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do that, you will see you can do more in the time you have to work.
Taking time for just you, allows your brain to recharge - constantly focusing on the same thing often makes you lose sight of the overall picture.
For the holidays themselves; plan and communicate clearly with your customers the days you will not be working - it is easier when you have been really clear up front!
REMOVE GUILT
It is so normal for business owners to feel guilty and especially women feel this - we somehow feel that we have to be with our kids every minute they have us around.
Don’t get me wrong; I know about the guilt, I feel it too.
But you know what - I then instantly tell myself too that my kids learn from me; by them seeing me work at home they learn you have to work REALLY hard if you want to achieve things that make you happy.
Thing is too; it is not going to be like this forever - slower times will come too and then you can do LOADS of fun things with them - you know?
And once our businesses just FLY and take off - well then we can employ people that do all the work FOR us and we can just go hang out on a beach somewhere!