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So many things that you seehappening like that maybe are
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not working for, you canactually be accomplished or
addressed by changing just onething.
And I'm going to be sharing somestuff in this episode I'll be
sharing like my 80, 20 rule.
What is my 80 20, what is my bigdomino that knocks down all the
other dominoes?
What is the 20% that isaffecting 80% of my life?
And and then they'll see how Iapply this to myself.
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Welcome to the Raising YourBusiness Podcast.
I'm your host, Yael Ben Dahan,founder of CEO Mom Academy, mom
of six and lifelong readingaddict.
This podcast is here to empowermoms to run their businesses and
lives like the powerhouse CEOthey are.
I want you to believe that youcan have the business success
you desire.
And be present with your familyand to give you my best tips and
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strategies for how to make thathappen.
I'll be sharing the honestreality of balancing business
and motherhood, biz models thatwork for you, marketing
simplicity and the mindset of aCEO mom.
Now let's dive in.
Hello?
Hello.
Happy 20, 25 and welcome back tothe podcast.
Wow.
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The last few episodes were like,that was like hardcore.
It was.
It was.
A lot of episodes in a row andactually really Really showed me
that I can be consistent evenwith a baby.
I'm literally sitting here withthe baby right next to me.
The title's right next to me, heis.
So active right now.
Like he, he can sit up byhimself now.
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So you can play from a moreseated.
Situation, which is really cool.
And I think that I think he'senjoying it.
I think he's enjoying this newperspective and this new outlook
on the world.
And I haven't tried to recordwhile he's taking naps, but his
naps are not great.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna be honest.
I've gone soft in my old age, myother kids, I was much better at
being like, okay.
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Sleep training and you're sixmonths old.
You're on, you're eating solids.
Because we train you.
Boom boom.
And he does go to sleepindependently at bedtime, but
we're still working on naps.
And because we're working onnaps, a lot of what happens is
it takes, I have to rock him tosleep.
And then he sleeps in his gripfor 30 to 45 minutes.
And then I will nurse him tokeep him asleep a little bit
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longer if I name sleep a littlelonger.
That's been our routine and I'vereally been working on this week
now that we're back to ournormal routine.
And this is leading really wellinto this episode because this
is week.
It really is like we're, I'm inthis place of resetting, like
looking at my life.
Oh, things have not really beenworking so well for me.
I've been a little bit arereactive instead of proactive
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when it comes to routines.
And so going to this new year,now that everything's back to
normal kids are back in schoolor back in like a regular, like
schedule.
However regular, it can be inthe winter with children.
We I'm like looking at ourroutines and be like, okay, now
we have to get back into moreconsistency.
And so what I'm doing a littlepeek behind the scenes, this is
how I sleep during my children.
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What I'm doing is this week I'mworking on being very consistent
with putting him in his crib fortwo naps a day.
As best as I can.
So sometimes he falls asleep inthe car seat when I'm bringing
my daughter to preschool.
So I'm also working on waking upearly enough and getting out the
door early enough.
So he doesn't do that, whichI'll get into soon.
And then this week is gonna bevery hardcore, in the crib.
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For two of his, two main naps.
And then he has a little mininursing nap, a micro nap in the
evening just to keep them goinguntil bedtime.
That's going to be like thisweek's focus is.
Consistent naps in the crib.
And then.
I'm going to be moving towards.
Okay.
Now that you know that our naptime routine.
Exists.
In your room every single day, acouple times a day.
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Now we're going to start doing,putting down and teaching him to
fall asleep independently.
But I find that they do thatbetter.
And they get used to it betterwhen there is the existing
routine and because life iscrazy and he's number six, he's
been pulled along on the go.
And so that's my little behindthe scenes of what's going on as
mommy of six kids, including asix month old baby.
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And and it's been, I don't know,it's been great.
Six months.
It's like my favorite age.
It's like my, I don't know,isn't my hero age.
