In 2020, I hired my friend Holly (time management queen👸🏽) to give me a crash course in time management that helped me go from "I just sit down and do stuff until I get distracted" to a color coded, pre-calendared, time blocked work week.

Now, we're both moms living and working on broken sleep, inconsistent childcare and feeling the pull between loving our work but also wanting to be with our babies as much as possible.

I still color code things sometimes in my calendar, but having a perfectly scheduled out, time blocked workweek is a thing of the past.

So much of our work as in motherhood has to happen in the cracks-

Between a call and heading out for daycare pickup.

Maybe 20 mins (if I'm lucky) of independent play before needing Mom again.

On a stroller walk for an overpriced (and much needed) iced coffee.

And when I first came back from maternity leave and was trying to settle back into my business, it didn't feel like that stuff 'counted'.

I missed my full, uninterrupted focus time.

And it's all too easy to lose even more precious time grieving our loss of time.

We end up scrolling, telling ourselves it's for *inspiration*,

or going over and over a to do list in our heads without actually doing any of the things on it.

We finish yet another day feeling behind, angry at ourselves for not being able to magically be the perfect mother, coach and business owner.

(especially because that one woman you follow on IG seems to be able to get it all done AND she also has four children)

None of this is actually a time management problem.

It's a cognitive flexibility problem.

When we're able to think about how we use our time flexibly and adapt our tasks to the capacity we have today...

It's still f*cking hard to find the time to do everything we want to do in our businesses while parenting.

But it becomes a lot easier to use the limited time we do have to move our businesses closer to where we want them to be.

In the newest episode of Building a Coaching Business in Motherhood, you'll hear...

• how to be more strategic with the limited time you do have
• the productivity 'hacks' that have saved me in the last few months
• how I know what's *worth* my time and what to let go of
• why cognitive flexibility is the missing time management skill for moms

​Listen to Time Management in Motherhood on Apple Podcasts​

​Listen to Time Management in Motherhood on Spotify​

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Talk soon,

Gillian Bennett

Instagram: @bitesizenutri ​

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