The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
Welcome to the Unbusy Mom, where I help you love your work-from-home mom life again.
Hi, I’m Alyssa - the Take Your Time Back coach, plus a homeschool mom to 5 kids - and mompreneur life is easy for me!
And if I can make it work - not just work, thrive - then you can, too.
It’s time to
-Give yourself the workouts, journaling, and hobby time you need every single day (that’s why it’s 3 hours, not 40 minutes)
-Deep work for hours (guilt-free) as you scale your business
-Shut off the marketing brain so you can be fully present as a mom
-Spend more time cuddling your kids, less time cleaning up after them
-Up your revenue, not your hours
Ready to take back the “work at home with kids around” life you always intended this to be?
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The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
Client Case Study: The ONE time I want you to blend business with personal life in your weekly schedule!
How many of those "need to schedule the next dentist appointment" or "buy my 4-year-old's next season wardrobe" or "plan the family birthday party meal for 10 people" mom to-do's do you have on your mental to-do list?
Just sitting there, waiting for you to be able to get around to them?
And is it a struggle to find time to complete these extra personal tasks for you?
This is an extremely common problem among the business owning moms I work with, so don't feel at all bad if it happens to you.
In fact, I'm going to share with you the advice I gave a client when she came to me with this specific situation.
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re exploring the ONE time I want you to blend business with personal life in your weekly schedule!
How many of those "need to schedule the next dentist appointment" or "buy my 4-year-old's next season wardrobe" or "plan the family birthday party meal for 10 people" mom to-do's do *you* have on your mental to-do list?
Just sitting there, waiting for you to be able to get around to them?
And is it a struggle to find time to *complete* these extra personal tasks for you?
This is an *extremely* common problem among the moms I work with, so don't feel at all bad if it happens to you.
In fact, I'm going to share with you the advice I gave a client when she came to me with this specific situation.
Because you're a mom, *and* a business owner, and you can't just give the biz owner self *all* your mental energy. Sometimes the mom self needs it, too.
So here's what I told this client - take it and use it for you.
Here’s my hot tip for you: Add on time for yourself on client days during the semester – because sometimes your mind is in a “do things” mode, and you know you’ll just switch to “mom mode” if you turn off the laptop or go back to the kids, etcetera.
So it’s perfectly okay for you to tack on a few extra menu planning or personal inbox checking tasks, to the end of your work time – so long as you *extend* your time, not shorten it and short your work hours!
This may not work for *every* situation, but if you have the availability to extend your work day slightly, it's a great option for you.
Now, conversely, you might find that you're getting things done in record time for the business, and you can actually *use* that leftover time on your weekly mom life planning or menu creation or whatever. That's a good option, too.
And if you need to - if you just can't concentrate with the kids around during the day - I give you permission to *shorten* your weekly work hours by 40 minutes or whatever to make sure you *always* get that menu planning and extracurricular scheduling in.
Your mom life side of things *must* have its own planning sessions, so it's *essential* that you build in some time to work this out.
And since you're not a newbie business owner, I think you *can* take the foot off the gas just a little and pop your mom planning into the business side of things. (Just put it as a task in your business to-do list for that day.)
You're allowed.
- Allowed to work fewer hours (to fit in your homeschool planning and meds ordering or next season clothes buying), ‘cause you’re a mom, too.
- Allowed to schedule these extra “mom task” time blocks in when you DON’T have the kids around, if that’s what works best for you.
- Allowed to hand off a couple extra things to your VA so that you always have the time for these sorts of mom pop-ups.
- Allowed to tweak your CEO-mom life to suit YOU.
And that is EXACTLY what I’m going to teach you in my work/life balance program.
So what's the best time for *you* to handle those "reply to personal inbox" and "order all the Walmart groceries" or "select my half dozen library books" in your weekly schedule?
Make it a repeatable time block, not a one-off session, and you're good to go.
You've got this!