I don't know it's all myfavorite age, but this is a
really cute age because theystart to become really
interactive and smiley and thereact.
And they have those happysqueals and they.
And they start making soundsback at you, like really like
consistently and.
And they're just so cute, butthey can't really move around
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yet.
So they're not like you don'tlike chasing them all over the
house.
So I don't know.
This is like my favorite.
I think it's my favorite.
Okay.
Let's talk about routines.
So what I want you to take awayfrom this is ideas for routines
that you may want to look at andpotentially reset in your life,
in your business.
Yeah.
In your business in 2025.
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And I'm going to just caveathere.
This is my disclaimer.
You do not have to do all ofthese.
They're just ideas.
These are the things thatliterally came to me as I was
brainstorming and journalingout, like what I want to improve
in my life.
And so I thought I'll justbasically share it.
This is literally my process forI'm looking at my existing
routines.
And getting ideas for how toimprove them.
And what I think is reallyimportant, and this is hard for
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me because I'm a very much anoverachiever.
Is Implementing when you come toimplementing your routines, you
need to start small because youdon't want to take on too much
and then inevitably not be ableto do it.
And then.
And then be like, oh my God, I'mjust a failure.
Why can I stay consistent?
Where I'm going to keep mycommitments to myself.
Try starting with small things,small habits.
That will compound over time.
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And what I want you to remember.
Which is really important is the80 20 rule.
So many things that you seehappening like that maybe are
not working for, you canactually be accomplished or
addressed by changing just onething.
And I'm going to be sharing somestuff in this episode I'll be
sharing like my 80, 20 rule.
What is my 80 20, what is my bigdomino that knocks down all the
other dominoes?
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What is the 20% that isaffecting 80% of my life?
And and then they'll see how Iapply this to myself.
Okay.
The first thing you think aboutis looking at your life right
now, like looking at your lifeand seeing where the pain points
are coming up.
So what I was finding was thatvery often I would just let the
day happen to me.
I suppose in the past couple ofmonths, like since between the
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holidays and now and then we hadthe Hanukah again it was more
holidays and.
The baby has been all over theplace.
Like a schedule wise, it's beenreally hard to pin him down to a
regular routine.
And so I wanted to look ahead oflike my day to day and write
down what does an average daylook like for me?
And I literally wrote this down,like in my notes, I was thinking
like, just brainstorming on whatis it.
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A basic, they look like.
And how would I like it to look,so I'm like, okay.
So I wake, I'm been waking upbetween seven 30 and eight
o'clock because I'm so tiredfrom the night before.
My daughter is then inevitablylate for preschool.
The baby will inevitably fallasleep on the way home because
he's tired.
Cause it's his nap time already.
And as we doesn't have a propernap.
I don't manage to get work donein time.
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And so what ends up happening isthat I I will.
I will end up like working verylate into the night.
Four.
Because I didn't get as muchdone as I want to do during the
day.
And to be fair.
I just want to say I accept thatabout my life right now is that
I will sometimes work untilmidnight or 1:00 AM.
Because that's the season thatI'm in right now.
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I have a baby.
He is not reliably napping andsometimes only to catch up on
work and that doesn't make me ohyou must not have it together if
you have to work at night.
No, this is my season.
This is my current season.
And I think it's reallyimportant to accept the seasons
that we're in.
Because if you don't accept theseason that you're in, he tried
to push, pass it and try to fit.
Your life into someone else'sframework or someone else's
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routine or someone else's weeklyrhythm or flow.
It's going to be veryfrustrating.
It's going to be veryfrustrating for you because you
are not in their shoes.
You are not in their situation.
And I was saying like, I, afriend of mine was like, oh,
this is how I had this resultsin, Ah, I'm over maternity
leave.
We're just going to aftermaternity leave.
And I was like, okay, that'sreally cool.
And then she mentioned, yeah Ihaven't had any come for a few
hours a day, so I have.
X amount of hours, day to work.
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And I'm like, that's reallynice.
I don't have that.
