Episode 20 - Planning Your Ideal Week

01/24/24 • 21 min

Do you have an Ideal Week plan?

Planning out my ideal week has been a game changer for me. If you are wanting to create space in your calendar, if you are craving a better flow between work and down time or work and family time, get a pen and paper because I promise, planning it out is actually going to make a massive difference not only in getting through all of your tasks but how you feel at the end of each week.

And if you’re thinking ‘How do I plan an ideal week when every week is different, when jobs are on different days and when work is seasonal so it might not happen year round?’ Look, I hear you. But that’s exactly why this is called ‘Ideal week’ planning. In an ideal world – how do you actually want your weeks to go? In an ideal world, what do you want to factor in each week? What if you did have a plan? And what if you did try it out for a month using that routine? If you have something to start from, you can start to work in a way that feels a bit more organised instead of chasing your tail. AND you’ll also find that you actually do have the time to exercise or read, or cook a Sunday dinner, or go to that stand up paddle boarding class, or learn pottery or whatever the thing is for you that continues to be pushed aside each week because you haven’t ‘made time for it’.

In this episode – El shares her ideal week plan and what adjustments she’s had to make to her general way of doing things to ensure it goes to plan. Make your own ideal week plan using El’s template. Download a copy and create one for yourself.

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If you feel like you don’t even know where to start or it’s the time in your life and business to enlist some support, I offer 3 mentoring packages perfectly positioned to bring you and your business to a point of thriving, not just surviving. From 1 hour ad hoc problem solver sessions to 6 week and 12 week packages, designed to really elevate your business and processes, you have the opportunity, right now, to work 1:1 with me to set your business up in the way YOU want to be working, to achieve your business goals and your personal goals. Because the point of running your own business is to give you the freedom to live the life you want. Find out more about 1:1 mentoring today!

Do you have an Ideal Week plan?

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Episode 19 - How Are You Starting 2024?

Welcome back to The Bloom-Print Podcast, our first episode for 2024.

If you follow The Floral Art Academy on Instagram, you’ll know that currently I’m experiencing a bit of a period of ill health and to be honest, I’m absolutely hating it. This was not how I was intending to start 2024, but in a way... I think this is actually how I needed to be starting 2024 and we explore that a bit in this episode.

Let’s talk about how you’re starting 2024.

What are your intentions for this year, what do you want to achieve? What will you actively put on your priority list this year? And what needs to change in your current schedule or your current workload to factor this in? Because likely something will need to change if you’re levelling up in your life or your business this year.

My intentions this year are around one main concept – my word for the year, my intention and focus is Expansion and this is going to manifest in a few different ways which have been literally smacking me in the face while I recover from this bout of ill health at the moment.

These intentions require changes to my schedule, changes to my processes, changes to the team, changes to my role. I cannot expect to achieve these things, without making changes. What got me here, will not get me to these goals. They will require a different level of commitment from me. And I’m so ready for it. Including my commitment to rest.

In this episode we talk about intentions, burn out, and thinking outside the box to make the changes you need in your life and business to absolutely smash your goals in 2024.
Introducing The Wedding Bloom-Print Course
And we introduce you to our new self-paced course The Wedding Bloom-Print - a business course designed specifically for people in the wedding and event floristry industry who want to elevate their floral businesses.

In this course you’ll look at your foundations + goal setting, pricing, positioning and earning potential, creating solid systems and processes, quotations and consultations, sales and marketing and all the legalities.
For the rest of January you can get 20% off the course using the code BLOOMPRINT20 with payment plans available also. If you need a bit of a kick start this year to sort out the back end of your business, January has never been a better time to start steering your ship in the direction you want it to go. Start as you intend to finish. I know I am by starting with rest, whether I knew that was how it was going to go or not. Hit the link in the show notes to enrol today, my love happy new year and I can’t wait to see you in this course. It’s going to change the game for your year.

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Episode 21 - The 3 Key Ways to Market Your Biz in 2024

It is no lie that the wedding and event industry is built on referral, word of mouth and connections. But it is really important not to be complacent in the thinking that business will just come to you. Yes, people will find you, yes, previous couples will recommend you – but you can’t rely on that alone to fill up your calendar (and your wage packet). If you’re not promoting yourself, if you’re not building connections and referrals – you don’t have a business. It honestly is that simple. If you’re serious about running a business and earning a full time or even a part time wage from it, there is a base level of marketing you absolutely have to do to drive that business forward. In this episode I share with you the 3 key marketing strategies you can adopt to build your business in 2024.