Plan Your Next 90 Days in Just 30 Minutes

0:0010 years ago, I made the decision to build my personal brand that was elevated, yet approachable, and reflected who I was, not just what I did. I created my website with ShowIt because it's true drag-and-drop freedom, so you can easily build and update your site. Plus, their real human support team, game changer. Want to try it for yourself? Head to jasminestar.com forward slash showit for a 14-day free trial and first month free when you subscribe. If you're not hitting your goals, it's not because you're not good or talented or lucky enough. Nine times out of ten, it's likely because you didn't have a solid plan in place.

0:33It's not about your ability to succeed. This is about whether you are disciplined enough to create a plan around productivity. Can I show you how to plan, create, and execute your next three months in business in just 30 minutes? I'm excited to chat today all about productivity. Welcome to the Jasmine Starr Show. I'm Jasmine Starr, and I'm CEO of a holding company where I serve as an investor, equity advisor, or have outright ownership in businesses. I'm also a wife, mother, daughter, and a friend who works out every day, values giving back to the community, and I love having time to read books.

1:07If there's one thing I pride myself on, it's the ability to get things done. Not because I'm special or unique, I have just practiced for years how to create a plan for productivity and maximizing every moment for a specific output. And I want to share everything I know with you so that you can today get started planning the next three months in your business in just 30 minutes. So you're at a new beginning. It's a fresh start, a clean slate, and a chance to start new. Oh, those possibilities are endless. You might be thinking to yourself, I can do anything. Wait, I can do anything? And right about here is where you're going to face your first mental hurdle.

1:51It's sort of like analysis paralysis for all of your options. You know you have a goal, but what is the best way to achieve it? How long should it take? Is there a right way? What do I do if it's wrong? What if it's a waste of time? The list of questions can go on and on. In fact, what most people see on social media is productivity hacks, but they mostly make you feel like, oh, that's unachievable. As entrepreneurs, we feel like we are constantly surrounded by business owners who are doing everything successfully and, of course, making time for rest with the perfect amount of balance. It's tempting to think that some people can just do more while other people can't.

2:28But this couldn't be further from the truth, and here's why. I have worked with over 40 ,000 members who've gone through one of my businesses, Social Curator, and tens of thousands of business owners who've invested in my courses. And before I created the Consistent 10K, a 90-day coaching program that empowers people to grow an online business for consistent 10K months, I sat and I interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs to figure out their biggest struggle. And it boiled down to one huge thing. I feel so overwhelmed because I don't have enough time. That's what they would say. But here's the tricky part.

3:02I have yet to meet, like I've never met anyone who has enough time. People aren't just walking around saying, oh, I have all this extra time and I don't know what to do with it. We are all pulled in so many different directions and everything is vying for our attention all the time. So how do we get focused, lessen the overwhelm and increase our productivity? Well, a quarterly productivity map is something I swear by. Maybe it's because I wanted to be like a pirate as a kid, but I'm just saying, if you follow a map, it just makes life more exciting. Yes, I get excited to make personal and business plans because we can create a clear path to getting to where we wanna go.

3:41Now, I wanna be clear and let you know that I'm about to share my exact process beginning with a quarter. This means it's three months out of the year, and then I'm going to break it down into a month, a week, and a day. So in case you're driving, working out, walking the dog, or cooking, don't worry about taking notes. I've created a free productivity planner that you can download at jasminestar.com forward slash productivity. Okay, the link is also in the episode description from wherever you are tuning in today. Okay, so now You can just sit back, relax, and enjoy a conversation knowing that you have the resources to plan on your own.

4:17Let's go. So now that we've laid the foundation, it's time for you to let yourself dream. No rules, no restrictions. I want you to ask yourself, what is the one thing that you have been wanting to do, but you just haven't had enough time to make it happen? Now, please resist the temptation to beat yourself up right about now. If you're anything like me, you can list 547 things you've been wanting to get done, but don't go there. That's not helpful. It actually slows you down. For this moment, pick just one thing you've been wanting to do. It could be launching your website, training for a marathon, creating a new product.

4:56It could be anything. Okay, so now you have that one main thing. You have that project in the front of your mind. It's time to build out your productivity, that quarterly productivity map. Now, for the sake of this conversation, I'm going to use a personal example because I want to keep it real and I want to walk you through the good, bad, and the ugly. So for years, I am talking about years, I wanted to launch a part of my business that offered personal business coaching to entrepreneurs. It was by far the most requested thing for me. It was something I knew I wanted to do, but I just struggled with thousands of layers of things that I just didn't know how to do.

