Restart Refresh Recommit to Your Business Goals

There is no perfect time to start something new—only the moment you choose to act.

Jessica Rosario encourages entrepreneurs to ditch the myth of perfect timing and take control of their day through clarity, action, and renewed commitment. She shares a powerful mindset shift around restarting, refreshing, and recommitting to goals that may have been left behind post-quarantine, along with a practical brain dump exercise to overcome overwhelm and procrastination.

This empowering conversation will help you shift your energy, prioritize what matters, and finally make space for what’s been tugging at your heart. Reignite your momentum with intention and purpose today.
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Chapters

• 0:00 Podcast Introduction
• 1:55 The Myth of Perfect Timing
• 4:05 Brain Dump Exercise for Clarity
• 9:02 Taking Action and Recommitting
• 13:20 Episode Wrap and Call to Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:47

Hello and welcome to the Maximize your Day podcast, a place for entrepreneurs for building their business, in pursuit of freedom and flexibility to do the things they love. I'm your host, jessica Rosario. I'm a New Yorker turned Floridian who knows a thing or two on how to effectively manage your time while juggling multiple priorities. I'm an ex-corporate leader who walked away from my nine-to-five-ish to launch and grow my business. In this podcast, I share insights on mindset, business productivity, habits and strategies to help you take control of your to do list and maximize your day, which will help you feel more confident and less overwhelmed and getting more done in less time. I'm so excited you're here. Go ahead, listen in. Welcome back to the show, you guys. I'm so excited you're here.

Speaker 1: 1:39

Have you ever wondered why people select these perfect times throughout the year to start something new? Oh my gosh. Many of you know that I tend to be a bit animated with my hands. Well, I just raised my hands and did the quotations as if you could see me. Oh, my goodness, raised my hands and did the quotations as if you could see me. Oh my goodness. I crack myself up sometimes, but you get it right. Is it just to go with the trend of what everyone else is doing, or is it truly because we feel like we need to start something new? Well, I'm here to tell you there is no such thing as a perfect time, and I know, I know what you're thinking, but you don't know my circumstances, or you don't know my finances, or you don't know you know what I'm going through in my life right now. Still, there is no such thing as a perfect time. The time is now. Perfect time. The time is now.

Speaker 1: 2:40

I am a firm believer that we miss out on so much when finding the perfect time. It's just truly our commitment to ourselves and getting things done that needs a little push. It's really not that we're finding the perfect time. It's that we need to find commitment within ourselves. Did you start to build something during quarantine or while working from home? Why stop now? Just keep going? There is so much magic that happens when we make a decision to restart, refresh and recommit. Let's chat about how we can do just that. We have so much to be thankful for, like our health, our safety and our families. And yes, I even mean those teenagers we call our children who, during the quarantine, made me question if they were children of Jessica or children of the corn. Yes, I said it Just a little mama humor, but hey, we wanted to become parents, right? So let's chat for a moment about our goals post-quarantine.

Speaker 1: 3:52

Many took this time as an opportunity to reconnect, rebuild, rebrand or even refresh. Whatever their direction was, we must acknowledge one thing, and one thing only, and that was action. Action Guys, hashtag, action, capital letters, action. Think about action, the word action and what it means, and how do you define it? We took action to do something different for our lives, for our families, our businesses and as we begin, our new norm and schedules begin to fill up and the country begins to reopen, work starts to pick up and we go back to some level of our new busy. Again, I'm doing the quotes with my hands. You get the gist.

Speaker 1: 4:46

So let's work together to identify some areas in your life, or even in your business, that are begging you for attention and need you to take. What Action today? So let's do a restart. Move aside your to-do list or piles of post-it notes and, yes, I'm talking to my best friend, diane, I am definitely talking about you Grab a pen, a clean piece of paper or a notepad and set a timer. For 20 minutes, you're going to get ready for a brain dump. Now, for those of you who have not heard of the term brain dump, it is one of the best ways to get your thoughts out of your head and on paper in order for you to declutter your mind. It helps keep you organized, it helps you get clear and stay focused, and some of the side benefits, at least for me, are that a good old brain dump will also help with anxiety and overwhelm. Brain dump will also help with anxiety and overwhelm. Now let's take a moment once we do this brain dump and refresh our memories as well, so that we can think a new thought and take new intentional action.

