How I've helped Innate Fitness

This week I’m really excited to share about my client Andrew Araza. We’ve worked together for several years now and it’s been amazing to watch his business grow and thrive.

 Andrew owns Innate Fitness here in Santa Barbara, which is a gym that specializes in making sure all of their athletes feel safe and confident with their movements by teaching them the fundamentals before group class. They start with mechanics, then consistency, and finally intensity.  Innate Fitness coaches know your name and their classes are small enough that you get one-on-one attention.  

Andrew’s business has been growing and he’s needed help in getting organized and identifying the systems and solutions he needs to support that growth.  I’ve recently helped him hire an assistant and bring her onboard.

4 things I’ve helped him do are:

• Identify his goals and worked on a timeline for achieving them

• Worked on managing timelines and schedules of multiple team members

• Strategized on project follow through where we plot out what will be delegated to whom, how the project will be executed and seeing the project through

• Hire an assistant and bring her onboard

If you’re in need of help with organization and accountability, I have 3 spaces available for private coaching, give me a call !

If you want to hear directly from Andrew, I encourage you to watch his testimonial video below.

How's your 2020 going so far?

How’s your year going so far?!  Hope you’re off to a great start in 2020. Sometimes the beginning of the year can be overwhelming - big goals, long to do lists, etc. So to lighten things up and make sure I was starting off on the right foot...especially in my business, I did these three fun things. 

• Mark off your days off on your calendar for the rest of the year.  Even if you haven’t planned any trips, you know when your holiday days off will be and roughly when you’ll take off with your kids to visit the grandparents.

• Set a timer for ten minutes and clear your workspace or desk.  Throw away trash, put coffee mugs in the kitchen where they belong, take stock of any supplies you’re low in (a new pad of sticky notes is so satisfying).

• Make a vision board with colorful pictures ( I used mostly travel, food and fashion magazines) and inspiring words.  I love to visually lay out the things I’m setting my intentions toward.

I’m opening up three slots for  my next 12-Week Reboot,  February 3. 

My expertise is in setting up systems that will get and keep your business organized. With my eyes on how you are functioning in the office, we will quickly identify ways that you can do things better, easier, faster and cut out the extras that are driving you crazy. 

In this 12-week program I will help you identify your goals then meet with you each week to help you stay on track, create the systems we’ve identified, and give you guidance on how you can organize your business. 

If you’d like to know more, give me a call !

Holiday Planning

The Holiday season has officially begun.  Do you have your travel plans set?  Are you hosting a holiday meal or party?  Have you started shopping for gifts if you exchange gifts?

There’s still time (more than a month away) but with a little prep time now you’ll be smooth sailing into the holiday season. Here are my favorite holiday prep tips: 

• Get your travel plans on the calendar and make sure you’ve purchased travel tickets, if necessary. If you’re driving a fair distance, does your car need a tune-up?
  

• Make a list of gifts you need to purchase. Maybe your family has decided to draw names and each person only has to buy one gift.
  

• If you’re hosting, can you delegate some things like have guests help bring some of the dishes?
  

If you’d like to give the gift of organization to help someone you love feel lighter and more centered, I’m offering gift certificates for my organizing services and I’d love to help. Give me a call!

Are you communicating effectively with the people you share the same goals with?

Are you communicating effectively with the people that you share the same goals with? 

As I’ve been working with businesses, my question is: 

Are you communicating effectively?  

That means are you checking in regularly?  Are you making sure that you are all on the same page?  

Whether you’re meeting in person or via a zoom call, communication is super important to keep things flowing smoothly with the people you share the same goals with.

Although I am working on communication with team members in a business setting, it can also mean your family or board that you sit on, a group you volunteer with or any set of people that are working toward the same goal. 

Here are my top 3 tips for communicating effectively: 

1. Have clear goals that everyone understands and agrees to.
   

2. Have a regular meeting set where you check-in on progress towards your goals
   

3. Engage which means listening with an open mind, and offering feedback.
   

On the board I sit on I’m helping to spearhead the fundraising committee and I know our fundraising our goal and that I’ll have to have regular check ins with the group I’m working with in order to reach it. The group will only be effective if everyone participates and offers feedback. 

Where in your life can you use clearer goals, regular check-ins, and fully engage with others to achieve them? If you need help with any of these, give me a call!

My new 6 Week Reboot Program

I recently polled my clients to find out how I could support them in their businesses. I found out that a lot of them are so mired in the day to day of running their business that they don’t have time for big picture thinking and planning. They wanted an opportunity to take a step back, look at the bigger picture, set strategic goals and have someone to meet with regularly to bounce ideas off of and provide accountability. 

I am offering a 6-Week Reboot to meet this need. We will start with a 45-minute meeting to see what your goals and challenges are and how we organize them so that you have a plan on how to move forward in a way that gives you more time, space and simplicity. 

After we set up your initial goals and plan I will meet with you each week to help you stay on track, set up systems, and give you guidance on how you can reboot your business. 

My expertise is in systems. With my eyes on how you are functioning in the office, we will quickly identify ways that you can do things better, easier, faster and cut out the extras that are driving you crazy. 

My commitment is to making your business run smoother and easier, what I need from you is 30 minutes a week to make sure that happens. 

Click here to schedule a call. 

I’m here to help you and your business get ORGANIZED so that when the New Year rolls around you’re off to have a great 2020!! 

Are you getting enough sleep?

Anyone else struggle with insomnia or getting enough sleep?  I do.  In order to feel organized, productive, centered, and really anything else positive about your day, you need to get enough sleep.  And good sleep.  I bring this topic up because I struggle with insomnia and wanted to share some things that I do to help me get a better nights’ sleep.  If I don’t sleep well or get enough sleep, my whole day is off.  

According to the National Institutes of Health, adults need between 7-9 hours of sleep to function at their best.  With our fast paced society and technology that brings us information instantly, there seems to always be one more thing we can get done before bed.  One thing I make sure I do is turn off all screens at least an hour before bed and this seems to really help my brain start to slow down.  

Next up is  let’s make sure your room is clutter free.  If you have lots of clutter in your bedroom it can drag your energy down and affect your sleep.  Clear out anything that doesn’t belong in your bedroom, isn’t serving you anymore or you don’t absolutely love.  Your bedroom is a room in your house that you spend the most time (maybe besides your kitchen), why not make it clean and tranquil.

I make sure I’m getting good exercise, not drinking caffeine in the afternoon (I’m currently taking a break altogether) and not eating too heavy of an evening meal after 6pm.  I like to take a warm epsom salt bath to relax and have a cup of chamomile tea as part of my bedtime routine.  According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, your bedroom should be cool and dark to sleep well and keep to a consistent bedtime in order to set your body’s internal clock.

And when I’ve done all the right things and I still can’t sleep, I get up and write in my journal.  Sometimes just getting the ideas out of my head helps.  When I’m really desperate I make an appointment with my acupuncturist.  What do you do to help you get a good nights’ sleep?  I’d love to know!