How To Stop Feeling So Busy & Overwhelmed

If you’ve felt constantly swamped, know that you’re not alone. Countless wedding pros wrestle with overwhelming schedules, hindering their ability to market effectively, plan strategically, and grow their businesses. The struggle is real, and it’s widespread.

The truth? Many tasks filling your days might not actually move the needle for your business.

And if you think you don’t have any of those tasks, I challenge you to listen to this episode and take the first step to reclaim your time!

In this episode we’ll cover:

• Why so many wedding pros feel busy and overwhelmed
• The time trap wedding professionals get caught in
• How to find out if you’re spending your time on activities that get you results or not
• Why you should track your time for a week
• How to identify and cut the things that keep you busy but don’t help you reach your goals
• The first step to reclaiming your time
• How to stop playing on hard mode
• Why solving your time problem solves so many other problems for you

How To Stop Feeling So Busy & Overwhelmed

Hello, my friend. I am your host as always, Heidi Thompson, and I am here to help you build a wedding business that allows you to book more of the clients that you really love working with, as well as have the freedom and flexibility to, you know, have a life outside of your business. And speaking of that, today I want to talk to you about how to stop feeling so busy and overwhelmed.

This is something I hear a lot. This is something I talked about in the last episode, and I know a lot of people were feeling this way. I was surprised to see just how many people, you know, reported feeling either constantly overwhelmed or near constantly overwhelmed. We need to do something about this.

So do you feel like you’re always too busy? Do you feel like you’re always overwhelmed?

Well, if that’s you, I want you to know that this is something I’ve heard from many, many different wedding professionals, all different types of wedding pros from all different places. So if you’re feeling this way, you are definitely not alone.

You’re too busy to market your business.

You’re too busy to plan and be strategic.

You’re too busy to grow your business.

And yeah, if you do run your business the way many wedding pros do, you are too busy and that’s a really big problem because if you’re too busy to market your business, if you’re too busy to get clients, how are you supposed to get clients?

That’s a catch-22 that a lot of wedding pros are finding themselves in. So again, if you’re experiencing this, this is not just you.

Most wedding pros don’t have the time to do the marketing to get the leads that they need to get the bookings that they want. And even if they did, they don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing on a consistent basis.

And a lot of wedding professionals I meet who feel really busy all the time are spending most of their time doing things that, quite frankly, do not move the needle in the business. They don’t actually matter. They don’t make an impact on your goals. And if you are listening and you are thinking, “Heidi, everything that I need to do has to be done,” I have a challenge for you today.

Track it and prove it.

So for the next week, use a tool like Toggl, a spreadsheet, a pen and paper, an app on your phone to track just how much time you’re spending and what you are spending it on. And let me tell you, just like when any of us do this with our money and we look at how much money we’re spending on going out for coffee or going out to eat or on alcohol, all these things that just feel like small things in the moment, they really add up. If you’ve ever done that, this is the exact same thing, but with your time.

You will be shocked at how much time you’re spending on things that do not make an impact on your goals. They do not help you book more weddings. They do not help you serve the Couples that you have and provide an amazing client experience.

What they’re mainly doing is taking up your time. And when members of The Wedding Business Collective do this, when they actually track their time for a week, they find that they are instantly able to free up at least five hours a week on stuff that doesn’t really matter.

Like if they stop doing it, nobody notices. Things move on. We all have things like that in our business.

So if you want to stop feeling so busy and overwhelmed, this is a really simple first step for you.

Just like if you want to stop spending so much money. The first step is to see, okay, where’s your money going? We need to see where your time is going so that we can actually make conscious decisions about that.

But that is just one small step that you can take to reclaim your time. And quite frankly, it’s not enough. I can do better. We can do better.

So next month, I will be joined by more than 25 other wedding industry experts to help you stop working insane hours and to regain control of your time so you can continue booking weddings with the clients you want to work with without feeling like your business is on fire without feeling like everything is chaos, and you’re being pulled in a million different directions.

And I’ll show you how to shave at least five hours off your week so that you can make the time to market.

You can make the time to actually reach your goals because it’s not optional if you want to have a profitable business that gives you the time and the financial freedom you’re after, but there are ways to make it easier and I want you to recognize that the way you are doing things right now, you are most likely playing on hard mode. And you don’t have to!

You can play on intermediate, you can play on easy mode and I’m bringing together a ton of experts to help you do that because this right here is the biggest struggle I see wedding professionals have.

Yes, a lot of wedding professionals struggle with marketing, but so many more don’t even have the time to struggle with marketing because they’re struggling with time. They’re struggling with feeling overwhelmed and like they’re working, you know, two jobs. They’re working 60-hour weeks and they’re making less than when they worked a 9-5.

They’re having a lower quality of life than when they worked a 9-5. This is not okay with me. I hope this is not okay with you.

And if it’s not okay with you, and you don’t want to play on hard mode anymore, save the date for February 12th through 16th because the Wedding Business CEO Summit is back baby!

And it is going to help you stop working these insane hours. It is going to help you regain control of your time so you can continue booking weddings. You can continue getting the clients you want without feeling like your business is on fire, without feeling like you’re piling more overwhelm on the existing overwhelm pile.

Because when you solve this problem, you solve so many other problems in your business and in your life. So let’s solve it together. You can get on the wait list over at www.weddingbusinessceosummit.com. If you are on my email list, you will get an invitation to join.

This is a free event that you can attend. Totally free. There are upgrades available if you would like to grab one of them. Many people do. But it is a totally free event for you to join.

And if you are feeling too busy, if you are feeling overwhelmed, if you’re feeling like, how do I possibly have the time to be the CEO of this business?

How do I possibly have the time to market?

How do I possibly have time to work on any of these things?

This right here is exactly what you need. So, I’m telling you right now, it is February 12th through the 16th. Carve out some time because again, when we deal with this, it knocks over so many other dominoes. in your business.

When you stop feeling constantly busy, when you stop feeling constantly overwhelmed and you start feeling in control of your business, you can make better, more intentional decisions.

You are able to work less. You’re able to work with better people, whoever that is that you want to work with. You are able to make more money. All these things are not possible when you are you know, running a mile a minute, and you just feel burned out.

So, February 12th through the 16th, the Wedding Business CEO Summit is happening and will be focused entirely on helping you get out of this overwhelm, to stop feeling so busy, to stop working the insane hours, and regain control of your time.

For so long in our industry, we have just accepted this as a status quo, and I don’t know about you, but I’m not okay with it. So, if I can help it, I am not going to help it continue to be the status quo. We are going to be breaking that up during this summit.

So I hope you are excited. Again, that waitlist link is over at www.weddingbusinessceosummit.com.

I hope to see you during the summit, February 12th through 16th, because you are going to leave having freed up time so that you can actually breathe and you can actually make the time to do the things that matter. Thanks so much for taking the time to listen in today. I will speak to you again very soon.

Links & Resources:

Get your FREE ticket to Wedding Business CEO Summit
The Wedding Business Collective
The #1 Struggle Wedding Pros Face

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