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November 1, 2022November 1, 2022

Inspiration to take you to the next focus level for super-performance

No doubt we’re living in a very distracted world. Therefore focused work becomes more rare. While we get distracted and we also distract others. With all the available theology we are used to get the necessary information fast. So if we want to find something out, there is Google. (Love this Reel from Marie Forleo, just for fun). If we want to know what our friends are doing, there’s FB and IG and other platforms. Through Whatsup you can connect with your contacts in second. You get the idea.

"While technologies seems helping us a lot, focused work suffers because of it. We seem to spend the days more in a shallow flow of accidental occurrences rather than deep and meaningful quality performance." - Agnese Rudzate

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I’ve said it before and will say it again: spending even 2 hours a day in focused action is a hard work. Unfortunately we tend to decrease this time while making it harder for ourselves to flow in it.

The good news is that there are many things you can do about it. Your work quality depends on your focused action, it’s undeniably important to increase the focused work for your benefit.

Good News #1

Flow generates happiness. Your goal is to achieve the FLOW, where it seems like the time stops and you can just go on for days without a pause. Ideas are flowing and you’re inspired to continue the work – that time when you really are producing value. It stretches you while rewards at the same time.

To go into this focused state of work you will have to turn off all the distractions. I have wrote many articles on the topic to give you a spectrum of ideas on how to achieve that. Every interview that I’ve done Distractions seem to be the common theme. Couple of examples below to get you started.

a. Increase Your Work Performance with 3 Simple Tactics (Brainz Magazine)

b. How to Stay on Task And Avoid Distractions (Lifehack.org)

c. How To Slow Down To Do More (Authority Magazine)

d. “Stop using too many tools” (Thrive Global)

Bottom line is that you’re in charge and you have the power over all the aspects in your life, including distractions.

Good News #2

Focused work is rewarding in itself. In 1980 study that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (yes, I know, can’t read that either) and his colleague Reed Larson concluded was against what most people believed to be true:

“Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed” from“. I have came across this wisdom in “Deep work” by Cal Newport. It Is a book that I suggest you read.

Good News #3

You already have everything you need. Be aware of your mind playing tricks on you. Remember that you are in charge of your mind, it is not in charge of you. Motivating yourself by feeling the outcome of your focused work, will keep your mind in check for the goal.

Our mind is a tough little cookie that has enslaved our bodies to keep it safe and comfortable. As soon as something out of ordinary happens, it wants to keep us in a safe distance form the unknown.

Your job is to train your body to follow your mind and not the other way around. Most of us live by following our bodies urges. That creates our routines and down the life goes without even realising that master has become the one who gets mastered. Taking charge of thoughts will open whole new doors for focused work.

As focused work becomes more rare in our daily lives, it also becomes more and more valuable for quality. While it is nothing out of ordinary, it can bring a great discomfort when working on increasing the focused work time. It is definitely something that will stretch you, but by concentrating you will loose yourself in it.

Let me know how the focused work goes for you. I hope you loose yourself in it.

Agnese

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How to get in control of external triggers and why?

Let me answer the second question before we dive into “control” part. However, I’m pretty sure you already know the answer. With the information overload, it’s not surprising that our minds get busier, therefore we get more tired and exhausted. We are targeted every time we’re on our devices. Notifications innocent agenda to keep us informed has turned into a major issue to our productivity. Because all they do is puts unnecessary information in our heads. They distract us from focused action and take our attention away from truly important tasks.

If you have seen my posts and read my previous blogs, you know that it is our decision to allow distractions to interfere without daily lives. You know that discomfort is what keeps us reaching towards distraction because we simply are designed to avoid pain.

In short, hacking back on external triggers allows you to be more attentive, focused, present, productive, and such a better manager for your business and life.

But how to get in control of external triggers? Here is my method of identifying distraction triggers and shifting your attention back to focused action.

1. Control your gadgets. Although we couldn’t imagine our lives without them, they can highly interfere with our focus. Disconnecting can leave a devastating effect on your business, however, you don’t need to be “connected” all of the time. Choose wisely what deserves your time, energy, and attention. Leave the rest outside the door.
2. Control your calendar. You are in charge of your daily routine – whether you want it or not. I know that it might not always be easy to accept that. Once we decide to be in charge, there is no one else to blame for whatever goes wrong. We are fully responsible. The beauty of it – freedom. Suddenly you can change course and give yourself permission to say “no” to things that are not in alignment with your goals. You can schedule tasks that are of strategic importance to your business growth without defending your decision.
3. Control your mind. This is the tricky part. Often we don’t realize how big of a part our mindset plays in our daily lives. Our actions are often triggered by us trying to avoid discomfort. However once we step outside that come place – growth happens.

