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. 6: If work is bleeding into your weekend again (when you really need that Sunday break)....
It’s like Saturday is hiding out from you, hoping you won’t notice that it’s stolen most of the to-do list and hoarding all those tasks to dump on you!
But good news, here’s how my latest client and I dealt with the chore hideout monster.
S.’s words after we finished our “chase the chore monster out of hiding” session were, “Yay, all fixed - no more pushing through!”
Which is exactly what I want for YOU.
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about what to do if work is bleeding into your weekend again (when you really need that Sunday break)....
Your work week is going GREAT, your day of rest on Sunday is consistently happening… but what if your Saturday prep day is WAY overloaded and you feel like it’s an overtime housework day?
When what you ACTUALLY wanted was for your “prep everything for the week” day to STILL include some downtime for you, NOT run the entire family ragged with cleaning and groceries and house projects!
This is SUCH a common problem once you’ve dealt with your work day and created your ideal weekly schedule, plus baked in all the family downtime/going to church stuff….
It’s like Saturday is hiding out from you, hoping you won’t notice that it’s stolen most of the to-do list and hoarding all those tasks to dump on you!
But good news, here’s how my latest client and I dealt with the chore hideout monster.
Once S. ran through everything she was doing on her prep day (she chose Sunday, not Saturday), she immediately noticed a way to free up an entire hour of time on Sunday.
All she had to do was swap one weekly household task from Sunday to Wednesday, then delegate the former Wednesday task!
Then once we pulled on THAT string, we realized that if she just hired a mother’s helper to take some of these super simple house maintenance chores off her plate - like, even 2-4 hours a week - she’d feel WAY more freed up to actually take some me time on Sunday, rather than pushing through all the way till bed time!
And to make it even more of a no brainer, after S. listed out all her chores to me, we spotted a sneaky laundry task hiding out right away - towel folding!
Yep, she was still expecting HERSELF to deal with all the family’s towels - not the kids or even her mother’s helper! (Off to the “hire it out” to-do list immediately!)
Once we found a few more of these basic food prepping and grocery shopping and errand running tasks that could be easily outsourced, S. felt WAY better about how much was on her plate each prep day (and SO glad she had the resources available to be able to hire out!).
(Besides, she made double the hourly rate on her OWN, compared to what she’d be paying her mother’s helper, so she REALLY had no reason not to spring for that extra support!)
And there she was, ACTUALLY getting that Sunday prep day recharge time like she wanted to again, all because she decided to lean harder into DELEGATION.
See? You just have to pre-decide that you’re not available for way-too-crammed chore days, then make it happen.
Like when I realized I was heading into a super busy homeschooling season (that sounds almost un-archetypal, but it felt like ALL of my kids were developing “isms” that had to be addressed right then and there), AND I’d just decided to go hard on the business front for a quarter or two as well….
Meaning I had to re-decide to shift. Was I REALLY choosing this? Both?
(‘Cause my kids’ wellbeing was non-negotiable - you know that. But was I going to drop my own personal ambitions because of that, as well?)
And my answer was no.
No, I get to do it all. No, I get to have it all. So what needs to shift, drop, or get re-evaluated about my day to make BOTH my top priorities fit in?
(Without ditching the movement, connecting time with my husband, or mindset/journaling work I’d already gotten into a routine with, of course?)
You know me - I’d already delegated a little more of the food prep, re-streamlined my business tasks, and hit up my business coach for advice once I’d done one “walking meditation” session.
‘Cause the answers always appear - and the finish is so worth it.
S.’s words after we finished our “chase the chore monster out of hiding” session: “yay, all fixed - no more pushing through!”
Now THAT’S what I like to hear. Everything done that you needed, but still some time to relax at the end of it.