Ep 28 - The Five Pillars of Compassionate, Sustainable Productivity with Louise Miller Inspiring Women in Business

Most of us are programmed to focus on making improvements for our weaknesses that we tend to forget to value what we are good at and what we love doing. What we think is productive can sometimes make us too exhausted and that holds us back from succeeding.
In this episode, Louise Miller talks about compassionate, sustainable productivity and its five pillars. She also shares her experiences and some advice for people who are starting and growing their businesses.
 
Key takeaways from this episode:
Productivity is about doing what's important, as efficiently as you can or as effectively as you can, to create space for what you love. When we take a break our brain can still process things in the background and come up with all the creative solutions to problems. When starting a business, a sustainable approach is to first know about yourself and to pay attention to what feels right for you. Give yourself space to think and plan when you are growing your business. Think about the freedom that getting help is going to give you and how you can then get playful and creative and do incredible things.

The Five Pillars of Compassionate, Sustainable Productivity
1. Vision
Having a vision is an important starting point to knowing what is important.
2. Goals
The goals you set should be aligned with your visions and should motivate you.
3. Organization and Planning
You should make sure that you have plans that will move you in the direction of your goals.
 4. Awareness
You should pay attention to how we are using our resources to get stuff done.
5. Habits
Building supportive habits will set you up for success.
 
Episode Timeline:
00:04 Intro
01:22 Episode Intro
01:48 What help Louise Miller offers to business owners
03:00 How Louise ended up in her business
06:39 The society’s idea of success
08:04 Louise’s definition of compassionate, sustainable productivity
09:31 The five pillars of compassionate, sustainable productivity.
15:12 Valuing the things that we love doing
18:30 The overwhelming idea of having too many ideas
19:16 Planning in a flexible way
21:15 Advice for starting business owners.
22:34 Advice for people who are growing their business.
24:48 Give yourself permission to get help. 
25:38 How to find more bout Louis.
26:21 Outro
 
About Our Guest:
Louise Miller is the woman behind bettylouonline.com. She works with busy, successful business owners who want to run a fulfilling business without burning out. She helps them to get stuff done with less stress and more ease, so they can create space for the things they love. 
 
Connect with Louise Miller here:
Website: https://www.bettylouonline.com
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/louisemiller-bettylou
Workbook: https://www.bettylouonline.com/inspiringwomen



Book Recommendation: Be A Free Range Human by Marianne Cantwell
https://www.beafreerangehuman.com
 
More about Ruth:
Hi, I’m Ruth, a business coach specializing in helping freelancers and business owners adjust their mindset and their marketing so they can get fully booked with clients they LOVE to work with. I’ve helped hundreds of self-employed women achieve the time and money freedom they craved.
I’ve started this podcast because when I first went all in and left the corporate world to be a freelancer, I was grateful for any work that came my way. After over 20 years of freelancing and working for other people, I started to realize I’d created a glass ceiling for myself.
In 2017, I finally started listening to that voice that had been telling me for a long time that I wasn’t doing what I loved and fulfilling my true potential.  It took a critical illness to give me that wake-up call.  I don’t want the same to happen to you.
You can expect practical advice, inspiring stories, and a lot of aha moments as we uncover and kick to the curb all the obstacles you have been putting in your way.
I’m on a mission to inspire women to start and pl