Personal Note:

We are winding down here at Savvy Sponsoring and taking our MLM coaching hats off for the Holiday season. But before we close, I want to say a heartfelt THANKS to all of you. My life has been enriched by each and every one of you who have reached out to me.

It is a pleasure to work with you. Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for coaching with me. And most of all, thank you for being my teachers. You are the best and I appreciate you.

As we all know, holidays are times of fun and celebration, but often they also bring extra work and time challenges. Our featured article in this issue is a recipe:

To walk away guilt free from your business this holiday season. (Yes, you really can!)
Come back to work on time, ready to go in the New Year.

Take a moment to read or listen, you'll be glad you did.

All of us at Savvy Sponsoring wish you the best of holidays and a healthy, happy and most prosperous New Year!

Warmly,

Jillian

Jillian Middleton, Head Coach
781-599-0604
http://www.savvysponsoring.com

PS: To help you get back into the swing of things in the New Year we have scheduled a complimentary "Getting Started" coaching call. Click here to register.

Featured Article:

Jillian's Famous Happy Holiday Recipe

If you would rather listen than read this article, please use the player below.

Equal amounts of:

Family Fun
Rest
Good Food
Grateful Musings

Plus A Whole Dollop of No Business

How can you "have a whole dollop of no business?" In other words, just walk away from your MLM business? Simple. Build in a terrific exit strategy for December and a great re-entry strategy into January. How?

Here’s the deal. :) A little planning goes a long way during these busy holidays. If you want to take the best care you can of yourself, and all those around you, plus have terrific holidays:

Plan your December exit from work
Plan your January re-entry back into work

I guarantee, if you exit gracefully from your business schedule, and have a solid plan to re-enter your business in January, you will walk away guilt free and let go of your business throughout the holidays. Not sure how to do that, relax….

Here is the step by step recipe.

Exit Strategy

Take the time to make a list of what must get done before you walk away from your office. Put only those things that really must get done onto your list. Once the list is complete, take another look and see if something else can wait. If it can, get it off your list.

This is not the list of “what you would like to do.” It is a list of what-must-get-done-to-keep-you-sane during the holidays. Once the list is narrowed down to only what must be completed, go through the list again and see what you can delegate to someone else.

Do you do everything yourself because you believe no one else can (or will) do it as well as you? You are sabotaging yourself and truncating the growth of your downline.

Leaders delegate. Good leaders delegate in order to develop new leaders throughout their MLM downline. Do you need to develop your leadership skills? Consider taking a Savvy Sponsoring Network Marketing coaching program in the New Year.

The trick is to take the 10 or 15 minutes necessary to do this. We are all busy this time of year. It can easily feel we don’t have time to STOP, and organize our thoughts and prioritize our actions. However, for every minute you spend prioritizing what you have to do and giving each item a time slot in your calendar, you will save not only time (lots of it) but your sanity.

Prioritize and Schedule Time For Each Activity

Prioritize and schedule time in your calendar for each of the must do items. Don’t work on anything else in your business until these items are complete. If you have some office time left when all the important "must do items" are completed, then keep working down the priority list. But get the most important things done first.

Sometimes we move so quickly we forget the basics of a smoothly run business.

Work out of your calendar.
Make sure you allot yourself enough time for each activity.
Get everything (yes, everything) off that “to do list” and give it a time in your calendar.

Not only will you get more done…you’ll have some sanity to enjoy all those important people in your life too.

If you currently don’t work out of a calendar, (e.g. book everything you do into a time slot) you are courting disaster. Running a Network Marketing business from the seat of your pants may be a great adrenalin rush, but it is hell on the bottom line. It is also hell on your nerves and the nerves of everyone around you.

Not sure how to keep a good, easy, make your life sane calendar? Buy your business the Savvy Sponsoring Calendar CD and Workbook this holiday season. I promise, you will throw away your ‘to do’ list, get the important stuff done and be sane! That is a money back promise and guarantee.

Turn Your Business Mind Off and Enjoy Your Holidays

If you take care of the important tasks and tie up loose ends before you close shop for the holidays, there won't be anything to bug you. You create peace of mind for yourself. All the important issues are handled. Plus, your calendar is ready to get you started when you return to work.

It is the undone, the unorganized things that keep nagging at you. Take control of your business and the things that need to be accomplished with sound time management. If you do, you will relax and enjoy your time with your family and friends.

Hint: To make your holiday time even more pleasurable, take all the things you want to do in preparation for your celebrations, and again, make a list. Prioritize – delegate where you can – and assign each item a time to get done. For example, if you want to bake cookies, why not plan the time so you can enjoy the baking. Maybe make them with your kids. That is a lot more fun than doing them at mid-night the night before you want them. Hmmmm?

The Re-Entry Strategy

It can be really tough to get back to work after the holidays. If we are not careful, it can be mid-January (or later) before we are back into full swing. That isn’t a problem if it is what you planned.

However, if you do not plan this extra time out of production, how do you feel? Guilty? Are you fretting about what is not getting done? Are you anxious about your next check?

Avoid the January energy vampire. If you are supposed to be working but you are not, you are spending a lot of negative emotional energy. Not only are you fretting about what you are not doing, you are digging yourself into inertia. The longer you are in this work limbo, the more difficult it is to get a handle on yourself and get back into the business of building your network marketing team. All of this can be avoided if you simply plan your re-entry. If you are going to take time off work, then plan and enjoy it!

How to Make Coming Back To Work Easy

Don’t leave to go on vacation until you have booked at least one money making activity into your calendar for the first or second day that you are due back to work. This requires you to show up for business on time right after the holidays.

There is nothing like an important money making appointment to bring us back to work. The more you book your calendar for right after your vacation with strong money making events, the more likely you are to get back into the swing of things right away. Let us help you get your January in full swing, join our complimentary call on Wednesday, January 6th. Click here to register now.

How do You Find The Time to Book For January?

How do you start to book January before you close shop? Simple, on that priority list we talked about earlier of what to get done before you close down for the holidays, book an hour or two in your calendar to make appointments in January. Set yourself a goal of two, three, four or ?? appointments and go for it.

Every appointment you set for January will help to make your time off over the holidays more enjoyable. You won’t have one foot in celebration and one foot in angst because you left things up in the air. Be good to you. Plan your holiday exit and re-entry into your business. You will enjoy your holidays knowing you have taken care of business.

Why not start the year out right living your time rather than just spending it.

Warmly,

Jillian

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BONUS: Work Plan For Exit and Re-Entry Strategy:

Make a list of everything that must get done before you close shop for the holidays. Include on this list the time needed to book money making appointments the first week you are due back to work in January.
Take a second look at the list and edit to remove whatever you can.
Delegate what you can from the list.
Prioritize your list
Give each item plenty of time in your calendar to complete the task. This is a ‘real appointment’ with “you” to get it done. That means an explicit start and stop time booked into your calendar.

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Covey S (1999), The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Jillian Middleton is a Mentor Coach and Trainer, and author of the courses
'5 Steps to Work Less and Make Money in Network Marketing' ,
Setting Up Your Store Hours and Design Your Calendar.

As creator of the 'Savvy Sponsoring Strategies' coaching programs, Jillian trains network marketers and direct sales consultants the same strategies she used to build two 6-figure network marketing businesses in 5 years.

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