Hello, everyone. Welcome to Mentoring with Geraldine and the Bite Size Podcast. How the devil are you?

So you’ve realized how close we are to the end of the year. It’s absolutely outrageous.

So a couple of weekends ago, I was in Sydney speaking for ATMS about getting yourself a virtual assistant or getting support in what you do, not just a virtual assistant, but how you can get the support that you need with what you do.

Online Presence Crunch:

And I’ve got the end of the month. It’s Black Friday or Green Friday as the preferred for Australia coming up. I’ve got tons of work on and I am drawing on all of my resources and all of the people who help and support me, especially coming into the end of the year and my, I give my VAs a holiday. We all go on holidays, so I have to make sure that I’m well ahead and getting ahead can be hard, can’t it?

Are you struggling at the moment? How are you going? with things that you have to do. So I had to make a decision on my Green Friday deal and the pediatric content that I’m offering on a massive discount. So that’s all out and the links are in the show notes for you to have a look. Obviously they’re only available till the end of November.

I really wanted to talk to you about how it’s going with you. How busy are you right now? And yet not busy. Does that make sense?

Because I find that I’ve just got a lot to do at the moment. I’ve got a ton of paperwork. I’m spending hours and hours on the computer creating, promoting, talking about the Black Friday.

Here I am talking about it. It’s taking up My entire headspace, and yet there are things that just aren’t being done.

There are things that are being missed because I’m so busy right now. I’m missing timeout. I’m missing self-care. I’m missing, oh, my family.

Because I’m working really hard and I’m running around. Now, if I had small kids and I was working this hard, I would also be running around because it’s getting to the end of the year.

Summer Planning:

And so there’s all this school stuff happening as well. And that it’s full on. Mine are grown up. There’s exams have finished now. My daughter is working endless hours. So she’s not home.

Anyway, even though she’s meant to cook dinner a couple of times a week, but we might have to revisit that at some point, university students.

But how busy are you with all of the other things? And how are you looking after yourself? How are you getting ready for the end of the year? How is this quarter going for you financially and emotionally?

I’ve created lots of trainings. I’ve created lots of content over the years. I’ve mentored thousands of people. I’ve created these online retreats. We’ve just had our online retreat in the virtual retreat in the Academy.

I’m meeting with many of the Academy members, so I’m giving them an additional one to one at the end of the year to focus them for the new year.

New Year’s Vision:

So it’s really important that we think about where we are going and what we are doing. It’s the end of the year. School hasn’t finished yet. Your focus is now towards the end of the year.

What can you do in advance? What can you prep now? So if you’re an Academy member, then you will have all of the email templates. So all of those email templates, cancellation templates, the follow up templates, all of those ones, there are holiday templates in there as well that I’m going on holiday.

But now is the time to be prepping. So now’s the time to be buying any courses that you want to do over the summer, like my Black Friday slash green.

I dosale pediatric content because you’ll probably be wanting to listen to that while it’s lying on the beach somewhere. Have you noticed how hard it is to use any computer stuff at the beach because of the bright sunshine? All of these pretty pictures of people on the beach working, it just ain’t a thing, is it?

Sun and screens don’t work, but anyway, you can still watch it from your iPhone. I do watch things on my iPhone at the beach. What we need to be doing Because it’s towards the end of the year, but we’re not the end of the year yet. You’re in your busy time at home, because the kids are still in school, but you’ve got school plays, you’ve got things that you’ve got to do, you’re racing around for stuff.”

But this is also the time to be prepping for the summer, prepping for Christmas and for your break. This is the time that next time you go on to Canva is to create all your Christmas content so that you have posts coming up over Christmas.

Festive Canva Creations:

The Merry Christmas ones, Are you prepped for Christmas? I have these last few appointments available posts and the posts for the new year.

I want to get healthy for the new year, Christmas gift packs available, and then in the new year, what’s your new year’s resolution, do you need to come and see me so that I can keep you accountable and supported in that new year’s resolution, etc. So now is the time to be doing those things.

Before everybody goes on holiday, before the kids finish school at the end of the year, if you have children, or even if you don’t, because the busyness of life changes once the kids are out of school.

Holiday Planning:

Suddenly the shops are all full, it takes longer to go to the supermarket, it takes longer to do anything. Because the kids are in all of those places with their parents, the parents have the children at the supermarket with them. They can’t do anything else with them. They’re taking them into town.

They’re taking them to the places that you would normally be at and they wouldn’t be there. Yes, the roads aren’t as busy. Yes, you can get to and from everywhere and in the morning, 8.30 in the morning is not a huge rush on the road once they’re on holiday, but you still have lots to do then.

So now is the time to get ready in advance for that. So that’s kind of what this podcast is about, is to kick up the bum for you to go, right. I’m going to get all of my holiday content sorted now so I don’t have to worry about it.

So when I’m prepping the Christmas turkey, I don’t suddenly think, Oh no, I haven’t sent emails to my clients telling them that my holidays hours are, whereas that could go into your auto responder.

Saying what your Christmas holidays are, so that when anyone emails you, or the reply emails that they get, or the follow up emails that they’re getting, say on them, Hey, I’ll be on holiday on these dates. Make sure that you’ve got everything you need for your holiday.

And that’s the other thing you need to be sending out, even if you don’t have children, is the email to all of your clients saying, Hey, going away on holiday?

Client Communication:

Going to Bali, you’re going to need a health care pack. Get in contact for, if you don’t want Bali belly. Going to wherever, you need a holiday pack for that.

15-minute consult and a holiday pack or email me back and I’ll give you the holiday pack or I’ll link you up with a holiday pack. And then what are we going to put in that?

We’re going to put a bug killer in it, we’re going to put some probiotics in it. We’re actually going to put a bug spray in it. Maybe all of the things that are possibilities from our distributors from Oborn and Aria. Oborn has all of the sunscreens and bug sprays and all of those things for the summer so that you can be creating those packs.

Summer Survival Kits:

They can be Christmas packs for, have you got your Christmas presents yet? Here’s the Christmas pack for the favorite or not favorite relatives that’s going on holiday over summer. ready package for you. You just need to wrap them when you get them. Don’t even, you know, no brainer. Holiday presents and things.

So make sure that some of these things are organized now before the schools break, and before you’re suddenly shopping for the Christmas turkey and doing all the things that need doing for yourself.

So, end of the month, don’t forget if you want to buy the Pediatric Online Mastery Course containing all of the things you need to know about running a practice with children in it and seeing children and the easiest and quickest things to deal with all their problems.

Then make sure that you jump on to the Black Friday slash Green Friday sale and get your content for a really, really good price. So, I’ll catch up with you soon on the next cast, I hope.

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And you get yourself ready for Christmas. I know it’s November; it seems early.

But some things just have to be done early. Off you go, kick up the backside. See you soon. Bye.

Conclusion:

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Here you’ll find part two of the herbal discussions, more clinical learning, and case studies to support your clients in practice.

Bye for now.