The 1-3-1 Momentum Plan

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Welcome to Designing Success from Study to Studio. I'm your host Rhiannon Lee, founder of the Oleander and Finch Design Studio. I've lived the transformation from study to studio and then stripped it bare and wrote down the framework so you don't have to overthink it. In this podcast, you could expect real talk with industry friends, community connection, and actionable tips to help you conquer whatever's holding you back. Now, let's get designing your own success. Last week I bought you a little audit tip on how to do some auditing on your office suite, and it was really popular. I had a lot of dms, I had a lot of people coming and saying, oh, can we have a few more like that? Maybe, extracting some of the topics out of the framework express and just giving us some mini ways to work through those topics. So perhaps I can do that for you. I mean, there's plenty there. We've got 12 really intense. Topics that are really relevant to interior design businesses inside of the Framework Express. But today I'm just gonna bring you a little tactic, a little strategy that you can implement. That's gonna be a quick episode. quick win, and I think you're gonna love it. My business exists to create real impact by empowering small business owners with actionable business strategy, with skills, with marketing insights, and specifically processes and AI things. And today's episode's no different. It's one of those short, sharp, practical ones that you will literally just put into action the minute you stop listening. But stick with me till the end, please. That will help with my download numbers. I am walking you through something that I call the One three one Plan. it's a simple weekly framework that helps you build real momentum, real progress, move forward on something in your business. That you really need to get done without the overwhelm. Or maybe it is really overwhelming, and then you're just going to apply the 1 3 1 plan to the overwhelming thing because you know you need to get progress. You know you need to get started. So most small business owners aren't stuck because they don't know what to do. Like they generally can work out the steps that it's going to take to achieve the goal. They get stuck because their to-do list is just so. bloody long, let's be honest. It's epic. Every time you think you're getting through it, there's something else that happens. Another phone call you need to make for a project you get stuck on. an incident at this project, the kid's school calls. You've got notes everywhere. You realize you haven't ordered a particular sample and you've gotta meet with that client in three days time and you're not gonna get it. does that mean you've gotta drive out to laminates today? stuff is going on. Notes everywhere every week. Ends with the same thought. How did I work so freaking hard this week? And I'm still feel really behind. I'm still gonna have to work on the weekends. it's very familiar to me. I've been there. I worked two weekends ago because I've been invited to be a keynote speaker at the Build Her Collective Conference, which depending on when you're listening to this, may have just happened recently or maybe just ahead of us on the 25th of October. it, required more of my attention because it's extracurricular stuff. I've got my own business to run, and then I'm also doing two keynotes and building a custom GPT for hundreds of developers and builders. And so that stuff just doesn't. It's not gonna happen inside of four, five hour days a week. That's all I actually work. So occasionally we're gonna have to do that, but I know there are some of you out there that sounded. You felt seen when I said that and that's your every weekend because it used to be mine. I used to work till 1:00 AM when I first started every single night of the week because I wouldn't start till my little babies had gone to bed and I would just work and work and work. Some mornings it's 3:00 AM in the morning. I'm still mood boarding because I had to get things done like it was crazy hectic. Anyway, that's why I created this framework'cause I could see so many people who are like in it. They just, they're never getting to the end of their to-do list they're becoming critical of themselves, and I wanted to help refocus energy on meaningful progress, not just constant motion, because it doesn't have to be that hard. The one through one plan is one goal, three actions one week. That's it. Step one. Choose one core goal. pick a single focus for the week, something that will move your business forward. It might be booking two discovery calls, or finishing client documentation or scheduling your content. Something that's playing on your mind is giving you guilt, is making you feel like, I'm never getting the to-do this on my to-do list. I'm never getting it done. Choose your one core goal. That's the one. Step two, break it into three actions. Take that one goal and split it into three 20 minute steps. One for today, one for midweek, one for Friday. Okay, so imagining today's Monday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Done. 20 minutes each step. They should be so doable that even on your busiest week, you could fit them in between client work, emails, coffee breaks, just 20 minutes, have some toast and a coffee in the morning and just do the 20 minute thing over the coffee and be like, okay, we've made a step towards that goal. Step three, track and repeat at the end of the week. Look at what worked, celebrate the win, tweak what didn't, and set your next 1, 3, 1. We're not getting into complicated business strategy. Every week we're stacking the wins because consistency beats intensity every single time. Honestly, the amount of times people have asked me, how did you organically, not one of my followers on Instagram has ever been purchased or paid for. I wouldn't even know. Feel like you have to go on the dark web or something. Like, could you go in the alleyway and knock on a door with a particular handshake to get. Follow it. I dunno how to buy them even if I wanted to. consistency is what did that, it was Mood Board Mondays, what I'm working on. Wednesdays Flat Lay Fridays, it was showing up. It was this or that. Thursdays, it was consistently doing the do and stacking those wins because it's not about frequency. It's not about that one viral reel. It's not even about the quality. It's just that you keep on showing up, I nearly said you get knocked down, you get back up again. But I am not jumbo one, so let's not do that. It's more around just knowing that showing up. Is going to get you the result you need. if you need permission if you need to hear it from someone else, it doesn't have to be excellent. It just has to be done. the 1 3 1 plan is a mindset shift. It's about building micro momentum that compounds like if you know anything about compounding interest or what you're putting in over time, it's going to result in a bigger win than you could ever imagine. You don't need. A half day CEO workshop. You don't need to tweak Trello and build out automations. I just feel like we really need to understand the rhythmic behavior of business and keep moving forward even when life and client work and everything is busy. One of the most important things you can do is teach yourself to show up as you've promised if you say you're gonna join Run Club do a run. Don't stay in bed, don't snooze the alarm. If you said you were gonna go to the gym, go to the gym, you'll start to trust yourself and see proof that you can do it. You'll see that your ideas are working. you give yourself that rhythmic structure and flow, and it's really beneficial. I know we've all got. One hour, 20, 40, 60, 60 minutes a week I think you can give one hour to one of these core goals. The 1 3 1 works. this week I would love for you to try it, and if you do, please DM me and let me know if it felt simple or if it just felt like why didn't I think of that? I'm happy to plot into my calendar three 20 minute blobs of time to get that one thing that I keep procrastinating or hating on. Done. Pick a business goal, break it into three actions, track what happens, then change your 1, 3, 1 next week. It's small, it's simple, and it works because progress doesn't come from doing everything. It just comes from doing the right things consistently. if your core goal is the correct one for your business, it will propel you forward. If this clicked for you send me a dm, share this episode with a friend, leave me a review on Apple or Spotify. it helps more people find the podcast. if you wanna go deeper on systems strategy, scaling sustainable business practices. That's what we do inside the framework Express wait list is open. The link is in the show notes. Come and chat to me in my dms or via email. I'm always up for a business chat Email me rhiannon@oleanderandfinch.com or. Drop into my dms at Oleander and Finch. I'll chat to you next week. Bye for now. That wraps up another episode of Designing Success from Study to Studio. Thanks for lending me your ears. Remember, progress over perfection is the key. If you've found value in today's episode, go ahead and hit subscribe or share it with a friend. Your feedback means so much to me and it helps me improve, but it also helps this podcast reach more emerging and evolving designer. 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