What it means to me to be an entrepreneur and a mom**
**This is my specific list – others lists would be completely different than mine…it’s not a contest, nobody is ‘winning,’ we’re all just doing the best we can. Honesty is my goal here.
- It means staring into the future and seeing very clearly a vision, but having no idea how I’m going to get there
- It means protecting my work time from others and from myself, so that I can be productive in the short amount of hours that I have
- It means not showering for 3-5 days on a (very) regular basis because my personal hygiene never seems important enough to give up doing something else
- It means waking up at 4:30am to get my workout in and plan my day before my son wakes up, and it means going to bed at 8:30pm so that I can do it again tomorrow
- It means between 4:30am and 6:30am, glancing from the monitor to the clock every few minutes and saying “pleeeeease keep sleeping”
- It means loving my instant pot
- It means loving frozen veggies, caulipower pizzas, and breakfast for dinner (whatever is fast and healthy right?!)
- It means I have dirty carpets 90% of the time
- It means not leaving my house for entire weeks and going completely stir crazy
- It means constantly finding the balance – between work and play, busy and bored, looking up from the computer to simply sit on the floor with my son and letting go of the 100 things I have to do, but also sometimes letting him figure it out for himself because I can’t be there for his every wish….dinner needs to get slapped together, emails must be answered and yes, sometimes Mama simply has to shower.
- It means finally letting go over the pressure I’ve created for myself because it’s a necessity…I no longer having the luxury to freak out over
- The house not being clean enough
- Dinner not being good enough
- Making a mistake
- Not answering every email, every day
- My tummy not being flat enough
Updated after my 2nd son was born:
- It means nursing my baby while on conference calls
- It means delegating way more than I typically would and giving up on self imposed deadlines
- It means getting crazy specific about priorities and letting go of everything else
- It’s flying across country to appear on Shark Tank at 31 weeks pregnant
- It’s getting up at 4am to work and handing my son my phone to look at pictures when he gets up too early
- And it’s letting my house get messy, feeling behind on dinner prep, and zeroing in on priorities out of necessity.
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