"We have the control over the time." - Agnese Rudzate

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I hope my formula helps you get more clarity around your control of the outside triggers. At the end of the day, you are in charge of everything that is happening to you, including outside noise. Even though it might seem that it’s unavoidable, a constant fight with it will not result in your favor. This is why it is smart to look deep in yourself to understand why certain things trigger you more than others. Only that way you will be able to get fully in charge of those external triggers.

I would love to hear from you – what triggers you the most from outside? And how are you dealing with it?

Agnese

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4 step method to help you decide if you should call a meeting

It’s truly life-changing once we start to honor our time and stop wasting it on activities that serve us very little.

One of those activities are meetings. If you’re a coach who is on their way to level up, communication with your team is your daily necessity. However, there is a big difference between time well spend and time well wasted.

If you’re a micromanager who likes to know and be in control of everything that happens in your business, it’s time to switch a few things around. It’s great and necessary to be informed of major aspects, but not everything is important enough to require your presence and involvement at every level all the time.

If you’re a high achiever, you know that productive action matters when it comes to reaching your goals. So does effective communication. Unfortunately organizing and attending meetings is a big waste of your time. Especially when the task or issue could have been solved with a quick phone call or email.

Here are a few suggestions to keep you responsible for your time and help you decide whether the meeting is necessary or it’s just another way to steal your time away:

1. Are you clear on the situation? If the answer is “no”, then hold off the meeting. What you need to do instead is to create a plan. A strategic approach to a situation will save you time and help you get clear on agenda. This process will give you a clear idea of what to come and what to do about it. If the answer is “yes”, move on to the next question.
2. Do I need others’ input to make progress? If there is something blocking you from making a progress, then move to the next question. However, if you feel that can get on with the situation yourself, there is no need for a meeting. All you have to do at this point is dedicate time in your calendar to get going with the work.
3. Do you need to have a real-time conversation to make a progress? If you do need help from outside sources, establish whether you need that support in real-time. Maybe an email would work just fine?
4. Do you need to meet face-to-face to make progress? If so, you have reached that point when you need to organize that meeting. If it’s not the case and you know that message or a phone call would love your problem, go for it.

"Organizing and attending meetings is a big waste of time." - Agnese Rudzate

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It might not always be easy to decide who to invite to a meeting. Especially when an important decision needs to be made. Inviting too many people, or people who cannot help you reach your goal can cause major ineffectiveness. To determine whether a specific person will serve the agenda of the meeting, ask yourself these 2 questions: Do I need input from this person? Will this person add value?

If you’re not an organizer but have been invited to a meeting, there are a couple of things you can do to save your time:

1. Ask for the agenda. If a meeting doesn’t have one, there is no need for it to happen in the first place. This is a great sign that your time in that meeting will not be spent on strategic goal achieving plan creation 🙂
2. Encourage collaboration. Trust that your team is strong enough to handle situations without your constant presence and involvement. Encouragement and trust will reward themselves and show up in your time freedom and more effective teamwork.
3. Ask for meeting notes. If you want to be informed of the situation, meeting notes is the best way to save yourself some time, but still, be in the loop of what happening.

I see a lot of time wasted why coaches who want to squeeze every precious minute out of the day. If that is the case for you start by doing a little inventory of where your time goes and how you could minimize unproductive activities creeping in. Join us at the Less is More program to create an effective communication system!

I would love to hear from you if you are a “meeting” person and how meeting impacts your time freedom?

Talk soon!

xx Agnese

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How to make planning Liberating instead of Restricting?

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How to make planning Liberating instead of Restricting?

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that planning just puts you in the box leaving very little to no space for changes, it restricts your creativity and dictates your every step. At the end of the day, you only get disappointed if something doesn’t go as planned.

There are both sides of this story (like it is with any other, right?)

Planning can indeed create frustration if expectations are not met.

It all depends on how you look at it (yes, it’s that “mindset” thing again!)

There are 2 possibilities:

1. Plan every smallest step to the point where you have now flexibility for any changes to appear.

The first option is the one that people are mostly referring to when thinking about planning. I have to agree that it can be very frustrating when you have planned a trip and suddenly things get canceled and you have to replan the whole trip… Things like that are inevitable, they are out of your control. And that’s the beauty of it. How boring would life be if we would know exactly what’s gonna happen next?

