Wow. It’s been a LOT this week.
It’s April 1st and when you live in Louisville, Kentucky, that means the season has officially changed to Derby. The first Saturday in May is nearing and while my husband and I went to the track for about 20 years for the annual event, the past few years we’ve enjoyed staying home, working on the yard and hosting our kids’ friends. This year we are expecting a full house of almost-graduates from IU and a bunch of frat boys from UF. The dogs are in for lots of attention.
I finished up sharing my women-owned clients this week. If you haven’t gotten to learn about them all, check out my Instagram and enjoy.
Spring Break is starting this weekend and while I am no longer on that schedule, clients and team members are so we’ve been working round the clock to get things in place for absences and to be sure the clients’ communities don’t know the difference.
One kid has booked his flight home at the end of freshman year (that flew by) and the other is using every waking moment to network for a job, connect with her intended roommates and search for an apartment in the big city.
The puppy is getting trained so I’ve been schlepping her to day school all week and I’m looking forward to learning more about how I can better control this 80-pound dog built of all muscle. There are lots of changes and discussions about changes happening inside our home. We’ve almost made it through our first year of Empty Nesting and find ourselves talking about our future plans as well.
We’ve started working with a new client this week and are excited about learning her voice and honing her brand message.
One thing that can be a challenge during all these adjustments and side conversations is focusing on the work, and making sure that no matter what is happening in my personal life, the client isn’t back-burnered or inconvenienced. When you become an entrepreneur, that’s one of the challenges that has to be figured out, sometimes as you go. You can’t leave the office and then compartmentalize home-life.
Work-life integration is really how to make this all work. We’ve talked about this often on The Social Dialogue Podcast. It was a big topic on both our recent episode with Kate and Lindsey Latts and also with Jillian Bernstein. This week’s guest, Elizabeth Weprin (aka The Boca Mom), truly integrates her life into her work.
As I write this, I’ve just finished my workout and need to get over to my parents’ to help set the Passover Seder table, and I still need to figure out when to wash my hair (it must be done today, trust me).
When you work from home as an entrepreneur of any kind – whether you own the business or not – there really is no “I’m not working today.” There’s not a “Today I’m just going to be Mom/Wife/Friend/Self.” It’s all jumbled up and there’s no choice but to map it out, make a plan each day and go forward.
This time of year gets insane… when the kids were home, this was sort of the sprint to the end of the school year with parties and Derby and graduations and camp packing and finals and track meets and spring plays and closet cleaning and getting outside and cleaning up the flower beds and planting flowers and just… all of it. Much of that still exists, but the juggle just gets intensified this time of year.
My best advice? Find some time to block it all out. Take the breaks as you need them and take care of you.
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