5:33I didn't know where to get started. But the minute I chose to begin building the consistent 10K, that curriculum, and the coaching structure as my quarterly project, it was time to cut the excuses and get to work. Yes, because I can let excuses get in the way of me starting the work. So now I made the decision. I picked my quarterly project. And now it's time to work. I began this quarterly project in January 2025. Now, before I start a new project, I ask five questions. I take five things into consideration, right? Number one, do I have capacity? Number two, if so, I'm going to set the date. Number three, I got to figure out how.

6:15Number four, I'm going to create a timeline. And number five, I'm going to create tasks. Okay, for the sake of clarity, I'm going to answer these questions and walk you through how I chose building a new offer as part of my quarterly project. Number one, do I have capacity? If yes, you're going to move to consideration number two. And if you don't have capacity, this means if you're like, I am using all of my time, I cannot possibly add anything else on. Okay, that means you're gonna have to take something off your plate, or you're gonna have to wait for a later time. And that is totally okay.

6:48Just understand that in order to add something, you will most likely have to take something away. So let's go back. When I, in January 2025, I asked myself, do I have the capacity? My answer was yes, I had capacity. If I stopped doing other things in the business. Now this was a very hard decision, but I needed to remove a few things to make space and time to build the new program. Now let's get into the second consideration. I needed to set a date. Here's why. I'm hard and fast around setting a date because it will hold my feet to the fire. It will say, here is something you need to accomplish in a set amount of time.

7:25Giving myself time parameters actually helps me get more done in less time. So now we're in that second consideration to set a date. I set a goal to finish the curriculum that I was going to teach and that coaches were going to use to support our consistent 10K clients. That goal was March 31st, the last day of the quarter of 2025. Okay, so did I have capacity? Yes, I had to remove a few things. Then I set the date. End of quarter one, 2025. Now we're in the third consideration. Figure out how. And this is where most people get stuck, but don't worry. I'm going to walk you through exactly how to make this happen.

8:01Now it's going to look different for each project and it's going to look different for each person. But to give insight into what I needed to figure out, here's a very small sneak peek into a long list. I was answering questions like, who is it for? What's the specific niche? What's the outcome they desire? What is the transformation we provide? What is the best way to learn this program? How will we track client success and ensure nobody slips through the cracks? How quickly can we guarantee a result? Okay, so when we were talking about figuring out the how, I needed to answer basic questions around who I was selling to, what they wanted and what was the result or that transformation.

8:46Every time you start a project, I am talking about a podcast, launching a website, running a marathon, having conversations with people that you love that might be a little bit difficult. It is, who am I speaking to? What do they want? And what is the outcome? That adds so much clarity in figuring out how to best proceed next. Now we're in consideration number four, create a timeline. And this is the most important in part, when we talk about productivity and maximizing time, timeline is going to show you exactly how to do it. So creating a timeline is key when it comes to planning for productivity.

9:21Because I hadn't launched a coaching program before, time out, I was doing something in my business I had never done before. I was completely intimidated and excited and overwhelmed and full of preparation. So I set a timeline for something I'd never done before, but it was going to be based on estimates. I was just going to use the best possible way to estimate how much time it was going to take. But the key here is to add extra time. Sometimes you're going to need and use that extra time. Other times you won't, but the key is to add it there so that you don't always feel like you're falling behind.

9:59The last and final consideration is to create tasks. Now, I know that many of us started a business because we didn't want to feel like we were doing rote work. Oh, here's a list of things I have to do. I am telling you, tasks are how you get the most productive because you're following a very systematic sequence of how to get it done. So in that last and final consideration, create tasks. So for over a decade, I ran my business by myself. I was the only person responsible for every task. And I want to tell you, it's totally possible for you to do every task in your business. In fact, there's a beauty to creating everything from the ground up on your own.

10:36Some of my most successful projects, I did entirely solo on my own. However, for this coaching program, I assembled an awesome team to get it off the ground. Tasks were assigned to each of us, and then we set out to do the work. That was it. It was once we figured out how we were going to get this done, we each took tasks to follow a specific timeline. That is the framework for a quarterly project. Okay, I just have to say, just talking about that again, when I'm looking in retrospect, it was really amazing to feel like something didn't feel possible and then it became possible because we tackled it together to accomplish a big goal.