Unfortunately because of this perception that planning is boring and puts you in a “frame” many people avoid it in hopes to save their flow, freedom, creativity, and to avoid frustration, disappointment, and feeling of restriction.

But let me tell you, planning is so freakin’ FREEING!

2. Plan general steps allowing interactions and having space to make the best lemonade out of any lemon that is thrown your way.

This is where you know your biggest steps, but have not set in stone any of the smaller parts allowing to “go with the flow” when it’s necessary and not get disappointed when things don’t turn out the way you expected. (Expectation is another thing you should not be leaning on too much, but that’s a topic for a different article). And when you push aside the negativity, fear, and unwillingness to accept the changes, you will see that in fact the moment a plan doesn’t work out, means that there is change happening. Change in the right direction.

How can planning Liberate you and make you feel in control at the same time?

1. Have a Plan B in mind, even when wishing for Plan A.

In no sense, I’m suggesting that you should give up on Plan A at the very beginning. What I am suggesting is that you have clarity in case it doesn’t. This is how you will not get overwhelmed and will know exactly how to proceed to achieve your goal. Be open-minded and don’t get too attached to your Plan A. I’m sure you know that sometimes life gets in the way and things happen….

There are always to sides to every story and I want for you to be on the success side.

To avoid disappointment allow yourself enough room to explore plan B:

- - - - What is it that you can do if Plan A wouldn’t work out?
      - What other options are out there?
      - What would it mean for you to take a different path?
      - Is Plan B doable?

As you start to explore other options you will start to feel a sense of peace knowing that even if things don’t go as planned there are enough other things you can do.

2. Have clear action steps to take for any possible outcome.

No matter what happens think of a couple of ways you can make any situation better and turn it around to work in your favor. That will give you peace of mind and confidence that things will always work in your favor. Here I will repeat what every guru has already said, meaning, that every cloud has a silver lining. Once you start to look at things thou this idiom, your mindset switches into action mode instead of miserably wondering in disappointment land.

"Things always work out in your favor." - Agnese Rudzate

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3. Change your mindset into success mode.

I can’t repeat it enough – mindset is everything! I have experienced myself and have seen many amazing transformations just by a small shift in a mindset. Remember that everything happens for a reason. And the fact that you plan A didn’t might be the best thing that happened.

That’s the biggest difference between successful people and the ones that are just let’s say “complainers” and “other blamers” and,… ok, I’ll stop now.

"Successful people own every situation, every mistake, every achievement." - Agnese Rudzate

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It might not seem that easy at first, but once the situation unfolds, there is always some good that comes out of things not going exactly the way you planned!

To be confident in your delegating decisions, there are a couple key elements to delegate the right way

At the end of the day, you and your team are the ones building your business. I probably don’t have to remind you that it is crucial to choose the right team. Be specific in your requirements when hiring, ask for a specific skill set to be sure they will meet the requirements for the job to be done smoothly.

This is how I see planning – being more of a liberation than restriction. Without a plan, we would all just be lost and have no clarity around anything.

I know that many like to shame planning, but in reality, we all plan things – what to cook for dinner – you have to buy the product you will need, so there the planning you do every single day! How about business projects? You would be able to achieve results without a plan, right?

So we all do plan, some are more strict with sticking to it, and others like to get more into the flow marking of the biggest stepping stones. Either way is fine as long as you are achieving what you sent yourself up for.

Let me know if you are a “planner” or more “go with the flow” kind of lady? And have this article change your mind in any way about planning for liberation? I’m looking forward to hearing from you in the comments.

Here’s to having a plan and being able to enjoy the freedom it brings!

Agnese

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9-5 Illusion

9-5 illusion

Stepping out of society's framework to take your own way

Many women in the coaching industry that I have spoken to about their own entrepreneurship beginnings have struggled to define their work structure. Things like

- How much should I be working?

We might feel free without the boss telling what and when to do certain things, but complete freedom leaves us unproductive, overworked, sleepless and burnt out eventually. Structured freedom is the way towards productive work if you want to achieve more in less time making the most income in that time frame.

- What is the best way to plan my day?

Without a clear plan, there will be a lot of multitasking, a lot of uncertainty, procrastination and tasks switching. Again, super unproductive.

- With what to start?

So often we have hundred ideas and hundred to-do tasks on our list. We want to do everything, because everything seems important, just to realize at the end of the day, that not much has been achieved.

All these are valid questions, concerns and occurring patterns that block potential.

