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
Best time to start your kids on chores (so you can have more CEO time)? Last month.
If you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going.
Because unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores….
….Which means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them.
Because the first and primary way you’re going to have less on your plate to do around the house - i.e., permanently do less housework - is with the two magic words of “kids” and “delegation.”
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about why now is the best time to start your kids on chores (but if you haven’t started training your kids yet, you’re not too late!).
Hey, listen - if you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going.
(And if you're collapsing in failure mode, because you HAVEN’T started training your kids yet, no, you aren't too late as a mom!)
Like right now, I’m looking at my 7-year-old son and seeing how he’s always done with chores an hour before everyone else on Saturday, then boing-ing around at loose ends while he waits for everyone else to finish….
So maybe it’s time that HE takes on more chores, ‘cause he’s clearly ready for them!
Here's the thing. Unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores.
And that means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them.
Because the first and primary way you’re going to have less on your plate to do around the house - i.e., permanently do less housework - is by the two magic words of “kids” and “delegation.”
(Don’t worry, I’ll teach you everything I know in my 5-kids-running-a-business-life inside my program!)
But wait wait, hold up! This isn't a "you ought to" and "you bad person, you" shaming exercise.
This is an OPPORTUNITY for you to get some in-home help for yourself.
Your very own delegation team.
Your half-time housekeeper.
(Allowance wages are way less than hiring full-time help, right?)
So what would happen if you leaned INTO the training time, started looking for things to outsource to your kids (yes, even the 5-year-olds and the teenagers), and make a radical change to who does what in your family.
- Now is the perfect time to start raising your 5-year-olds in how to do this.
- Now is a great time to get your teens set before they head off to college on life skills.
- Now is a wonderful time to have your middle schoolers handling most of the chores - because they're old enough to do a GOOD job on things.
So no, you're not too late. Or too early. You're right on time.
And if you embraced that mindset, what would you invite your 6-year-old to start doing with you?
- Would he drive your laundry basket (and his!) over to the washer?
- Load the clothes in?
- Put away the forks and knives from the dishwasher?
- Move wet clothes to the dryer?
You've got a lot of options here, even for the young ones. Go ahead - you're allowed.
And if you've got 3rd graders or above, you're in luck - 'cause these kinds of kids can do a LOT. In fact, depending on their training level, they can do almost all of your food prepping, house cleaning, laundry running, and of course room tidying.
So make a giant list of all the stuff YOU’RE doing, and get ready to hand almost all of it off to THEM. It's a great feeling.
And if you've got teenagers, then of course you've got the outsource-ability of all the middle-schooler things - plus you get to train them on the super sharp knives or anything else you've been holding back on.
(Trust me, they're quite capable creatures!)
And if it helps your "am I allowed to delegate this much" conscience, remind yourself that THEY need to know everything about how to run a household before they leave your roof - and that's coming up!
So you're really doing them a FAVOR by teaching them how to do everything you're doing. (Even if they don't quite see it that way.)
Knowing that, what would YOU change about your current chore load? What can you let yourself dream about not doing anymore?
And then don't just let yourself DREAM about it - go do something about it. Put it on THEIR chore list. Set training reminders for yourself.
You're about to have a lot less to do on your plate. Isn't it going to be great? (No, I didn’t rhyme that on purpose!)