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 for your own “how to make things fit” strategy?
The way I do scheduling allows you to grow through the hard phases of building a business alongside a family, leveling up your CEO self alongside your capacity to hold.
What you end up with is a way closer relationship with your husband - your kids - even your clients! - because you’ve built the daily lifestyle that allows you to nurture that connection with the most important people in your life….
….No matter what’s going on with your to-do list.
So if….
✅ 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)
Then 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.
‘Cause it's time for you to actually feel that day-in, day-out confidence in your role as mom, entrepreneur, and all-around high achiever.
Which is where I come in to help you create win-win solutions for yourself + your family that support business growth, team scaling, & client operations without compromising any key part of your life (or requiring long-held goals to be left for another year).
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The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
CEO leadership - applied to your family & chore list. (Working mom hacks!)
If leading is serving, but serving does not automatically equal leading, what should you NOT be doing?
Remember, you’re the mom AND the CEO. The manager of your family.
You’re not SUPPOSED to be doing everything.
And I don’t believe that you need to be on the hook for every single thing as the mom. (Or even 50% of it!)
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/
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And if you need the right answers (both for the kid side of your life AND your “what’s next” project list), 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 hold onto every to-do + commitment in your life (when you’re sick of the calendar jenga game).
And right now you feel like you’re in conflict - with your clients, your kids, your partner, or even yourself (because of your own needs). You fear the next family season - the parenting issue that’s going to crop up - the marriage breakdown behind the scenes - the feast-and-famine cycle in your clients - the next issue with team that’s going to unexpectedly explode.
Which is where I come in to help you create win-win solutions for yourself + your family that support business growth, team scaling, & client operations without compromising any key part of your life.
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about CEO leadership as it applies to your family.
If leading is serving, and serving does not automatically equal leading, what should you NOT be doing? (As the entrepreneur mom.)
Picture yourself as the CEO of an important company. (‘Cause you are – and one of them’s your family!)
What would that CEO NOT do? Does she sweep floors? Take out the trash? Go find each chore slacker personally?
No. Those are bottom-end, low-skill tasks.
Just translate this into your role as mom. Look at your life and your current-age kids.
What are the low-end and no-skill-required tasks in your family’s life?
(I’m thinking… picking dirty laundry off the floor, rehanging towels, clearing the table, wiping down counters, unclogging toilets, unloading the van post-grocery run, making sure cucumbers are peeled and celery is chopped – that sort of thing.)
In other words, what can you outsource? What SHOULD you outsource?
Remember, you’re the mom CEO. The runner of your family.
You’re not SUPPOSED to be doing everything. (Or even HALF doing everything!)
Like when I realized that I was letting my kids get away with only partially doing their chores.
You know, when they gathered up the cloth napkins and drying mats and kitchen towels and dishrags for washing - but that just left a bunch of blank spaces. And we’re not going to wait on drying our hands or making any kitchen messes till the stuff comes out of the dryer again.
So of course you have to put out clean towels/dishrags, right?
Except they weren’t - they were leaving me to do it!
And I’d feel resentful, and wonder why they couldn’t ever think of logical consequences themselves…. But I KEPT rescuing them.
So they never learned.
Until, finally, my husband pointed out to me that when HE was growing up, he would NEVER have gotten away with doing only the partial chore! And I realized, gratefully, that I didn’t have to keep following up after them, either.
So if YOU have this value of “I want my kids to know how to cook their own food and clean up after themselves as young adults” value, too, I’m going to first high five you, and second ask what you’re doing so they can learn.
In other words, how much you’re delegating TO them. ‘Cause they’ll never get good at knowing when to use non-stick vs. cast-iron skillets if you cook the quesadillas for them, every time.
And *I* don’t believe that you need to be on the hook for every single thing as the mom. (Or even 70% of it!)
Let’s flip that statistic around and get you doing only 30% of the work around the house, and freeing up all that time for CEO white space and daily rejuvenation and taking sales calls. (It’s called actually LIKING your day-to-day business-owning life - PLUS having the room to scale your coaching model whenever you need it!)
So what do you need to send off to your household managers (that’s code for “delegate to your kids”) to get it off your plate?
Do that - ALL five things that just popped into your head - and THEN we’ll talk.
‘Cause your work-life balance is going to be SO much better for it.