“Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today.” ~ Greg McKeown
But what does this REALLY mean, practically speaking, for your life as a work-from-home, business-owning mom?
And isn’t “watching Netflix with my husband at 9pm” all the “recovering” I need to do?!
Um, no. It isn’t.
Not by a long shot.
Try “chopping my to-do list short enough that I NEVER get the 3pm energy doldrums anymore” instead – for a start.
And no, this isn’t a one-time fix – you’ll have to keep rejiggering how much rejuve time you need, every time your business or family season changes….
But it’s a heck of a lot better than waiting 17 years till your kids are out of the house and you can enjoy all the peace and quiet again.
And listen, I have to do this, too – I’d gotten myself WAY too mentally overloaded (not actually overloaded, just FELT like it)….
But just 5 weeks after I’d been wailing to my own mindset coach about how much work I had to do (because of scaling), and how this was throwing me – I was straight back to my normal haunts of “needing” to attend business events live, rather than waiting for the replay (to skip all the boring parts!), to have enough to do during the business day.
‘Cause I’d already checked all my marketing and content and client activities (plus the homeschooling!) off.
Things CAN change for you, really quickly – but it was AFTER I did all the work to reframe my mindset and journal out what I needed in my schedule that the mental switch finally flipped for me.
But also, I’d point out that my recovery was blazingly fast – because 2 of those 5 weeks were on vacation!!
So this is why I’m always going to center you back on MINDSET when you’re snarled up a little (or a lot) with your business schedule, family schedule, or the intersection thereof.
Because once you give yourself the PERMISSION to go there – to stop when you need to stop, and not a minute later – you reshape every part of your “rest worthiness” thinking.
And once THAT happens, your new “get to be filled up” self is unstoppable. (Plus business life is so much more fun!)
So for you, where do YOU need to cut most in your daily schedule?
Is it the number of calendar appointments you’re fielding, or how long your Trello task cards are stretching, or just plain the number of client calls you’re fulfilling?
Take a look at THAT – at the nitty gritty details of what you’re showing up for each and every day, under the business hat – and start using Greg McKeown’s “recover-ability” formula for your time-and-task containers every single day.
I promise you, something’s going to change.
