Busy schedules. Constantly running around. That feeling that your brain is a computer browser with far too many tabs open... Running a business with kids can be exhausting! And it can make you feel like your time is never your own - like your kids and your business own you.

Which, your kids kind of do until they’re 18, and then even after that I hear they own a huge part of your heart still 😉 But your business doesn’t have to own you! Your business should be working FOR you and MAKING YOUR LIFE EASIER!

Is your business really making your life easier, though? Is it actually bringing freedom and peace and ease into your life? Or is it running your life? Driving you into exhaustion and anxiety because you feel like you can stay on top of everything?

Oh, girl, I feel you! Because I’ve been there too.

Most entrepreneurs, and especially us mums who are entrepreneurs, are constantly giving and giving and giving to the point where we will sacrifice ourselves even for our businesses. And yes, building a business does take work, and perseverance, and effort. But it shouldn’t consume us!

Still, it can feel like there is no way around the ridiculously late nights and the no sleep. The overwhelm and the busyness can actually somehow make us feel more virtuous - like we are better than that woman over there because we are doing SO much more.

But deep down inside we know we don’t want that constant sensation that we are drowning in a deep black sea of endless to-dos. We want to see our efforts make a difference in our business! And we want it all to just not be so hard.

I’ve stood in your shoes, Beautiful. I know how you feel. I used to write incredible copy for all my clients, every month, without any babysitting. I would work away after the kids went to bed till 1 or 2 in the morning (even though I’m not naturally a night owl!) and then wake up again at 6 with my youngest. And sometimes he woke up in the night too.

And I learned along the way how to at least simplify my own marketing so that I could just focus my time on my clients. Three of the ways that I learned to create a little more freedom in my business and really start living my best life are......are you ready?!

1. Prioritize!

List your tasks from the most important ones that are going to move the needle the most in your business and down. Then only focus on the top 3 tasks a day. (And if you complete those top 3 tasks in the morning and still have time to do more, you rock! Start on the next 3!)

2. Automations!

It takes a few extra hours upfront to set up all of the automations in your business (think: a welcome email sequence that is automatically sent out when ever someone downloads a freebie). But then you can sit back and relax and not worry about making sure everyone gets their freebie delivered to them as soon as they download. And you won’t have to worry that you have let new subscribers slip through the cracks without receiving a lovely nurturing sequence first.

3. Batch create!

Batching your marketing content: social media captions, blogposts or podcasts, and newsletters!

I know, I know - it takes SO much time to batch your marketing content. In fact, that was why I didn’t do it for a long time myself. I just literally didn’t have enough time to write more than one Instagram caption or one set of podcast notes at a time. So I didn’t! And I kept spending an hour a day minimum just on my own marketing content creation. It was exhausting! And the I finally just dive into batching. Literally, I cleared an entire week and all I did during nap times and early in the morning was batch my content. And it made the rest of the month so much easier! (And then I developed the Copy Club where I do all the batching for you so you can experience the ease of batched content without having to put in all the hours...