Creating Balance as a Mompreneur

Tegan: Mom, I'm not trying to 'get smart' or anything but sometimes I feel like you care more about your phone than me.

Yep, those words came from my 6-year-old daughter.

Talk about a punch to the gut, right?

The first thing I did was acknowledge how she felt and apologized. Although, I had a lot of things I really WANTED to say.

I'm not perfect. So take my tips with a grain of salt. I'm trying. Some days I'm able to get all of my work done before she comes home, some days I am not.

Read below to check out some things I am *actively* trying to achieve as a mompreneur.

Set Your Work Schedule

Create your work schedule—even if it needs to change daily/weekly. If your kids are school-age, I recommend choosing hours that are within the school day.

Pro Tip: In the summer, if your kids are not in camp, try setting work hours & creating boundaries with them.

Build Up Your Bribe Tools

Mama’s, sometimes you got to do, what you got to do. My favorite bribes are additional screen time, snacks, letting her pick the movie we watch, and lots and lots of cuddles.

Keep Your Promises

If you say you're going to be done at (insert time) and after that, you're doing to (insert promised activity), then you better do it. Work can wait. We don't want our babes to grow up thinking we cared more about work than them—because right now they're too young to understand that we're doing it FOR them.