It’s Saturday… do I really have to work?
Could you hear the whining tone in my subject line’s words? Do you get the feeling that the last thing I want to do on a Saturday is work on my business?
Unfortunately the reality for most of us is that we work full-time jobs while we are building our professional speaking and life coaching practices. If we want to build our part-time dreams into full-time businesses, we have to give up our free time to work on our business.
But that doesn’t mean it has to feel like work. In fact, if it feels like work, perhaps you should reconsider what you want to get started. It should feel more like play! You should be excited to learn more about your specialty, anxious to outline a new program, and buzzing with the energy needed to schedule your next speaking event.
I know it’s Saturday and you want to relax, get some chores done around the home, or hang out with friends. You can do all those things and more. Just take an hour or so to focus on your business, too.
Need some ideas?
1. How about doing a Google search for contact people in your local service clubs:
Rotary- http://www.rotary.org/
Lions - http://www.lionsclub.org/
Kiwanis - http://www.kiwanis.org/
Plan to call them on Monday!
2. Not ready to make those calls? What do you need to do to get ready?
Make a list of topics you’d like to offer
Make a list of questions you’d like to ask the program coordinator
Make a list of meetings that would fit your schedule and select a few that you would like to target for future presentations
Revise your marketing materials
3. Read or listen to a book or presentation on your topic to increase or update your knowledge.
4. Read or listen to a book or presentation on managing or marketing your business, improving your presentation or course development skills, or other technical training.
5. Attend a gathering that will allow you to practice your audio logo (elevator speech) and share information on what you do and how you can help solve peoples problems.
It’s Saturday and you may have activities that you typically focus on today. But what if you made today different? What if you made time to work on your dream? I bet it will hardly even seem like work. 
Oprah Winfrey once said, “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance–and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”
The time you take to nurture and grow your dream today is significant in the grand scheme of how close you come to reaching it in the days, weeks, and months ahead.
Today… Saturday… is important to your dream.
As for me… I work the nightshift and got home about 2 hours ago. It’s almost time for me to go to bed for the day. But the house is quiet and I think I’ll work on the e-course I’ve been putting off for so long. Even if I complete only a roughly written paragraph or two before my bed calls me or the house awakens, I will have taken a small step and won a small victory on this Saturday morning.