It was easy to know what to do and when to do things when you had your 9-5, because you didn’t have to figure it all out on your own. There was someone who told you the rules. All you had to do was to follow them (even if you though that some them are nonsense, waste of time and completely stupid).

"If we have 8 hours to fill, we fill 8 hours." - Agnese Rudzate

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Our society is defined by a 9-5 framework, by perception that you have to work long and hard to be successful. And then, when you are working less and notice enjoying it, you kind of almost feel bad or ashamed so you hide it, doing meaningless stuff just to fill that time. Because that’s what you’re supposed to do!

Think real hard if you really need 8 hours to

Do you need 8 hours to….

- become who you want to become?

- feel good about yourself, feel worthy?

- to show others how hard you work?

Or maybe it is the time you break those status que’s and start valuing your time for real!

Start focusing and doing ONLY what brings results.

Start prioritizing your most important tasks.

Start delegating tasks that don't require your genius.

Start decluttering your environment and mind to achieve results fast.

You don’t need 8 hours. Society needs you to work 8 hours so they can approve of you. Dare to challenge yourself and step outside your 9-5 mindset.

What would you do with that extra time on your hands?

Would you start another project?

Would you spend more quality time with your family?

Would you travel places?

Would you dive deep into self-care?

Once you get clear on how you will fill your free time, it becomes your best motivation to create that for yourself.

Give me a YES, if you want or are stepping out of society’s perceptions of what valued work should look like!

I would love to hear your experience starting your journey and braking status quo.

If you are ready to break the statues quo by working the minimum and still running a striving business, join Freedom Business Formula today to get a discount!! Together we will make 4h work days your reality.

Here’s to our own journeys that shape our success in the way WE want!

Have a lovely week!

Agnese

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5 ways to keep life and business simple

Increased happiness and income from simplifying things

When distractions cut down on your productivity it’s easy to get overwhelmed and switch focus on unimportant tasks and start consuming more than creating. This is when SIMPLE moves away and COMPLICATED comes in giving you more of what you don’t need – frustration.

Here are 5 ways how you can make your life more simple today

Declutter your home – get rid of anything you are not using. Don’t keep things just to have them with a thought that you will use it some day. That day might never come, so be wise with the stuff you fill your space. Because your space is important for your wellbeing. The less clutter you will have, the more at ease you will feel. Here you can read my blog and watch a video on How to Declutter your Home for well Deserved Clarity.
Organise your workspace – keep things where they belong so you don’t waste time trying to find them. The same applies to your computer and phone. To help you do that here is my free audio on How to Organize Anything where you can learn 3 steps to less chaos.
Cut out time wasters – step back and analyse a bit what takes your attention away, what stops you from completing your day’s goal, what gives you that feeling at the end of the day when you have done a lot, but haven’t achieved anything meaningful. If you need help in quick self-audit go ahead and read my blog about 7 Habits that Wastes Your Time.
Get rid of distractions – while there are a lot of things that distract us every single day, we are not without fault here. We are the ones letting ourselves get distracted thinking “it will just be a minute” turning out to another hour of wrong focus. Here I explain how to Tackle you Distractions to Gain Back Your Focus.
Make to-don’t list. Doing less of the things you shouldn’t be doing will highly increase your productivity leaving you with a more simple and stress free life. To help you make one, here is my take on what should be on that list.

Last, but not least, learn to say “no”. Prioritize yourself. You can’t do everything. Find out what’s really important to you and focus on those activities.

"Find out what's really important to you and focus on those activities." - Agnese Rudzate

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If you need help in getting to more SIMPLE life in business, join the course Freedom Business Formula and together we will double your profit and time freedom.

Do you believe that Less stuff is better? That Stuff in general weights you down?

Let me know in the comment of you think that living a simple life gives you more time for the important things?

I would love to hear your takeaway and any suggestions to simplify life.

To more simple life!

Agnese

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7 habits that wastes your time

Learn how to create more time to do things that matter

In days like these (“Where did the time go?”) your time was probably eaten by many distractions. To stop yourself from getting distracted and pulled different directions, it’s important that you attach value to your time.

By using your time wisely you will have more of it for things that matter to you, like spending time with family and friends or pursuing other projects.

Set yourself up for success by eliminating these 7 time wasters and you may find you have more time than you realize.

