Listen. I want you to take a deep breath now, and hear that it’s okay.
It’s okay to be on a roll with the biz stuff, feel the high-performer pressure, and then allow yourself to back off and just feel into your body.
To stop performing. Take a biz break day and just watch courses or catch up on biz podcasts. (Or do some next-season-clothes shopping for your kids, research a new appliance buy, or plan your next homeschooling purchase.)
You’re allowed to need to use some of your biz time on an out-of-the-norm family thing.
It’s okay.
You were performing, you were achieving, and you put out the stuff. Your launch is all scheduled. Your posts are ready to go.
You know what that means? You can take a break. You have the margin. You’re *allowed* to.
Because you’ve got a family that needs you – sometimes more than your business – and you’re *allowed* to show up as the woman who sometimes has life stuff take over.
You’re not just a single girl off in Bali living the online business dream. You probably never were.
And that’s not what you’re showing up for here, today.
You’re here for your family. You’re here for your business-with-a-family lifestyle. You’re here for the both-and.
But that means you have to be prepared for when your body, or your kids, or your vacation, tells you you need to take a break.
Slow down.
Stop the work.
Cut back to half-time hours.
Just for now; just for this season. Just for a little while.
Till you recover that high-performing energy, can’t *wait* to turn on that laptop again, and start creating some content.
Because you don’t have to be on all the time. Your hormones don’t *let* you be on all the time.
So it’s time you let yourself batch your content ahead, take biz breaks every quarter or semester if you need them, and really lean into that “I’m a woman with seasons” mentality for your *business*.
Because YOU’RE going to get done EVERYTHING your business needs – we both know you’re a high achiever, so that’s not even a question – so what we REALLY need to focus on here is giving YOU the permission to take enough time off for you to fully REGROUP.
Period, end of story. And if you need help with that (high, I’m a fellow high achiever), I’ll give you ALL the hacks inside my work/life balance coaching program for moms.
And you know what? I took 2 days off over the weekend despite feeling a lot of pressure (internal only!) to fix everything on my website.
(Because when I know better, I do better, and waiting 3 days to get the new copy up would be “wrong” – or so said my brain).
And you know what? All that hurry-hurry-can’t think straight self-talk disappeared the moment I came back to work Monday morning – strictly because I gave myself a break!
(You know, when you’re tired of hammering your way through the new angle you’re taking on launch copy, but it still isn’t done yet, and it feels like a personal failure to *not* finish before you wrap for the weekend? Except if you did *that*, it’d take all Saturday….)
- It’s *not* going to make or break your business if you leave your weekend website visitors with not-the-right copy or the *old* testimonials.
- You *aren’t* going to fail just because that one freebie sequence in Convert Kit wasn’t updated to your new links when all the others were.
- This *isn’t* a case of “you pushing through” equals success, and you taking a break means failure.
Nope – not going to happen.
Why?
Because you don’t have to go-go-go all the time to be worthy.
You learned that lesson in your mom life already. Right?
Now go apply it to your business.
Where do you need to schedule your next off-work week today?