I'm not complaining.
Okay.
I'm not complaining.
And it's very hard to findnannies here in this country.
And it's hard to find someonefor I only want someone, if I
was going to get in any ER orchildcare, it would be for like,
literally like maybe two hours aday in the morning.
That would be my ideal.
And so I've been actually likedoing some brainstorming on
creative ways.
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I can make that happen.
But.
I realized, like comparing myresults to hers.
When I'm literally a completelyfull time, like 24 7 mom, and I
do not have any childcare for mybaby, like whatsoever.
And my husband.
I might be able to help whenhe's home.
He does take care of the babywhen he's home.
So cause I can go and get acouple hours of work done, but
again, he's not reliably home.
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Like right now he's working.
He has a seven to three shiftit's for.
And this is right now as I'mrecording it.
It's 11:30 AM.
He has this shift until threeo'clock and then he has he's
doing a training for for newEMT.
This evening.
And so he's not just not goingto be around.
The times that I can actuallyget work done.
And so I think it's reallyimportant to accept the season
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that you're in and try to figureout how to work around it,
because that's your only option.
Okay.
If he keeps trying to wish that.
That it looks different or thatit is different than what's,
how's that.
It's not con it's not conduciveto actual productivity.
It's not conducive to actuallygetting the things on that you
want to get done.
And I've had people say, I havethis.
A couple of problems at home or,and I don't really know what I
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can work and I get that.
Okay.
I totally get that.
And so I just want to say to youis I would take a really good,
hard look at your day and justrealistically make a plan if you
plan okay.
I know that.
From eight to 10:00 PM.
I'm going to work because mykids are all in bed by eight.
So I'm going to work everynight.
From eight to 10:00 PM becausethat is the season that I'm
currently at.
And you know what, next yearwhen they go to daycare or maybe
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if they have naps that overlap,I'll change those two hours.
Of work a day to that time.
But.
Like you have to decide that ifyou're proactive about that, You
just this is just how thingslook like right now.
Then, like that's all you canreally do.
Okay.
That's all you can really do asa mom.
As anyone really, you have toaccept the season that you're
in.
And can you change things?
Yeah.
You can change things.
Am I looking for someone to comeand take care of my baby?
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A couple of hours a day?
Yeah.
I am.
But I just don't, I just don'tthink that complaining oh, You
fell down.
I don't think that complainingabout my season and being like,
oh, why is it like this?
And why is it like that?
It's really going to be veryproductive.
And I'm just really working onenjoying this because time.
Passes so quickly.
time.
Passes so quickly.
I'm here.
I'm holding my baby's littlehands.
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He's just smiling at me and likereally excited because I'm
paying attention to him.
And and I just really I want tojust focus on.
on.
enjoying every second of hisdevelopment, because it will
pass.
So very fast.
Yeah.
So that is my first kind ofcaveat.
Is, start small.
Look at, look at your 80 20 andaccept the season that you're
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in.
All right.
So that is, that's the firstpart that I really want to
emphasize when we talk aboutimplementing routines.
Okay.
First let's talk about yourweekly workflow.
I'm going to think I'm going todo it entirely.
And I'm going to do my own.
Like a podcast just about this,how to create your weekly
workflow.
When your weekly kind of mycoach Taylor calls it your
weekly rhythm, your weekly flow,whatever you want to call it.
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What are your, knowing what yourminimum viable things you have
to get done every week?
And knowing what these are goingto do then.
On average, right.
And that is going to, it'sreally going to depend on how
you set things up.
What your days look like?
When you have support when youhave childcare, when you can
make time for yourself, whateverthat is.
It really depends.
And it's going to change basedon the season.
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And so I'm still working outlike my ideal weekly workflow.
I do like to oopsie.
You fall down again?
Oh, no, he just keeps, it keepslike tipping over.
So I like to have my weeklyworkflow be as batched as
possible.
And I'm gonna talk about thiswhen it comes to other routines
like marketing routines andbusiness routines.
