Episode 259: How To Make S*it Happen

Are you ready to accomplish your goals? Today we are going to get real. Listen in as Bella is going to open up and really tell you how to make things happen in your pet sitting business. It is time to get inspired, get motivated, and take action! Biggest Takeaways Starting Goals and Following Through with Them Look at the goals you have set. Do you embrace them? It is okay if you fail at some or even choose not to do them, but setting them again for finding new goals keeps you moving forward. Comparing Your Business to Prior Years Have you asked yourself what is different from this year to last, what about the year before? Look at what you have accomplished and how far or close you have become to your main goal. Take Action, Make Things Happen! Where do you want to end up? It is time to make it happen and keep moving forward. Find the resources you need, get your SOP's done, hire the staff you want. Let's get things done and make things happen in your pet sitting business! Show Highlights Getting Back Up and Starting Again, Moving Forward [6.45] Let's Get Real, Where are You in Your Business [11.00] Jump High and Be True to Yourself [19.23] Links: How To Market Your Pet Business to Get Clients and Staff In 2021 Workshop Mastermind Better Marketing With Bella Bella's Instagram Let's Connect: Did you enjoy the show? We would love it if you subscribed today and left us a 5-star review! Click this link – Bella In Your Business Click on the ‘Subscribe’ button below the artwork Go to the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ section Click on ‘Write a Review’' Are You New Here? Welcome, I am so glad you are here. If you are a dog walker, dog sitter, cat sitter, doggy daycare, or kennel owner, then you found the right place. Jump Consulting is the one place on the internet to get all the resources you need for your pet care business. Can I give you some freebies to generate sales and increase revenues for your business? Grab your freebies below. Are you starting out? Been in business for less than two years? Get your startup resources here. Do you own an established pet care business and you want to take it to the next level.? Get Your builder resources here. Transcript: This is episode 259 of Bella in Your Business. Hi there, I'm Bella Vasta from Jump Consulting. You might know me from CBS, NBC, Fox, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, or maybe you've seen me speak on stage or read my book, The Four Dogs That Every Business Owner Needs. In any case, get ready because you're about to get your hashtag Bella Butt Kickin' in this next episode of Bella in Your Business. So what do you say? Let's get ready and jump. What's up jumpers? It is Bella, and I'm recording this on September 20th. It's a Monday, and I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to say to you guys this week because I really wanted it to come from the heart. First of all, we are gearing up for a very big season. We are involved with Better Marketing with Bella season. You might've heard a secret podcast come out two episodes ago announcing our big announcement, which is this amazing webinar that we've been putting together for you for four months. Four months we've been putting this webinar together for you that you can go ahead and join and sign up for—only $7. It's going to teach you how to get new clients and staff for the rest of 2021 because marketing is not just for new clients, it's also for staff. We're going to break it down for you and give you a workbook. There are also some really amazing offers for you on that webinar that you're going to love to see. Do not wait. Go on over to jumpconsulting.net/workshop and you too can join me for the fun that's going to happen next week. I told you guys this is going to be an interesting podcast. It's also going to be semi-short, probably about 15 minutes because quite frankly, I have a coaching call coming up in 21 minutes and that is real life. But this is really from me to you. I take it as a sincere pleasure to be in your ears right now. You could be doing anything or listening to anything, and so I really want to overdeliver in value as hopefully you know that to be true with me. But today I want to talk about how you make stuff happen, because there have been way too many times and people in my life lately that have been dragging their feet and then complaining about it, and I am sick and tired of it. I'm going to do my best not to cuss. If any of you guys know me from any of our intensives—our in-person intensives where I fly to you or the Zoom intensives where you can get a package of six 45-minute sessions with me—you know that I cuss like a sailor sometimes just because it really makes the words more colorful, but I'm going to try not to do that today because I don't know what little ears are listening. But I know you'll hear it in my voice because I even put my desk up to standing so that I could talk into my