How to Schedule Your Day as a CEO... and Parent {Ep 043}

How to Schedule Your Day as a CEO… and Parent {Ep 043}

Here we are, my fellow business owners – it’s officially September. In 2020, the year of the unknown, and basically the entire world changing in front of our eyes. Back to school this year was different for almost every parent that I know, and it continues to be changing almost weekly. Some parents have been able to send their kids back to school and go back to really working on their businesses, but some are in situations they have never found themselves in before. Some are homeschooling, some are having to do a hybrid model online, and some are facing huge decisions because of all of this. And with all of the things that we have to look at when it comes to these changes, we are left with the question: how to schedule your day as a CEO and parent.

Even if you are NOT a parent or if your kids are grown, I want to encourage you to listen in, because this episode will be full of value for ALL business owners. Most of us have something else that we have to focus on, whether it’s our children, a parent, a day job, or something else that distracts us from really working ON our businesses, instead of IN our businesses. And I am saying this with all of the love in the world because guess what – I’ve been there. In almost all of these situations. And this episode is going to outline how we schedule our time as a family, with several sample schedules, depending on the stage of life that you’re in, when you’re trying to run a business and do LIFE all at once.

In this episode, we are going to walk through some of my strategies for scheduling life before and during 2020. I will talk more about our history with schooling and how we were thrown into online and homeschooling. If you are not one of those parents that was looking forward to homeschooling from day one – you are NOT alone – and you can still handle all of this! We are going to go through sample schedules, and how to schedule your day as a CEO and parent in several different situations.

SO MANY of my students have asked me how I schedule my days. I’m going to share all of my tips and tricks and the hard-earned, tear-filled lessons in this episode, but first, I want you to know one essential truth when it comes to how to schedule your day as a CEO and parent:

There is no one standard schedule that will work for every single person.

Yup – it’s true. We all have different demands on our time, requirements in our lives, and needs and wants, so my schedule may not necessarily be the best schedule for you. BUT I’m going to give you several as examples, and I want to to know, and feel empowered, so that when you are looking at how to schedule your day as a CEO and parent, you can approach it with grace and determination. Without a schedule or a plan, CEO’s and business owners can find themselves working NONSTOP – and let me tell you from personal experience, that is no way to live.

No matter what stage of life you’re in, whether you have kids or not, we all face chaos every that will force us to change our schedules. 2020 has given its fair share. Let’s all take a breath together and give each other some love, right? Then hit play and dive right in!

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Key Topics

Encouragement in These Difficult Times: Your Doing a Great Job!
Scheduling Ideas. Think outside the Box
You have the Power to Choose what Schedule Works best.

Major Takeaways

The big question – how do you schedule your days? (3:35)
A scheduling note to all CEO’s, parents or not. (3:59)
An inappropriate but awesome quote for working through difficult things (5:08)
Back to normal? We thought so right? But NOPE. (5:50)
Our history in childcare & being a working mom, then CEO mom, and how to schedule your day as a CEO and parent (9:04)
Thrown into online & at home schooling unexpectedly, what to do now? (12:49)
Thrown into homeschooling now, what next? (14:36)
Our school & business decision for the 2020-2021 school year (14:57)
Sample schedules and scenarios, everyone is so different! (15:47)
Scenario & CEO parent sample schedule 1 (16:36)
All the feelings… and not all good – you are not alone! (17:38)
Scenario & CEO parent sample schedule 2 (18:53)
Scenario & CEO parent sample schedule 3 (22:14)
Other options, thinking beyond the norm, outside the box (24:30)
The key to building a successful schedule for yourself as the CEO, and your family
Our homeschooling schedule, what worked and what didn’t (27:00)
A secret rule I implemented this year when it comes to screen time… (28:38)

Now What?

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How to Schedule Your Day as a CEO… and Parent {Ep 043}