Hi there,
Cheryl here,
And I am so excited that you are here for day three of the week-long series all about being productive and peaceful while you're working from home.
The idea is that each of these days creates a structure for you to start from,
To look at,
Okay,
What can I tackle today in what category?
Today is all about collecting,
Specifically collecting contacts and collecting knowledge.
So it's a little bit of a research day.
If you're someone who is constantly doing any sort of outreach,
Whether you're pitching for funding or you're pitching to book yourself in a venue to perform or to speak,
You have to find the right contact information first.
That takes a totally different kind of brainpower than it does to actually have the pitch conversation.
So it's a great day to sit down,
Get on Google,
Go to the networks that you're in,
The Facebook groups,
Anywhere where there might be contacts available and create a great Excel sheet.
I love using Airtable to gather all of this information,
The website,
Maybe a phone number,
Definitely an email and the name of the person you want to reach out to.
Today is not the day you have to reach out to them.
You're just setting your future self up so that when you're ready to reach out,
You have all the information you need and you don't need to go digging around the internet doing that sort of work when you're just ready to have a conversation and you're feeling empowered.
So collecting contacts is the first thing you can do.
My suggestion is to perhaps pick a category or what's something that you've been wanting to pitch to people but you haven't gotten around to.
Maybe start there.
The second thing that we can collect today is knowledge.
How many online programs have you signed up for that you just haven't gotten to yet?
Go dig up those username and passwords and start doing that material,
Start taking notes and maybe even start implementing the material.
Maybe it was a course on how to grow your Instagram or how to rock your email list which is a course that I host for musicians that is extremely empowering or maybe you took a course to learn how to play the guitar and you've just never gotten back to it.
Today's the day to go log in and learn a couple things.
You could also collect knowledge from reading.
If you're like me,
You have a read later list and that list grows and grows faster than it shrinks.
So today might be a great day to check off any of those reading list items that you've been adding.
So I encourage you to tackle one or two categories again just like the create day and the clear day.
It's not about doing all the things.
It's about just having a focus for the day and tackling one or two actionable items and you're ready to go for tomorrow which is the campaign day and I'll explain what that is tomorrow.
Thank you so much for being here with me today.
We'll end with a quick breath in and a breath out thinking all is well.
Have a wonderful,
Productive rest of your day.
