Hey fellow entrepreneurs, welcome to the Buckets and Boone Gates Studio with Kim White, Jill Olish, and many other brilliant entrepreneurs. Determined to solve world problems for entrepreneurs, this community is changing how we look at the big things we do on our business adventure and sharing from their own lives ways to protect our time, money, and bandwidth. This show is designed for you, the entrepreneur, to hear behind the scenes stories of real business people across the globe and learn what is possible for you. Keep listening to join today's juicy conversation with Kim and Jill. Welcome to the Buckets and Boomgate studio. I am Jill Olish and I am joined today by the fierce Kim White. Kim, I'm glad to be here in the studio with you today. I'm always glad to be with you, Jill O. And today we are talking about weekly CEO rhythms, the simple habits that keep your business moving without hustle. If you're always swinging between sprint and crash, this is for you. Business is a long game and an instant gratification world. So hang on. Kim, how do we keep away from always working in sprints? Well, I'm going to give you a picture to think about. So hustle is a dance, the hustle. It's an older dance, so you may have to go back and look it up on YouTube. Exactly. When... when you do the hustle, you put all your effort into it and you're all sweaty, you're tired, you're, you're, you kind of have this little bit of a high, but you know, if you do the hustle all evening and like, let's say a, you know, a bar setting or a dance setting, um, you really are tired afterwards. Like you crash and you sleep because you have worked so hard doing that dance and doing all the moves and looking cool and doing all the things. I think that that's pretty much the same that it goes for in business. You know, the hustle is a dance. It's not a lifestyle. So if you think you can get up and you can do the hustle dance all day, every day, all day, every day, all day, every day, I've got a newsflash for you. You're human and you're going to come to a brick wall and you're going to crash because it's too much. That's not how we were wired. We're not wired to be full throttle all the time. So there's my picture. I hope you guys can picture, you know, the sweaty you out there trying to do things. And then the one that is magical to me is you can go and dance and have a good time without the crash. So don't do this. daily. You don't do this like twenty four seven. You have a different kind of, you know, way you do business. So rhythm beats, sprints or hustles. The typical pattern is that huge push, collapse, guilt and repeat. That is not fun. That is a horrible feeling. It keeps you stressed and it actually spirals you downward. Because each time you get up to do it again, it's actually harder and heavier and guiltier, I'll call it. And then you repeat and it's heavier, guiltier and all those things. So let's think about a sexy business. It's built on simple, repeatable rhythms, not heroics, not the full throttle lifestyle. And I think it's great if you have a lot of energy. I don't mean the energy part. I just mean forcing yourself into that place of constant full throttleness. It's not good for you. It's not good for your health. It's not good for your business or your life. I'm thinking about... one piece that I've experienced with this and it's a lot of procrastination that brings us to this point. I feel like, and especially when it's something that we do quarterly or monthly and we've procrastinated up until it's due kind of, we're going to find us in that hustle of trying to figure out how to get it done in a very short amount of time. And we could have just smooth sailed through it. We had this repeatable rhythm and, So rhythms are like habits, right? When we introduce a bad habit into our business, we have the chance of running it into the ground. So good habits then create sexy businesses, you know, the right things in the right order. And Kim, we wanted to talk more about how we can do this and talking about the CEO rhythm. So what could that look like for a sexy business? Well, first I want to speak to everyone who's questioning if they really are a real CEO. Let me speak to that first because I can't convince you of the next part. If you're not convinced, you're in charge of your business. I don't care if it's your side hustle. I don't care if it's a part-time thing that you do for business. I don't care. You're the CEO. CEO is... You know, you're the one in charge. You're the one that the buck stops at. You're the one that everything rolls back to. So if you are the chief executive officer, that means you made the decision to start a business. That means you made the decision to stay in business and you're making the decisions how you run the business. So welcome to business, my sweet listener. If you didn't already figure it out, you are the CEO, if nothing else, of you. Here's the thing I think your weekly rhythm can look like. I'm going to say should because we don't do shitties around here. But if you think about how important your business