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Welcome everyone to our latest episode.

We're absolutely thrilled to have you here.

And we are thrilled to have a lovely lady here.

Her name is Claire Hill.

Her company is the Vivid Business Club, and she's going to tell

us a little bit about it.

So welcome to the show, Claire.

Thank you so much for having me, Kirsten and Janie.

I'm very pleased to be here.

Tell us about how did you start your business?

Let's start there.

I always like learning people's journey into business.

I started another business which was art based, grew that, scaled it,

and then I became a business coach.

And what I do now is support business owners with a warrior spirit to support

them to believe it's possible for them.

Do you work with a lot of brand new businesses or do you work with

more like established businesses?

It's a mixture.

I used to work predominantly with startups and as well as people

that were maybe in the first year.

I've obviously developed the coaching and the membership, the very business club.

I am getting more established businesses coming in that want

a little bit more of a shake up.

When I meet business owners there, that's usually what we're going through,

as well as sorting the foundations.

And I'm sure both of you and your listeners will understand.

You sometimes you're not ready to scale because those

fundamental things are not there.

Potentially you grew too quickly in the beginning.

You didn't have the time to put all of those foundations in.

Through my own story that part of my business I had to burn to the ground

and then build back up properly because it just wasn't ready for me to grow.

It really is the mindset stuff that often causes us to not be productive.

Yes.

Yes, that because I feel like we all self sabotage and we all we drag things

out or we put things off or we get them halfway done or 80 percent or 90

percent done go off to do something else.

How do you help people become productive?

Especially around their mindset of not procrastinating.

Basically, if you're really feeling a lot of doubt and you don't feel that it's

possible for you, or you're presented with a task that you know is really needs to

be done, but you're avoiding it because it feels too uncomfortable or too difficult,

you're going to start procrastination.

That procrastination begins because of your fear of the discomfort.

Your, the, the amount of pain that you are willing for to go through and

discomfort to get to the other side, um, as well as not feeling like you're

worthy of the success on the other side of it, when you look at those things,

when I started, my journey of mindset has been quite a challenging one.

My doubt was rooted in all three of those, so I didn't feel worthy for the success.

I didn't feel worthy for the joy that my business broke, brought me, but I felt

like an imposter 'cause I didn't know.

What I didn't know I was creating this art.

I was really scared of the success because of what would that money change for me

and my family and how people viewed me.

It was about adjusting that identity that I had for myself into this new one

that was a successful version of myself.

Then that impacts your self trust.

So self trust is a really important part of self belief.

If you have a to do list and you're not completing that to do list, Your

doubt is saying you believe you want to achieve these big things, but you

can't even complete a to do list.

It doesn't really matter if you don't have a proper list builder set up,

if you've got an online business, and it doesn't really matter if your SEO

isn't really good because you swing it a little bit on social media,

your self trust starts to decrease.

which automatically affects your self belief.

Now, the way I see self belief is all in tune with your heart and

your instincts, I believe is so much more powerful than the doubt.

We have to make space to feel it.

And I feel like doubt has got really sharp elbows trying to get to the front

of the crowd and is shouting the loudest.

Your self belief is impacted because your self trust is impacted in this A

constant loop that if you don't become aware of why you're procrastinating

and your doubt, it's complete self sabotage because you are completely

in control, but it does take courage.

And I think it's that point.

What tips do you give people to push them out of that bed right away and not

procrastinate on things that they are?

Consistently procrastinating on if you would really like to break that cycle.

The 1st day is always the worst.

There are that 1st day, but I sometimes just stand up and I'll be like, with my

eyes close or swaying no negotiation.

Look after your future self.

I just focus on.

What do I want most?

I want to have feel energized in the morning.

I want to feel really motivated and I want to feel really good with my mindset.

I want to have the energy to go forward and do the stuff that I want to do if

we can visualize who that person is.

We want to be And visualize it now.

It might affect the decisions that we make.

The important stuff is making sure that my business is served first.

Then I have all of the extra energy to serve theirs.

I am only worthy of the success I dream of.

We have to know that's what we want most instead of what we want right now.

And we can't get there unless we do that work and do the important stuff first.

Another tip that I love to teach is about the 1 percent factor.

If it's a really big job and our doubt is saying I want to

procrastinate, we don't want to do this.

This is too tough.

It's really boring.

I don't want to do it.

Let's go and clean the house.

The house always gets clean, doesn't it?

When we're trying to avoid something and you get, sometimes I've

gone, I'm going to go for a run.

I never run.

I would rather work than clean.

So it would have to be something very much that I didn't want to do.

That is the same as me.

That's it, Kirsten.

That is, that's how much I will procrastinate.

And this is the thing why all my tools work, because I'm

the queen of procrastination.

I will avoid everything.

It takes more energy to get something started in movement

than it does while it's in motion.

So if we just do two minutes, we say to our brains, We're just going

to do two minutes of this really tough job that we are avoiding.

We're just going to do two minutes.

Once those two minutes are up, it's very rare that you will then

become, start procrastinating again.

Because when you're proposing to yourself, Oh, I'm only going to

do, I'm going to do two minutes.

You've got started and then the excitement of I'm doing the big thing.

I'm doing the thing that I've been avoiding.

Oh my goodness.

And then you start feeling that reward and you get to the end of the task.

You've got all of that dopamine.

You feel really proud of yourself.

The self trust has gone up because you said you were going to do it.

And you did it.

Therefore, you believe in yourself more.

And the next day that doubt isn't so loud.

You can get that tough stuff done because you're tough.

Amazing.

All the stuff that we have to it's all an internal battle, right?

Is it business?

Yeah, we're all so excited and passionate about what we do, and we love

helping others, but there are so many.

Things that go into running a business, and it's so easy to just feel overwhelmed,

like you said, the imposter syndrome and just the doubt and the fear pops up.

