1. What did you get out of this week’s assignment?
What I get from every week. It is so inspirational to work ON your business. Asking yourself questions. Being 'forced' to think about what you are doing and why you are doing it. Thinking about ways to be more fruitful, work more structured, automate things and work more efficiently. It is really rewarding!

2. What is the Creating Time plan you commit to implement?
Most important for me is making a list that is not overloaded. Normally I make a list and put down too much to do. I do have a lot to do. More than I can chew. But by adding more and more to the list I only get really tired and the mountain gets higher and higher. So my plan is to make a realistic list of max 3 things and stick to it. That will save me a lot of time because if it is doable, I won't procrastinate. Even making lists I used for procrastination. If the mountain is to big, I will stay put at the foot of the mountain. Now I cannot wait to take it, because it is doable.

3. What were the biggest insights you got during the Hot Seat session?
Write the book that you want to read. GREAT INSIGHT.
Read only one page of a book, the one that gives you the solution to your problem.

4. How are you going to celebrate your completion of the fifth WOMB week?
With a big bowl of icecream. I am so happy because I can really feel that I am working ON my webshop!

CREATING TIME

THIS IS WHAT I GOT OUT OF THIS WEEK ASSIGNMENT
I made a clear commitment to implementing by blocking focus time for W.O.M.B. on a daily and weekly basis

THIS IS THE CREATING TIME PLAN I'M COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENT
Time blocked in my agenda until and including the month December: 10-15 minutes DAILY. 2 hours WEEKLY
STOP

4) Stop procrastinating - DONE!

LESS
5) Use time on social media not supportive to my goals
4) Spending time on activities / people which do not bring me closer to my business goal
12) Adding too many tasks on my own name instead of delegating

MORE
5) Own up to my dream by formalizing my burning WHY
6) Get my manifest on paper (explicit) and out of my head (implicit)
1) Complete on the business plan for my Happy Villages project

NEW
8) Work on my business on a daily basis - WORK IN PROGRESS
1) Write blogs on Happy Villages / B&B

THIS IS THE BIGGEST INSIGH I GOT DURING THE HOT SEAT SESSION
1) Write a book which I would love to read myself on how I develop my business
2) Understand how to ask the right questions (don't waste anybodies time by asking questions which can be found on internet and take your self serious by asking questions which will make the expert sweat).
3) The power of asking the right questions
4) Work only with the customers that bring me joy
5) 30-40 well paying customers who are 100% committed are worth more than > 1000 who you need to push or carry through
6) Say goodbye to customers who are not participating.
7) Busy is the new stupid - the power of an empty agenda
8) The power of sustainable partnership - Nisandeh wants us all to become succesful so we can work together for the following 5-7 years to come
9) How to get the right price for your training

THIS IS HOW I'VE CELEBRATED THE COMPLETION OF THE FIFTH W.O.M.B. WEEK
I've started on the training on how to make the BEST ONLINE TRAINING
I've bought a book for Manny and Nanda on HOW TO EARN WHAT YOU ARE WORTH
I've used my morning getting up to speed with the W.O.M.B. Program
I've participated in the first Brainstorm session hosted by Paul van Aarle
I'm off to Denmark in a few hours to celebrate the summer with my friends and family.

Creating time… here is my biggest issue. I’m doing too many different things and therefor not doing them well.

I stopped this week with my patreon and will stop another part too.

I found that it’s a structural thing. I need to find a way to make my life easier. At the moment I’m in a space that everything I add makes my life more complicated I can’t even manage to do the things I’m supposed to do. And it’s costing me.

I celebrate that I have this insight. And I will work on it now.

I also celebrate we had a great buddy session together last week. It was the first time we actually connected and it was valuable for all of us-
It took us time. And that’s ok. And now we can thrive.

What did I get out of this week's assignment?
It was really good to have an implementation week! I have completed 1 email sequence that will now be sent out automatically after someone downloads this specific leadmagnet. I spent quite some time on it but now I have a plan/structure how to create other sequences as well. This will save me a lot of time in the coming months! It was good to focus on just 1 thing this week.

What is my Creating Time plan
Adding the 15 minutes to my morning routine and Monday morning, after our weekly 'buddy call' I will work on my business.

I create the time by:
Automating my email sequences (still working on it, thus creating more time in coming months)
Getting rid of my TV!

My biggest insight from the Hot Seat session
Write the book you want to read! Document your experiments😊

Celebrating week 5
In 1 hour I will leave for a week retreat in Castricum!! Meditation, yoga, dancing and walks to the beach, I can not think of a better way.

note: I will be back next weekend and catch up!

I saw this week that the beginning of the day making time to overlook your business is the most effective time to do it!

Proceeds from this week's assignment
Truly stopping activities feels like a huge relief. I chose to focus on LinkedIn. All other socials I will remove or limit to the absolute minimum.

My plan for creating time
Every weekday from 10:00 AM to 10:15 AM: Implement a STOP or LESS action that really makes a difference in creating time
Every weekday from 10:15 AM to 10:30 AM: Going through everything I've posted to see what else makes sense to implement, as well as any comments from the other participants. + planning the implementation of relevant actions in the coming weeks.
Every Saturday between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM: my 2-3 hours Working On My Business

Biggest Insights Hot Seat Session
- I want and have to think about what I really want and WHY. Who do I WANT to work with in the next 10 years instead of 'who can pay a lot for what I do'?
- If you want to be successful, you have to choose.
- A different approach to my first sales pitch: overdeliver, quote my real price, ask for lots of personal recommendations in return.