is, is it building a business so that you have an income? Is it building business so that you have an impact? Is it not worth taking a little time each week to make sure you're on track, make sure you're planning for the next week, make sure you're doing the things to be the CEO and in charge? So here's your planning block. I think you should take half an hour. Sometimes it takes an hour to make the habit, but then it usually only takes about half an hour a week ish to be able to plan your week. You look at your priorities. You look at, you know, what's going on, what is going to be important, ongoing, because you can't get into the, well, we can do this this week, but we won't do it anymore because that doesn't work. You have to make sure you're keeping your priorities, real priorities. Think about your money that's going to come in this week. Think about the money that's going to go out this week. What are you going to plan for? Are you planning for the right things? Because, you know, it's it's sometimes people get this panic mode. And I'm just going to use this as an example. Sometimes we panic because did you know that Christmas is coming? I mean, it's not that it doesn't come every December twenty fifth, but now I'm going to panic about it. Yeah. Business is the same way. You've got to keep your money in mind. You've got to keep that. If you're really going to run a business and not going to play around, you want a successful business. Why waste your time? Think about your money rhythm. So think about your marketing rhythm. Think about how you're marketing your business. Are you putting things out on socials? Are you thinking about, you know, whatever it is for the week, this is your planning session. So it can be very, I'll call idealistic or it can be very realistic. And I'm going to tell you, you can shoot for what you want, but live in the present. What is it right now? What is doable right now? What is the non-negotiable for your rest? You know, there's also that part of us that will fill a twenty four hour calendar and I'm guilty of twenty eight hours worth of work. Well, Where's that coming from? Where am I going to get that from? And how in the world am I ever going to rest because I've got too much to do? You have to flip that. You have to schedule in your rest. I've had years. I'm going to tell you years where I had to literally put on my calendar that I I am in bed from this time to this time, whether I sleep or not. I had to make myself create a habit. You also need a little time off. Is it, you know, you're going to take an evening off? Are you going to take a half a day off? I know when I first started doing sticky note time, which is our process around here, I had to force myself to take off like an afternoon. That was all I could do. I couldn't see how I could take off more time. I now take off days, like multiple days. So start where you are, but make sure that you're having a meeting with yourself. And here's a little hack. I'll call it a hack. If you have to name your CEO something, name you something. That's the meeting with you. It's a non-negotiable meeting. It's important because this is your business. This is your life we're talking about. So set up that time and put it on the calendar and I'll double dog dare you to even send us when your day and time is so that, you know, we can, we can help with accountability even. So we'll just, we'll just put that out there, Jill. That was unexpected, but you know. Yeah. That, and I was going to, I've been thinking as you're talking, that's exactly what this sounds like, is our meetings that we set up with ourselves in sticky note time. It's the perfect opportunity to include all of these additional habits. It's not just a meeting with what's going on this week. It's, you know, setting ourselves up for success in this way. I call mine just Jill meetings. So it's JJ meetings. So I don't really remember. I don't think it's what it's not. And I really hold true to it. So Kim, how do we do these meetings? Yeah. Well, how do we do these meetings? How does this work for us? If we're going to start putting them on the calendar. So first decide, are you going to use a paper calendar or are you going to use a digital calendar? Doesn't matter. but which one are you going to use? So that way, you know, for sure where you're going to put this and then put it on your calendar. If you don't put it on your calendar, you're not going to do it. I always laugh and say, if it's not on my calendar, it doesn't happen. It's true. Put it on your calendar. Be honest with yourself that this is the time you may have to adjust the time a few times, but be consistent, be consistent. And you know, During the day, this is something I do to set up my sticky note time planner. We have a planner that we use. I literally do this every day. I take a few minutes and I look through the day. I'm sorry. I'm looking at my planner while I'm talking. I take a few minutes. I look through the day and I make sure that it's set up according to what reality is. So some days, the truth is I don't rest