1. Notifications on your phone. Those who have been around here for some time know that I keep encouraging everyone to turn off all their notifications on the phone. That “beep” sound distracts you in fraction of a second, but unfortunately it takes much longer to get back in to your creative flow after this innocent “I will just quickly check-it might be urgent”.
2. Open email all day long. For better productivity, you should set certain times when you allow yourself to check emails and ti should not be more than 2 times per day. Seriously, it is enough times (Im talking from experience). Like this you will not only save time, but will be able to focus better and process more emails in less time.
3. Multitasking. You have probably heard about it, but let me remind you again. Trying to do more than one thing at a time actually diminishes your productivity. The human brain simply isn’t designed to multitask. Let me explain. Your brain slows down as it switches between tasks, with takes more time and makes you less efficient. Focusing on one thing at a time will make you more effective – better results with fewer errors.

"Multitasking is shifting between two or more tasks without really focusing on either one. This leads to errors, time waste and stress."- Agnese Rudzate

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4. Scrolling through Social Media. BIG waste of your time when you use it for personal use. You get sucked in to random posts only to realise that another 20 minutes have passed without creating results for your future. Mind your own business (literally) and create before you consume. When used effectively, social media can help boost your business and increase sales. But be careful, because constantly checking your news feed or looking to see how many people are following you is eating away at your focus and time.

5. Keeping your work space messy. Disorganized work spaces highly wastes your time because your focus is pulled in different directions, it’s hard to find things you need and, let’s be honest, it’s not a pretty look. Take all the clutter away leaving just the necessary for productive work. When everything has a place, you’ll be able to quickly find what you need and move on to the next thing.

"Your disorganization is wasting your time by making it difficult to find anything." - Agnese Rudzate

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6. Taking too many breaks. This is new to me, as I am that kind of person, that forgets to take a break instead of taking more than I should. However I have discovered that this is a habit for many making results hard to reach. The problem with this habit, you end up lingering and never really get your focus back. Schedule your break to keep yourself in check and focused.

7. Working when exhausted. I’ve been there. It’s not pretty or healthy. All it does is creates more exhaustion, more mistakes and less quality. You may end up facing burnout. Do yourself a favour and make sleep a priority. The time you spend resting will pay off when you’re awake and ready to take on the world.

"Do yourself a favour and make sleep a priority." - Agnese Rudzate

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Once you are clear on what wasted your time, create a to don’t list to get clear on things you know you should not be doing. Here are my suggestions on what to put in there for less distractions and better productivity

Click here to learn my formula on how to make more time in a day while running a thriving business.

Let me know how are you handling your time wasters and feel free to suggest how to make more time freedom.

Here’s to more quality time.

Agnese

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Productivity coach instead of Business coach

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Productivity coach instead of Business coach

How to choose which one is better for you and your business growth?

There are as many opinions as there are people in the world, but let me give you my insight, not only from personal experience, but from many women around me that have had an amazing results from being coached.

Increasing profit is what comes to your mind if you are ever considering to hire a coach. Because, you want your investment to double if not triple or skyrocket to places you though impossible.

When you are at the point in your career that feels like things are working fine, but could be working much better – it’s time to hire a coach that will guide you into bigger success, because you are unsure of how to bring it to that next level.

No doubt that any coaching is designed to get better results. Coach is someone who helps you get past roadblocks and tackles weak links to fix them for greater profits. But most people think that business coaching is the only way to make you more successful. And while it’s proven to help grow businesses, it’s not always the best option. Let me explain.

I have put together some of the most typical business coaching traits:

- Business coach helps your business, not you. As coach, service provider, mentor, your business is YOU and YOU are your business, so there is no separation really. Through your teachings you are giving part of yourself, right? It’s not like you have made a brand new pair of sunglasses and now are trying to sell. You are selling your experience, your knowledge, your skill set, your talent, your unique approach. As entrepreneur, it’s more important that you’re not feeling personally overwhelmed, unmotivated or unproductive, because all that highly affects your business, which is something a business coach might not be ablate to change.

"You are your business. If you lack fundamentals, your business lacks you."- Agnese Rudzate

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- Business coaching will not make your life better, it will make your business grow faster. This means, you will be working more hours, because now you will have to keep up with everything. It can be quite dangerous as it can lead to more anxiety, stress and eventually a burnout. Remember “You are your business”.

- Business coach doesn’t create systems that will give you long lasting results. Getting solid systems into place in your business and life is what creates the foundation for permanent success.

There are a lot of areas that Business coaching is very good for and a lot of areas that it does not address, like satisfaction with your job, more time freedom, better flexibility in your work, productive action, happiness in work and life, better connection with the work you do, …

If this is something you want to have more of as well as the increase in profit, productivity coaching might be the better option.

