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EP117 - The Thinking Introvert: Big Ideas Are Great, But You Need a Plan · The 3Bz Podcast - Building Better Business

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  Hi there, business owner, and welcome to the Three BS Podcast,
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  the place where we go beyond the numbers and dive into strategies
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  to help you build a Better Business one step at a time.
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  I'm your host Stephanie, a multi awarded entrepreneur with over a
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  decade of experience in the bookkeeping and currency world.
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  If you're a business owner looking to streamline, grow, and
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  get back the time that you deserve, you're in the right
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  place. Clean, real world problems,
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  answering tough questions and digging deep into business
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  building secrets in just 15 minutes each week.
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  So, Are you ready to build a Better Business with confidence
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  and clarity? Then let's go.
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  Hello and welcome back to the 3B's podcast, another episode.
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  Here we are episode 117. And before we get started, if
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  you haven't yet listened to episode 115 explain the four
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  different types of introverts, then you need to go back to that
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  one because this one won't make sense otherwise.
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  And if you have taken the quiz and you came out as a social
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  introvert, go and listen to episode 116, last week's.
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  If you came out as a thinking introvert or you're just being
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  nosy, then this episode is for you.
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  If you're new here, hi, I'm Stephanie, an entrepreneur with
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  every a decade of experience in the book human accountancy world
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  and an introverted entrepreneur who pushes herself out of the
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  comfort zone to help you build a Better Business.
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  So this is Part 2 of the introvert series.
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  So today we're going to talk about the thinking introverts.
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  If your brain is always on, if you've got a million ideas but
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  rarely hit publish, and if you live in your head but sometimes
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  struggle to take action, this one's for you and a little bit
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  for me. As I said in the previous couple
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  of episodes, you may relate to one or more of the introvert
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  types. And if you don't know which one
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  you are, go and do the quiz. It's in the show notes.
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  It's also on social media. And once you know which of the
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  four types of introverts you are, you can use the strategies
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  that we're going to give you in this in this podcast to help you
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  build a Better Business your way.
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  Let's burnout, let's stress, let's play to your strengths.
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  You ready to get into it? Let's go.
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  So what is a thinking introvert? If you are a thinking introvert,
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  you aren't necessarily shy or quiet.
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  In fact, you might not look like an introvert at all, but your
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  internal world and your inside your head is super busy with
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  thinking introverts. The best way I can describe it
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  is if I had to put a celebrity as a thinking, I'd go for Harry
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  Styles. He thinks before he speaks.
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  He speaks incredibly slowly. He writes the most beautiful
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  song lyrics and poetry. He definitely takes things that
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  are slightly slower pace, but you can see that he's thinking
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  it through. You can see that he is reserved.
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  And I think that a lot of thinking introverts are seen as
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  reserved from those from the outside.
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  If you are a thinking introvert, you process deeply, you analyze
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  everything, and you're usually three steps ahead in your mind
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  and where you actually are. You love ideas, you're
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  incredibly thoughtful, introspective, and people have
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  probably told you that you overthink more than once.
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  Now, in business, that can look like constant planning but
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  actually taking no action. That's kind of me sometimes
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  perfecting things behind the scenes before pressing publish
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  and holding back until every possible outcome has been
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  considered and the risk has been mitigated.
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  Now that's not a flaw if that is you in business, but it can hold
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  you back if you don't play to your strengths.
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  So as with last week, I'm going to give you some strategies if
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  you are a thinking introvert to try and help you build your
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  business and move it forward your way.
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  So strategy number one is to give your ideas somewhere to
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  land. The first thing you need as a
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  thinking driver is a place to dump your brain.
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  If you're anything like me, you'll have notebooks, have
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  finished voice notes, sticky notes, and Google Docs hidden
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  all over the place. But if your ideas don't leave
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  your head, they don't help your business.
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  So stop trying to organize everything before it's even
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  written. Let's just get it out, pick one
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  place to put it and structure it later, whether that's a weekly
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  brain document, whether that's talking your thoughts out loud,
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  you know, even to yourself, voice note or using a tool like
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  click up Notion or Trello to put all your mess in and then start
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  sorting it out. That's going to really help you.
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  Your brain is brilliant. If you're a thinking introvert.
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  The insight you have to things is incredible as a business
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  owner, an entrepreneur. Don't let it get gridlocked by
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  trying to be perfect. Quite often because you're
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  thinking out every possible outcome, you don't actually do
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  anything. If you looked at my OneDrive for
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  example, or my Google Drive, you would find content planners,
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  probably 6-7 months worth of content planners where I've gone
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  in and I've wrote down what platform, what I'm going to
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  cover, my imagery, the sounds I want for it, the the B roll that
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  I need to use, the checklist for, the B roll I need to film.
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  And I haven't done a single thing of it.
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  It's all just sat there in my Google Drive of Doom and never
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  actually gets actioned upon, which is an absolute waste of
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  your time and energy as a business owner.
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  So if you're a thinking introvert, do find a place to
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  dump your brain and then go back and edit it and go back and look
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  at it later on. But just get it out of your head
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  and down into one single place and not scattered across various
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  different documents. Strategy #2 again, one I'm not
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  very good at and one I'm still learning and is to pick one
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  thing and back yourself. This is a big one.
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  Pick one thing, just one. I know introverts love having
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  options, especially thinking introverts.
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  You'll create 10 new service ideas, 5 pricing models, and
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  redesign your website before you even launch the first thing.
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  And The thing is, is your audience can't engage with
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  something you haven't actually put out.
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  And I know it sounds obvious, but thinking introverts need to
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  hear that truth. The challenge is super simple.