well at night sometimes. And if I don't, I have less bandwidth. So looking at my calendar in the morning makes me make sure I'm keeping my priorities. Maybe I have a great night's rest like last night and I want to add a little bit more. I'm very cautious with that. I think you need to just think about that every morning. Just to set the day in order. And it doesn't have to take, I mean, it doesn't take very long. Sometimes it's two minutes. Sometimes it's five minutes. Sometimes it's ten minutes. But it's not long considering I'm impacting my entire life by what I'm going to do today. We take it lightly sometimes. Well, I'm just podcasting today. No, we're impacting everything we do by how we do it intentionally. So I think that's important. Check in with yourself. What's working? What's not? What's next? And I think in our planner, and you can write this in yours or you can add a list to your digital calendar, but I think it's really important of pain points. What pain points are you having? Be honest. Look at your calendar. Look at your planner and set that time up as if it was important because guess what, y'all? It is important. It's super important. And you don't need a perfect week. my goodness, if you wanted a perfect week, go back through all my planners. None of them are perfect, but they're repeatable. They do have the things in that make it keep me on track. It keeps me doing the things that actually move the needle in my business and not just, you know, lollygagging around. Don't wait for a crisis to get your things in order. Don't wait for a crisis to make you realize you are the one responsible because you are my friend. You're a CEO of your business in your life. I think it can sound a little daunting to try and fit into our business calendars and meeting with ourselves, but it is definitely worth it. And I think it's easy to start implement. There's an easier way to start implementing this instead of just putting it on the calendar and assuming you're going to show up, right? So we always want you to walk away with a win at the end of each of these episodes. Today, we have one for you where maybe we can start figuring out some of those simple pieces. Kim, what can we do to simplify adding this meeting to our calendar? I'm going to use a Nike phrase. You just do it. I think this is the deal. If I, if I could promise you, if I could promise you that one hour a week would change your entire business. If you took that hour serious, would you be willing? Because a lot of times we see these meetings as non-essential or not profitable. The truth is they're extremely profitable when you do them, and I think they are non-negotiables. So just do it. Look at your calendar. See where you have an hour. Put it on there. It may not take you an hour, but take an hour for the sake of you and your business being successful. I think the sexy homework for this week is really just do that and But I want to give you some things to kind of think about. And that is, what could you do that would increase your profitability, increase your impact, and yet not take more time? Because I think sometimes when we don't do these weekly reviews and we don't look at our planner and we don't look at our things and we don't set ourselves up, I think we can walk away with this feeling of the week went and I don't know where it went. I mean, I've heard so many people say that. I don't know where this week went. It was so fast. But was it doing the things that needed to be done for success or was it just doing things? Because I think we can be super tasky and not... super productive sometimes. All of us. That's an all of us. But if you want to be part of the elite successful businesses, which I believe every one of you can, this is part of what it takes. Taking that time, setting it aside and getting it on your calendar and keeping it. So I do think in our planner, it's pretty sexy because we have money in and money out. We have you know, what all's going on. We have a list on the side that says pain points, you know, and that's not to tease you all. I want to say this too. That's not to tease you all. We have this and you don't. I did it on a piece of paper before I had a pretty planer. So piece of paper, one hour a week, really be the CEO of your business. So pick the smallest thing that will make the biggest difference and And make sure that's part of your weekly meeting. Love it. Let's recap a little bit. Rhythms are better than hustling. Let's try to implement a nice rhythm that's going to create that sexy business and sexy life. Small routines create big stability. Those good habits, again, that are helping us sustain our business then. So if this helps, please share this episode with one business friend who could benefit from implementing a CEO rhythm. Next time we are going to be talking about rest without guilt. So join us in the next episode. Thank you again so very much for listening in because we could not make this podcast better without you. So we hope to see you next time. Love y'all. 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