In this 30 Minute Masterclass, Marianne reveals why so many small business owners are frustrated by the lack of progress and growth in their business, and shares a 3 point strategy for achieving significantly better results and a clear pathway to your ideal future.

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#5 Simplify your life! How to create calm from the
chaos, by having simple plans that inspire you,
keep you focused on Getting the Right Stuff Done,
and move you towards your ideal future!
Marianne Page
The 30 Minute Masterclass Series

2. Does any of this sound familiar?
• Life can be pretty chaotic - problems appear out of nowhere that you need to
fix and you lose whole days and often weeks, in reactive mode
• You have a mass of thoughts and ideas and you’re easily distracted by the
shiny and new
• Overwhelm - a daily experience - you have so much on you just don’t know
where to start
• You feel guilty nearly all the time, particularly about how much time you
spend…or don’t, with your family and friends
• You wish for an easier life, but you can’t see it coming any time soon
• You’re working all the time and the strain on you and your relationships is
beginning to show…it wouldn't be so bad if you were getting great results in
the business

3. The Result
• Frustration - not doing anything in your life brilliantly
• Low self-esteem
• Stress from the overwhelm
• Lots of wasted money…and time
• Strained relationships
• Not making as much money as you could be

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Be honest…
are you happy where you’re at right now?

5. The Solution?
Well it’s not
• Working even longer hours
• Getting divorced
• Buying another time management system
• Going on another course
• Expanding the list of gurus you subscribe to

6. The real problem?
• Your business has taken over your life
• You have no plan
Random lists
Distractions
• Every week revolves round other people’s priorities
• You don’t know how to plan effectively

7. …doing what you’ve always done and expecting different
results!!
!
You’re sabotaging yourself!
You’re affecting the quality your customers and clients are getting!
You’re putting unnecessary strain on yourself and on your relationships!
STOP

8. Who is Marianne Page?
• Creator of Bright7 - simplify your business
simplify your life
• Author of ‘Process to Profit’ - focus on
developing simple systems to grow your
business
• Award-winning people developer
• Helped 100s of small business owners &
managers to simplify how they work, and how
their business works
• Clients include solo business owners and those
with small teams

9. The Real Solution
1. Get complete clarity around your Priorities
2. Create a long-term plan around them
3. Hire a mentor

10. 1.Clear Priorities
Why!
• Create calm from the chaos
• Give you focus and meaning
• Simplify your business & your life
• Eliminate overwhelm
• Give you a fabulous future to work
towards
!
!

11. Example - Lee
Before!
• Struggling to grow his business
• Worked all the time - watching tv,
out to dinner, in bed, out with
family
• Few remaining friends
• Strained relationship with partner
• Neither productive nor relaxed…
ever
• Putting in time, but not seeing
results
After!
• Conscious of what’s important in his
life…and focuses on it
• Clear boundaries
• Always ‘present’ in what he is doing
• Achieves more in less time
• Makes conscious decisions about
where he will spend his time and
money
• Achieves significantly better results
in his business

12. Action for YOU
1. Take the time to get complete
clarity around your what’s
important to you in your life.
2. Work with someone who will
challenge you & drive you to be
clear & specific
3. Write your Priorities down - post
them on your wall, on your
phone, on your fridge…keep
them with you at all times

13. 2. Create a long-term plan
Why?!
• Would you head off into the wilderness without a map?
• Brings your Priorities to life - makes them real
• Gives you a route to follow…a vision to work towards…
immediate targets to achieve
• Creates milestones and opportunities to celebrate
• Maintains the momentum and upward trajectory of your
business

14. The Reality
Most people
• Don’t have a plan
• Spend their lives reacting…to problems, to the latest shiny object, to what
other people are doing
• Over-complicate
• Believe they can create their own plan - to the shops vs through the
Brazilian Rainforest
• Believe that mapping out their ideas = planning…and waste a LOT of
time on this
• Don’t recognise that the level of thinking they’re at now will not take them
to the next level in their business

15. Action for you
1. Consider the existing plans you have
…do you have a plan?
…Is it built around what’s really important to you?
…how far ahead does it look?
…is it based on ideas and guesswork…or your
priorities?
…do you follow it?
2. Consider how effective your plans have been in
moving you towards your ideal future
3. Consider what you need to change to get
different results

16. 3. Hire a mentor
Why?!
• How many times would you have to get lost in the Himalayas…how
much time and effort would you expend…before you hired a guide?
• When trying to lose weight, or get fit…how long have you continued
to try and fail, before you’ve gone to a slimming club or hired a
personal trainer?
• Who do you trust…your satnav…or your own instincts for where
you’re going?
• Why did Andy Murray hire Ivan Lendl?

17. Would Luke Skywalker have known what to do
with ‘the force’ without Yoda?

18. A mentor
• Gets you from A to B faster
• Raises your game - they have expertise that is different to yours…and a
different viewpoint
• Is objective…helps you see past the wallpaper of the way you do things
• Will challenge you, keep you focused, stop you getting distracted, stop
you wasting money
• Will hold you accountable to targets and milestones
• Will push you to focus on your priorities and deliver results quicker
• Gives you simple, proven strategies and plans…that work
• Just like your swiss army knife and your book-keeper…they support you
in an area of your business that is not your forte, or one of your core skills

19. Action for you
1. Find a mentor
2. Hire a mentor
3. Do what they say

20. Simplify your life
• Get clear about what’s important to you in your life
…and ditch the rest
• Create a plan around your priorities
- longer term (3 years), mid-term (1 year), short-term (Quarter),
immediate (month, week, today)
• Find someone to help you do this
- to make it easy for you, to keep you on track, to hold you
accountable, to get you to the results you want faster

21. What next?
Take up my offer to you…!
A FREE 40 minute ‘Planning Session”
• review your priorities
• get clarity about what’s really important
to you…and why?
• understand what’s blocking you
• determine your best next steps
Only 5 slots available this week!
To grab one, e mail me at:
marianne@bright7.co.uk

22. This is YOUR time. 2014 is YOUR year.!
Make every single day of it count!
See you next Wednesday at 2pm