Um, you know, just being, I feel like ironically what I’m trying to help people with, but being stuck in the overwhelm, um, you know of, okay, I know all of the things that I want to accomplish, but how do I break that down into manageable steps to, to make it work? Um, and that, that is really what brought me to class and gave me the kind of structure where, um, you know, anybody who’s done this program knows he’s heard you of, okay, but did you do zero to two? I don’t care what you want to do buy ahead of time. And it’s, you know, once you’re going through it, it makes sense. You know, I I’ve, I just finished two last month I think, um, which took me a couple of months and, you know, the, the CRP of phase two and now I’m technically in the hustler period, but it’s felt I always want it to be in that hustler period from like day one. That’s what I wanted. But without the structure, it, it doesn’t make as much sense to go through those steps or you’re just, you’re skipping ahead and missing some of the fundamental pieces.

Anna (04:36):

Exactly. Yeah. That’s why it’s there, it’s a step by step. So yeah, that she’s talking about the success path. So we have phases that you go through when you’re, when you’re launching your dream career or business. So did you have any like doubts when you dove in and started going through it?

Diane (04:53):

I still have doubts today, but I just don’t get consumed by them, you know? Um, overall I feel great about what I’m doing and the choices I’m making. Um, you know, a lot of, I feel like a lot of the obstacles I hit are, um, literally just how things have been changing with the shutdown and the directions, um, that I’ve been changing. You know, I have, um, as far as organizing goes, you know, I’ve only literally been inside two homes to do it so far, which is what I really thought I was going to be doing and getting started with. Um, and so what I’ve really been doing is listening to people that I’ve been, um, you know, whether it was promoting myself to a lot of other people in, um, some of the class, the class community itself, or some of the other groups I’ve joined, the other people in class have gone through and I’ve become parts of their groups where people are like, Oh, but we’d love a group and we’d love this. And, and so, um, having an online component that I never envisioned something that, uh, that I’m actually finding gratifying, I’m still trying to figure out how to, um, successfully integrate that. But now it’s something that I’m really excited about.

Anna (06:07):

I love that. So you’re kind of pivoting, cause you need to write, like you can’t get into houses necessarily to organize with them, but you’re adding an online component to make it work for your industry. I love that. I love that because it’s always about pivoting to make it and change too. Right. So what do you think would have happened if you didn’t have a plan to follow?

Diane (06:32):

Uh, I have no idea. I mean, it’s, it’s, um, you know, there, there are just so many variables that I feel like are, are constantly, um, coming at you that just knowing that of knowing what the end goal is. Um, you know, I’ve always been, uh, someone who has lists, you know, the, to do list and whatnot, but really, um, projecting out, you know, the 30 days and the 90 days and what is it that I want to achieve? And, um, it’s something, I think something that I’ve really got in through the program, whether it’s intentional or not is, um, to allow myself to give myself the grace, to allow myself to pivot to, okay, this was the exact idea that I wanted to accomplish 30 days from now. But you know, now we’re literally told that we can’t go outside again for 10 days. So what can I do now? Um, because life is always going to happen,

whether it, uh, you know, even post pandemic, there’s still going to be obstacles that weren’t going to come your way and how are you going to deal with that? Exactly.

Anna (07:48):

Yeah. And I love looking back a year. Like no one could have, you never could have told what, what, what your, what was going to happen either. So things can change and will need to change too. So you, you have since like tell us some of the results that have happened for you since you decided to launch this

Diane (08:06):

Know business, um, you know, is really just, uh, going full in, you know, there are, um, in addition to class, something that was very important to me personally, which is not, um, you know, uh, a necessity is I also decided to join Napa, which is the national association of productivity and organization. And I am hoping by the end of March, I’m, I’m provisional status right now to, um, reach professional status, which, you know, is not there plenty, you know, you have Marie Kondo and the home edit, and they’re not NATO. You can be super successful without it. But to me, um, just having that little sense, I think of tech, uh, I don’t know if it’s a sense of pedigree. It wasn’t that, but it’s another community. I love class, the support of class for the, um, entrepreneurship and seeing all the different, um, industries are out there in the way you can help each other in such a supportive community, but Naval itself is such a supportive community as well. Um, you know, when I’ve joined the local Philadelphia chapter, so to just have, um, those kinds of resources and create the create community because, you know, as we build each other up, it only makes us as individuals stronger too.

Anna (09:22):

Yeah. Because the big thing about you too, Diane, is you completely changed industries too. I remember from the very beginning, you’re like, how do I do this in a completely different industry and getting involved in an organization that’s that’s genius, right? Because then you can start making those connections and start learning about that industry and start building up your bio too. So that’s, if anyone’s listening and wants to change industries, it can be done. Diane is here, she’s telling you she did it, she’s doing it. So tell us about, like, I know you did your vision board, um, tell, and also tell us about, tell us about the vision board and then tell us about that. Um, booking that, that day rate thing that you were you shared with us.

Diane (10:04):

Um, I, the vision board was actually something, um, that I actually feel so excited about now. And I have it like really in a prominent place that I look at every day now. Um, it’s, uh, you know, I did a kind of half- hearted vision board at the point in class when we’re supposed to, and I’d never, I, before in my life put up images that inspired me, but never with a cohesive theme. And I feel like this is the first time that I really did that. And it, it absolutely helped, um, with, with my clarity and where I want to go. Um, you know, again, both short-term and long-term goals of what’s included in that, and that helps really, um, hone it in for me every day. Um, I think the other, I don’t, I don’t recall the day rate. There was a challenge that I just completed, which was a lot of fun.

Diane (11:04):

I just did my first online. Um, I did a 10 day organizing challenge that I did through a private Facebook community. And that, um, was something that really was the, I think that was the step so far that I so