11:20So here's the thing. In fact, by the second week of January, all the tasks were assigned and we began to work. So now that we have our quarterly plan, we're gonna break it down. It's time to focus on the monthly plan. This means I break out one of the three months of the quarter to focus on what needs to get done specifically. Yes, that's right. I list everything that needs to get done in the month to ensure that that project stays on track. So once I view all of my tasks for the month, I break them into weekly assignments. Yes, I know what tasks need to get done each week. Why? This helps me from getting overwhelmed.

12:01Instead of looking at a list of like all the things I need to do, there literally could be hundreds of things. If I looked at a list of a hundred things, I would get totally overwhelmed to be like, I can't even begin. I would have analysis paralysis. I would say I can never accomplish that. But what do I do? By breaking up a list of things, not just in a month, but then in a week, I can just focus on small things I need to get done. Speaking of things that I actually want to accomplish, I want to use a real example of mine to explain what I mean. So in the month of March, the month before we were set to record the curriculum, I had a list of things that needed to get done.

12:38Each week, I had around 20 tasks related to finishing writing and creating deliverables and building out a tracking system. But when they were divided out each day, it was just four or five tasks that needed to get done. And the truth of the matter is that every month there was about 80 to 100 tasks that needed to get done, which mean that there were 300 tasks for the quarter. About 100 tasks each month. There are three months and a quarter, 300 tasks. If I were to look at the 300 all at one time, of course I would get overwhelmed. Anybody would. Most people would look at that mountain of work and say, oh, no, man, I'm going to pass on that.

13:19But looking at just four or five tasks a day makes it feel manageable because it was. Doing just a few things each day for the consistent 10K was fun, excited, and it made me excited. And it really relieved the overwhelm I was feeling and like the hives that broke out every time I looked at this quarterly map. That is what a productivity plan does. it shows you the path and it gives you hope that the project you've been wanting to do for so long can actually happen. And this is where I want to take a second to pause and just breathe. I mean, sure, I'm here talking about productivity, but can I be real for a second?

14:04I'm going to say something that might rub you the wrong way, but y 'all know I speak my truth. I speak to thousands of business owners each week. I hear people say that their goal didn't happen or that there just wasn't enough time. And I get that struggle. That struggle of not having time is real. But I also want to remind you and me and us that goals just don't happen. You make goals happen. I'm going to say something even more crazy. If you're not hitting your goals, it's not because you're not good or talented or lucky enough. Nine times out of 10, it's likely because you didn't have a solid plan in place.

14:41And let that soak in for a minute. It's not about your ability to succeed. This is about whether you are disciplined enough to create a plan around productivity. Friend, I need you to know that this is what it takes to move big things in your life and your business. So my question to you is, are you ready? Are you willing to create a productivity plan for a project? And I get it. Maybe this feels like a first big giant step. Perhaps you might be feeling overwhelmed at the idea of a big plan. I get it. But let me challenge you with something smaller. Can you make a plan to show up every day on social media to build your business?

15:19Small little steps. Sure, you might have this goal, but what is the plan to actually put it in place? If you don't have a plan, I am begging you to make a plan. It'll create a massive shift in your life and business. If you have a goal to build an online business that brings in consistent 10K months, but you don't have a plan to make it happen, this is my personal invitation to send me an Instagram direct message. Simply DM me, just DM me the word method, and I'm going to send you my exact method for how you can make this happen. And I want to pause here because we started the conversation with how do we become productive?

15:56and then what we did was I laid out exactly in my real life business, this big thing that I've wanted to do for years and yes, I was intimidated and overwhelmed because I didn't know how to make it happen. But the minute that I made the declaration, I laid it out and I said, for this quarter, for three months, I am going to figure out what I am actually talking about, teaching and how I'm going to empower people. In that quarter, I broke it down every single month. After that month, I went from having about 300 tasks for the quarter to four or five tasks a day. Now, I believe that we have the ability to take a big project and distill it down to a quarter.

16:39If you believe and you want the same thing, the reason why I'm asking you to DM me the word method is that I could show you my step framework for a 90-day plan. I created a program and a framework around taking big ideas, bringing them to life, putting them in a container, and building an opportunity for you to have consistent 10k months. Like I started in the beginning, I believe you can make big ideas come to life if, if we have a plan. I hope that you can take these nuggets of information and apply them to your life today. If this was helpful for you, please pass this episode along to somebody who might need it.

17:19Better yet, send it to somebody with a note saying that you believe in their dreams and you can't wait to pursue your goals along with productivity together. Thank you for watching and listening to The Jasmine Starr Show.