Balancing Both Ep. 5: The best way to fit all your business owner hats in (plus the mom one) - WITHOUT maxing out your calendar?

What happens when you’re STILL not at your planned-for client load, but you’ve penciled in your daily work time blocks and you’ve hit calendar capacity?

Facts are facts; the calendar doesn’t lie.

You DON’T have enough time for everything you need to do. 

Here’s what I told my client when she complained to me that she couldn’t fit in her social media scheduling, client fulfillment, CEO day, AND personal marketing (plus still get all her house and kid responsibilities accomplished)....

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Alyssa

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Transcript

This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about the best way to fit all your business owner hats in - WITHOUT maxing out your calendar!

You’ve got the clients, the kids, the workouts, new product ideas coming out your ears – aka, you’re rich in pretty much everything about running a business, except recharge time – and you’ve just realized your 4th quarter is going to be hell unless you find a way to pull back WITHOUT making less money.

Because you’re playing within certain mothering constraints, and you’re not willing to sacrifice your reputation with your clients (naturally), yet somehow you still need a lot more time to get this ideal CEO lifestyle up and working....

What happens when you’re STILL not at your planned-for client load, but you’ve penciled in your daily work time blocks and you’ve hit calendar capacity?

Here’s what I told my (very successful) client when she complained to me that she couldn’t fit in her social media scheduling, client fulfillment, CEO day, AND personal marketing (plus still get all her house and kid responsibilities accomplished).

Facts are facts; the calendar doesn’t lie.

You DON’T have enough time for everything you need to do. 

Which means it’s time to get radical.

Either you’re going to have to shift your 1:1 service provider model; raise your rates so that you take on fewer editing clients (she was a manuscript book coach/editor) while still bringing in the same amount of money; hire several contractors to immediately delegate out all the marketing for your own business; or recalibrate to the reality that you can’t have CEO days or non-word-of-mouth-marketing or regular social media content at this stage in your business, ‘cause you’ve overbooked yourself with clients (let alone to-do’s).

It’s your choice. And I know you don’t want to hear that, or spend more money, or tell your clients that your fees are going up, or that you can’t deliver their book as soon as intended, or accept a slower timeline (to that ideal work-from-home day)....

But you’ve got to choose one of the above.

Because you can’t keep pushing yourself at this pace (then telling your out-of-energy self that you’re being a bad business owner because you don’t have any time left to do the marketing).

You’ve run out of time. Pure and simple.

But you CAN still have the confidence that everything your business needed from you this week got done – if you reframe your MINDSET. Which is exactly what I’m going to help you do, as your coach.

So. Tell me. 

What do YOU want most out of this work-from-home life? What’s your top business priority when limited to the editing side?

Because once you get clarity on THAT, it’s actually easy to pinpoint what you need to drop, delegate, or slow down on in this season. And that’s something I LOVE helping you do.

But YOU have to tell me what your non-negotiable is first.

(And believe me, I’ve lived it – like the semester when I was tapped out on kid homeschooling plus CLEP test chauffeuring, and I was also ramping up my DM sales strategy but still needed to fit in my content writing.)

So I chose to get behind my higher prices, rather than keep expanding my client calls calendar like I’d intended to before the testing rhythm got so intense – because I simply had too little scheduled time for taking on 20 clients. But I could take on 10 – and at high ticket rates, that was enough. 

Time to expand my client load later, AFTER our CLEP semester. Because it’s okay that I can’t handle everything at once.

And once YOU get ahold of that, YOUR mental self-pressure load decreases, too.

I can’t wait to see what happens for you then.