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.
Want me to show you how?
‘Cause they told you there was a better way. And there is.
It’s figuring out the personalized business-and-family structure that supports YOU – one that exactly matches the way you’ve been designed.
Because you don’t want to hang out in this family stage for 2 years, constantly showing up last minute for your kids OR your clients, barely making it to your monthly revenue targets….
And exhausting yourself to do it.
So if….
✅ 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)
Then 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.
Because you’re getting up every day to deal with the mishmash of “flexible” family life, constant kid interruptions, and not-there-yet business goals….
Wondering why you can’t seem to settle into the right routine for this family stage + client level.
So I’m going to hand you the cheat sheet to WFH balance….
By using Human Design to pull out the right tactics for your specific personality + family setup.
Ready to get your personality-specific answer?
➡️ Want the custom answer to your time problems as a work-at-home mom? Book your FREE personality-specific WFH audit here: https://yourunbusylife.com/human-design-reading/
The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
Just 3 items on your to-do list. Is that enough for an entire work day?
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(First, we’re cheating: your business and your home life get separate task lists.)
‘Cause I’m sorry, writing launch emails is a totally different head space than prepping the Instapot.
But only doing 3 things is going to force you to prioritize your day.
Because if you limit your to-do’s, you’ll finish them every single time.
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
Love your daily life again as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/
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Listen - you don’t want to hang out in this family stage for 2 years, constantly showing up last minute for your kids OR your clients, barely making it to your monthly revenue targets….
And exhausting yourself to do it.
So I’m going to hand you the cheat sheet to work-from-home balance….
By using Human Design to pull out the right tactics for your specific personality + family setup.
Grab your FREE personality-specific WFH audit here: https://yourunbusylife.com/human-design-reading/
This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about having just 3 items on your to-do list. Is that enough for an entire work day?
It may sound radical to cut back to only 3 items on your to-do list every single day, especially coming from a productivity teacher.
Shouldn’t the confidence that everything your business needs from you got done be dependent on something more tangible than “I’m allowed to cut back” mindset?
(Like, maybe metrics or something? Or “if you hire these 8 part-time team members, I guarantee you’ll be able to cover everything”?)
Yeah, no - here’s why it’s completely realistic for you as a mom (and a biz owner!) to use an ultra-short to-do list.
First, we’re cheating: your business and your home life get separate task lists.
I’m sorry, writing launch emails is a totally different head space than prepping the crock pot, and we’re going to treat it as such. This helps you treat your business like a business, too, not just a part of your #momlife.
Second, only doing 3 things is going to force you to prioritize day to day.
If you’ve got 19 items on your “would be nice to get around to” list, and only 3 hours of kid-tending-plus-house-cleaning-plus-random-projects time, which of those 19 are making the cut? Very few of them.
Which of those 19 absolutely *have* to be done today? Maybe 1 of them.
See? Prioritization complete.
And tonight, you look over your 18-item “might be nice” list, and do the same thing: pick out 1 or 2 tasks that really do *need* to get done right then. (Or in our case, the next day.)
That’s it.
(What if nothing’s that urgent, you ask? Then great! You don’t have to do anything on your to-do list!)
I kid, but if it truly doesn’t need to be done and wrapped this week, should it really be on this week’s to-do list? What about next month’s?
This is where you get to get picky about what you’re even putting on your “shoulds” list and see if you can cross a bunch of things right off. Because maybe you don’t need to be doing them in the first place.
Third, and this is a great benefit, a 3-item to-do list guarantees you’ll finish everything. (If you’re a list-crosser-off right now, you’re rejoicing!)
All you have to do is not overload your energy, and it’ll get done.
The whole list.
Every day.
It’s that easy. If you limit your to-do’s, you’ll finish them every time.
And being realistic about how much we can handle during the day is a much-needed reset in the mom space (heck, even the mom-in-business space!).
Like when I gave myself permission to rework all the mastermind homework I was doing after joining a new high level program, stressing myself out trying to catch up on #allthethings (okay, high achiever woes), and realizing that I needed a rebalance. Because I was sucking all my free time and evenings on playing catch-up to some arbitrary standard.
When what I NEEDED to be doing was enjoying my life NOW. The business I’d built NOW.
This mastermind was for upleveling, for goodness’ sake, not taskmastering!
So do yourself a favor, and chop your to-do list till it’s only got 3 items on it. 1 for personal, 1 for business, remember?
Put that laundry, and that crock pot prepping, and that new-pediatrician-researching on your personal list. Then drop those launch emails, planning cart open dates, and actually, launch emails part 2 (‘cause we all know it’s going to take more than 1 work session to write them) on your biz-to-do list.
You’re all sorted. Now go out there and conquer your new, hugely shortened to-do list.
You’ve got this.