You finished wireframing your 2nd client’s “work with me” page an hour early – yay!
Except… now you have to decide what to DO with all this extra free time.
- Should you grab the laundry basket and your earbuds and fold something?
- Work your way through your overfull LinkedIn DMs?
- Go down a Reddit rabbit hole on the latest period tracking app?
- Research financial aid options for your high school senior?
- Answer a couple of podcast questions (to get a head start on your next “ask me anything” episode)?
- Dust the bookshelves in the living room??
(You know you’re a high achiever when the “what should I do next?” question sends you spinning on what’s the exact next right box to check off next!)
- But seriously – how DO you use your time when you unexpectedly get a free pocket of it?
- Can you even MAKE yourself do something for fun?
- Or does your to-do list monster take over and force you to keep working?
Like just last night, I found myself opening Google docs left and right to get my menu planning and grocery list writing done for the week – and it wasn’t even the day for it!
I was bored – so I turned to a to-do.
(Instead of hunting through our bookshelves for something I could stand re-reading – the REAL culprit here was actually my empty library list!)
So here’s what’s inside the “but I can’t slow down or I’ll stop working” mindset challenge – because it’s what’s TRULY keeping you from taking this unexpected break.
You’re actually still in the “do-do-do” cycle, which means you’ve been relying on sheer willpower to keep that momentum going.
But the moment you stop, all that “burn the candle at both ends” energy cost (from getting up at 5am to fit in another wireframe before school drop-off at 7:30am, then staying up till 10pm to tweak the 8 different things your client wanted to change) is going to catch up to you, and you KNOW you’re going to crash.
So you’ve been staving that off with a relentless focus on clearing your to-do list – plus telling yourself that you’ll take a break as soon as you’ve crossed everything off.
Which you know will never happen. Meaning you never have to actually decide what a right-sized pace looks like for you in this season.
Which is why when I’m freeing up your 20 hours a week inside my done-for-you program, I don’t leave it at just “here’s the new schedule.”
I actually take the time to DEAL with all your mindset blocks just HOVERING there, under the surface, waiting to pop up and sabotage that newly cleared calendar.
Which they will – UNLESS we deal with them.
So we do a special intuitive rewiring session together to do just that.
Because anything and everything that’s getting in the way of YOU getting that battery fill-up moment – has to go.
If your whole house of cards would fall apart if you let yourself take your foot off the gas just a little bit (by sleeping in 30 minutes ‘cause you’ve got a cold, or doing that curry for supper tonight even though it’s going to take 45 minutes, or taking yourself off to the coffee shop for a “dream a little” session)….
- Then your work/life balance is out of whack.
- Your productivity rhythms are WAY over on the “doing” side.
- And your relationship with your kids is probably on the downswing. (Or will be, next month.)
But you know the ONE tiny tweak that reverses everything?
Stopping once you’ve hit your “essential for today” priorities.
And not letting yourself add anything back on today’s task list.
You fulfilled what you needed to get done today (services page – check, graphics added to client’s site – check, guest interview recorded – check), and now it’s time to flop.
Snuggle your kids, chat with your husband, plan a coffee date with a girlfriend, eat something luxurious that’s just for you (dark chocolate, anyone?)….
And if you can’t think of anything else to do, at least do some exercise to check off the “moved my body daily” box, or another fear inventory about scaling. (To boost your CEO mindset.)
Whatever you do, DON’T tack on more to-do’s that are just going to suck your energy away from your marketing, your money, and your momming.
Listen. I’m not a funnel strategy expert.
Or even a business coach.
I blend taking your next right action with that nudge of intuition.
DM me when you realize a shiny new funnel isn’t going to fix your scheduling problem.