Like, who am I to build a multi million dollar business?

Right?

So it's interesting that you provide all these amazing tools just to help people

get going and every little thing builds on the next building their confidence to

move into or step into our future selves.

Yeah, I'd love to share my, my, my favorite tool.

This is literally my journey today.

My husband's not been very well, and it's one of those things where my

time is so expertly planned and I sometimes don't have enough wiggle

room, like white space is just.

So he's been poorly and I've had to juggle a few extra things to make sure

he's all right because he's actually needed looking after and then because

of that I haven't done my usual routine and then today I had client meetings and

I was doing this and it was all great and then I felt like a floating plastic

bag and I always use this metaphor of something that's just not anchored it's

just got So Doesn't know what it's doing.

It's just all scattered floating around.

So this formula, I call it the kickstart formula and anybody that wants it,

all you have to do is go to clarehill.

uk slash kickstart and it's completely free and it is and what

I've done is I've created a video, a resource and a podcast episode.

So then it's only about three minutes but you can apply it to

the beginning of every single day.

So it becomes a habit.

So what I did was I sat down and this is what the formula is.

I sat down and brain dumped and wrote down everything in my head that's

possible that I could be thinking of.

So that's to do with the food shopping, the meals, my little boy.

The, my pets, the, it's my mother in law's birthday tomorrow and sorting that out.

So I had to write that, all that down.

Then there was my client work.

So I was looking through my calendar, checking the notes.

So going through notes with my clients, was there anything

that I've promised to deliver to send to them that I haven't yet?

And just went through everything.

I ended up with two pages full of tasks and straight away

that feels so overwhelming.

How can I, and as I was writing.

How am I going to get all this done?

This is so much.

Then I actually looked at the list.

I grabbed my pink highlighter.

I highlighted everything that was important to my business and my well

being that had to be done today.

I thought in my head, my day today is a little bit later, so

I can get a little bit more done.

What must be done, the stuff that is going to make me feel good, feel

accomplished, but also is supporting if I need to supporting my clients

or my family, whether I can even show you actually this is video, isn't it?

So this is the whole list, but you can see just the pink and all of a

sudden when you have to do the pink.

Okay, then I looked at the list, which was the task on that list

that I didn't want to do the most.

Which was the worst and I put a number one next to it Then I ordered all of

the others from I think I've gone up to 10 or something 1 to 10 and then

I started with 1 I did that number 1 crossed it off Then I went to number 2.

The beauty of the kickstart formula is when you're Prioritizing according

to what is important, not urgent to you have clarity in your brain

because you've spilled everything you're trying to remember onto paper.

There's not that energy you're spending trying to remember everything

and three when we order things and we're going in that specific order.

If, for example, you get a phone call or there is a text message or

something derails the day you don't have to waste energy sitting down.

Where was I?

What was I doing?

I can't remember.

You all have already built that framework for yourself to go.

Ah, I've done number one.

Number two is next.

So I've written a whole book about the kickstart formula now because it's

all about the doubt, procrastination and all of the things that go into it

and why it's so effective as a tool.

I've done the kickstart formula, right?

Sit down and then just the boost of motivation that you get from doing it

because before and I literally sat down.

An hour before we met thinking, I have so much to do.

I've only got an hour.

And I was like, I've got an hour.

I can make these really impactive and effective hours.

It's funny.

I'm like, I can't wait to get off this interview so I can write my list.

So cathartic.

It's amazing.

The brain numbing exercise is so fabulous because sometimes you just

need to get it out of your head.

But then like you said, you look at it and you go, Oh my God, where do I start?

So I love this.

Yeah, it's so effective, especially when some of my clients have got ADHD,

and they really struggle to know how to pick back up when they get distracted.

So if you do get procrastinate by accident, at least you're

like, Oh, okay, what was I doing?

You're not thinking having that brainpower to start again and

wonder where you need to start.

You've already done that work.

But this is.

It's quite extensive because I haven't done it yesterday.

And this is why I was really not feeling anchored to the day.

But some days it's quite a short list.

So it can literally be the first five minutes of every day.

And the power it has to go through the whole day is really amazing.

You are full of so many amazing productivity tips.

We're so grateful to have you.

So tell people again where they can get this kickstart formula.

So they go to www.

clarehill.

uk slash kickstart.

Perfect.

So we will make sure that we put that in the show notes.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

So tell people how they can get a hold of you if they want to work with you.

So I am everywhere, but I love Instagram is my favorite, but

I am on LinkedIn and Facebook.

And all you have to do is search for I am Claire Hill, all one word, and I pop up.

That's my tag, the handle, that's my handle.

Everywhere, or you can go to clarehill.

uk and everything's there too.

I've got loads of free trainings about DAO and a productivity masterclass as well.

We're going to a bit more depth about different tips and tricks and

also in a lot of debt about why DAO impacts procrastination as well.

And if I'm not mistaken, you have a podcast as well.

I do.

I had the wonderful Kirsten on.

My podcast is called No Rest for the Vivid, and it's all about those stories

of the messy middle, the bits where I don't, as entrepreneurs, I think

sometimes we feel We're inadequate if we doubt ourselves or we haven't got that

confidence, but it's actually normal.

It's a good sign when we have that fear and then we just

need that courage to face it.

And so my podcast shares those stories and gives all of the tips and I'll go

into a lot of detail about productivity and mindset on that one as well.

I could listen to productivity tips all day long.

Now I just need to implement them.

But Claire, it's been such a pleasure to get to know you and to

hear all of your productivity tips.

And, uh, we can't wait to listen to your podcast and catch you

on all the other platforms.

But thanks for joining us today.

Thank you so much, Jeannie and Kirsten.

It's been wonderful.

Thank you.

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