How to Become the Master of Your Muck – In Just 7 Minutes with Kathi Burns

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 Learn how to get things organized and avoid overwhelm so you continue growing your business Learn how to create a system that refines your solution so you move with a clear vision Find out how to manage your business successfully with clarity and time freedom Resources/Links: Download Kathi’s bestselling book, ‘How to Master your Muck’. Get here: www.get.organizedandenergized.com/ebook-master-muck Summary Are you a business owner that is so busy yet stuck? Are you facing a lot of problems and creating lots of solutions but no clear results? Do you want to know how to get a clear vision of what you want to do and get done as an entrepreneur? Kathi Burns is a Board Certified Professional Organizer, Stylist & best-selling author. She helps clients get their life and business organized and let go of the unnecessary to make room for renewed energy and more freedom. In this episode, Kathi shares how women entrepreneurs can declutter and have a clearer vision of their business. She talks about getting things refined and not just keeps on creating. That way you avoid overwhelm and keep you going and earning more. Check out these episode highlights: 01:13 - Kathi’s ideal client: “My ideal clients are women entrepreneurs who feel stuck or overwhelmed with their businesses. They started a business for freedom, but now they might find themselves just without a system to support them or the energy to even support their ambitions. They just feel overwhelmed and stuck.” 01:53 - What problem Kathi helps solve: “As an objective observer, I’m able to identify and help my clients eliminate whatever might be holding them back. You know, we often get stuck in the muck of our stuff when we can't see clearly what we shouldn't be doing, let alone what we should be doing because we're just busy, busy, busy.” 02:20 - Typical symptoms of the problem: “We get stuck in what I call busy-ness and instead of getting down to business, we're stuck in busy-ness, we're just going on that wheel, right? We're working and working, but we don't have the momentum to pull ourselves towards our goals, which means then we're in a constant state of overwhelm. We're always trying to go and go and go, but not getting where we want to go. 04:03 - Common mistakes that people make before they find Kathi’s solution: “We create multiple solutions, multiple systems to approach the same solution. And we don't eliminate or refine, we just keep creating. And, you know, that's the stuff that I lovingly call muck, things that are blocking our ability to move forward with ease and flow.” 05:55 - Kathi’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): “Stop. Give yourself permission to stop and take the time to see what resources you can capitalize on, Stop and see the things that you need to remove in your environment or your schedule so you can eliminate the overwhelm.” 7:13 - Kathi’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Check out Kathi’s Best Selling Book www.get.organizedandenergized.com/ebook-master-your-muck 07:29 - Q: What happens when you get organized and how to master your muck? A: “Every hour you spend getting organized, you save eight hours later. Abe Lincoln is one of my favorite guys and he said, ‘For every hour I spend in preparation, I save eight hours in perspiration.’ So, if you want to move forward with clarity of purpose, it always pays to get organized.” Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Getting organized requires the ability to stop and as...