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

2 more things just hopped onto your to-do list – which means your lunch break today is now 12 minutes shorter.  But wait - that “to-do list elasticity” is actually the gremlin of all your “ease and flow” work hours. So stop putting up with “never done till 9pm” homework, and start doing THIS instead ‘Cause you’ll never change if you never try something different. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your...

Want to see how I pick my own set of biz priorities for myself?  (When I'm sitting down to do the weekly content planning, podcast batching, or just backend launch task collecting.) Here’s how I plan my business priorities week to week, and all the nitty gritty tasks that go with them - because I built my workflows around guaranteeing that everything I need to cross off today - aka, TRULY nee...

What happens when you’re STILL not at your planned-for client load, but you’ve penciled in your daily work time blocks and you’ve hit calendar capacity? Facts are facts; the calendar doesn’t lie. You DON’T have enough time for everything you need to do.  Here’s what I told my client when she complained to me that she couldn’t fit in her social media scheduling, client fulfillment, CEO day, AND per...

Here’s how to triage your to-do list - because all a priority task list really is, is that you first brain dump out every single thing you’re working on, think you should be working on, or are planning to work on.  (All of it. I don’t care if it takes up 20 pages of your Google doc; just get it all down!) And then this is what you do with every single line item on it. (It’s like giving yourself wh...

Today we have a bonus episode for you when you’re wondering, is this it? When purpose feels foggy.  We’re bringing on a guest, Joyce Awuro-Tani, to talk about purpose and mission as entrepreneurs.  You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/   Joyce's links:   Get your copy of BLOOM: https://www.amazon.com/Bloom-Unexpected-Dr-Timogi-Jackson/...

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about answering the call of purpose as moms and business owners.  We’re bringing on a guest, Audrey Rindlisbacher, to talk about your overarching mission as an entrepreneur.  You’ve got this! Alyssa Audrey's free audiobook: The Mission Driven Life Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/   If you're curious about th...

When you can’t handle another decision on your plate - it feels like you’ve got way too many things going on to even pick your top 2 or 3 priorities this quarter (let alone semester) - you actually don’t have a decision-making problem at all. It’s really a “my brain is too overloaded to process any more information” one. Because if you’d committed to a certain level of work hours – and you had too...

You’ve already put the need-to-get-done items ON that CEO to-do list..... Why don’t you live by the triage method and be the boss of your to-do list? It’s time to think critically about what’s ON your to-do list, not just show up to cross it off. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/   Subscribe to your weekly Mompreneur Life Made Easy! If...

This case study comes from one of my clients, who’d scheduled her homeschooling block right before her work time block, but then found that her homeschooling time wasn’t necessarily always ending right when it needed to and thus she was getting shorted on her work hours to fulfill client projects.  (Not a good thing, let me tell you!) Because you know kids are kids - some math lessons are harder t...

It’s all a matter of essentialism – of business decluttering – to get you as streamlined as you can possibly be – which means as reliable as possible about checking off those “have to happen by end of day” to-do lists. You see.... I wasn’t always an essentialist.  I didn’t always have this ability to hone in on the most important thing in my to-do list and just do that.  I wasn’t always the person...

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about overcoming anxiety - effective strategies for managing and overcoming the stresses of everyday entrepreneurial life.  We’re bringing on a guest, Elisha Lee, to talk about tactics and trends she’s seen as a therapist around anxiety, specifically for women in business.  Hit play to find out what an actual therapist has to say about stress for working m...

Newsflash: you’re already in a master’s level business program. When you’re scaling your business, or bringing on multiple team members for the first time, it’s kind of like you’re starting a new degree. It’s a finite time period, with noticeable workload, that produces a specific result. And everyone in your family knows to work around that (i.e., expect you to be spending evenings and weekends o...

Listen - you’re allowed to hold boundaries with your toddler and reserve naptime for yourself & your business.  You’re NOT being a bad mom for sending her back to her room at nap. Because part of working from home is having the confidence that everything your business needs today got checked off - and that directly crosses over into your mindset. You have to know that you’re being a good mothe...

Every time you sign a few more clients (yay, money!), you get overwhelmed.  Then you overwork to keep up, overcompensate, and inevitably, burn out.  It’s become a pattern. So here’s my anti-brain-fog suggestion that lets you hit the reset switch and hit the ground running (AFTER you do this one thing!) to efficience-ize your schedule You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home m...

How do you readjust your week’s workflow when you know you’re going to catch the family bug sooner or later… but you’ve got clients and students and deliverable projects to keep in the air?? (And inside you’re resenting your kids for ruining your nice, was-going-to-be-productive week and swapping it out for taking care of sickies!) The one thing I for-sure-for-sure know is that if you’ve got THIS...

You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to take time for, too. And the reason you haven’t done anything about it yet is that you’re on contract with each and every one of those clients, so you don’t wan...

If you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going. Because unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores…. ….Which means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them. Because the first and primary way you’re going to have less on your plate to do around the house - i.e., permanently do less housework - is with the two magic words of “kids” and “deleg...

You’re battling the same sneaky story that your brain likes to tell you - that it’s your fault for not being gracious enough and understanding enough and reframing your frustration with your team…. Newsflash: you aren’t supposed to be resenting anything in your ideal everyday life! That’s a red flag that something’s wrong. So why are you sitting there, stewing in your own “should I say something t...

You’re already sold on morning routines, but which is better - knocking out 5 chores before the kids get up, or using your precious quiet hours to pour into yourself? Because you know you need to schedule in your personal recharge time on the daily, and morning’s one of the easiest times to actually guarantee it….  (Aka, win-win for your scheduling process….) But should you ACTUALLY be doing it? R...

Because it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s yours. If you’re not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a “you” issue. Listen - your task list does not have the ability to burden you. (From Allie Casazza.)  It’s how you think about it that’s affecting you. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life again as a work...

You know WHY the "fit everything in" hacks you’ve been trying haven’t worked for you yet? ​Because they’re not the full picture. They’re just the strategy part. Those gurus are forgetting that you have kids, and you can’t just wake up at 5am every day to bang out 4 hours of work like nothing else exists. You have luteal cycles. You have motivation dips. You have wake-in-the-middle-of-the...

It’s like Saturday is hiding out from you, hoping you won’t notice that it’s stolen most of the to-do list and hoarding all those tasks to dump on you! But good news, here’s how my latest client and I dealt with the chore hideout monster. S.’s words after we finished our “chase the chore monster out of hiding” session were, “Yay, all fixed - no more pushing through!” Which is exactly what I want f...

It's just time management, following through on your to-do list, using your time buckets like crazy, and delegating something. Lots of somethings. That’s how it’s all “fitting in” for them.  Which means you can do it all, too. We’re going to leverage the twin turbochargers of time blocking it all out plus outsourcing everything that DOESN’T necessarily have to be done by you.  Because you’ve...

Because every mom deals with guilt.  The only question is what that guilt’s going to be about. Using the frozen pizza one night instead of cooking from scratch for optimum nutrition? Letting your phone play babysitter once too often? Not running a business to bring your gifts to the world?  So let’s stop with this idea that the mere existence of you having mom guilt as a CEO mother means you’re do...

If you’ve got a ton of stuff going on, you have to be way more strict about holding yourself to pre-determined timelines and boundaries for when you have to shift tasks. Because all you need to do is firmly wall off your creative work time – no Slack messaging with clients allowed! - and give yourself the ironclad “only do this” boundaries your brain needs.  And poof, your copy gets written and yo...