microphone and I'm already pacing. All right, so let's start. How do you make stuff happen? Because I know there have been many times in your life where you've been stuck, where you've just been wanting things to change, where you're sitting on coaching calls with me saying, “Yeah, we’re going to do this,” or maybe you've heard one of these podcasts before and thought, “Yeah, Bella, that sounds like a great idea,” and then you don’t do it. Or maybe right now you are sitting in the same spot you were—not last year, but maybe two years ago, maybe in 2019—where you're still trying to solve or complaining about not having proper staff, not being staffed right, not having the number of clients you want, or being burnt out, overweight, tired, or depressed, or whatever it might be. Now, maybe I spoke too fast about depressed because that is definitely something different. Chemical imbalance—been through it myself, been on Zoloft before at a point in my life—so I totally empathize with you guys that that is a daily battle. But I digress. If you are still trying to get more clients, trying to get more staff, or just trying to solve the same problem, life is about correcting and continuing and moving on and making stuff happen. And I really want to encourage you guys today to think about what there is in your life that you need to make happen. One of the things we do to flex this muscle—because this is a muscle you have to flex and it hurts and it breaks and it tears up—is grow through that process. What happens with muscles? They build when they’re torn apart. In that rest period where you’re sore and aching—those growing pains—that’s where the building of muscle happens. And this is what we do inside the Mastermind. I try to encourage you guys to keep making these 90-day goals because most likely, the first couple of times you set these 90-day goals, you fail miserably. Sometimes people take that failure and they stay down and don’t ever want to get back up. They say, “Bella, I don’t know how to do 90-day goals. I failed. I don’t want to fail again. I’m not going to do that.” All right, I can’t make you, but I’ve got news for you. The ability to sit there, practice goals, and learn from them—to understand, “My gosh, that was way too lofty” or “That was way too easy” or “Oops, I just didn’t stay disciplined and forgot all about them”—is a muscle you can always rebuild. The more that you practice, the better you get. If any of you have ever played sports—when I was in high school, I played softball, field hockey, and basketball—I was at practice almost every single day after school. School was like a full-time job because I’d go to class and then practice, then travel to games, but it was all practice. And I sucked at the beginning, okay? It wasn’t like I just got on the basketball court and started sinking free throws like nobody’s business. It took practice—and that’s exactly what it’s like with 90-day goals. If you don’t know where you’re going, you can’t make things happen. I just got off a coaching call with someone. I like to do these calls with people, and I can usually tell in the first 15 minutes whether they’re going to be successful or not. I got off a call, and I was perplexed because they said they wanted help but were solving the wrong problems. While sometimes it takes direction, you have to be vulnerable and know where you want to go. You have to cast a vision and say, “I’m doing this for this.” I think a lot of times we try to stay busy because if we’re busy workaholics, we don’t have to think about the bigger vision. If we bury ourselves in work, it means we don’t have to deal with other things in our life. I’ve been guilty of that. I was completely guilty of that when I was going through my divorce. My business was my warm blanket that kept me warm at night and gave me purpose because I didn’t want to deal with what was going on in my real life. And I know many of you out there can relate to this. But if you want to make things happen, you have to get real with yourself. You have to think about where you’re going and whether every decision you’re making is getting you closer to it or further away. Every decision is moving you closer to your goal or further away from it—those are the only two options. Are you in the same spot you were last year? What are you doing with your business? Are you still trying to solve the hiring problem? Clearly what you’re doing isn’t working. Are you still trying to solve the “get new clients” problem? Then clearly what you’re doing isn’t working. So can I challenge you to step out on a limb and try something you’ve never done before? Maybe that’s working together with me. Maybe that’s not just listening passively to these podcasts but actually taking action this time. Send me an email at [email protected] so that I can send you a link and we can get on a phone call. I can hear your pain, hear your challenge, and help show you what you’ve got to do to make stuff happen.