Ok - I know I haven’t been here for two days… but - it’s out of busy-ness, not lazyness.

Tuesday, I accompanied my daughter’s class on their field trip to Longwood Gardens. That was a ton of fun. One of the reasons I love being the boss is, I get to have a flexible schedule and rearrange things so I can be really involved with my daughter.

My mom could never do those things - she was a single mom taking care of two kids. She had to answer to a few bosses, and she had a set amount of time off.

I remember watching how stressed my mom would get about work, and I remember her not being able to attend school plays, or dance recitals because of it. I vowed that I would not let that happen… that’s probably a huge reason I abhor working for someone else…

Let’s talk about what actually happens though, when I take time out of the office. I talk to all sorts of Mom’s out there who work for someone else and think that I can just come and go as I please - that my business is just a cover for sitting around watching soap opera’s and eating bon-bons all day. Though I do enjoy General Hospital… I don’t blow off my work to watch it
Even though I’m a solo-preneur, I still have clients that I work with (and for), and I still have projects and deadlines - my business does move forward… just like a “traditional” job. I cannot do whatever I want, whenever I want… if I do that, my business will stall. So I do need to stick to a plan, be focused and be smart about my time. I think entrepreneurs have it tougher than those in Corporate because, we have to wear ALL of the hats in the business. We decide what to work on, when to work on it, how to work on it… and I know that sounds glamorous… but it can be nerve wracking too. It all falls on our shoulders. If something doesn’t get done - the buck stops here. That’s a lot of pressure!

When I’m not here, work doesn’t get done. I have to make that time up somewhere. And it’s usually in the evenings. After Drew comes home, he can spend time with the Maddster and I can go back into the office for a few hours and catch up.

Even though I get to have a flexible schedule - it doesn’t mean I can take time off willy-nilly. I still have to plan, and shift, and re-focus.

I don’t want to make it sound like it’s a grind - because it isn’t… but it’s just not all the fun and fancy stuff all the time either!

Ok - so that was my day on Tuesday. Yesterday, I was making some changes to my website (I’m about to unveil two NEW services!!!!!!!! Look for that in the coming days!), and, I was prepping for our Law of Attraction Seminar - Allow Your Dreams that took place last night. It was a roof-blowing-off sort of experience. The energy was high, the participants ROCKED and I’m already hearing about the results some people are experiencing!

Yesterday was one of those days where, every hour or so, I would say “ok, I gotta get over to the blog and post…” and then another hour would go by… the next thing I knew, I was hanging up the phone from the seminar and the day was over.

I started to beat myself up when I realized I hadn’t blogged - and it had been two days. I wanted to do this whole Authentic Self Project for the business and blog every day about what it was like to be an entrepreneur… but ya know what? I decided that not blogging for two days WAS authentic. My schedule got a little crazy, and that’s ok.

When you’re balancing a business, a family, a social schedule - it can get crazy. And sometimes, certain things have to wait. It’s ok to (responsibly) let some things slide. If you’re honest with yourself and anyone else that’s involved in the activity you need to let go of, it all turns out just fine.

One of the big things I learned this year is, we can have it all… we just can’t DO it all. It’s ok to ask for help, and it’s ok to release things that no longer serve.

What do you do when you realize certain things keep slipping down your to-do list?

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