Because if YOUR kids are different than anybody else’s, and so is the way YOU run your family (not to mention your business)….
Shouldn’t you get a little customized attention, rather than being thrown a copy of The 5am Club?
I mean, you can’t cover special needs, homeschooling, night nursing, care and feeding of teenagers, or middle school grump sessions all under the SAME set of “do this at this time with your kid and you’ll be happy,” right?
So why in the world would you expect that to work for your BUSINESS? And a work-at-home one, at that?
It’s just foolishness.
SHE’S running an influencer platform with brand deals and tripods and ring lights in every room for when she films her compensated stories.
YOU’RE managing a web design agency complete with in-house graphics, a custom coder, an SEO specialist, plus an “all the fonts and colors and here’s what they mean” psychology geek (you!).
You have no need for tripods and filming setups with just the right backdrops in every room of the house – in fact, you hardly even notice whether you’ve got max natural light or not!
(The SEO and coding and typography could care less.) Which is why you don’t bother.
And you take evenings to update your clients’ sites after the kids are in bed, ‘cause they’re at that full-of-energy preschool stage which means you HAVE to take them to the park to run their wiggles out every single day.
(No holing up in your home office writing code allowed at this stage in your life! But maybe one day.)
And conversely, if you’ve got a painting studio AND a newborn and you’re trying to keep your business together through the “post 6 months” baby season, you bet you’re sprinting to your easel as soon as you put your not-so-tiny bundle of joy down for his mid-morning nap so that you can knock out the background for your next commission – before starting the next one during his afternoon nap!
No two mom business owners are alike. So stop trying to cram yourself into the same mold as you’re seeing online.
Her way of working isn’t going to work for YOU – and that’s why.
(Like me, when I took 3 wrap-up days after a giant messaging push to match my “just came down from big project” mood as well as get to all the tiny things that I’d pushed off on purpose during said big push, because project based sprints are what work best for ME!)
But I’m never going to tell you to do EXACTLY what I do – just offer suggestions and options for you to pick from (‘cause when you hear the RIGHT option, something’s going to light up in your brain and you’ll know that’s the one).
Because you DO get to work fewer hours and spend MORE time with your kids, all by using a just-right-for-you calendar and to-do list system (I say system, but it’s actually really simple) to keep you on track for that goal.
It’s called scheduling. That’s why I teach it. Because your dreams are TOTALLY achievable with it.
So. Do you think you can overhaul your family’s weekday and weekend routines from a safer, more grounded, more in tune with what YOU need place?
If so, I’ll be waiting to help you. ‘Cause that is my jam.
Cheers!
