23. The Long Game: Balancing Short-Term Wins with Big-Picture Strategy

As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day hustle. But what if playing the long game could help you achieve sustained success? Hear me out and let me tell you about this mindset shift that will help you thrive as a purpose-driven company so your personal life and wellbeing can thrive alongside it too.

What is the Long-Game Mindset?

I sit down with purpose-driven founders every day, all day, and I help them to get where they want to go and bridge the gap between all the struggles and the things they need to figure out in a way that doesn't sacrifice their personal life and their wellbeing. Here’s what trips them up the most: unhelpful mindsets. 

Have you ever thought when you're thinking about reaching the next goal, or maybe just going through the day to day of your business, that it's a crunch time that it's a critical time? Or like you really need to focus for the next, you know, X amount of days?

When you focus on short-term pressures, your brain literally goes into a survival mode. This mindset biologically changes your hormones and how your brain is operating. It creates stress that lowers your cognitive function, create emotional disconnection from your purpose and customers, and hinders your success. 

What is happening in your central nervous system is that it's causing you to ramp up things. It actually causes more problems than it fixes. Instead, it's more helpful to adopt a long-term perspective, fostering patience and purposeful energy.  Here's a sneak peek into some of the helpful things I cover in today's episode:

How You Get There is How You Stay There

Who you are now is who you'll be at every level of success. It's easy to think that things will feel easier after you figure out this next challenge. But if you’re overwhelmed or stressed now, those feelings won’t disappear once you reach your goals. Overwhelm and stress is a nervous system state that you need to learn how to be with and shift. This is a founder skill set. So, you need to address these feelings head-on now, before you reach the goal.

It's about who you're being, not what goal you're achieving.

Introduction to the CEO Goal-Achievement System

I share four simple things that you should be doing every single day as a founder, that help you reach your goals with more ease. Mindset's, central nervous system regulation, making good decisions, implementing and evaluating - these are all skill sets that you should be using and strengthening each day.

Every founder has areas for improvement. Reflect on your current mindset and behaviors, and take steps to shape a more effective, sustainable approach to business. 

Remember: how you get there is how you stay there. 

If you’re ready to become a more organized, effective, and confident founder while enhancing your personal life and wellbeing, Simply Sustainable is the program for you. I offer on-demand video lessons, practical tools, and monthly coaching calls so you have a goal-achievement system to plug your business into.

You'll understand how your brain and body work and how to naturally improve performance while simplifying everything you do. The best part? These tools grow your business while improving personal life and wellbeing.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• How a long-term mindset differs from the traditional founder approach that is taught.
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• How to stay emotionally connected to your customers and why this helps
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• Practical strategies to maintain balance and reduce stress as you grow.
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• The importance of self-reflection and mindset adjustments.

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