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I like to make it as bashed aspossible.
So like being like, okay, thisday I'm focusing, this is my
main focus, is like contentoutlining or, this.
Th that on this day.
Quiet work is my main focus.
I actually have two days whereclient work is a big focus.
One is like where I do a lot ofreviews.
And then one is what I do, likethe client calls or things like
that.
And it also include reviews.
I'm doing reviews about twice aweek to three times a week,
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depending on how many there areto do.
What do you know, knowing whatyour average day looks like?
Again, this is gonna change frommonth to month, especially, when
you have a baby who's scheduledthose change, their wake times
change their nap times change.
Oh, you could've been me.
So that is important to payattention to.
And then from there you canfigure out what weeks you'd look
like.
Once, you know how many hoursyou have to work, then you can
figure out what you can fit intothose hours.
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Okay.
And knowing what your minimumviable.
You know what.
W what you must get done.
And I talk about this in episode41.
I'll link it below.
The four things I do every dayto grow my business.
And that is, those arepriorities, but then you have
like other things, right?
My coach Julie called us likethe process, what are processes,
that have to happen on a regularbasis.
Like for me, This podcast is aprocess.
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Sending out call reminders areour processes.
Uploading and uploading videosfrom you.
Call recordings to, to ourportal.
Every week is a process, right?
So these are all processes.
So number one, like what are theprocesses happen half happening
on a weekly basis?
But then what are the projectsthat you're working on that are
going to fill the rest of yourtime?
Those might be your own projectsor client projects.
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Like it really depends on againon your season.
And what you're currentlyfocusing on.
For example, my processes wouldbe like things like my client
care and my client reviews.
This podcast, my contentcreation, or those are all
processes.
My projects are that I'mcurrently working on a new
masterclass for you.
It's going to be happening inFebruary.
And also I'm working on thecurriculum for my baby proof,
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your business course, thematernity leave course.
So those are my two projectsthat I'm currently working on
this quarter.
Okay.
So yeah.
Yes.
You are the cutest.
You acutest do not look at thatmicrophone because you're not
getting it.
So knowing what your averageweek looks like, what are your
processes that you have to doevery week?
And then what are the projectsthat you fit in?
In between.
Then you also want to know yourmonthly workflow, like what has
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to happen on a monthly basis.
So I like to do like salesplanning on a monthly basis
looking at the month, makingsure that I'm on target, seeing,
cause I will, I do plan like sixto 12 months at a time.
I usually six, but at least.
Let's see, three to six months,I'll plan three to six months at
a time.
It's in my yearly planningdocuments, which is in my CEO
mom's planning party and I will.
Yes.
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Yes.
I will get, I will also linkthat below where you can buy the
CEO I'm planning party, plus Getaccess to my planning docs.
I'm a walkthrough of my exact,business planning process, my
500 K year plan.
Exactly how I planned my year inmy Google doc and also my master
business spreadsheet.
It's amazing stuff.
I'm going to link that belowtoo.
So I like to look at thebeginning of every month, be
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like, okay, so what is happeningthis month?
Say, sales wise promotion wisebehind the scenes.
What programs am I running?
And and that is also reallyimportant as well.
So you have to pay attention toare you actually staying on
track with your goals?
Because if you're not, if youhave a goal you wanted to
accomplish something by the endof the quarter, if you're not
looking back on a weekly, amonthly basis to see if you're
on track to hit that, then.
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Are you even working towards agoal?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
Here.
What this key.
No.
So that is that's what kind ofweekly, monthly workflow.
And that again, that's going tobe its own podcast.
Now let's talk about self careroutines.
So this for me is like a lot ofhealth.
I'm really focusing on healththis year because I, I had a
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baby he's six months old.
I I, I put on a little moreweight than I would've liked
actually.
I've put on weight since thebaby was born.
Not necessarily.
From pregnancy because I tend tobe more active and I'm pregnant
and.
And having a baby just lendsitself to a lot of like
sedentary.