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  The strategy you need to use is pick one thing.
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  Just the pop strategy. Pick one thing, pick one offer,
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  back yourself for 30 days. That's 30 days that offer.
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  That's all we're going to focus on and then tweak after and not
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  before. And even if it's not perfect, it
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  just has to exist and get out there.
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  If you don't have the data from putting it out there, how can
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  you tweak it effectively and actually build your business?
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  Backing yourself for those 30 days is the part that is most
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  important is not changing tack 4 days down the line.
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  These series of episodes for this podcast have been on my
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  mind for a really long time. On my mind before I'd done the
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  presentation and count. It's before I'd seen the
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  outpouring of how much it resonated and helped the
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  bookkeepers that own our accounts that I was talking to.
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  And that wouldn't have happened had I have not actually done it,
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  just put it to one side and then moved along.
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  So this podcast series is out because I went and did that
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  talk. Was it perfect?
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  No. Did I fluff my lines?
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  Absolutely. You can hear on the recording
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  the wobble in my voice. You can hear the anxiety in my
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  voice. But but it was out there and
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  actually the feedback I had from every single person and people
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  were queuing up to talk to me, take selfies with me, ask me to
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  sign copies of my book, which is completely overwhelming as an
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  introvert, I couldn't. It feels so surreal.
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  But what I'd said and the mistakes I've made and tripping
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  over my words have resonated with them.
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  So pick one offer back yourself for 30 days no less.
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  And then review it and start tweaking.
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  And finally, the third strategy if you are thinking introvert is
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  to find an anchor person. You don't need a business coach
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  yelling at you. You don't need somebody, a guru
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  on the Internet telling you what you should and shouldn't be
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  doing. You just need someone to ask.
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  So what you actually do with this idea, you just need
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  somebody who will pull you out of the overthinking spiral.
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  Even better if they can catch you before you get to that point
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  where you've wasted all that time and we'll put push you into
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  action. Now, I have a friend who's a
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  fellow business owner called Sarah Morrison.
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  She's been on the podcast before.
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  Incredible entrepreneur, great business owner, mom of three,
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  absolute superhero, absolute superwoman, and she is my
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  anchor. She's my anchor person.
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  She is the person that I will go to with an idea.
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  She is the reason that I have turned my talk account X into
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  this podcast and then started telling me all these different
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  things I should and shouldn't do, all these different things I
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  could do and helped me brainstorm the idea of how to
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  get this quiz out there. How would we most benefit the
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  listeners of the podcast and the watch of the podcast?
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  How can I best help business owners?
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  And then in an evening, should be like, so did you do that
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  thing today? So did you do that thing we
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  talked about? How are you getting on building
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  that, that quiz? How are you getting on with
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  recording those podcast videos? In all honesty, these were meant
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  to be recorded yesterday. And I just didn't get around to
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  it because business is life and sometimes things just go awry.
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  But she checked in with me and said, what you're doing, have
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  you done it yet? And that sort of accountability
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  really helps as a thinking introvert.
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  It could be a mentor, It could be a fellow business owner who's
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  also building, or it could become your bookkeeper who low
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  key becomes your accountability partner.
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  Hi, that's me. That's what I do for every
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  single one of our clients ABCSUK because those quarterly meetings
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  become ingrained in them. And that's when we talk about
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  the businesses as a whole and not just the finances, but
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  whatever that person is for you. Find your anchor person.
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  If you don't have one, go and find one.
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  My inbox is open if you are looking for somebody to help or
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  if you need someone, a recommendation for someone that
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  could be a great anchor person for you.
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  But the point is, don't build your business in an echo
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  chamber. Don't build your business alone.
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  I said on the podcast a few weeks ago, it takes a village to
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  raise a baby and your business is another baby.
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  Whether it's your first, second, third, fourth, whether you count
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  fur babies, human babies or just business babies, it takes a
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  village and you can't do it alone.
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  Thinking introverts work better when their thoughts have a bit
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  of structure, and nine times out of 10, they need someone to
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  reflect them back. So somebody literally holds up a
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  mirror to you and goes, he said, you're going to do these things,
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  why are you doing it? I think really helps thinking
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  introverts. So if you're thinking introvert,
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  you don't need to be louder, faster, or more extroverted to
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  burn yourself out. You simply need a single place
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  for your ideas, a clear first step, and someone like my Sarah
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  in your corner to keep things moving along.
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  You've got the vision, you've clearly already started to build
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  a business, so you definitely have some follow through.
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  You just need to keep that follow through and build upon
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  that. If you haven't taken the quiz
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  yet and you've got to the end of this episode thinking, well
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  maybe I'm a thinking introvert, I'm not really sure.
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  Or maybe last week you thought, no, I am a social introvert and
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  now you're like, that sounds a bit more like me.
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  Go and take the quiz. It's live now.
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  The links in the show now it's completely free, takes you a
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  couple of minutes, 7 questions and it will give you strategies
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  tailored to your introvert type. And if you do the quiz and you
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  come out as an anxious introvert, then next week's
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  episode is for you. So do go and hit that
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  notification bell on YouTube. Subscribe if you're listening to
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  podcast platforms that you know in the episode goes live.
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  The anxious introvert is the anxious introvert is the over
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  preparer, the overthinker who still feels underprepared and
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  the one who replays conversations long after they're
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  over. And that is a little bit too
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  relatable for me. I've been Stephanie, this has
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  been a 3B's podcast and I'll see you next week for the next one.
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  Bye. And that brings us to the end of
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  another episode of The Three Bees podcast.
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  I hope you found it useful and that you're walking away with
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  Bye.