You pry your eyes open, hit the “off” button, roll out of bed….
Wellness professional or not, you KNOW you aren’t getting enough sleep (or protein, for that matter).
It’s just, there’s SO much going on.
Softball practice, away games, those riding lessons your mom is paying for….
No one’s making time for YOU, so you suck it up and push your way through the day (again). Even though you know better.
Even though you know that if you keep on doing this, you’re going to end up with adrenal fatigue, laid out on the couch, completely unable to handle your regular responsibilities.
And yet, that picture doesn’t scare you.
What REALLY scares you is the thought of taking time away from the kids for a solo walk this afternoon, cooking food YOU’D like to eat for a change, and announcing you’re not supervising kitchen cleanup or baths tonight (so you can veg out on your own, in peace and quiet).
THAT’S what really frightens you.
Because if you actually wanted to avoid adrenal fatigue, you know exactly what you’d do.
- Drink a green smoothie.
- Go to bed an hour earlier.
- Work out every other day.
- Meditate 5 minutes each morning.
- List out 5 gratitudes each night.
You KNOW all this – it’s your niche, for crying out loud – yet something’s keeping you back.
It’s the radical amount of CHANGE your family would experience if you took care of yourself.
- If you weren’t there to rescue someone from forgetting his homework or permission slip…
- If you insisted on your own space, at least an hour a day, NO interruptions…
- If you weren’t available at all hours of the day – aka, you had clear work boundaries…
- If you required your kids to learn basic cooking and cleaning skills, then handed your current housekeeping chores off to them…
How much family upset would happen??
Like, are you THAT afraid of what setting the tone for your kids (around personal responsibility, life skills, and respect for time) would demand from you?
It looks like redirecting your husband’s complaints to kid number 3 (every time he notices mold in the shower) – whoever cleaned it should get the talking to, not you.
Plus docking their allowance every time the boys forget to sweep the floor (and you get ants all over the kitchen again).
Or asking the teen who’s in charge of supper what she intends to do about the rice not being cooked, when you all need to leave for the game in 25 minutes – just tell her the different starch options in the fridge, and let HER choose which one she’s going to sub.
In short, it looks like outsourcing – not so you can get more work done – but so you can get more RECHARGE done.
And it’s not going to happen until and UNLESS you’re willing to bite the bullet on delegation.
(So I’ll be there every step of the way in my “take back 20 hours per week” program, finding the “outsource next” spots and probing the “why don’t I want to let go of this” mindset blocks and holding your hand through this entire “off my plate” process.)
Because deep down, you never had a vision problem.
You had a “can I handle the firestorm as a recovering people-pleaser” problem.
So why don’t you get out of your own way, outsource this to me, and get back to the stress-free work-at-home mom life you’ve been craving?
Seriously, it’s that easy.
DM me when you refuse to live another day too stressed out to be present with your kids.