Speaker 1: 6:01

And I've listed a few questions just to get you started. So ask yourself the following Something I committed to in January but I'm procrastinating on is blank and just fill in the blank. An item on my to-do list that I have carried over more than once is blank. More than once is blank. Some items in my closet that I've been holding onto and have not worn in over a year are blank. And just a side note, I wasn't talking about myself, remember. I just moved. I got rid of everything. I promised my daughter or son a few months ago that I would help them with blank A system I keep putting off but need to implement in my business in order to create efficiencies is blank. Create efficiencies is blank. And the person I met at the last networking event pre-COVID, which I've been meaning to connect with is blank.

Speaker 1: 7:23

Now I know it sounds a little silly as you hear me say these questions and, of course, say blank. It know you have to draw a line as you jot these down, so feel free to pause the podcast and replay if you need to listen to these questions again. And they're just examples on a way to help you think of certain things that perhaps you paused some time ago or they've been lingering on your mind at. You know the moments where you don't have a piece of pen or paper to be able to jot them down. Ultimately, you need to know deep down what exactly is tugging at your heart or your mind.

Speaker 1: 8:01

You know that thing that keeps coming up at night, when you're already cozy in bed and you made the decision to do in the morning, or that thought that comes to mind when you're writing in your journal yeah, that one, and I don't know about you guys, but I write in a journal every single day and there have been times that I'm writing and my mind starts to wander, and today was a perfect example of that. This morning, someone's name dropped into my heart as I was writing inside of my journal and I literally put the pen down and sent her a text because I needed her to know that she was on my heart, because I've been meaning to reach out to her probably for the last month, but because of everything I had going on, I just couldn't make the time to do that. So when you have something tugging at your heart or when someone's name comes to mind more than once in the past couple of days, I highly recommend stop what you're doing and reach out to this person, because it could be you who needed to be blessed by them, or it could be them who need to be blessed by you. Now narrow it down and outline two to three action items that you'll be able to start working on right away. Don't pause. Think about what you can do right now. Some of these tasks could be small and some might need a little bit of support, right, so you'll just need to block your time and make sure that you're able to get it done, even if it's an hour a week, just for that brand new list, regardless of how big or small they are. Take these action steps to plan and help you restart what you had been working on pre-quarantine. It would help you renew and refresh your mind in order to work with more clarity and finally make the decision to recommit to your goals. I promise you that your future self will thank you you.

Speaker 1: 10:33

Many times we think that it's a different issue, or we're just too busy, or we just keep forgetting, or the thought comes to mind when I can't do it, or when I'm driving, or even when I'm in the shower. Right, but many times it's a lack of commitment and we tend to lack that commitment. If you know that your best time to think is when you're driving, then maybe engage Siri. That was one of the things I did. I remember telling my niece many years ago, when I first got my iPhone, that I'm always thinking while I'm on the road, because I used to commute about an hour to go to work. And my niece said to me well, don't you have an iPhone? Just ask Siri to remind you. And I was like, oh, I didn't know I can do that. So, whatever that is, make sure that you prepare yourself in advance. I've heard of many people that have a dry erase board in their shower. It's waterproof, because sometimes when they're in the shower, that is their time to think.

Speaker 1: 11:44

So the moment you get it out of your head and put it on paper and create an action plan to it, you're not only getting things done right, you're also committing to yourself and recommitting to your goals. So, once again, restart, refresh and recommit. There you have it. Just make a decision to start something new.

Speaker 1: 12:15

I'd love to hear about your passion projects and some things that you've done differently the past few months, and I know that there's a lot of people sharing stories on social media. Thank you for tagging me, because I love love to see those. Why don't you go ahead and connect with me on social media? Just check out the links in the show notes and take a screenshot of this episode and tag me on it, and always don't forget hashtag maximize your day podcast. I can't wait to see you on social and get to hear more about what you have going on, as always, thank you so much for listening in. Don't forget to subscribe to the show to be notified the second a new episode is released and share with your friends who you believe could benefit from listening. Contact me at jessrosariocom. Forward slash podcast to share your feedback, ask questions, make topic suggestions or even be a guest on my show. You never know if your topic will be next, until next time. Maximize your day and own it.