To illustrate how simple planning should be I'm going to walk you through how I create my annual plan

and how that ends up being broken down into everyday and to show you how easy and simple it can be.

It can be done on a literally one side of one regular size 11 by a sheet of paper.

Maybe less.

And literally I don't even use regular notebooks.

It's like too much for me.

What I do is I take my junk mail that I get sent in the mail and the back of those papers the spam is

usually blank.

So I just use those to just brainstorm and give myself a good outline.

I don't need to keep them because they're so simple I'm able to follow them from memory.

How do I do it.

So I have four.

You can say businesses within my business and you will take a look at your business that you're planning

with your child and you'll say hey let's say for example you're planning one Etsy product.

Well I have about 200 products under management which include my books my courses my coaching a little

bit of freelancing that I do.

I also sell B2B.

I have corporate clients meaning like I create courses for companies I license courses for companies.

So I have about legitimately four or five businesses of which you will create a small part of that one

business right.

So maybe you're creating one product on Etsy.

I've got 200.

OK.

So and I can show you how one person can do this perfectly fine.

So if I can do this you can very very easily do replicate what I do is just make it even way simpler.

So I've got an overall overwhelming you can see amount of things to do and I break break down the tasks

that are needed for all of these.

The important thing is to align everything so my books are on the same topic as my courses my coaching

is on the same topic as my books and courses and the corporate things the B2B things I sell is also

you know on the same topic.

So a lot of things.

First of all like my marketing like my content creation they overlap that's fine.

So that helps me a little bit for you that's not even a concern.

You've got nothing to overlap.

You just got one business and then I look at the main tasks.

All these products need to be created.

They need to be promoted and they need to have some kind of support like if you have customer support

or emails you have to answer those are the main tasks that I have.

And they pretty much account for 90 percent of everything I do maybe 95.

So there's actually really few things that I do when looking at a higher level of course within marketing

there's a million things that I do.

You too.

Ads like running ads Facebook Marketing search engine optimization marketing book marketing and Amazon

marketing are you to me there's a million little things within that.

But as an overarching concept only do three things create products promote products support products

very simple and I recommend that you look at your taskin somewhat of a similar way you might you know

some businesses have other things like inventory management.

Most of the time we won't have that.

In many modern or business as you would do with a child you wouldn't have too much of that.

Next you have seasons of years that are broken up into seasons or month.

Right.

So for example at the beginning of the year you might say you want to grow that.

In my case I might want to grow my books 20 percent sales year over year or 100 percent sales over year

over year.

Same with coursers him and coaching same with B to B and you know these are funny numbers because the

only real thing I have is to base the growth on the growth of the year before.

Right.

If I agree 100 percent year over year the year before that's maybe a realistic expectation for the next

year.

And if you just starting out it's all made up numbers.

You don't you have nothing to base your projections on.

So just hope for Growth hope for the best and in if it's business with a child don't put a tremendous

emphasis on high explosive growth at least any growth is fantastic.

So when you plan out your year you have seasons for example in my seasons the end of my fiscal year.

Like from September to even January is really really busy for me in the rest of the year.

Before that I build up I set everything up I create the product more I more vigorously improve products

so that I'm really ready for that last push.

And then I get really tired after the last push.

So the beginning of every year I'm super burned out and tired.

So I give myself like a little bit of a rest.

I take a vacation.

I have easier days.

I work less.

I just recover him all right.

So my first three months are like recovery mode very easy.

Then I start ramping up ramping up through the spring through the summer and then and then fall and

winter are super crazy for me.

And you can plan out your months or seasons accordingly and then you can be flexible here.

You know one month can be one month keep it down you know ideally they would all go up but sometimes

I see it as it's OK for not every month to be perfect.

When you when you're in business for the second third and fourth years you'll have benchmarks of what

you did last year so you'll be able to compare.

But in the beginning as long as you're making you're still chugging away and you working on.

This is also in the beginning of the year you can see there's more experimental You can try things.

In the end of the year you want to be focused on more sure things so that you do have the end of the

year growth but also because it's a child's business.

In this case I wouldn't stress and pressure to too much.

Now every month I recommend that you have only one or two or three big goals.

For example this month my goal is to create one new course and rewrite or edit one of my older books

and continue to focus on marketing.

So I'm not stressing myself out.

But most importantly I don't allow low priority things to creep into my schedule while I am giving myself

a lot of time to focus on the important things I have to do so that I can do them too high quality quality

of execution is one of the things that you should preach to your children.

Because guess what.

When they do homework quality matters when they study for a test.