Let me give you examples to know if you really need productivity coaching instead of business coaching:

1. You have too much on your plate – it’s hard to get everything done.

Wouldn’t you agree that money can be earned, but time – it can never come back, be earned or renewed. It’s so much more important to know how to spend your time than it is your money because you can never get it back once it’s gone. Women like Marie Forleo, Jennifer Lopez and Oprah all have the same 24h in a day, just like you and me. So how come they’ve got this outrageous amount of success? The secret is in the art of productivity. All they have done is optimized themselves to manage their time better so they can get more done in shorter amount of time.

2. You want to do more, but don’t have enough time – it’s hard to focus.

Distractions are the biggest weak link in your productive work. The beep on your phone can take you from “in the zone” to complete “lack of inspiration” in a fraction of a second. Interruptions are messing up your productive work because it takes a huge amount of time to get back on your tasks after this short “I will just check my phone, in case it’s urgent” action. The good news? It’s not your fault. It’s about the systems you do (or don’t) have in place and how they free up your time.

3. You want to flow with ease in your life and business at the same time.

Here I want to highly suggest to not take examples of successful business owners who have aged by days – they are working over 60h per week, stressed, sleepless and have not time for anything else in their lives. That’s not a success! Success is not when your business is booming, success is when you’re thriving in all areas of your life. Don’t sacrifice your personal life to only scale in your business. Life is about balance, so lets create one for you!

"You need to be sustainable for your business to be sustainable EVERY.SINGLE.DAY" - Agnese Rudzate

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If you’re serious about pushing yourself, your life and your business towards greater success, think about whether productivity coaching would serve to benefit you more than business coaching.

What would you choose for your and your business growth? Maybe you have already worked with one or both of them – what where your biggest takeaways?

Here’s to growing your business in the right way that’s best suited for you!

Agnese

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Simple tips to help you gain mental clarity

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Simple tips to help you gain mental clarity

How to get rid off worries and brain fog to gain mental clarity, gather thoughts and think straight

Our financial situation, trouble with health, annoying relatives, holiday planning, rejection from a client are just a few of things that can bring us to our UNHAPPY place.

Do you feel like your brain is too full of random stuff and you have no mental clarity, you can’t gather your thoughts because you’re constantly worried, ending up in this mental fog when you need your brain the most and too much clutter keeps you from thinking straight? Then this article will be of great use to you. Keep reading to find the right solution to declutter your mind, get back to your HAPPY place and stay there.

If you think that all the great genus minds don’t have your problems, think again. Surely each an every one of them have had an indecisive moments, confusing thoughts, inability to focus and worries that they can’t explain.

It simply happens!

But don’t get fooled, there is a solution. In fact, mental clarity is something you can gain fairly quickly. Use the tips bellow whenever you need to think your way out of a problem, make a compelling argument or stop the noise in your head to gain the clarity.

1. MEDITATE

Meditation is the closest way I have found to mental clarity, peace of mind and less stress – it simply works wonders. You have probably heard about its endless benefits, like sleep improvement, pain and blood pressure reduction, stress relief and so much more. For more benefits click here.

Stress is something that doesn’t allow us to be in the moment. If our mind is constantly wondering around, worrying about future or past, we are not able to think clearly. That causes a mental clutter that leaves us hopeless, intense and worried. When your thoughts circle around your problems, you don’t leave yourself with a lot of space for much else. Plus when your mind is full with clutter it works slower – your brain can only hold that much. No clarity possible there!

So what could be the solution to declutter that worried, foggy mind of yours? You guest it! Meditation, of course.

I can tell you from my personal experience that it creates this magical feeling of enough (enough of what you have and who you are), therefore you think (stress) less about what others think, what you don’t have enough of, future events that we are not able to predict or control and past events that are simply in the past.

One of the world’s leading expert on happiness and personal mastery, Srikumar Rao, teaches how we can eliminate stress and anxiety from our lives, think differently and in essence, become a radically different person in this 50 minutes vide o.

>> Meanwhile I have prepared a challenge for you: 20 minutes of meditation every day! Take this challenge and notice how your thoughts, mood, mental health and life changes. #20minutedailymeditationchallenge

Before you say that this is not for you, try it for 2 weeks. Even if you don’t like it, it is boring, you don’t have time… etc. I hear you, because I though the same – I could not sit still for 10 minutes. I could do it for a day or 2 and then I would quit, because there would be more important things to do. But let me tell you that nothing, nothing is more important that you! And that is a fact! Find that time for yourself and make it happen. Don’t wait until tomorrow to start. Start today and make it your priority to gain mental clarity. It is only 20 minutes, but those 20 minutes can change your life and only for better.

