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
Balancing Both Ep. 3: Your priorities problem right now is actually a mom brain overload problem….
When you can’t handle another decision on your plate - it feels like you’ve got way too many things going on to even pick your top 2 or 3 priorities this quarter (let alone semester) - you actually don’t have a decision-making problem at all.
It’s really a “my brain is too overloaded to process any more information” one.
Because if you’d committed to a certain level of work hours – and you had too much to fit in to meet that personal deadline – THIS would be the only way to go for you.
(Hint: it involves coffee!)
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
Love your daily life again as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about why your priorities problem right now is actually a mom brain overload problem.
When you can’t handle another decision on your plate - it feels like you’ve got WAY too many things going on to even PICK your top 2 or 3 priorities this quarter (let alone semester) - you actually DON’T have a decision-making problem at all.
It’s really a “my brain is too overloaded to process any more information” one.
Because if you’d committed to a certain level of work hours – and you had TOO much to fit in to meet that personal deadline – the only way to go for you would be delegation.
Like, “bye team, you’re going to handle the inbox today; I’m going to put new due dates on all of my tasks for today; we need a few NEW systems in place to hand off some of these SOPs; and I’m off to the coffee shop to brainstorm how we’re going to do all of this.
How does that sit with you?
See, if you could cancel all your client sessions tomorrow and skip the Voxer checkins and go dark on your team (and kids!) so you didn’t have to handle any of the daily business running stuff….
And then YOU disappear off to your favorite coffee shop with just a journal and pen in hand - no laptop allowed….
What do you think’s going to happen?
*I* think you’d spend a while relaxing, just letting your nervous system come down from your stress high (always a great idea before you dive into any personal retreat!).
And then you’d naturally want to brain dump what’s on your plate. What’s filling your mind. What’s niggling at the back of your “a good CEO would always do THIS” brain.
You’d write, and write, and scribble some more, then finally sit back from the table with a sigh of relief. And hold your cup in both hands, and drink some more of that coffee.
And after a while, the themes would just naturally start to jump out at you.
- Oh, THIS is for my Black Friday launch!
- THAT is part of my New Year’s noodling!
- THIS is for our next team meeting, ‘cause I have a new idea I want to try with our weekly reports.
- THAT goes in my “ideas for reels” folder - I don’t actually need to take action on that now.
- That belongs with the “stuff to get done by end of next week” pile.
And now you’re done. Your brain freeze is all sorted.
Everything’s collected itself into these little buckets on the pages in front of you as you circled and starred and x-ed out in time with your pattern-id-ing brain.
And now, it really doesn’t look so bad at all.
- You can see that it’s not time to do New Year’s noodling yet.
- You don’t need to do anything with your new idea for a reel (except drop it in your handy dandy folder).
- That “end of next week” task item can go on next week (not today).
- Your new team meeting idea goes on the calendar reminder for your next session.
- And the Black Friday launch copy slides right into next Monday’s “work on BF launch” time slot (that you’ve already set up) - how nice!
See? Already prioritized!
You just had to give your brain space to take a breather, spill it all out, and THINK.
Not process everything in the middle of a client work day.
Okay?
And if you need the preventative solution, try what I do….
Believe me, it works WAY better when I lean INTO my daily Voxers with my coach and get her help in the moment whenever I’m just STARTING to feel that brain freeze coming on, vs. me being all “I can handle it myself” and “I’ll only come to you with the BIG problems.”
(Like, of course!)
So how soon can YOU give yourself that coffee shop brain dump before we step into Q4 this year?
I promise your CEO brain will feel WAY calmer after it.