Achieve More By Doing Less: Surprising Results from Our Year Doing LESS
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Our 2023 motto was to do less and do it better. This required making some bold and scary moves like cutting two of our top three revenue streams, that historically had generated well over six figures. So how did that turn out last year? In this episode, I'm sharing the biggest lessons + breakthroughs I learned from doing LESS! I'll talk about what happened after we decided to focus on fewer projects, the initial impact of our decision + how you can find your own version of excellence through self-reflection. If you're thinking about scaling back this year, tune in to discover some unexpected insights from our year of doing less!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:35 Our motto for 2023 + what it means to do less and do it better.
05:05 How we opened the way to exponential growth by scaling back.
11:50 Major breakthroughs from a year of doing LESS.
16:40 Creating a safe environment to move forward without fear.
20:40 Open yourself to more exciting opportunities just by clearing space.
23:25 Self-reflective questions for finding your own version of excellence.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Since starting powerhouse women, I had just been going nonstop. |
| 0:05.1 | I had held on to too many things that I loved and they really served a purpose at one point, |
| 0:10.9 | but I wasn't listening to that nudge that it was time to move on and focus my energy in a more concentrated way on the things that I really wanted to pour my heart and soul |
| 0:22.2 | too. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:30.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:32.6 | Introducing your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. |
| 0:37.9 | Hi! If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're in the right |
| 0:43.5 | place. You ready for your breakthrough? Let's do it. |
| 0:46.8 | Powerhouse Women! |
| 0:52.9 | Today I'm coming to you with a little recap of how our goal in 2023 and really our motto to do less and do it better, how that actually worked out. |
| 1:05.5 | And whether or not it was worth it. |
| 1:08.8 | So I'm excited to break this down for you because if you have listened to |
| 1:12.0 | the podcast at all, you've heard myself, you've heard Hannah talking about how last year we just |
| 1:17.4 | had this, I don't know, it was just like this intuition that we really wanted to focus in on |
| 1:23.7 | doing less, meaning fewer quantity of things in the business so that we could focus in |
| 1:32.5 | on doing the things that we were giving our time and our energy to with excellence. |
| 1:38.5 | And it all started a few months into the year. |
| 1:41.2 | So this wasn't even something that we took into all of |
| 1:44.4 | 2023, but I remember being at her house in San Diego. We were doing one of our quarterly |
| 1:50.0 | planning meetings. I think this was in May. So it was pretty good chunk into |
| 1:55.0 | 2023. And we had been talking about this intention of do less and do it better. |
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