Being a stay at home mom, blogger, and you-tuber, can be exhausting and have its challenges. Sometimes you just don’t feel like, staying in bed that day sounds and feels like a grand idea. But what about your business, will it suffer because of this break? Will you miss an important opportunity to grow? Why do you want to take a break in the first place? And most important question is, if you push yourself through it will your body force you to break at a crucial time? These are very important questions one must ask themselves especially when you’re not feeling as bossy that day. Sure you can push through and take a break when it’s all said and done. But how long will it take you to get to that point? Is pushing through worth it?
As a person who just started, I can say that there are times where I’m just full steam ahead for my business. I even try to shut the world out, but then I remember that I am also someone’s mother, a newlywed wife, and Lord knows that if I don’t clean my house the way I want it, it will just be a distraction from work. For me working at home is really challenging. I have my son running around, we just moved across 2 states into a new town and house, and not to mention that my husband also works from home. So there are constant distractions.
Now this may just be me and I may just have a problem but for some reason I cannot get any work done when I know that there is laundry, dishes, and errands that need to be done. I literally have to prep the house the day before in order to get work done. As well as advise my husband who gets up way before me that I will be working late so therefore do not disturb. And my son, well I just have to work that in all day until he goes to daycare in August. My point is I have to schedule how my day is going beforehand so that I don’t get burned out. Yes life throws curve-balls but for the most part I control my day. So if I have been running around weeks on end and can feel my body shutting down, I schedule me time. This is the most important thing to schedule.
Scheduling me time is a blessing. It not only recharges you but it also gets you ready to be in full boss-mode at all times. Think about, if you don’t schedule a girls night, date-night, day at the salon, go to the nail shop, or do whatever it is you enjoy doing that causes the least amount of stress. Eventually your body will shut down for you. And believe me no one wants that or to be around a depressing Patti. Think about it, being a boss is really being able to juggle business life and personal life. You have to be creative at all times and this will show your ingenuity. This level of bossy-ness is fun for me because while my husband is exhausted from just one job I get to rub in his face that I am a Jack of all trades. And the list of things that I have finished for the day is the icing on the cake. Now, I’m not saying be a pain to your spouse because we know that there are some who do just as much. But let’s be real, women do so much. Even when we’re quiet and thinking. LOL
All I’m saying is that in order to be a boss you have to delegate what is important and schedule everything else around that. Even if your schedule changes or life changes. Just breathe, think, and execute. Believe me it will go a long way and you will be in boss-mode even longer and appreciate it more.
Thanks for reading… SimplyBetty101