351 – How to Work Hard and Feel Great about Your Life with La’Vista Jones

Happy New Year 2022! I have a special show for you today, all about the future. In this episode, you'll hear ways to be happier and bring more joy to your days so you can create a new way of being in 2022. My guest La’Vista is the founder and CEO of 31 Marketplace, an agency that helps overworked solopreneurs do what they love without sacrificing themselves and experiencing burnout. She accomplishes this by blending systemization and self-care - topics that she and her guests speak candidly about on her podcast B.O.S.S. Talk. As a burnout survivor herself, La’Vista is leading a movement of entrepreneurs who want more from life than frazzled days and sleepless nights. Her unique approach of blending strategy, implementation, and holding space for moments to breathe helps each client cultivate their own culture of work-life balance. How to Work Hard & Feel Great About Your Life Make Self Care Consistent Self-care is crucial because if you aren't in a good position to show up for yourself and your business, even systems you do have in place won't work because you're too exhausted to go through them properly. Define for yourself what self-care actually means for you. Don't look at what others consider self-care and feel you have to do it that way or it will just put more stress on yourself. Reconnect with the things that bring you joy.  Identify what makes you happy? What lights your fire? Then figure out how to bring more of that into your day-to-day life. <-- Listen to the whole discussion to learn how to find what works for you! Don't think of self-care as an item on your to-do list. It's about infusing it into your lifestyle. Stay consistent with intentional self-care so you are replenishing yourself on a daily basis. How to incorporate self-care: Define what brings you joy Identify how you can add more of that into your life Be intentional about making it happen on a regular basis Know what your love language is and find ways to leverage that to reinforce yourself in your business <-- Listen to the full convo for more on this! Be consistent about taking care of yourself. Create Efficient Systems Automate things as much as possible. Leverage automation to make the systems in your business as efficient as they can be. Documentation in any business is your best friend. It will help you scale that business. People you bring to the team will know what their role is and what they’ll be doing. It cuts down training time. Automate collecting testimonials or feedback from your clients. It’s also increased social proof you can use out for your marketing, Simple automation ideas to get you started: Order emails such as receipts and follow-ups Hdo not need to be manually done each time. Use your email marketing system to automate these types of emails. Offboarding a client - instead of writing a handwritten thank you note, use a service like Handwrytten. Where else can you create systems to automate repetitive tasks to free up your time and brainpower for other things? Celebrate the progress you make and just keep...