(First, we’re cheating: your business and your home life get separate task lists.)

‘Cause I’m sorry, writing launch emails is a totally different head space than prepping the Instapot.

But only doing 3 things is going to force you to prioritize your day.

Because if you limit your to-do’s, you’ll finish them every single time.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Newsflash: You do not have to “earn” your way to relaxation and time off. Because ease is not being lazy.

Here’s what I’m talking about: “You have to learn to get comfortable with ease.” That’s a quote from Allie Casazza.

But is this a struggle for you?

I’m guessing it is, because I’m a self-driven, high-achieving girl with a family and a business – and I found this a hard concept to wrap my head around at first.

I’d spent 20 years of my life pounding home the theme that discipline wins and work first, play later are the only productivity rules you need to know.

So this? This was paradigm shattering.

And if you’re struggling with this reframe too, let me share what worked for me.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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How many of those "need to schedule the next dentist appointment" or "buy my 4-year-old's next season wardrobe" or "plan the family birthday party meal for 10 people" mom to-do's do you have on your mental to-do list?

Just sitting there, waiting for you to be able to get around to them?

And is it a struggle to find time to complete these extra personal tasks for you?

This is an extremely common problem among the business owning moms I work with, so don't feel at all bad if it happens to you.

In fact, I'm going to share with you the advice I gave a client when she came to me with this specific situation.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Don't do what I did. Yes, this is me, the productivity expert, talking.

When I was 6 weeks into starting my online business, I got a case study opportunity and used that to pressure myself to overdeliver.

You see, I didn't have a website up - at least, I had a domain name, and some badly written pages, and a bunch of horrible graphics (graphic design from scratch is one of my weak points), and I was offered a chance to get on another successful business owner's website and have my stuff featured.

It was too good to pass up.

So being the classic overachiever, I said "yes ma'am! here's when you can expect this from me" (a full month ahead of her submit-by date), and then busted my butt to turn my whole site around.

Here’s why that was a terrible idea….

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

De-stress daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/

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What's going to happen to your business if you're a work-at-home mom who's only got 10 hours a week to devote to business needle-moving activities?

And is this going to be a death knell to your business ambitions, or can you wriggle any way around this hard hours line?

The inspiration for this came from one of my clients, who's got 4 kids at home, 1 still an infant and thus napping, and said she had only 10 hours a week to work on her business.

Not surprisingly, she was finding that all her time was taken up with just doing podcast interviews and the scheduling/post-production work associated with all of that - there was no time for her to work on her OWN business herself!

Needless to say, this was a huge time and scheduling issue, and I was so happy she brought it to me. Because when you're THIS crunched for time, every little bit counts.

So here are the options I gave her - if you're dealing with a lack of biz time in your business, steal them for yourself.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

De-stress daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/

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All right, time to get real with you: here's why working through the weekend is the most inefficient use of your time as a mom biz owner.

'Cause you've got a whole bunch of mom things to do on the weekend, NOT enough time to be frantically writing those launch emails or creating all the graphics for your next carousel post.

You're supposed to be taking a day for all that food prep and house cleaning and grocery shopping (and kid snuggling!), and whatever else didn't fit into your week as a biz-owning mom!

So what do you do when you’re caught in “Oh boy, I could get so much more done if I had a 6th work day!" mode?

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Today we have a bonus episode for you all about Turning Layoffs Into Launches. We’re bringing on a guest, Megan Tobler, to talk about how she got kicked out of the corporate world into the business one - literally! - and had to make her own way - and in the process, discovered a life that was far more than she could have dreamed of.

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

Megan's links:

Website: www.selfstarther.com

Sign up for the FREE community: www.selfstarther.com/together

IG: https://www.instagram.com/selfstart.her/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megantobler/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SelfStartHER

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Unless you have ironclad off time boundaries, you’re going to naturally view the weekend as the “catch all” for whatever chores and tasks you didn’t have time to get to over the work week - pretty natural to have that view.

And then, you spend all of Saturday cramming in your food prep and your house cleaning and your “run the kids to something fun” on top of the 5 different things you didn’t get to during the week (1 for each day you worked), and then what happens?

You’re tapped out, zoo-ed out, and absolutely sick of being productive. It’s a real thing.

You NEED that weekend break. So here’s how you get it….

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

De-stress daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/

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