“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.” - Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon

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Being busy is relative. I’m sure you have time to scroll through Instagram, check your Facebook feeds and moan to your friend how unfair the world is. Imagine how life changing it would be if you would replace couple of these activities with some positive guided meditation to lift your mood, put you on a higher vibration and clear your head?

I have recently come across an article about sleep improvement using mediation and how to get started. You can read it here.

Could you ask for more?

Yes.

And you should! Which leads us to the next point.

2. UNPLUG

We spend so much time on social media, on the phone, by the computer… We miss being present with someone sitting next to us. I believe that meaningful sit-down with a friend over a tea is more soul filling than commenting on someones Facebook post. Don’t get me wrong, there are connections that are important for our businesses and social lives and we need to pamper them. There is nothing wrong with saying thank you to a flattering comment or emailing an old friend. The problem is that we don’t get real work done, can’t focus on what is important because we constantly get distracted by those noise beeps on our phones. And I have to say that too much external stimuli clog up our minds. We get so cough up in the digital world that we forget how important human to human interactions can be.

That being said, I challenge you to drop all your electronic devices (phone, TV, computer, etc.) for 1 day a week to make meaningful connection with your loved ones or build new connections in a social gathering or activity of your choice. Treat yourself with no-distraction day and others with undivided attention to build long-lasting relationships.

Believe me when I say that the world won’t stop without your input, and you’ll be just fine without texting/calling/tweeting anyone for a day.

There is another important point I would like to mention, and that is making habits for yourself to stay focused, on point and respected, like not replying as soon as you get that beep on your phone with a new message. A great way to respect your time is to set aside specific time to answer any messages, emails and call people back. Like that you will be able to concentrate on your work and not get distracted by that beep every time you try to focus.

Yes, we all have commitments and obligations, but remember that YOU ARE IMPORTANT. You matter and everyone else can survive without you always being there. Focus on what is truly important to you and say no to the rest.

3. WRITE

Let me introduce you to couple of ways how writing can help you to clear your head. During our busy days we often don’t realise how much stuff we carry around in our heads trying to remember all those important tasks that we have made for ourselves to complete. And at the end of the day we get frustrated if we have forgotten something important. That is because we can’t remember everything and we should’t have to. The need to remember our to-do list takes our precious space and leaves very little room for clear thinking.

To clear your head of all those to-do tasks, make a list of reminders, unfinished business, assignments, meetings etc. for the day. Then read through your list and highlight the essential so you can focus on priority tasks. Like that you will do them, finish them and you will not think about other tasks until it’s their turn. And the bet part is that you can literally forget about them, because they have ben written down, so when you complete your essential tasks you can move on to others.

If you spend 5 minutes in the morning to write down you to-do list for the day, you will be able to free up your memory and focus on what needs to be done. This is a great relief and allows you to put your mental energy on what you need to accomplish.

Writing exercise:

Take a pen and paper and for next 10 minutes write down whatever thoughts you are having. Write down all silly, ridiculous, funny and sad ones – everything that comes in to your mind. Notice thoughts popping in and write them down. Once you finish with one thought notice the next one and write it down and so on. If you are not sure how to start, close your eyes and wait for a moment. Your mind is not used to silence (not thinking), so all you have to do is to listen to your own thoughts. There is one rule to this exercise though: once you have written down one thought, go to the next one, don’t get caught up in it, don’t run off with its story, just write it down, let it go and move on.

After completing this exercise your will see more clearly what sorts of random thoughts your mind generates every day so you can become more self-aware. You will see very clearly how your mind jumps from topic to topic without a rest and is rarely not thinking. Let me remind here that meditation is the single most effective way to silence the mental chatter so you can have a mind with NO thoughts for a while to rest your brain and prepare it for efficient, meaningful, focused work.

4. MOVE

A great way for all physical and mental rejuvenation is movement. But if you add deep breathing and hydration, you are on your way to feel better than ever in no time.

Working long hours by the computer can have a damaging effect not only for your posture, eyes and overall physical health, but also on your mind.

When you feel stuck, find a way to reboot yourself, find what works for you, weather that would be a walk, bike ride or yoga. Movement is important for your body and mind. Even if it is just for 10 minutes a day. Take that time for yourself. Make it your goal to stand up and stretch after a certain amount of time working – it will not only help your body to not have aches, but will let you focus on your tasks more clearly.

