over the years. And one of the biggest things that I hear time and again, in fact, it happened just today as I was talking with another coach and she said, I have all of these ideas. I don't know where to get started. So if this month is all about measuring progress, that means we have to actually get started, take a step, choose an action, and then follow through.

If you are feeling like, yeah, ready to get started, I'm ready to get unstuck. I want to make that progress. So I have something to measure. You are in the right place today. We are going to talk about choosing that right first step for you so that you can then start looking at how far you've come and what those next possible steps might be. If you are ready, let's go ahead and jump in.

Taking Action

So today we're thinking first steps, because we want to be able to measure the progress we've made on those first steps. If you have a tip, a to-do list, if you have a sticky note nearby, here's what I want you to do, pull it out. So you can pause the podcast pulled out that to-do list or that sticky note.

And I want you to put a star or highlight the, that you feel like would give you the most joy to tackle right now. What would give you the most joy? The most sense of fulfillment and the most sense of progress right now, choose just one or two items. Ideally, just one. But if you can't choose, choose one or two items that would give you that great sense of fulfillment and then take a step back.

I want you to reflect on why you chose those specific items. Is it because they're easy? Is it because they can be accomplished quickly? Is it because you know that it will lay the foundation for everything that follows in your business? Why did you choose that item or two off of your to-do list? Now, what happens if you don't actually have a, to do list? I know that some of you are creatives. You have all of these ideas in your head, but you don't necessarily get into the planning all that much. So you don't have 8,000 sticky notes like I have on my desk. And that's okay. When you are thinking about what one or two items would give you the most joy, the most fulfillment and that most sense of progress, search your memory stores, search those lists in your brain. And I want you to get one or two down on paper. The reason that I'm asking you to put something down on paper, is it the physical act of writing will help you to connect with that task more? It will help you to decide, is this something