Telling me you're not ready for something yet
You don't have to be ready for everything at once. If part of the plan isn't where your head is right now — pricing, payments, your website, finding customers, the legal side — just say so, and I'll move it later and stop bringing it up.
How to tell me
Two ways, and they do exactly the same thing.
Say it in chat, plainly, in your own words. Any of these work:
- "I'm not ready to set my pricing yet."
- "I don't want to think about payments right now."
- "Let's skip the website for now."
- "Not yet."
Or tap Skip. Everything I'm waiting on you for under Waiting on you has a Skip button, and so does each question I ask in chat. It's the same button in both places, and it does the same thing in both places. The item leaves the list and the chat together, so the two never disagree about what's open.
Two kinds of item work a little differently:
- A queued action I need your yes on (launching ads, sending an email) says Decline, not Skip. Declining is a real answer, and you can add a note about what you'd change. It never hides behind a casual "not now."
- Skip would pause more than that one item. I show you what it holds up and ask you to confirm before anything changes. In chat I can't show you that first, so there Skip leaves it alone; use Skip under Waiting on you.
Two things work a little differently:
- The three questions I ask to get your business started (who it's for, why you, what would make you cringe). Tap Skip and the question closes at once and I move on to the next. A typed "skip" counts only while I show which question you're answering above the message box. Otherwise tap the button.
- The question about what your business does. Skip won't clear it, because I need that one sentence to describe your business. Answer it in a line and I'm off.
Depending on what it is, "not now" sets aside either that whole part of your plan or just that one request. You don't have to know which — I'll tell you what I've done either way, and both are equally easy to undo.
Either way, I'll confirm that I've set it aside. From that point on I stop asking about it — in our conversation and in the daily summary email.
What actually changes
- I move it later in the plan, so I spend my time on the parts of your business you do want moving.
- I stop reminding you about it. Any reminder already waiting on you for that area goes quiet.
- Nothing is deleted or turned off. Setting something aside is not cancelling it.
Anything you've set aside shows up under On hold, so you can always see what you've paused rather than having to remember.
Picking it back up
Just say the word — "okay, let's do pricing now" — and I'll bring it back to the front. Or tap I'm ready next to it under On hold. You never have to undo anything or dig through settings.
If everything else on your list is finished, I'll eventually come back around to it on my own and check in. That's a fresh question, not a reminder — you can set it aside again just as easily.
If you say no twice, I stop asking
For a single request I've set aside, I'll bring it up once more after a while, in case the timing was the only problem. Before that second time becomes your last, I'll say so plainly — so you can decide knowing it is.
If you say "not now" again, that's me done asking. I won't raise it in our conversation or in the daily summary, and I won't wait for you to change your mind.
It doesn't disappear, though. It stays under On hold with a button to start it whenever you want, and you can always just ask me for it in chat — "let's do that SEO thing after all" — and I'll pick it straight back up. Twice is enough for me to stop asking. It's never enough for me to decide you can't have it.
Pausing everything
To stop all my work, say "stop working". See Pausing all my work.
If you'd rather answer than defer
Sometimes the thing I'm asking for is quicker than it looks — connecting your payment account, for instance, is a short one-time step that unlocks being able to take money at all. If you're not sure whether to do it now or push it off, ask me why I'm asking. I'll tell you what it unlocks and what waiting costs you, and you can decide from there.