The Best Time Management Decisions I Have Made As a Working Mom

In September 2014, my daughter was 3 months old and I was in the middle of multiple program launches, preparing for my first international speaking event in Brazil and pretty much trying to do it all. I thought I could be Superwoman. I had no handle on my time management. I was breastfeeding, pumping, getting mastitis every week because my daughter had a tongue tie but we were determined to make it all work. I felt like a failure and was completely miserable. I may be smiling but I am one exhausted mama with a baby that would not sleep. I had too much on my plate as a new mom running the behind the scenes of my company, creating content and marketing. Thank God I had a support group of entrepreneurs to lean on at that time. They asked me, “How many hours do you want to work each week?” I said, “I have no idea.” They asked me, “What is your working schedule? I said, “I don’t know.” It was very clear that I needed some major help. This was my lightbulb “time” moment that I will always remember as a turning point in my life. This was the difference between quitting or thriving. This is when I discovered these tools. When I asked and got support from those other entrepreneurs, I learned that I needed to be more disciplined than ever before if I was going to make my business really work and complete my purpose and calling in this life. I also needed to ask for help more and change my mindset. I did not need to do everything around the house, and also, be a wonderful mom and a kick-ass CEO.  Something had to give and let me tell you, it wasn’t going to be the mom part or the thing I was called on this earth to do. I didn’t need to be Superwoman. This is important so I am going to say it again. I am not Superwoman. I can’t do it all. I need help. There is one more mindset shift I made through the past 6 years of building my business. It has to do with your calendar. Did you know that you are in charge of it? You have total control of it! I know other people like to schedule things on it and other people need you to do this and that all of a sudden it stresses you out to look at it on Sunday night.