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Welcome to The Samita Lab.
This is a 12 month mastermind to lay the foundation for and get your goals for 2022. We ask the important question "Who do you need to become?"
JULY 27TH MEET
Theme: PLANNING SYSTEMS
Duration: 2 hours
Zoom link https://zoom.us/j/5799542662
630-6:45 PM WINS SINCE WE LAST MET
HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH WHAT YOU COMMITTED TO MEASURING?
For your lifestyle brand
Your audience is Women in Tech, Mothers,
Please fill out this mission statement for your brand. “I use my expertise to help people ______.” Avoid generic terms and focus on a specific result you provide for people. Example: “I use my expertise to help creative entrepreneurs grow their audience and business.”
“People who follow me go from ______ to ______.”Track your posts, and mark which posts are resonating. How many per week?
Who are you following in each of these buckets: Women in Tech, Motherhood, Fertility.
How are you engaging with them and their followers? Join 5 groups and add value in those groups daily
What action have you taken to engage? Track this.For your health
- Track your emotions in a notebook.
- List out workouts/week
- How does it trickle down to your food intake?
- Do you have food ready for consumption? Remember you are only as good as your systems. Is your fridge full of carrot sticks already packed in snack bags? Much easier to reach for than a carb.
For Your Time Management Goals
Pomodoro Technique: Focused 25 minute sprints of work. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3PNJYr2
Try the "Forest App" https://bit.ly/3a3LlBL
Put parameters around your quiet think time. (25 minutes?)Think about using toggl.com to track your time
Think about using the morning pages app ( https://morningpages.app/) to not only write daily, but to get a read out of your primary emotions (edited)
Join 5 groups on Facebook or Linkedin. Engage and track responses
Post 3X week
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Health, Wellness
Track how many minutes of movement you get in each day
Gym 3X a week
6:45-7:15 LET'S REVIEW YOUR HOMEWORK: BULLSHIT AUDIT
Ask a few people you trust "What are your best and worst qualities? These are small changes you can make that impact the way you come across to people. But be prepared to put the comments in two categories: Valid points and Brush them off points.
Another set of questions to ask
- Have I been taking care of my team members?
- How can I better support you in your work?
- Have you noticed any gaps in my professionalism?
- What skills can I improve to be a better ________
- What do I do well now, and what can I improve on in the future?
7:15-7:30PM
Planning systems.
How do you plan your week. How to put more systems and processes in place to eliminate disorganization?
How do you plan for 90 days?
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90 DAY PLAN It won’t take you long to group each of your goals into each section of the 90 day plan. The main thing is to prioritize and make sure you get the tasks that must be done in 90 days down and then fill up the rest of the time with the things you can and want to do in the next 90 days. This will form a basis of your direction and aim for the next 90 days and guide you with your weekly plan and daily plan! WEEK PLAN You want to get into the habit of planning your week on Sunday night before you go to bed so you have a clear idea and understanding of what you are trying to achieve during the week ahead. A plan for your week will give you clarity, focus and purpose. DAILY PLAN Every night before you go to bed you want to have a plan for the day ahead. This is the key to making progress and getting the results you want to see in your life. It doesn’t have to be complicated and the plan I have laid out for you is more from just another day planner – it is a clear and powerful action plan for the day! How do you measure success? How do you protect for the downside? |
7:30-7:50 HOTSEAT
Give us background information:
- What's the history of what’s happened so far
- Where are you stuck?
- What are your thoughts on this topic
- What have you already tried
- How does this situation relate to your goals?
7:50-8:15
WORKSHOPPING OTHER MEMBERS' CURRENT CHALLENGES
8:15-8:20 PM
COMMITMENTS
- Commitments from last time. Have they changed?
8:20-8:30PM
HOUSEKEEPING
Next power hour date
Next meeting is AUGUST 18TH. NEW DATE AND IN PERSON?
HOMEWORK: BUILD YOUR NETWORK
Take stock of the network you have and see what gaps you need to fill and take action now. FOR EXAMPLE, if you are trying to find funding do your homework and get the facts on the ecosystem; there are 300 angel groups across the nation, equally dispersed from North to South from East to West. Kauffman statistics show that 75% of angels fund in the same state they live and 90% of high potential deals are funded by angels. Talk to other founders who have been funded.
Get out of your comfort zone and attend a high powered meeting or event. (ACG, Renaissance Weekend, Alley to the Valley) plus update your LinkedIn profile and get on AngelList. Angels are looking for great deals. Where do they look? At pitch events, incubators, local colleges, angel groups, from attorneys, accountants and bankers.
Learn to ask. This is hard for women, but with a little practice, it becomes easier. Start with an easy ask; what other ideas do you have for me and who else do you know I should talk to?
A SYSTEM FOR STARTING YOUR NETWORK
Research has shown our brains are only capable of keeping track of up to 150 people. Look at all your contacts and arrange them into the following groups:
Top 5: family and close friends (should be easy)
Key 50: Friends and associates whom you know you can call upon for help and advice. They will answer your calls straight away; you know you can count on them.
Vital 100: People who are important in your life, who add value to you and vice versa. More than a casual acquaintance. There should be a variety of locations, professions, life contexts etc in this group. You should keep in touch with these people once a month at least, even if it’s a tweet, a text or a phone call.
A SYSTEM FOR FOLLOWUP
As unnatural as it seems, you need to have a “infallible follow-up schedule” for keeping in touch with people. I keep an excel document with the person's name, the date I followed up, what I sent.
The 4 time frames are: once a day, once a week, once a month and once a quarter.
Once a day: follow up within 24 hours of receiving an email or message
Once a week: the time frame for when you should check in with each of your Key 50
Once a month: the time frame for when you should check in with each of your Vital 100
Once a quarter: send a group message to the rest of your LinkedIn contacts to let them know what’s been going on with you. And ask them what’s going on with them! An easy way to stay in touch? Diane Von Furstenberg once told me that the first thing she does every morning is "Connect two people in her network." She's at a place where she can, but the truth is, everybody can if you follow this methodology.
A SYSTEM FOR DECIDING WHO TO ADD TO YOUR NETWORK
To help you decide when you meet someone new, expert Judy Robinett suggests to ask:
- Where did they come from?
- Do our values match?
- Can I provide them with value now or in the future, and vice versa?