Quality matters every year every course they take quality matters.

Their grades.

They're going to that's going to impact how they get into college how they do in college the kind of

jobs they get the businesses they started from here on.

Quality of execution really matters.

And how did she teach that skill.

It's a skill that can be taken away for the rest of a person's life.

So you've got to teach it early and so focus on fewer things but make sure they're done super well.

OK.

And that's that's literally what I do as well.

And after that it's really easy to create your daily schedule.

I'll show you that in the next line.

But for me even though you see I have 200 products to support I have so many things to do my daily schedule

only has a few tasks I promote things I write maybe blogs maybe books I film things like my courses

I do sales I do customer support and I do customer I do client coaching and this is it.

That's you know that's really what I do.

I answer emails sometimes but but really that's all.

And it's a sizable business for me that I run at this point.

Just one person correctly implementing productivity tasks that you should teach to your children.

Now let me show you how my daily schedule looks like.

And you'll see it's very simple in one day.

I'll show you what I do from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. I do marketing now marketing for any day could

be different it could be my Amazon marketing I could be setting up some ads I could be looking at analytics

I could be doing as CEO I could be doing outreach and business development.

This is all in their marketing and marketing is an unlimited task.

I can be doing marketing a team of 10 people can be doing the same marketing as I'm doing for years

and they'll still not be done because there's Morrissy So there's more outreach that can always be done.

There's more of everything that's needed and I make sure to cap it so that I don't get carried away

and it doesn't take over other tasks that I have to do.

And if you want to achieve more in marketing you simply hire more freelancers.

I actually hire minimal freelancers because I and maybe it's controversial in this case.

In my case but really the way I see it is I rather focus like it's the 80:20 rule.

Sometimes I call it the hyper 80:20 like the 90 10 or 95 5 where if you just do the top most important

things.

Well that will give you all the results you want essentially.

So if you just do the most important things you can really let a lot of your marketing tasks fall off

and most likely most of them not being implemented won't hurt you.

And if it seems that I wake up too early 6:00 a.m. guess what I mostly start work at 6:30 or 7 a.m.

But if I get up at 6 AM That's even better.

So it's a little bit of a range.

It's flexible for me after 10:00 a.m. after 10:00 p.m. between 10:00 a.m. and noon I write I might be

writing blog posts.

I might be writing books sometimes some months.

I don't.

Right.

And because writing is a lower priority for me so I give it less time even on a daily schedule and it's

my flexible time.

If Sundays are stressed I might do more marketing or I might do more of my client coaching calls around

that time but I also cap it because writing can be very time consuming so I don't write too much on

any given day.

That's that's my notice.

This is almost two days worth of work right.

Because a before noon it's six hours of work an afternoon it's five hours of work.

So it's kind of a day and a half that I get out of every day but I literally finish my day at 5:00 p.m.

If you want to get out and if you want to work until 8:00 p.m. or through the night.

I mean that's like literally two days of work that you can achieve.

So anyway after noon I give myself five hours to create video because most of my business is video or

video courses creating videos for companies that B2B part in a few notes from the schedule.

It does accomplish almost everything I need in my breaks.

I answer emails sometimes one after five if I have to walk somewhere or do errands.

It's not uncommon that I answer emails on my phone.

So work kind of keeps going.

You have your phone with you all the time.

You can do a lot of the parts of your work.

You can answer an e-mail while you're literally shopping in line in a store while walking.

I don't really recommend it all walking because you're going to bump into a light pole or get into an

accident.

But but I do it sometimes and you just maximize the time.

You know if you're taking public transportation you can be answering emails you can be doing something

else.

And of course I prioritize client calls and customer support.

So for example even if it's 6:00 am supposed to do marketing.

But if like something important or priority has to happen or a client needs some help I prioritize that

and I make that.

OK.

So that's what I'm doing.

You know our clients help so I jump on a call with a client and then maybe I'll spend less time writing

later.

Now for me that's a unique thing.

Most people wouldn't recommend doing that but for me that works so I change that.

But generally what you want to do is block block off big chunks of time.

Like I show you here so that you can really give a lot of focus to every specific tasks task and that's

it.

You see how in one day two days worth of work can be squeezed out.

And because of the relentless focus the minute to minute focus but also the larger focus I'm only doing

the most important things.

Even more productivity is squeezed out from that.

And you can see that a one person can literally with the right routine with the right schedule with

the right time management and planning.

One person can create a big business for themselves with minimal hiring and outsourcing.

So if I can do this you can how you can.

You can have a small business with a child that both of you are working on.

No problem.