One of the biggest misconception’s about balancing life as a mom is that “balance is about equal time” and that limiting un-true belief can lead to so much guilt.
Guilt when you are thinking you should be spending more time with your kids.
Guilt when you think you should be spending more time working on your business.
Guilt when the tasks aren’t completed. The house isn’t as clean. The project isn’t as good.
When you aren’t like “the other moms”
When your business isn’t as successful as the “other ones”
Trying to make sure everyone gets a good piece of you so they can be happy and thriving.
But you are not a pie. 🥧
Being cut up and handed out to all the people and things in your life.
This is not balance. 😳
Think more about balancing on one foot.
The weight of your body is not evenly distributed. It is not equal.
But you can easily maintain your balance when you center yourself. When you engage your core.
Someone can try to push you over.
Add weight to one side or the other.
But you can maintain balance if centered and engaged. You can stay present.
Like a tree. Strong and centered in its trunk and able to extend it’s branches from that strong core. 🌳
This is the same way you achieve and maintain balance as a mom entrepreneur.
When you create balance like this the guilty thoughts that make us feel terrible are no longer nagging at us.
👉Thoughts like :
“it’s selfish of you for having a business”,
“selfish that you are taking any time away from the kids”
“selfish for even wanting a business”…
Thinking that your kids will suffer if you aren’t 100% present all the time.
These are all thoughts, that can create those feelings of guilt. We have those thoughts because of our limiting beliefs and misconceptions about balance and motherhood.
What about you? Are you a pie being divided up and handed out or are you a tree? 🥧 🌳