This cause it's a lot of justsitting in nursing and sitting
and playing with them and justsitting in.
And so I'm trying to incorporatemore movement and into my life
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and also more healthy foodhabits.
For me personally, this meatlooks like.
At least 15 minutes.
15 minutes.
Of daily movements.
Yes.
And I want to try to get inthree workouts a week.
I'm going to be using Kim.
Harry's workouts, which are verydoable with kids around.
I'll link her.
Alinker where her program'sbelow.
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She's amazing.
And then I want to get in atleast one protein and one
vegetable at every meal.
I have like about two meals aday.
I don't usually have more thantwo meals a day.
Because I'll have coffee forbreakfast.
And I do a little bit of likeintermittent fasting ish.
So I have coffee have breakfast,and then I will.
And then I'll have a good lunchand a good dinner.
That is Those are like my goals.
And then for self care I try toget into some breath work every
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morning for at least like 10minutes.
And that could be usually afterthe kids go to school because
when the kids are, you.
We're all we're getting ready togo to school, like taking out
some time, do breath work isjust not really, it's not really
going to work.
So once I'm home, either rightbefore the baby's nap or when
the baby goes down for his nap,I try to do that.
Because it just really helps toset me up for four really
fantastic.
For really just fantastic like.
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Mindset reset for the day.
I use the breath channel by CD,and I'll link that below.
I'm linking a lot of resources.
But they're good ones.
So those are like my healthroutines.
And so again, those are, theseare small things.
I'm not trying to be like, oh,I'm going to eat.
1200 calories a day, and I'malso gonna meal prep,
everything.
And I'm also going to exerciseevery single day.
And I'm also going to do those.
Like I'm trying to find likesmall things, short workouts.
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15 minutes of daily movement,right?
Like standards that I can holdmyself to and commitments that I
can actually keep, because Ididn't give him into that.
You can't keep is just going toteach you in your mind that you
do not keep commitments toyourself and possibly to others.
And that is not.
That's not conducive to.
Any sort of healthy.
Relationship with yourself andrelationship with your own.
I guess commitment levels.
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I don't know what the word is.
That loyalty, but.
Faithfulness.
I think maybe faithfulness is agood word.
I also am praying.
Like focusing on praying oncethey like officially once a day
short prayers, but just likegetting those done in the
morning because they really makemy day just feel so much better.
I feel so much better when I canjust put my, all my problems on
God.
I've gotten God's hands and belike, okay.
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You did this, you deal with it.
Like I'm only human, What's bestfor me.
Please take care of this.
It just feels really nice.
Okay.
Those are mine.
Those are my personal self careand my personal commitments to
myself.
Then I'm looking, I've beenlooking at my home routines and
like I said, so much things canbe solved by being proactive.
And we have this the 80 20 rulewhere if you look at what's
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going on.
80% of your results are usuallyaffected by, but 20% of what
you're doing.
And I realized that the morning.
Is setting the tone for thewhole day and the nights at the
tone for the morning.
So I would say that the morningis 10.
Sorry, the morning is 10% of thenight is the other 10%.
So that's 20% together.
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And that really like it has towork together the night before
sets up the morning.
So prepping things night before.
Like 15 minutes, like clothes,food, even breakfast.
Especially for my, this is morefor my four year old.
My older kids can get their ownstuff ready, but.
Getting your clothes ready thenight before.
So we don't have arguments inthe morning.
I braid her hair now everynight.
So like in two braids because heloves having two braids and I
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just find she behaved herselfbetter.
When she has two braids in yourhair, don't ask me why.
I think she feels like shereally she feels like really put
together and really cool.
She loves how she looks withbraids.
And it just makes her in abetter mood.
Like when she wakes up in themorning the one, her hair is all
messy all over her face.
I it's hard to, I don'tunderstand it.
I do understand it cause sheit's like getting dressed and
putting on makeup.
You feel like you have thingsmore together.
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So her version of that is herbraids.
