Episode 172 – Nurture your Business in 4 Hours per Week with Janine Bolon

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Nurture your Business in 4 Hours per Week with Janine Bolon is our latest episode of Business Growth Time.

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About Janine Bolon:

Janine is a testament to the power of perseverance. As an impoverished teenager in rural Missouri, she launched several successful businesses before putting herself through the University of Missouri biochemistry program by working three jobs at once and selling all her possessions.

She worked for 15 years in academic and industrial research laboratories before spending the next 24 years raising a brood of four active spawn. In the past two decades, Janine has completed her M.A. in Education, home-schools the herd, founded her Financial Literacy Firm (The8Gates), has written 10 books, produces 4 podcast shows and teaches 15 online courses.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

04:11 – Let’s get to know Janine Bolon

Janine Bolon has always loved figuring out how things work.
She always had a side business in her life and shares with other solopreneurs and business owners how to manage a well-lived life of children, family, friends and clients, while not suffering from burnout.
Janine is the author of nine books and produces four podcast programs.

05:56 – How to use systems to save yourself a lot of trouble a lot of
pain and suffering and burnout?

When you start running a business, you’re the decision maker you’re making on a daily basis.
The one thing she focuses on is – get yourself out of decision fatigue.

07:21 – Terry’s favorite story about decision fatigue

It was explained why Mark Zuckerberg’s closet had grey t-shirts and grey hoodies, because he wanted to eliminate just one basic decision that we make every single day.

08:16 – What made Janine Bolon actually get into this area of wanting to write a book?

She just started building online courses in probably 2015.

13:01 – What aspect or area of the business do these systems improve; What do they help?

If you’re thinking, highly structured, make sure that sometimes you lock a system into a cell that could be put across the entire area of your business with effectiveness.

15:53 – What is 4 Hours a week system for nurturing your business?

In this four-hour-a-week system, you’re going to get your calendar out and you’re going to look at your week and you’re going to block out 4 one-hour time slots.
The first hour we’re going to called prospecting, the second hour we’re gonna call follow-up, the third hour we’re gonna call connecting and the fourth hour we’re gonna call this one training.
It is something that people have to learn and and do it step by step in their business.

27:18 – What’s the highest and best use of your time?

The trap is sometimes you will be put into a place of analysis paralysis, you will get into analysis paralysis if you’re really focusing on your joy and what your happy places and your strengths.
So, if you have a lot of different areas that you’re good at? Then, follow your joy, follow your passion.

29:32 – An hour’s worth of prospecting is really enough?

A brand new book by Michael Hyatt called Your World-Class Assistant
It’s one of those things that you just have to get over that mindset that you can’t do it and you can.

33:58 – How A Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business

The four-hour week system is to get you into that system build it out for you according to your brain what makes sense for you and then hire someone to start doing it for you.

35:42 – Janine Bolon Book: ” The Thriving Solopreneur “

The book called “Thriving Solopreneur” ( Nurture your Business in 4 Hours per Week) you can find it on Amazon and you can also go to her personal website.

37:39 – Action Steps:

You have to break out your calendar and in the next 24 hours decide when you’re going to take your next vacation.
Don’t use it as an excuse, use nothing as an excuse to not refresh and renew yourself for that two weeks.

Where you can find Janine Bolon