You’re doing too much around the house.
- Cooking most nights.
- Kitchen tidy up (all nights).
- Living room messes.
- Last minute grocery shopping (forgotten ingredients).
- Company cleanup.
- Closet decluttering (the mittens won’t pair themselves).
- Generic bathroom cleaning.
- “Just this once” laundry (though your kids are really old enough by now).
What would happen if you let yourself swap the end-of-day pickup for some evening Calm app, or switched social media scheduling for selfcare time mid-afternoon – or even traded food prepping for fun outings with your kids??
See, being a present mom – or even your own selfcare – was never meant to be an extra to-do on top of an already full schedule.
It’s supposed to be a tradeoff – outsourcing work you don’t need to be doing vs. quality time with your kids and recharging.
We’re not piling MORE onto your plate.
(But we’re not saying live with dirty floors and undone school lunches, either.)
You see how delegation is the key to an overwhelmed mom?
Whether it’s around the house or in your business, you’ve got at least 8 more things you can delegate (to kids, housekeeper, or VA)….
….Which is where that selfcare time comes in.
I’m not asking you to pile MORE onto your plate.
I’m asking you to let GO of something and let someone else handle it for you.
That’s the difference.
Sure, you can keep doing your kids’ laundry and prepping every stir fry or handling each new podcast booking on your own – but do you NEED to??
And if you let someone else do that for you, would you suddenly have the time to take that 2pm yoga class at your favorite studio, or read another chapter of Narnia to your 9-year-old post-supper….
Because you had the energy post-workout and knew that everything else on your list was already crossed off?
That’s the tradeoff every working-from-home mama needs to make.
And that’s why, when you’re coming to ME for help on how to get all those mythical spare hours back, I’m going to point you right back to household chores and delegation.
(Don’t worry, I’ll show you exactly which chores and exactly which kids need to help!)
‘Cause if I take THIS off my plate, and give it to someone else, NOW I have all the time I need for my family, my partner, and myself.
And believe me, I’ve tried all the things as a super productive, I can do it myself, independent woman business owner… only to run into the “but I’m running a family, and parenting kids takes way more energy than writing another email” reality.
So I have to SAVE my energy for all that “why you HAVE to do a good job on your chores” and “this is why mommy’s asking you to really try for an A on your schoolwork” conversations – because I DON’T know how long they’re going to take.
And I can’t ask my VA to do it.
So I’m going to clear my schedule, make myself AVAILABLE to my kids in the evening – and hand off however many chores or client check-ins were needed to accomplish that.
And I didn’t even have to turn into Superwoman to do it.
So let’s work this SAME magic for YOU.
Go find 4 things off your household to-do list – and another 4 from your business one – that need to get done, but don’t ACTUALLY require you (to be the one doing it).
They just need someone who knows how to cook, or clean, or schedule emails – you know, basic admin skills.
Now what you’re going to do, is set up the hand-off process to start your kids doing laundry, or chopping onions for that stirfry. Oh, and add that 2nd and 3rd line item (for content prep and client scheduling) to your VA’s to-do list.
Repeat until you’ve got enough margin in your schedule for the family time you’ve been craving, and the mommy recharge time you’ve been lacking.
Because 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.