How will you celebrate your completion of the fifth WOMB week?
- I already did that by having today off.

What did you get out of this week's assignment? What is the time making plan you want to implement?
* put time blocks in my agenda;
* I just added the LESS and STOP goals to my calendar so that I see them regularly every morning and during the day;
* Every day writing down what I have stopped & reduced, so that the line of is more visible to me.

What were the biggest insights you gained during the Hot Seat session? * choose one or two actions and focus on that, adjust later if necessary. Don't get lost in too many choices.

How will you celebrate your completion of the fifth WOMB week?
* I feel I allready have been partying during the week: attended a very exciting seminar on colors and personal strength and signed up for the training to be able to work with that method. The two female developers happen to be "experienced students" of Nisandeh and Vered. They are certainly examples of overdelivering. I'm very excited;
* Today we partied for a few hours because we had to pick up two grandchildren from the daycare due to illness. But they happened to be very healthy and happy with us;
* I decided to do the work with Chamber of Commerce to officially register my company and let my boss know after August 1;
* I have also received very good legal advice to walk the path in my 'normal' work; So I feel a lot of space and energy;
* this weekend how do I continue to celebrate:
* start reading & feeling & embracing colors in the book 'Krijg toch allemaal de kleuren.' by developer Jannie and Pauline, http://www.persoonlijkekracht.nl;
* studying the Bulgarian kaval and looking forward to Monday lessons from one of the best and most dedicated kaval players in the world, http://www.arifamusic.com;
* be invited tomorrow night for dinner at our lovely new (Greek and Slovakian) neighbors Theoni and Matûs, one of the best synergies ever with neighbors. Have a nice weekend everyone!!!

Day5

1. I just love new more less stop this is one of the things that really helps me to put the things that I do in perspective and also gives me a great way to reflect an order

2. The creating time plan I commit to implement is first I spend every day 10to 15minutes on working on my business then I also put aside about three hours on Wednesday to think and work on my business another thing I want to do is delegate the right things to the right people so I don’t struggle so much with doing things that I’m not good at

3. The biggest inside I got during the hot seat was Bas his question about do I make the whole program or do I tweak while I go along and then the answer of Nisandeh how he did it I now copy all the email consurning this subject the whole structure of how he does it I also looked at again at the quantum leap email so I got my target audience clear enough again so that for me was a big inside

4. I am going to celebrate by emptying out my calendar for the weekend so there is nothing I have to do but this weekend is all about the things that I can do when I feel like it.

1. What did you get out of this week’s assignment?
-- That even while you already have time, it is still interesting to think how you can earn the time back that a certain time commitment (to newly make) requires.
-- That even while you’re already spending your time in relevant areas only, it is worthwhile to confront yourself that this doesn’t equal “good use of time”.

2. What is the Creating Time plan you commit to implement?
In this case it was threefold: helping others less and be less pro-active in offering it, research less, and revisit stuff less.

3. What were the biggest insights you got during the Hot Seat session?
That your definition of “ideal client” (which you have to materialize for yourself) can impact many aspects of your business, like elaboration of your customer relationship management, marketing, and intensity + direction of product development.

4. How are you going to celebrate your completion of the fifth WOMB week?
Having a nice session tonight with a friend who I rarely get to see (among with some others, and a BBQ).

1. What did I get out of this week’s assignment?
That think about delegating and automatising is not only good for my business but also good for my private life and personal health.
Structure and commiting is the key for me to do this and it gives a good feeling once a task is completed.
I had a meeting this morning with my PA and we looked at her ours and what we can automate so her work will be more easy and she will have time to do other things for me.

2. What is the Creating Time plan I am commit to implement?
For me it depends on the taks, some I implemented already and some are big projects wich I want to start right after the end of the holliday season and aim to finish by the end of this year.
Having them listed in the New, More, Less and Stop list makes it vissable and I started to plan tasks on specific days of the week.

3. What were the biggest insights I got during the Hot Seat session?
That I can scan a book for the one page that has the solution 🙂

4. How am I going to celebrate your completion of the fifth WOMB week?
Planning 1 saturday each motnh free time/me time, get out on a dinner with my son and found a VA.

The best part of this week's assignment was having to go back through my answers of the past four weeks to see what I was going to do when. These past four weeks have already made a big difference in the way I am approaching my business and my clients and have resulted in a couple of new assignments, two people that are willing to work for me, a number of new reviews and a plan for going forward.

Especially the new/more/less/stop-week helped me to see that I'm often spending time on things that do not contribute to my business at all. I'm now weighing all my actions against those lists. A small success: last night I got an email from a customer that wanted me to make a 'few' changes to his book. Four weeks ago I would simply have done this for free (I have the policy that I don't charge for minor changes), but now I spent 10 minutes to craft an email response that the amount of work is simply too much to do for free (= stop giving away my time for free). I did offer him a discount on my hourly rate if he promised to leave me an honest review (learned that last night) and I saved the nice email for reuse (automation), since this happens a lot.

The biggest insights of the session yesterday evening for me where the steps to a remarkable product, how to position a product and why to write a book.

As to the celebration: since I'm still feverish with Covid, I cannot go out this weekend. Instead I'll treat myself to a nice glass of wine, some treats and good fiction book.