You could do it yourself - but will you?

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Simplify Business with Brinie podcast!

This week I wanted to share a hilarious story in my world and I wanted to know if this resonates with you.

So hubby and I have decided that with everything that was going on with:

• our renovations in the house
• the businesses,
• school and
• all this kind of stuff,

we were going to finally get ourselves a cleaner.

We've been talking about for years so we finally decided, yep, we're gonna get ourselves a cleaner

As everyone knows

Now... as everyone knows, if you get a cleaner, they did not tidy - they simply clean the space.

So the night before you need to make sure everything is tidy and up off the floor in this space, and then they clean the space, which is fantastic - don't get me wrong, and we've had them come once a fortnight now.

What started happening was we put into this habit of tidying the home every Wednesday night.

We all get up and we all start clearing.

And then all of a sudden the house looked AMAZING every Wednesday night because they would come in on Thursday.

We would tidy and put everything away.

We can do it ourselves!

The kids would put their stuff away and then my husband would decide that he could clean the space!

For those of you don't know I am not a domestic goddess.

I don't cook

I don't clean.

I don't shop.

Don't ask me how I found this man but he's amazing.

He does all of those jobs in our family.

Anyway, so he would then pull out the vacuum cleaner and clean the bench tops, and clean the oven and all this kind of stuff.

And so we were talking and he says when we were looking at the budget (we were really trying to push forward with the renovation)

He said, you know, I don't think we need the cleaners anymore. I think we've got this thing down pat.

I think let's put a stop on the cleaners.

Let's funnel that money into finishing the Reno.

Now, some of you will probably listen to this and you're laughing because you know what I'm about to say.

So I sent the email. "Thank you so much. We no longer need your services" and they wanted to check if anything was wrong.

"No nothing's wrong. It's just we're on a budget. This is this is something we can do ourselves"

and I'm LAUGHING when I think back....

Can you guess what happened?

Okay... So what do you think happened when we took away the pressure of the cleaners coming on Thursday?

Do you think any Wednesday nights we tidied?

We had no motivation to do that. It was that accountability.

There was a no one coming to knock on the door.

Do you think we did anything on a Wednesday night?

I can 100% tell you (I'm so embarrassed) that no....no, we did not.

There was no tidying on Wednesday night.

And if there is no tiding on Wednesday night.... Riddle me this batman....

Was there any cleaning on a Thursday?

No!

It was no cleaning on a Thursday!

I wasn't doing it - I was down here on calls.

He wasn't doing it.

The space wasn't cleared to do it.

The house was a hot mess.

On top of that still. With the renovation dust everywhere. Oh my gosh.

It's hilarious story.

 

 

What accountability do you need to make changes in your business?

This an example of the accountability that you need to make things happen in your business.

Okay, in your life

in your world.

We all know that we can get up and go and work out go for the walk around the block for our YouTube video

Go and get some weights and work out outside...

But what makes you work out?

What makes you take that extra step?

It's having someone holding you accountable to take the action.

I can drop and give myself 20 push up for now.

I'm not going to - I need to sign up and go to the gym tonight to make that happen.

Okay, same with the cleaning.

Guess what ... the cleaners have been rehired and they are back because we have realised that that is just something that is not going to happen unless we are held accountable.

And I suspect you're gonna hear the same podcast in about six months where my husband says "Oh, but the house is clean on Wednesday and we can clean it..."

but the reality is, it's not gonna happen.

It's just not gonna happen.

And now I'm going to ask you ...

what is something that is just not going to happen in your business If you don't have to show up.

If you don't have to report to someone.

And I'm going to hazard a guess that is it your goals.

It's the next thing you need to be working on.

I know for a lot of my clients who are in my group programs that have monthly accountability.

That is not enough.

It is not enough to have once a month you tell me what you're working on and for me to chase you up.

It's not enough.

And it's not enough for you to see me twice a month to engage with me and to show up that's not enough for you to :

• fix a problem in your business
• for you to take that action in your business.

And I gotta tell you, it took me working in a program that costs $10,000 and I had all sorts of accountability for me to really show up.

Action Takers

If you're listening still to this, you know that I'm talking about Action Takers.

Action takers is not $10,000.

What action takers is?

Is you having to show up each and every Monday and see me and talk to me and tell me where you're at.

Every Monday we're going to look at the spreadsheet where you have put your goals and I'm going to check in with you and see where you're at.

See what's holding you back.

Cheer for you if you've hit it, but guess what, you're moving forward l

Lament with you if you miss it, but show you what you need to do to move forward.

Because I'm a lot of things:

• I'm an extrovert.
• I'm a talker, but fundamentally
• I'm a problem solver.

And if you're looking for a problem solver in your business, a motivational person, someone to keep you accountable, then I'm that person. Because some feedback I've received from previous coaches is I am too invested in my clients businesses.

I care too much.

This isn't a program that I'm opening to funneling as many people as possible.

This is designed to be maximum 10.

If we don't hit the 10 then I will reopen the program in the next 90 day period.

We're only going to be working in 90 day blocks.

Okay, I am capping this program for the year of 2023 at 10.

So it's not like you're gonna get lost in the crowd.

And it is a closed program which you sign up for for the year.

Okay.

That is how I've decided to operate this.

That is how I've decided that I'm going to be able to show up each and every Monday at 9.30am Australian Eastern Standard Time to help support you

• to help push you;
• to help motivate you and
• to help keep you accountable.

Because I want to know what your dreams are, and I want nothing more than for you to hit them. So if you if you're someone listening and you think "you know what, I can do this on my own" that's great.

I want nothing more than that for you.

If you're someone who is able to clean your house and work out in your backyard, and stay on track, I am personally a bit jealous of you but I think that's wonderful!

I think that is great.

But if you're someone like me,

• who needs that accountability;
• you need someone showing up for them;
• You need someone turning up at your front door to clean the space after you have already tidied;

then I'm inviting you to come check out Action Takers and join us.

Alright guys, I'm gonna leave it there.

It's been wonderful chatting with you.

I look forward to next week and, in the meantime, have a wonderfully productive week and I really look forward to chatting with you soon and connecting with you on Facebook, Instagram and over in my Facebook group.

(oh And by email as well. I do love it when you hit reply and let me know how you're doing!)

 

Until next week!

Brinie

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