When you’re a mum, you may also want to have some time to yourself still and feel like you’re building a career. But that can be hard when you want to devote as much of your time and energy to your children as possible. Yet, it is doable! It’s all about having the right balance between them. So in this blog post, we will look at how you can manage it.
Get Yourself Organised
First of all, you need to be organised. When you’re looking to balance more than one thing in your life, you need to be on top of it. Having schedules here can help. That way, you can be super clear on what’s going on in your children’s lives but also have a set schedule for the business that you can plan around this too. Using calendars and scheduling apps can be helpful here.
Find a Good Balance
The next thing that you’re going to want to do is make sure that you’re able to balance the business and mum’s life well. This can be hard to do, but there are always ways for you to separate the two. Here, making sure that you get a reconditioned iPhone to do business on can help to physically separate the two worlds. That way, you can find a good balance between both.
Set Limits and Boundaries
However, you also need to be able to find a good balance between them in terms of your time, energy, and attention. You won’t want the mum guilt to be setting in. So here, you’ll find that setting boundaries can make a world of difference. It might be that you want to limit the time you work on your business to set hours in the day, and then set boundaries with customers and clients around your availability too.
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Be Passionate About What You Do
When life is busy and you’re feeling like you’re juggling many things, passion helps. Actually enjoying everything you do makes it feel much less burdensome. So here, one thing that you’re really going to want to make sure applies is that you’re passionate about what you’re doing. If the work you do or the business you start doesn’t fill you with joy, it might just make you feel stressed! So if you want to manage your small business venture well, make sure that you’re in love with what you do. That way, it will feel worth it.
Don’t Pressure Yourself
However, as much as you’ll want to give this your all and enjoy building a business in your own time, you won’t want to pressure yourself too much. Ultimately, it needs to work around your children and parenting. Otherwise, you may experience too much Mum guilt. This is why finding a balance and setting boundaries can be useful here. But you also need to ensure that you’re not putting too much pressure on yourself here. Make sure that you enjoy what you’re doing, that you keep an open mind, and that you’re happy to see how things go.
