Entrepreneur Self-Care & “CEO Dates” – Allea Grummert

Over the past 3 years, I’ve noticed something…

Among the most successful creators I’ve interviewed, they all seem to have TWO things in common.

1. They ALL experience the “entrepreneur roller coaster,” as shown below
2. They all dedicate time to analyzing past performance.

You’ve probably seen this before:

Haha this is me over the course of any given DAY.

However, something I’ve found to be effective in my own business–AND something I invited Allea Grummert (Duett.co) on the podcast to chat about–is dedicating time to look back and get a 30,000ft overview of your business.

This helps with focus, objectivity, growth–and managing that nasty emotional roller coaster we all deal with 🙂

Here are some questions for your CEO Date:

• What’s my overall annual goal?
• What small things can I celebrate this week?
• What went well last week?
• What could’ve gone better last week?

It can also help to do FORWARD-looking brainstorming and organizing…

• What are my 3 biggest projects for next week?
• Which ONE item on my weekly agenda would make me FEEEEEL like I was productive–if it was the only thing I actually got done?

If you’d like to simply copy Allea’s weekly CEO Date template, it’s available for download below 🙂

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Resources & Allea’s templates mentioned on today’s show:

• Here’s Allea’s exact template. You’ll need to make a copy for yourself and customize, of course!
• Notion – Kinda like Asana, Trello, and Google Docs all rolled into one.
• I use Airtable – and it’s friggin incredible.
• Bear – my writing app of choice.
• Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals – the article from Derek Sivers that convinced me to start a daily journal

Other awesome resources for blog planning, organization, and productivity:

• How to Create a Blog Plan (That You’ll Crush)
• A+ Bullet Journaling for Productivity – Matt Ragland

Boom y’all. Get to it.