Is your business starting to feel like an endless treadmill of “urgent” tasks that leave you wondering if you’re making progress? Need a graphic reminder that hustle doesn’t lead to happiness? Watch this to remind yourself why you want to do business your own way, then read on to find out how small steps can have a big impact on your business.

Maybe it’s time to ditch the rat race mindset and reclaim your role as the hero of your own epic adventure.

Big wins and huge heroic achievements are wonderful, but we can’t have them every day, so it’s a good thing that they’re not the whole story. It’s the small, deliberate steps – the little milestones – that turn chaos into clarity and dreams into reality. The magic lies in recognising their value, choosing to actively enjoy them, and using them to build a business that doesn’t just function, but flourishes.

Rewriting the Rules of Small Wins

The rat race thrives on distraction – keeping you busy chasing after the instant gratification of the big picture wins. As a result, the little things that could really make a difference if done consistently tend to drop through the cracks and get ignored. 

What if, instead of trying to do it all, you carved out a little time each day to focus on small, meaningful actions that actually move improve your safety, protect your sanity, and make your business more sustainable? It might be documenting a system or workflow so next time you can easily repeat the process instead of scratching your head trying to remember what you did or reinventing the wheel. It might be updating outdated policies and contracts, so you are communicating your current boundaries to your clients, instead of ones you set several years ago. It might be a morning mindset ritual that helps you clear limiting beliefs and sets you up for a successful day. These aren’t glamorous tasks, but they’re the foundation of a business that runs smoothly, while supporting your happiness.

When you imagine these tasks as the equivalent of picking up coins in a video game, it changes everything. They’re not time-wasters that you ignore because you’re too focused on getting to the boss level – they’re tiny, shiny power-ups that might make the difference between winning and losing!

Micro-Steps, Major Shifts

Now let’s tackle that overwhelming “important but not urgent” list. You know the one – the graveyard of good intentions where tasks go to die. Carrying this burden is not only a massive weight on your shoulders. It also erodes your self-belief in your own competence.

Who are you to tell your clients how to set good habits when you’ve just worked through lunch for the 10th time this month because you haven’t set aside personal time in your calendar and declared it sacrosanct, despite telling yourself it needed doing last year? 

How about those graphics your VA slapped onto your blog posts five years ago when you were just “trying to get something live”? The ones you suspect weren’t properly licensed? Every time you think about them, your brain spirals into panic: What if someone finds out? What if I get sued? So you let your website sit in maintenance mode until you get around to updating it, hiding all that valuable content, and undermining your confidence in presenting yourself as a professional.

Maybe you’ve been meaning to sit down and document those early warning signs that a client is going to be more trouble than they’re worth – the problems that show up just after you say yes and leave you wondering why didn’t I see this coming? Without that list – and a nice kind script that helps you say “I don’t want to work with you” without feeling mean – you keep ignoring the little red flags in discovery calls, and the cycle repeats. Every time it happens, you spend hours kicking yourself, questioning your judgment, and feeling like you’re not cut out for this.

These “small” tasks, ignored, become giant mental blocks. Tackling them is more than clearing your to-do list. It’s reclaiming your confidence and creating space to actually trust yourself again.

The beauty of consistent micro-steps is their incremental ripple effect. When you start chipping away at that important-but-not-urgent list, you’re not just clearing tasks—you’re lightening the emotional load of guilt and shame that’s built up from ignoring them. Each small step is a quiet declaration: you value integrity, you stand up for your boundaries, and you respect yourself enough to follow through. Bit by bit, you reclaim your confidence, rebuild trust in yourself, and create a business that feels more aligned with the version of you that you aspire to be.

Finding Joy in the Journey

Somewhere along the way, you might have swapped your big dreams for a pile of checklists and a dull ache of obligation. What kind of business adventure are you really on? Are you running your dream business, or has its magic morphed into the mundanity of day-to-day survival that’s slowly stealing your joy?

Here’s the truth: the way you think about your work profoundly shapes your experience of it. Our thoughts create our emotions, which drive our actions. If your inner narrative is stuck on “I’ll never get it all done” or “I’m always behind”, those thoughts fuel anxiety and self-doubt – and you respond by either overworking or freezing in overwhelm.

The antidote isn’t pushing harder or pretending everything is fine. It starts with awareness. Take a moment to question the stories you’re telling yourself about your business. Are they true? Are they kind? Are they helpful? Try reframing: instead of “I can’t keep up”, remind yourself “I’m prioritising what matters most, one step at a time.” Instead of “I’m so far behind”, try “I’m exactly where I need to be to learn and grow.”  What would it take for you to stop waiting for success to be happy in your business, and reconnect with your joy in the journey?

This isn’t a just bandaid solution to help you feel better – I’m challenging you to assert ownership of your actions and choose what is important to you, regardless of external expectations and stories about how things “should” be. Turn your attention to one mini-milestone at a time, and remind yourself why you are doing this and who you are doing it for. Your path of epic adventure hasn’t disappeared. It’s just waiting for you to clear the fog of self-doubt and baby step your way to victory!

How I can help

If you’re ready to step off the hamster wheel and reclaim your confidence, clarity, and joy in business, Serenity Connective might be exactly what you need. With 12 essential missions (one each month), this mentorship program is designed to guide you through small, achievable steps that build sustainable best practices and reconnect you with your purpose.

You’ll get:

• Daily prompts you can complete in just 5-10 minutes.
• Group mentoring for support and connection.
• The option to upgrade to private 1:1 mentoring tailored to your unique challenges.

The path to a thriving business isn’t about working harder—it’s about working intentionally. Let’s make space for what truly matters. Click here to learn more and join Serenity Connective today!