5 Simple Steps:

To Move From Overwhelm

To On Your Way

by

Marta Goertzen

The Blue Jeans VA

Step 1: Eliminate

•The unnecessary

•The time wasters

•The distractions

“The ability to simplify means to

eliminate the unnecessary so that the

necessary may speak.”

~Hans Hoffman

Step 2: Automate

•Your marketing

•Your email

•Your to-do-list

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these

are the attributes that gives our lives

power and vividness and joy”

~Richard Halloway

Step 3: Delegate

•The low R.O.I.

•The dreaded

•The “really hate to do’s”

“It is not what we take up, but what we

give up, that makes us rich.”

~Henry Ward Beecher

Step 4: Change your

expectations

•If you wait for perfection it will never get done

•Don’t be so hard on yourself, give yourself a break

•As for help… you might get exactly what you need

“How much of our life is frittered away –

spoiled, spent or sullied – by our

neurotic insistence on perfection?”

~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Step 5: Check in & Review Often

•It is easy to get pulled back into old habits.

•Check in and see what areas are holding you

back from the business and life that you dream

of.

“It is never to late to be the person you

were always meant to be.”

- George Eliot