Welcome back, my fellow entrepreneurs, to another episode of the Small Business Startup Essentials Show! I'm Tom Clairmont and I’m here to help you work through the issues of having an online personal brand business. And in this episode, I’ll be talking about one of the perpetual problems that we all seem to have from time to time… going through the motions and getting little results. So, if you've ever felt stuck in whatever situation you’re in…whether it’s through, the dream process, the planning process or the launch process, and if you’re hitting a barrier in sales or social media, product development, whatever. Let’s take a little time to unpack this now, so that, hopefully, you’d be able to make significant progress in your business so that you can have some serious results.  Now, we've all experienced those moments when it feels like we're putting in the work, but the results just don't seem to match our efforts, right? It can be so frustrating and really, de-motivating at times, right? But stick with me here for just a little bit my friend, because today we're going to dive a little deeper into this topic to see how you can turn it around. First, it's important to take a step back from time to time and look at your approach. Are you simply creating To-Do lists every day and going through the motions?  You know what I mean just checking off the boxes one by one. Going through the tasks without a clear purpose or strategy? Because often (and hey, I’ve been through this), we can get caught up in the day-to-day operations and lose sight of the bigger picture. Taking a step back to just basically evaluate your time and your processes, goes a long way. Are you trying to accomplish too much too soon, and maybe you’re finding yourself being spread too thin? You know, here you are with this to do list that you create every day because you’re ambitious and I get it. It’s good to be ambitious. You want to accomplish a lot every day. But overall, you’re finding that real deep results aren’t happening. And look, I’ve been through this and I’ve had my share of to do lists and all the things that I want to get done, you know. And I’ve had to be realistic about some of these things that I put on the list that, yeah, I really want to do it. but is it the best timing for me to do it today. Because if we all create these humongous to do lists or even if they’re not, humongous lists, even if we have short lists, but each tasks it takes an enormous amount of time. It spreads our time too thin you know, and here we are focused on quantity of tasks getting done, but we’re sacrificing the quality in the work. So I’ve had to learn how to have more reasonable to do lists And actually I find that I accomplished more overall Throughout the span of a day when I take some. Serious breaks in like go for a walk or go for a bike ride or just even, you know, hop in the car and run a few errands because if I’m sitting at my computer all day it gets harder and harder to focus and crank out some quality work. Because a lot of times I have to create content, like I’m doing now. But if I’m spent emotionally or just drained or just having a hard time focusing because I’ve been sitting in this chair all day long, then the kind of content I’m creating is going to suffer. And then to add on to that, if I have to talk to people and do Zoom chats with people and I’m not able to really be engaged the way I really need to be or should be engaged because I’ve been sitting in front of this computer all day long then, the kind of coaching that comes from me won’t be the quality that I should be producing. So I know it sounds sort of counterproductive, to say that you’ll be able to have better results by working less but lately I found that to be true and I’ve heard this from other people too. Some significant influencers you know, Justin Welch is Huge on LinkedIn; has a huge following. He said the sam