You check off the final task for your daughter’s spring break trip, double check that the hot dogs for supper are in the fridge (not the freezer), and text your mom that you can drive her to that specialist appointment tomorrow (even though it’s going to play merry hell with your schedule).
Your mind blanks out – it’s been a full day at work, plus you’ve been running around taking care of all these OTHER house/family/school tasks, and you really can’t think past cooking supper.
Because in about 5 minutes, your kids are going to thunder in, and this little window of quiet disappears….
Sound familiar?
That’s what mental burnout looks like.
- When there’s no white space for you – even in the privacy of your own mind
- When the to-do list pushes out everything but the “what’s next” question
- When there’s literally no time left in the day once you’ve taken care of everyone and everything else (and selfcare sounds like a cruel joke)
‘Cause if you’re here, you’ve ALREADY burnt out.
(Even if you still have physical energy.)
And the only cure is to drop something from your business-owner-school-volunteer-board-member life.
- Yes, you’re a high achiever.
- Yes, your whole identity is built around taking care of everything in the family.
- Yes, you treasure your role as a community leader.
But you’ve run out of juice for your own command center – the brain – and once THAT gets all mucked up, a trainwreck of dropped balls is sure to follow.
The only question is WHAT you’re going to let go of to create that mental white space again.
‘Cause it has to be available for you. Every. Single. Day.
That’s why, inside my “free up 20 hours a week as a working mom” program, I’m going to be putting that recharge time for you on the calendar – each and every day.
Multiple times a day, if I have to. Because YOU are not having your biz results held back because you won’t simplify and just let your brain take a break.
I don’t care if it looks like by-yourself walks – that’s what I do – or a swing out to the drive-through for your favorite latte – or a Voxer chain with your sister that reliably picks up at 4pm – you NEED to do something for YOU.
That drains that mental frazzle right out.
Since if you quit the mental hustle, you’ll quit the physical hustle, too.
And you’re going to be able to see this through to the end – to climb that ladder as far as you want to even with the kids around – you just need permission to to ditch your current barely-there strategy + get a new one.
DM me when you’re ready for the how.