Since human body consist of up to 60 % of water, you can imagine how important it is for our overall well being. Staying hydrated is vital for your optimal brain function, so don’t forget to drink when you are thirsty. One of the best reminders is to keep a water bottle on your desk or where you can see it as an effortless reminder.

Another important thing for your mind to be in top shape is food – clean, real food. The goal here is to not get too hungry and avoid eating until you can’t move anymore to avoid mental fog.

I am a true believer that each person is unique and have their own solutions to their specific problems – one is not for all. Each and every one of us have to find what works best and keep taking the path towards mental clarity.

Now I would love to hear from you! How do you restore focus and clarity when you notice mental fogginess? Share in the comments below!

P.S. Please don’t hesitate to share this article if you think your friends or someone you know might benefit. Together we can bring more clarity!

Agnese

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How to change the energy in your house

to feel calmer and move towards clarity

Every one of us at some point in our lives have felt stuck, helpless and confused. While there are many things you can do to change that situation, they all take quite a time to see the first results. However there are many things you can do right now to change your mood by starting to change energy in you house.

Continue reading if you want to know how to turn negative in to positive. If you will pay attention to these suggestions and use them (or some of them) wisely in your home, you will notice immediate energy shift. In other words, you will feel calmer, more relaxed, because you will make the bad energy go out the window (literally).

Here we go:

1. Take a look around and notice of things that you surround yourself with makes you feel good? Maybe there is something that just drives you crazy every time you look at it? It might be a vase that was a gift years ago or painting that has a wrong colour palette. Every item in you house has it’s specific energy. You can tell if that energy suits you if it makes you feel good. Depending on that certain things can either give you power, strength and motivation or block it. You should not keep anything in house that does not give you a good feeling. Even if you can’t explain what is it with that vase that you do not find attractive, if it does make you happy, it is not right for you.
2. How often do you open the windows to let the fresh air in? The breeze that goes trough rooms changes the energy very quickly and not only gives you more oxygen, but also clears the space even if you don’t fiscally see it. Take a big deep breath in and let the fresh air surround you.

Let the fresh air in your home to instantly change the energy

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3. Do you have dust on things where you can’t clean them of easily enough? High shelfs are the best dust and stuck energy collectors. If you are someone who really hates to clean dust (I hear you, because I am one of them too), there can be several solutions to make your life easier. For example, you can use decorative boxes, choose more closed cabinets instead of the open ones and use drawers. In other words, your worst enemy is open shelfs with too many things, because it just takes ages to clean each and every peace.

To get some ideas, you can see my board on Pinterest:

4. There is one thing that all have us have had or have in our homes and it is broken, damaged dishes. These are also one of those things that like to stick to negative energy, so if it is permanently broken – get rid of it. You also should not keep damaged vases, plates, glasses, clocks and other stuff. Take them out of your house and see how energy switches.

5. Essential oils can be a great help to change the mood, clear smells, calm the mind and switch to positive energy. Diffuser here can be of great use, otherwise you can use oils to your skin. Citrus, rosemary, lavender, eucalyptus, teeter oils will be your friends to get in to better mood.

6. My personal favourite things of all is to move furniture around. If your space allows that, it is one of the greatest changes you can physically make to completely get rid of all negative energy, because by moving things around, you don’t let them get stuck in one place. That doesn’t allow energy to get stuck there either.

P.S. This works wonders with kids. They love to play around and by moving their furniture, you will create a completely new playground and make them so much more excited.

There are other things that you can use to change the energy in your home if you are in to them, like crystals. Some of them are specially used to clear out negative energy. For example, BLACK TOURMALINE is a very powerful stone that protects against negativity of all kinds, ROSE QUARTZ replaces negative energy with Positive. Choosing to put them next to your electric appliances you will nicely balance the energy. Other things to brighten up your space you could use are bells. As the sound vibrations disperse blocked energy, the sweet chimes work to uplift the fresh energy.

Even if you don’t think that your house has a negative energy, it is worth to use one or more of my suggestions to clear your space anyways, because sometimes we get so busy in our lives, that we do not pay attention to things we don’t see. We assume they don’t affect us and not knowingly we let them take over. Only once we see the shift in positive direction, we realise how bad it actually was before.

I hope that my suggestions will help you to clear your space from that negative energy that inevitably accumulates in our homes.

Have you got any more to add to this list? I’d love to hear them. Tell me your best tips in the comments below. I can’t wait to read them!

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