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
Sustainable Mompreneurship Ep. 3: Try this new metric: recover-ability (from your business-running-mom task list).
"Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today." ~ Greg McKeown
Wait - you mean watching Netflix with my husband at night ISN’T the only “recovering” I need to do??
Nope. Not by a long shot.
Because you want something a heck of a lot better than waiting 17 years till your kids are out of the house so you can enjoy all the peace and quiet again!
Here’s how to marry your purpose with your energy levels as a mom in business….
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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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 the NEW metric you need to try: it’s called recover-ability (from your task list).
"Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today." ~ Greg McKeown
But what does this REALLY mean, practically speaking, for your life as a work-from-home, business-owning mom?
And isn’t “watching Netflix with my husband at 9pm” all the “recovering” I need to do?!
Um, no. It isn’t.
Not by a long shot.
Try “chopping my to-do list short enough that I NEVER get the 3pm energy doldrums anymore” instead - for a start.
And no, this isn’t a one-time fix - you’ll have to keep rejiggering how much rejuve time you need, every time your business or family season changes….
But it’s a heck of a lot better than waiting 17 years till your kids are out of the house and you can enjoy all the peace and quiet again.
And listen, I have to do this, too - I’d gotten myself WAY too mentally overloaded (not actually overloaded, just FELT like it)....
But just 5 weeks after I’d been wailing to my own mindset coach about how much work I had to do (because of scaling), and how this was throwing me - I was straight back to my normal haunts of “needing” to attend business events live, rather than waiting for the replay (to skip all the boring parts!), to have enough to do during the business day.
‘Cause I’d already checked all my marketing and content and client activities (plus the homeschooling!) off.
Things CAN change for you, really quickly - but it was AFTER I did all the work to reframe my mindset and journal out what I needed in my schedule that the mental switch finally flipped for me.
But also, I’d point out that my recovery was blazingly fast - because 2 of those 5 weeks were on vacation!!
So this is why I’m always going to center you back on MINDSET when you’re snarled up a little (or a lot) with your business schedule, family schedule, or the intersection thereof.
Because once you give yourself the PERMISSION to go there - to stop when you need to stop, and not a minute later - you reshape every part of your “rest worthiness” thinking.
And once THAT happens, your new “get to be filled up” self is unstoppable. (Plus business life is so much more fun!)
So for you, where do YOU need to cut most in your daily schedule?
Is it the number of calendar appointments you’re fielding, or how long your Trello task cards are stretching, or just plain the number of client calls you’re fulfilling?
Take a look at THAT - at the nitty gritty details of what you’re showing up for each and every day, under the business hat - and start using Greg McKeown’s “recover-ability” formula for your time-and-task containers every single day.
I promise you, something’s going to change.