No Broke Months For Salespeople - What to Do When Overwhelmed by Your To-Do List

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

What to Do When Overwhelmed by Your To-Do List Sales Coach Dan Rochon of No Broke Months for Salespeople talks about schedule management. In this episode, Dan shares a tip on how you can avoid getting overwhelmed by taking things a few steps at a time. Learn more about how to avoid getting overwhelmed in this new episode of No Broke Months for Salespeople. To find out more about Dan Rochon and the CPI Community, you can check these links:Website: No Broke MonthsPodcast: No Broke Months for Salespeople PodcastInstagram: @donrochonxFacebook: Dan RochonLinkedIn: Dan Rochon

If you don't prioritize, then everything seems important. However, if you define the single most important task for each day, then almost nothing seems urgent or important. Welcome to the No Broke Months for Salespeople podcast, the ultimate destination for salespeople, business people, and entrepreneurs. As you immerse yourself in this show, you'll discover the secrets to unlocking consistent and predictable income. We reveal the new way to persuade human behavior by mastering the art of the teach to sell method.

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What to do when overwhelmed by your to-do list. Sales coach Dan Rashan of No Broke Months for Salespeople talks about schedule management. In this episode, Dan shares a tip on how you can avoid getting overwhelmed by taking things a few steps at a time. Learn more about how to avoid getting overwhelmed in this new episode of No Broke Months for Salespeople. Something I want to share with you is going into today's topic is about prioritization and about spending your time. So if you don't prioritize, then everything becomes urgent and important. And I guess that focusing on this personally, just to be transparent, because I've got a lot of I got many, many more tasks in business and in life and personal, et cetera, than what I can get to. And so I'm really, instead of being like, oh my goodness, there's all this stuff on my shoulders,

I'm learning to say, let me prioritize. And so I came up with this, this is a solution I'm using, I think could be helpful to you in your life. And that is this, if you don't prioritize it, everything seems urgent. Everything seems important. However, if you don't prioritize it, everything seems urgent. Everything seems important. However, if you define the single most important task for each day, then almost nothing seems urgent or important. Okay, so in business, my single most important task of the day is to follow up on, I have, I think, four people over the last 72 hours that are new to my world and to follow up with them and to get them into an appointment. So follow. So when you define the single most important task of the day, that's it right there. I make that happen and everything else seems, you know, less urgent, less important.

So oftentimes it's just a matter of letting little bad things happen. You know, like, make that happen and everything else seems you know less urgent less important so oftentimes it's just a matter of letting little bad things happen you know like uh having to return a call or being late or you know having to you know pay a small late fee or losing an unreasonable customer or something sometimes you have to let those little things happen to get the big important things done. So it's about that prioritization. I'm going to use somebody here who needed to get water for the family, needed to get a jug of water for the family. And instead of taking the time to lead generate, took the time to go to the store, get a big jug of water for the family, bring it back. Now, is that important? Yes. However, how are you going to pay for that big jug of water if you're not lead generating? And hopefully you can connect the dots. Because you start without understanding, like, what's the most important thing for me to do today? Then you start letting other things take away your time that are important, okay,

but they may not be the most important. So the answer to overwhelm is not spinning more plates. The answer to overwhelm is not doing more, is defining the few things that you can really do that will fundamentally change your business and your life. And when you understand that the key to overwhelm is to focus on just a couple, two, three things to say, okay, when I do this, everything else works itself out. All right. Now, I got a million things on my plate that I could be doing today. Here's my priorities.

I'm going to share this with you. My priorities is to work with Doug and Matthew to get a good two hours of lead generation in today. That's my priority for my business. My priority for my personal life is I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon and I have a mess in my financial situation, not because it's a mess, but because I'm going through a personal change right now and I need to go through and get a handle over, you know, what I'm, what I'm handling. Right. So I'm going to spend, you know, a couple of hours later this evening to go through my, my financials. Now, those are my priorities. In addition to that, I'm going to

bring in a sign to, uh, to hang a sign on a property that's an hour away from me, Spotsylvania. Um, I'm going to be doing that this afternoon. So when I'm going to Spotsylvania, what am I going to do? I'm going to print out a list of people I can be calling on my way down so that I can use that two hours of drive time productively. And that's going to allow for me to get some of the little things done. And then lastly, I'm almost done with a big yard project that I'm doing. That will take another about two hours, and I'm going to work on that this evening as well. Okay, but if you take all those down, then say, well, of those, if I don't have time to do it all, what will break? What will I get rid of? It will be the yard project.

Because that's more of a want to do than a have to do. What will not break at all? Lead generation. 100% have to do. What will not break at all? Lead generation. 100% that's happening. What will not break at all? Reviewing the financials. 100% that's happening. What will not break at all?

Doctor's appointment. 100% that's happening. Okay, because that's important. So now that I understand those are my three things that no matter what those three things are happening. It's not always three. Sometimes it's one. I don't like to do more than three. One, two, or three.

What are the priorities of my life today? When I get those three priorities done, will there be other things that will take my attention? Are there other tasks that I'll end up doing? Absolutely. Yet, when I do those three, I'll be able to not feel overwhelmed. I am in an unusual time right now where I have way, way, way more to do than what I can get to. Way more. And the only way that I can manage that overwhelm is by saying, you know what, I can't deal with all that. I got to focus on the top three and then everything else will work itself out.

Thanks for listening to the show today. I am truly passionate about watching great business owners like you and salespeople to grow. And nothing excites me more than hearing your incredible success stories. And I invite for you. In fact, I dare you to reach out to me on social Dan Roshan and ask me any question, whether you're struggling or just want to share one of those great success stories. And I promise you, I'll reach back to you. So until the next time, have the best day of your life. Be grateful, make good choices, go help somebody and let's connect on social.