Client Case Study: Do THIS when you’re running out of time during the week to get everything done for your team and clients!

What's going to happen to your business if you're a work-at-home mom who's only got 10 hours a week to devote to business needle-moving activities?

And is this going to be a death knell to your business ambitions, or can you wriggle any way around this hard hours line?

The inspiration for this came from one of my clients, who's got 4 kids at home, 1 still an infant and thus napping, and said she had only 10 hours a week to work on her business.

Not surprisingly, she was finding that all her time was taken up with just doing podcast interviews and the scheduling/post-production work associated with all of that - there was no time for her to work on her OWN business herself!

Needless to say, this was a huge time and scheduling issue, and I was so happy she brought it to me. Because when you're THIS crunched for time, every little bit counts. 

So here are the options I gave her - if you're dealing with a lack of biz time in your business, steal them for yourself. 

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Transcript

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about what to do when you’re running out of time during the week to get everything done for your team and clients!

What's going to happen to your business if you're a work-at-home mom who's only got 10 hours a week to devote to business needle-moving activities?

And is this going to be a death knell to your business ambitions, or can you wriggle any way around this hard hours line?

The inspiration for this came from one of my clients, who's got 4 kids at home, 1 still an infant and thus napping, and said she had only 10 hours a week to work on her business.

Not surprisingly, she was finding that all her time was taken up with just doing podcast interviews and the scheduling/post-production work associated with all of that - there was no time for her to work on her *own* business herself!

Needless to say, this was a huge time and scheduling issue, and I was so happy she brought it to me. Because when you're *this* crunched for time, every little bit counts. 

And she definitely needed a makeover.

So, here are the options I gave her - and if *you're* dealing with a lack of biz time in your business, see if you can use some of these options for yourself. Ready?

First and foremost, we need to get clear on how many hours you *need* to be working. And this is two-pronged.

A, do we know how *much* you'd like to be working on your business? Do you have a hard hours number for "if I had this much extra time per week, I could get everything done?" 

If so, it's a lot easier to "find" 3 or 5 or 7 hours for you when you *know* you only need so many. 

And if you don't know here, just make your best estimate of *what* needs to happen each week, how *much* time each essential task is going to take, and how *long* all this adds up to.

Okay? Now, your B is that we need to see if you've got any *other* hours in your day that you can work. Aka, is it *true* that you can only work during naptime? Or are there times of day that your daughter is playing and occupied, and you *could* knock out some backend tasks or easily-distractible things?

(No, I'm not suggesting you podcast record while she's up. But what about all the scheduling, or processing, or uploading tasks that come along with recording? Do *those* really have to wait for naptime, too?)

So. On to part 2. We've established that this admin stuff *needs* to happen - and gotten you a couple of ways to work that in. But....

Do you *actually* need to be one *doing* those things? What if you hired out support to handle all this?

Would *that* really free up your schedule, especially your mental CEO load as a mom?

Hiring a VA is a perfectly reasonable option whenever you're crammed on time - so make sure you consider it.

And lastly, part 3 of all this. What’s most annoying about the admin stuff – not having a clear plan for it, or not having a regular time to get around *to* it (so you can ignore it the rest of the time)?

If you find out where your block or resentment is, you'll know where you need to adjust accordingly to *truly* get at the root of your supposed business productivity problem.

• 'Cause if it's just that you hate audio processing, then we can hire that out or get an app for you.
• If you don't truly know what to do each week, we need scheduling priorities to come to the fore so you're not picking each and every single day while naptime slips away.
• Or if you're dreading this *one* single podcast task, but you picked a certain time for it and *only* did it on Fridays at 2, would that energetically free up the *rest* of your week to focus on more attractive business stuff?

We won't know till we see. Aka, till you try it.

So to sum up, really question whether you have to limit yourself to 10 hours a week; strongly consider hiring out some of the grunt work, so to speak; and find out what's actually frustrating you in your business.

Because maybe you don't need to be doing those tasks at all. Or a different kind of support would *really* free up your ability to scale.

So what do you need to give yourself, so that you are CONFIDENT that everything (necessary!) on your biz to do list is getting done? With time to spare for talking to a new potential client or add another mini launch?

You’ve got to use EVERY tool in your toolbox – delegation included – to make it happen and fit in everything your business model needs from you each week. And don’t you dare feel guilty about it.

There. Now that we've busted through the 10-hour block, how are you feeling about your business's likelihood of scaling success today?