What you do EVERY day is far more important and impactful that what you do ONE DAY.
It is an “always” role. I don’t ever stop being a mom, and I don’t put on and take off my “business hat.” These identities are part of who I AM.. I don’t “play” mom or business owner. I AM mom and business owner.
You must trust the process. Results are never guaranteed.
Having fun can save a bad day, or a bad deal.
LOVE covers a multitude of wrongs…. loving your children AND loving your market.
Get to know their friends… intimately. It matters. With kids, and with your clients.
It is about permission…. permission to influence. Earn it. Daily. And never take it for granted.
Taking care of YOU is central to being able to do everything else.
Comparison is the THIEF of joy. I KNOW that I’m the mom that screams the loudest at the game, and knows the least about the play. I know my kids think their friends’ moms (literally, all of them) cook better than me. I’m the mom who forgot school project supplies, and whispered into the phone asking her kids to forge permission slips I forgot to sign. I stopped comparing a long time ago. I just do me. In business, in life, in parenting… and I am a lot happier that way.
You have to do what’s right, no matter what others may think. In parenting, I’ve been called too strict and too lenient…. too mean and not mean enough… In business, I’ve walked away from amounts of money others thought foolish (and maybe weak) and have turned down gigs and clients that weren’t aligned. I just have to follow my heart. On everything.
Failure isn’t final. That time the police came looking for one of my kids who was BARELY a teenager… was a (now funny) story, not a life sentence. As a parent, my world has occasionally been rocked, but with DAILY attention, it always gets righted again.
Sometimes you just HAVE to have their backs… no matter what. This is for kids and for clients. Sometimes, you just stiffen your spine and support them… because it’s the right thing to do.
Other times, you’ve got to call people out… because you LOVE them, and because sugar coating it isn’t doing anyone any favors.
Pray a lot. Because these kids, my legacy, this business… all of it, is too big for me.
Get to know them as PEOPLE…. My kids aren’t just extensions of me, and my clients aren’t just checks. I learned to be curious about my kids and my clients…. to look at them, OFTEN, in Awe of who they are, what they are becoming, what they bring to the world… how different they are from ME, and from each other. I have never desired little clones, not in kids and not in my community. Our differences are what make us interesting.
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