This summer I planned a brand and website makeover. New logo, new graphics, new photographs and shiny new updated website.
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And then my friend it all went totally, horribly wrong.
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Imagine the following if you will….
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First off the graphic designer got the new logo completely wrong. The kind of wrong where each revision gets worse and you show your friends hoping that you’re exaggerating and it’s not as bad it you think it is only for them to give a look that’s something between pity and shock.
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Then your photographer gets a sty in her “shooting eye” so your photoshoot gets delayed (because after the graphics disaster you now have trust issues and refuse to use anyone else) Besides your photographer is FANTASTIC!
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And last your web designer who’d agreed that your website would be the last one (because she’s not doing web design anymore-don’t ask) says that things on her end have changed and she now can’t do your website At. All.
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(image courtesy www.someecards.com)
In other words it’s all gone to pot.
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So how do you stay motivated without ending up in a chocolate induced coma?
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Here are my 3 top tips to stay motivated when NOTHING goes to plan.
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- Remember time is Fluid
As busy entrepreneurs in a world of deadlines and demands we can think of time as a fixed concept. Finite. Something we can run out of. When the truth is different. We’ll never ever run out of it and can reschedule tasks as we need to.
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- Ask yourself what can you do differently next time?
Not “better” but “differently”. Could you have more than one pool of service providers? (definitely something I’m implementing going forward) Could you allow more room in the timeline for slippage?
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- Ask yourself What can you do Instead?
Ok so you can’t launch the programme/run the event/do whatever it is you’d planned to do, but surely there must be something else you can do instead.
In my case I’ve had to delay the launch of a 90 Day programme but hey that means I can open up spots for virtual VIP days and pilot an online workshop instead.
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My community will be happy and I will be happy too. Win-win situation.
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In life stuff happens, cut yourself some slack, step back and take a breath and know it’ll be ok in the end….Now where did I put that chocolate?
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