48 | Why manual workflows can do wonders for knowing your solo business better.

48 | Why manual workflows can do wonders for knowing your solo business better.

Just a heads up, it’s a long one, so maybe go ahead and speed it up to x1.25 and listen lightly (i.e., while walking or pottering about doing something else). The format and flow of this conversation is one that’s super normal for an SBO talking out and making sense aloud to feel clearer and more connected to something specific. Here you can hear some reflections relating to the recent (first) campaign experience with a surprising fondness and even the start of a new love for numbers, in particular how going old school in drawing the data is leading the business thinking forward. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com [https://itsnotabigthing.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

47 | Why it's important to plan space between doing and reviewing in solo business.

Following the closing of the first campaign experience, where we introduced and brought front of mind the idea that we can achieve balance across our life and work and we can have more say within the way we balance by way of working with simple thinking structures (check out the video podcast to see The Work Life Balance Model* [https://itsnotabigthing.substack.com/s/video-podcast-simplifying-solo-business] intro series). Here you’ll hear the fatigue and the forward momentum started by consciously containing and creating by way of a quarterly campaign approach. Specifically, being open to what looked right on paper at the time and adjusting with what’s known now. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com [https://itsnotabigthing.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

46 | Why it's important to keep asking, 'What's the point?' in solo business.

This conversation is a simple one, it’s one of asking and asking the repeated ask of, ‘What’s the point?’. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com [https://itsnotabigthing.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

45 | How clarity can become something we feel in our business thinking.

So often we’re told and promised clarity as something that is doable and done in business, and yet, for someone like me who needs to feel a feel for it to be real, clarity still felt like just an ideal idea. In this conversation you’ll hear a recounting of feeling clarity come together and how it’s already lighting the way forward. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com [https://itsnotabigthing.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

44 | How preparing business reports can (actually) grow the way we work in solo business.

Here you get to see a little way that has a big say each working week. Sharing a small knowing that was backed up by preparing the Monday morning reporting (aka the Weekly Report), which has a real-time influence in the business ways of working while navigating new and unknown tasks (e.g., working through the first campaign experience). The importance of sharing the thinking behind this core business way of working is shared with the hope of inspiring you to look at your own reporting and where you could grow to know a little more in your business backed by your data. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com [https://itsnotabigthing.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]