Can you fit parenting into your work-from-home day, while equally prioritizing both?

What exactly is the point of a work-from-home business in the first place? 

Is it to indulge yourself in lazy mornings, slow cups of coffee, and nice, quiet houses in your perfectly-set-up work office (instead of the impersonal cubicle and dealing with transporting meals).... Or is it something deeper? Something kid-related?

You came into this space on purpose so that you could be the stay at home mom like you’d always planned – AND be the successful business owner you also dreamed of. 

You’re here for the “both and.” That’s really the entire reason why you started this.

Because it’s for the legacy called your kids.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Transcript

This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about whether you can fit parenting into your work-from-home day, while equally prioritizing both.

What exactly IS the point of a work-from-home business in the first place? 

Is it to indulge yourself in lazy mornings, slow cups of coffee, and nice, quiet houses in your perfectly-set-up work office (instead of the impersonal cubicle and transporting meals).... Or is it something deeper? Something kid-related?

Most of us, I think we came into this space on PURPOSE so that we could be the stay at home mom like we’d always planned – AND be the successful business owner that we ALSO dreamed of. 

We were here for the “both and.” That’s really the entire reason why we started this.

So your business, at a fundamental level, is FEEDING your parenting purpose and style and abilities, because it’s giving you a FLOOR – a foundation, if you will – for where and how long and what time you get to engage with your kids and be that amazing, present mother with them for.

And that’s amazing! It doesn’t have to be all about the money. It can be all about what YOU wanted your family to look like, too.

Aka, you can be shooting for unbusy PARENTING, not just unbusy WORKING.

Because you wanted more time with your kids by choosing to run this graphic design business from home – that was three-quarters of the POINT of it – which means you need to treat your KID time with all the seriousness you do your WORK time. By scheduling.

Because to me, unbusy parenting is having dedicated “hang out with the kids” time blocks – plus enough margin in my day (like an hour of unscheduled, overflow time every weekday) that I can use on whatever comes up, beyond the normal childcare and homeschooling and cooking dinner time I’ve built into my schedule.

You know, things like sick toddlers, that once-every-2-weeks batch of food prep, or one more game of Monopoly Deal with my numbers-obsessed boys.

Aka, I have the time (and brain space) to hear all about my sons’ latest magna-tile creations, or admire my daughters’ latest artwork, or listen to my preschooler run on and on about her toys. 

Did you catch that? I have the TIME. 

I didn’t have to run off straight back to work or client calls or DM responding – because my work hours are preset with space for everything I need to get done, AND space for my family. 

With a little overflow besides.

THAT’S unbusy parenting, to me – it’s the gift of space in my schedule so I can have presence with them.

(And yes, that includes the “oh no, they’ll remember me on the computer all day” parts.) Because I was worried about how this business growing and scaling would change the memories for my older kids (who did most of their growing up BEFORE I started the business) vs. my younger ones (when pretty much all they knew was mom homeschooling them and running a business).

But, you know what? Here in high school, my oldest comes along and tells me *she* wants to have an online business post-graduation and asks what are the steps she should take to learn about having her own platform now! Plus what she might want to monetize down the road!

And I’ve got it all sorted for her, because I know *exactly* what building an online platform takes. That was some God serendipity right there!

So for you, where in your day-to-day schedule do you ALREADY feel like you have that? And where are you feeling that pinch of rush, of “hurry back to work,” of “cram in the client meeting” when I’d rather be snuggling my baby a little longer and putting her down for nap myself, THEN grabbing a snack?

What do YOU need to make room for – kid-wise – in YOUR work-from-home schedule? 

That’s the part we want to find out. Because when you get zeroed in on what YOU want, it’s truly easier to “find,” create, or make the time to make that happen.

You just need to hone in on your reason first. The kids.

So what’s changing about your “mostly pretty good” business mom calendar, today? Where do you see that gap from “good” to “great”?

There’s your 10% better switch.