The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
How does getting 20 hours back a week sound?
Mom life is easy for me. And by the way, I’m working from home (plus homeschooling!) with 5 kids.
Ready to give yourself permission to quit?
✅ You feel like you’re up to your eyeballs in to-do lists
✅ You’ve got more things scheduled on your calendar than you’ve ever seen
✅ Your kids need more time than you’ve currently got (for homework & playing with them after school)
✅ Your plans for date night are getting pushed last minute (or snoozed till next week – again)
✅ You can’t even fathom taking a two-hour break in the middle of the day (because if you stop, the house might literally burn down)
✅ You can’t remember the last time you got a pedicure (because you’re too busy taking care of everyone except yourself)
It’s time to escape the never-ending cycle of “there goes my lunch break” meetings, “turn around by Friday” projects, & “hang on I’m almost done” answers to your kids….
And swap that for working less, snuggling your kids, and putting "me time" back on your calendar.
Listen - I’ve been a work-at-home entrepreneur for 5+ years, with 5 kids at home with me (all day every day), with podcasts to record and client calls to take - and I’m still getting 3 hours of free time a day.
My genius is showing you what you SHOULDN’T be doing - ‘cause you’re right, you can’t do it all.
And it’s time for you to stop creating unnecessary pressure in your role as mom, entrepreneur, and all-around high achiever.
Here’s your new “work from home freedom” plan….
✔ Give yourself the workouts, journaling, and hobby time you need every single day
✔ Spend more time cuddling your kids, less time cleaning up after them
✔ Shut off the work brain and be fully present as a mom
✔ Deep work for hours (guilt-free) as you scale your business
✔ Up your revenue, not your hours
Ready to turn down the pressure valve on your time management?
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The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
Smarter Not Harder Ep. 8: Your pending Trello cards aren’t overwhelming you. It’s actually THIS.
Because it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s yours.
If you’re not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a “you” issue.
Listen - your task list does not have the ability to burden you. (From Allie Casazza.)
It’s how you think about it that’s affecting you.
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about why your pending Trello cards aren’t overwhelming you. It’s actually THIS.
No, it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s YOURS.
Because if YOU’RE not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a mindset issue.
And you need some rewiring help. (Keep listening!)
Listen - your task list does not have the ability to burden you. (From Allie Casazza.) It’s how you *think* about it that’s affecting you.
Truly!
Even when I had a giant long list of stuff to do for our family vacation (all the planning plus hotel scheduling plus buying trip food and making a giant mess in the kitchen with all the “trip prep” stuff and needing to host an unexpected family gathering, PLUS take my son to the ER) - the REAL stress came from me thinking *I* had to do all this work in 3 hours’ time and keep a clean and tidy house while I was at it. (Never mind the ER trip!)
But you know what I did? I turned my MINDSET around.
I looked at what HAD to be dealt with today (‘cause we were hosting and I was waiting in the ER room for an unknown length of time).
Then I pushed the rest of it off for 16 hours, bundled it into the laundry room, shut the door, and ONLY looked at what I had to do TODAY. By sundown.
That was it.
And the next morning, I got up early (even though it was the weekend) and knocked out all of that “snoozed for 16 hours” stuff - JUST that segment of my to-do list - and it was done.
Back to normal Saturday food prepping.
You see how it was really only my MINDSET that changed here? That shift from thinking “ahh, it’s a giant to-do list, and my son got hurt, and NOW what am I going to do?” to “I only have to deal with what’s RIGHT in front of me at the moment. Now what is THAT, and how can I remove the rest of it from my mental field so I can relax into my limited zone of focus?”
Let’s revisit that quote from Allie Casazza here. “A task list cannot burden you.” Let that sink in.
What would you change about this week’s to-do list if you went by that? What about today’s? This afternoon’s?
- If you were unburdened, maybe you’d delete that Pinterest recipe (even though the kids have been asking for it) and tell them it’s on next week’s shortlist (‘cause your brain can only handle mac’n’cheese tonight).
- If you were unburdened, maybe you’d say that the closet switchover and the quarterly goal setting don’t have to happen on the same weekend just because September 1st is a convenient reminder on your calendar.
- If you were unburdened, maybe you’d check with your OBM and see if you can bump your personal deadline out a week ‘cause your cycle syncing dates are just not lining up, and you’re not in the zone to record more content for the sake of checking boxes.
THAT’S the kind of nitty gritty, mindset level change we’re looking for.
And YOU get to put that into place.
Are you ready to shift into this new version of yourself?