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?
➡️ Need to banish the pressure from your business to-do list? In this exclusive podcast series, I break down how to get 3-5 hours back for yourself every day. Grab the feed here: https://colossal-motivator-2652.ck.page/24b0417f6a
➡️ Ready to work less, snuggle your kids, and put "me time" back on your calendar? Let’s redo your CEO schedule so you can hit your priorities every day in your business, mom life, and goals list. Book your High Achiever Reset session here: https://yourunbusylife.com/intensive/
➡️ Want to close up shop each day, feeling satisfied as the mom AND the high performer? Book a Take Your Time Back VIP Package with me when your biz needs you to free up 20+ hours a week as a work-from-home entrepreneur. https://yourunbusylife.com/time-vip/
The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
What happens when you’re already past capacity as a mom running an agency?
You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to take time for, too.
And the reason you haven’t done anything about it yet is that you’re on contract with each and every one of those clients, so you don’t want to do anything legally liable in your search so far for more day to day balance!
That was the case for Client A today, so here’s the unbusy medicine the productivity doctor ordered....
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
Love your daily life again as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/
Subscribe to your weekly Mompreneur Life Made Easy!
And if you need to turn down that productivity pressure you’re feeling as a high-performing working mom, I’ve got two intensive spots open this month - where I’ll help you free up 3 hours each day!
'Cause there’s no need to flirt with burnout to hold both the high achiever & the present mom identity.
Just book your Free Up 3 Hours package when you’re ready to reclaim 3 hours every day.
Book your mini DFY package here: https://yourunbusylife.com/free-up-3-hours-pod/
This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about what happens when you’re already past capacity as a mom running an agency?
You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to take time for, too.
(But so far, it’s not fitting in.)
And the reason you haven’t done anything about it yet is that you’re on contract with each and every one of those clients, so you DON’T want to do anything legally liable in your search so far for more day to day balance!
That’s the case for Client A today, and here’s the unbusy medicine the productivity doctor ordered.
You’re going to have to stick to 3 to do’s per day; add margin or pad time to each item on your schedule; and expect to drop something from your current life to make it all fit within your new, more realistic guidelines.
Because this is fundamentally a capacity issue.
You’re not looking in all the wrong places for the right productivity solution; there IS no productivity solution except to cut back!
Because you’re trying to get too much done, and you’re not the single girl with endless amounts of hours to throw towards it.
(And I hear you! I don’t like cutting back on my work hours, any more than the next ambitious woman! But that’s exactly what I have to do each time the next kid is ready for kindergarten - since homeschooling means my work ramps UP rather than DOWN - so I do it, with an internal grump.)
Now, let’s break each of these down further.
You’re going to only put 3 client projects (or maybe some days, 1 client project plus 1 customer service plus 1 personal content time block) on your to-do list each day. You can’t move forward all of them.
Then at the same time, your MOMMY to-do list is going to have only 3 items on IT. So that’s prep supper, drive kids to gymnastics, do your monthly family budgeting for September - oops, you’re at 3 already! No more for you today.
Next, I want you to add pad time to every single one of those 3 (or 6) to-do’s.
You’re not realistically going to be flying straight from one client’s branding project in the early design stages to a 2nd revision “almost good to go” with totally different brand colors one, let alone swapping back to taxi mom or filling the Instapot! This is probably where you’re REALLY running over in your day, because you keep “losing” 10 minutes here or there and beating yourself up for it.
And by the end of it, you’re running seriously late to gymnastics practice or whatever the last-last thing on your to-do list was. (When that’s all an easily preventable margin time fix.)
Now lastly, you DO have to expect to drop something from your current life to fit within your more realistic “margin time between 3 things a day” guidelines. Really - you can’t cram any more sand or big rocks in.
Because your current schedule is fundamentally a capacity issue - and we just chopped it. THAT’S why you have to pull back and STAY pulled back. (Or else you’re going to go RIGHT back to that state of overload and “I can’t deliver on everything that I’ve promised.)
You see? Adjust to REALITY - adjust to your new normal - and most of this “can I keep up” angst is going to disappear like magic.
Because that’s what unbusy scheduling is. Your magic wand.
YOU can have the CONFIDENCE that you checked off everything you NEEDED to – no more, no less – and that this happy state of affairs is REPEATABLE – once you’ve laid it ALL out in your planner. With room for margin, of course.
Because this is the sort of nitty gritty, mom life CEO win that you get when you’re leaning on the power of SCHEDULING.
Now it’s time for you to implement....
What do you need to chop about your weekly client load or marketing responsibilities today?