The ONE time I want you to keep working and ignore your mom guilt (as an online entrepreneur).

Sometimes, when we’re all gung ho about transformation, we think it’s going to be “zap and we’re done.” 

But sometimes change isn’t like that. 

Sometimes you have to decide to do the thing, believe differently about yourself or your business life, and start acting like it’s true for you when you’re still feeling uncomfortable about it. 

You’re not fully bought in yet.

But you still have to do the actions as if it is. Because that’s how you’re going to get there, to that 100% embodied CEO level.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Transcript

This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about the ONE time I want you to keep working and ignore your mom guilt.

Sometimes, when we’re all gung ho about transformation, we think it’s going to be “zap and we’re done.” 

That a single, hour-long journaling session is going to be all you need to break through those limiting beliefs about your business (or your money story).

That one intensive with that high-powered biz coach is going to get you firmly on the road to success (and so far down it that you’re like the Roadrunner). 

But sometimes change isn’t like that. 

Sometimes you have to decide to do the thing, believe differently about yourself or your life, and start acting like it’s true for you when you’re still feeling uncomfortable about it. 

You’re not fully bought in yet.

But you still have to do the actions as if it is. Because that’s how you’re going to get there, to that 100% embodied level.

This is how you get COMFORTABLE asking your kids to do the dishes every night (and wipe off the table afterwards instead of leaving you to do it). Or EXPECT your teenager to cook one night a week for the family (because she needs the life skills good and ready BEFORE she heads off to college). Or INSIST that your boys do their own laundry if they’re going to tromp in the mud or “forget” to make it to the bathroom in time (when they’re perfectly capable of loading clothes in). 

Make THEM responsible for their own cleanup, their OWN mistakes, and their OWN life-skills-training moments. 

YOU get to oversee the process (and free up some much-needed space in your “mom the CEO” brain while they’re at it).

And you know what? 

• It may take a while for you to get comfortable with escorting your preschooler back to her room (so you can go work on your business). 
• It may take awhile for you to get comfortable with asking your tweens to each cook most of a meal for you once a week. 
• It may take awhile for you to get comfortable with saying, “I’m working right now - can you come back after I’ve finished this podcast batching, in about 20 minutes?” 

But all this means is that you get to practice your edge, keep on reminding yourself that it’s okay for you to not wash the dishes after supper - that you’re allowed to have and honor set work hours - and go back to work or go back to your break, still uncomfortable. 

Still not fully enjoying your work project or your food prep break. 

Still feeling that mom guilt. 

Oh, and it’s okay to pick up your work for 30 minutes in the evening, just so you can wrap everything fully, rather than constantly dealing with the mindset s*** of “I have this huge to-do list, it isn’t finished, and I’m supposed to be okay with that.” Really.

Because you know what? 

It’s okay if it takes months. 

You just keep showing up for yourself, feeling those edges, holding those boundaries, and eventually it’ll feel totally normal to go off and journal after supper.

• To take yourself off for a client Voxer walk during naptime. 
• To ask your husband to wait on sharing the latest family text till you’re through with your most-important-of-the-day creative period so your brain doesn’t spiral into family drama mode. 

Whatever it is. One day, it’ll feel normal to you. 

But until then, you’ve got to keep living it. Living as if. 

Promise me that, and everything changes.

I promise *you*.