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🗓️ 13 February 2024
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As entrepreneurs, most of us are amazing at coming up with ideas, but we struggle when it comes to choosing what to focus on and what to leave behind.
We jump from one thing to another, never really making progress and feeling like we’re stuck going round in circles.
It’s an awful feeling but it’s an enemy that most of us face: shiny object syndrome.
I know it’s something that can really keep us stuck, so in this episode I wanted to share the things that have really helped me to get focused, make progress and create success.
Read the show notes here: https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/2024/02/how-to-stop-letting-shiny-object-syndrome-keep-you-stuck/
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0:00.0 | One of the biggest pickles I have found myself in as a business owner over the years is |
0:05.3 | Shiny Odrick syndrome. I come up with so many bloody ideas all the time. What am I supposed to |
0:09.6 | focus on? What ideas am I supposed to run with? What should I leave behind? I wanted to talk |
0:14.0 | about that in this episode and share the things that have really, really helped me to stay focused |
0:18.9 | so that I can actually continue to create success |
0:21.7 | instead of being stuck spinning in circles. |
0:27.5 | The first place I want to start though is with my journal. |
0:30.4 | This is the journal I kept right back when I started the Female Entrepreneur Association. |
0:34.7 | And I mean, this is just a random page I was looking through before.'ve been making some progress on the box idea so I was going to do a monthly |
0:40.8 | subscription but I think I'll start first with say 100 boxes and try and sell them a few |
0:45.0 | days later I was writing I've also started to write a book a couple of days on from that |
0:49.5 | I want to create a 2012 business booster kit I could also do a tool section for things like accounting |
0:54.9 | software. Not long later. I really need to decide on a direction for FAA. Yes I do. I also came |
1:01.7 | up with a totally different idea, business getters, a business which deploys the business getters |
1:06.4 | into businesses that need to get more sales. Not much long after that, I wrote, I'm also going to |
1:10.7 | put together a board of excellence, an FBA team. I'm going to start a blog, play on my name, |
1:15.5 | carry on positive thinking, carry on business, carry on happiness, carry on daily. I wanted to share |
1:22.4 | this because it literally goes on and on and on with so many ideas. It's ridiculous. And this is the point. |
1:30.7 | Like all of us are on this crazy journey where we have so many ideas tumbling through our minds. |
1:36.8 | We feel excited about this and about that. But you know what? All of those things help take |
1:42.4 | us on these little journeys and we get a little bit |
1:45.3 | closer and a little bit closer and sometimes it feels like absolute chaos where we're just |
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