The Unbusy Mom: For Entrepreneur Moms Tired of Waking Up to the Same Tuesday

Today we’re talking about how to get your productivity (which just means the tasks you’re working on today) in line with your priorities. If this sounds strange to you, let’s unpack it a little. Productivity is just a fancy word for what you’re putting on your to-do list. Today’s topics: The difference between productivity and your real priorities How to align the nitty gritty tasks on your to-do...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re talking about the real truth if you’re afraid that starting a business means taking time away from your kids. Are you cringing inside at the thought of your kids finding out you have something else to do with your life?  Something that you genuinely want to spend your time and your talents on, that’s not about them? Let’s find out what you’re really afrai...

So one trap moms often fall into is thinking, “Well, but I might regret making that change. My family won’t like it. Or it won’t turn out to be the right thing for me. So I better not try it.” Here’s why I can practically *guarantee* that you’re never going to wish you’d kept everything the same….  Today’s topics: Why imperfect action is the key to your ultimate success What to do if you’re worrie...

Do you realize that as a mom, you’re allowed to delete things? Pause a moment and let this really sink in.  As one of my clients said, “Why is this so hard? What are the pressures I feel that make it so hard to just delete something from my life?” Today’s topics: Powerful prompts to uncover why you’re actually scared to delete commitments from your calendar The parallel between stuff clutter and c...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re talking about what to think about if you’re trying to DIY your way to business results (plus when you need to quit!). How much time are you wasting by saving money? Because at a certain point, you have to invest seed money and learn how to do the skills. Episode transcript: https://yourunbusylife.com/trying-to-diy-your-way-to-business-results   If you&apo...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about why you feel so much more productive when your house is tidy. Yes, it’s a thing – a neat and tidy house makes you feel more productive. This is what one of my clients discovered for herself recently. It’s like decluttering is the secret hack to get you into the productivity zone for your business! (Or any of your home chores, for that matt...

Do you know when you're most productive in the morning?  And are you blocking out that time for yourself, or are you letting it get taken up with everyone else's to-dos and chore lists for you? Today's rut-changing quote is from Allie Casazza, who says, “I respect myself enough to block out my mornings and shift my work schedule according to how I need it to be to make me at my opti...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about what happens when deciding what you’re going to do today takes up way too much of your time. We’ve all done it. It has to happen, you’ve got to choose today’s to-do’s, and it’s a crazy time suck. See, we don’t need to waste time making ourselves wrong for how our brain works. We just need to take the easiest way around it, and get back on...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about how I’d have you make over your day if you’re a mom of preteens (and they just switched class schedules). Ever wondered exactly what I’d have you tweak in your day if you were my client? Well, you’re in luck, because if you’re a mom of preteens who just switched classes (and now you need to overhaul your schedule!), that’s the topic of tod...

Listen - restoring yourself is the most important to-do.  Do you really believe this? And if you do, are you acting like it? Today’s topics: How to pinpoint the “not enough margin” problems in your daily schedule Practical, nitty gritty strategies for moms to add in rest during your business day Why taking breaks allows you to be the best coach or website designer or service provider possible Quit...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re talking about why you need to get out of this time management trap NOW if you’re a 6-figure business owner. If you’ve hit the 6-figure mark, you may be thinking that you’re immune from all this productivity advice.  You don’t need it anymore; you’ve already hit your goals, and unless it’s something about team, you don’t need to pay attention to it. Here’s...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about how to keep going when you’re doing the time management work, but not seeing any results yet. ‘Cause sometimes the results you see from a productivity reboot are instantaneous – and sometimes you have to stick with it just a little while longer!   Episode transcript: https://yourunbusylife.com/not-seeing-results-yet   If you're curiou...

Will self care turn me into a narcissist?  Won't selfcare make me selfish? Isn't it fundamentally self-indulgent? Aren't I already taking too much time off? That's the question that's top of mind for most moms as soon as I tell them they need to be taking more time off. Today’s topics: What's really beneath this from a self-worth level How much alone time is right for...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re talking about upgrade culture vs. uplevel culture: which mindset is right? (Or are they both wrong?) An upgrade is allowing yourself to have a newer, better, fancier something that’s already in your life. (More travel, nicer clothes, sushi instead of McDonald’s, you get the drift.) An uplevel is when you branch out into something new for you, often with s...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about how to use your intuition correctly to guide your next life choice – ‘cause yes, you’ve got a gut instinct that’s worth following. Here’s how.  Because there’s one thing for sure – just being told to “follow your gut instinct” isn’t enough to make it happen! (I’m sorry, we don’t all just intuitively “get” this.) Are you making the right ch...

All right. You got up today and started through the motions, same as always. But at some point, you stopped to think. Is this all there is? Is this ever changing? Am I always going to have to slog through (the breakfast rush, school drop-off, night wake-ups) like this? Today’s topics: What future you has to do with your present How to pinpoint what your ideal self is actually doing Journal prompts...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re asking, are you making mom life hard just to prove a point? Here’s how to stop and let rest back in. I want you to give yourself permission to choose ease.  Yes, you. Right now. Exactly where you are.  In the middle of your kids’ messes.  In the middle of that new baby, or launch for your business, or family drama that’s swallowing up all your emotions. C...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about how you can take multiple days off work when you need time to get ready for the new school year – or whatever your reason is. You know that dream of “I take whatever days off I want to with my family, whenever the need arises”? Well, my client started doing that – automatically – without me even telling her to, before she’d even finished h...

So your kids have outgrown naps. And now your lovely, quiet-filled afternoon schedule has completely collapsed, never to be seen again. Screech - rewind!  No, that's not how this is going to happen. You get to have a little something different about your day going forward - aka, you get to keep naptime (even when your kids are older). Today’s topics: How to swap naptime for quiet time with yo...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re talking about why you’re allowed to take a break from being “mom” for 2 hours – plus how to do it. Listen – you’re allowed to take yourself out of the house for a few hours, and leave your husband with the kids. You’re allowed to go to the grocery store by yourself instead of letting them all come with you if you’re at the end of your rope and really need...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about what happens when you take a vacation when you didn’t intend to – aka, how to fix a work backlog!   Because sometimes your husband takes a day off when *he* needs to, but you couldn’t afford to skip everything on your own schedule.   But you did.   And now, you have to pick up the (productivity) pieces.   How do you cram a multi-day to-do...

Have you fallen into this trap? The "I must master everything" trap? It's propagated by well-meaning coaches. Taught by outsourcing industry experts. Passed on by older moms, well-intentioned-ly mentoring younger ones. But I call bunk. Today’s topics: Why you don't’ need to prove you can master something first before you’re allowed to outsource it What performing from weakness...

This is motivation Monday, and today we’re talking about why keeping your house perfect shouldn’t be your top priority as a mom. Does that sound counter-intuitive? Counterproductive, maybe? (You don’t know what my kids are like! If I weren’t on top of the house, there’d be mud all over every surface, every day!) Sure, sure – I get that. But I’m asking about your priorities here. Is your true prior...

This is a Client Case Study, and today we’re talking about what to do if your kids are skipping chores because it’s summer break – but expecting you to do them!   Because it’s totally understandable why you’re feeling like this, and yes, it needs to change (the chore load, not your feelings).   Here’s what I told my client when she was in this situation (is this you, too?): ·        totally overwh...

Today we’re talking about why your handicap is actually your greatest strength (both in #momlife and in biz). This is a really weird thought, right? That the way you handle your "handicap" frees or chains other women who have that same exact trait? (Think generationally - your daughters?) Listen to what Jennifer Allwood says: "The enemy wants to take what God has gifted you with and...