So I've been breeding over herein the evening, even though it
takes me a little bit more time.
An extra five.
Minutes or so five to sevenminutes.
At bedtime, but it really makesa difference for how she wakes
up in the morning.
I've noticed he wakes up likeliterally with a smile on her
face.
Even preparing her breakfast isshe out to have oatmeal in the
morning?
So just putting in a bowl withthe toppings on and.
Like sticking out on the table.
So it's ready for the morning.
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Yeah.
You have a lot to say.
So whatever I can do to make themorning easier I learned this
from the lazy genius way, whichis An amazing book by Kendra
DACI and one of her lazy geniusprinciples is what can I do now
to make things easier later?
And I very much, I realized thatwas a principle I was doing
already, like automatically witha lot of stuff in my life.
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And so I'm just making it moreof an official thing.
No, you can not have amicrophone.
You can.
Not have a microphone.
I'm sorry.
I know it looks very interestingand pink.
But you can't have it?
No, here.
Take this tour.
Yeah.
He's like, why would I take aTori when there was something
that is not a Tori that I couldtouch?
So that is the night before.
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And the other thing is going tobed on time.
And this is so hard for me to dobecause I'm really a night owl.
I work very well at night.
But I also realized that the,like my, the quality of my
productivity definitely goesdown over time throughout the
evening.
So I can't commit to beingembedded a certain time every
single night.
It's just not realistic.
And again, it's just going toset me up for failure and I'll
be like why can I just, I justdo things.
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I just commitment to myself.
But my goal is to try to get tobed by 1130, at least three
times a week.
And only stay up late in thenights when my husband is going
to be home the next morning tohelp with drop off in that way.
My morning will be screwed upby.
Because I'll be able to likerest a little bit more.
I won't be able to, I won't haveto like necessarily leave the
house.
First thing in the morning.
If I don't need to.
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And so it'll make it easier forme to.
To get my daughter off whilestill being tired.
So that is.
That's my goal is to try to bein bed by 1130.
At least three times a week, ifI can do to three times a week.
Because you feel so much betterwhen I go to bed on time This
morning, I felt so awake and weall woke up on time and earlier,
and everyone got to school ontime, except for one of my
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children which we are not goingto discuss.
And my.
And when I had to go to thedoctor with my 13 year old.
So I took my daughter to schoolfirst, and then we went to the
doctor, which was.
I'm an amazing feat of timemanagement.
I can tell you.
You were so cute.
And you're making very cutesounds, but.
Yeah, but let me just finishthis and then we're going to
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play on the floor.
Okay.
So that, that's like thinkingabout what does that 80 20 rule,
but, so the morning reallyaffects my whole day and the
night before really affects mymorning.
So those are the dominoes that Iam going to work on knocking
down.
When it comes to.
Am I even going to get into mealroutines and things like that?
I actually discussed this in inmy plan, I see your mom
masterclass.
So I'll link that below, too.
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But I've been, I decided to goback to doing daily themes for
our meals.
And when I say daily themes, itdoesn't have to be like Indian
night, Italian night whatever.
I'll have the themes likebreakfast for dinner, chicken.
Ground meat, like ground meat isa thing and it'll have like fish
and then like pasta.
So it goes to like my my No,don't cry.
Or dairy and, Fish and dairy ordairy and pasta.
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So what I realized was that whenI had that, it was so much
easier to make my meal plans forthe week, because it was just a
very light.
It's Monday.
So it must be chicken.
It's Sunday, so it must bebreakfast for dinner.
Oh, And and so that's, I'mtrying to take as much of the
siding out of my day-to-day.
So if I can remove a decision,the daily decision, it makes
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life so much simpler for me.
But the last thing I wanna talkabout is a couple of things is
client care routines and alsorelationship routines.
So when it comes to client careroutines, and I realized that
there was a lot of just quietadmin stuff that I, like I said,
I don't have a VA right now.
I think I said this.
I don't have a VA right now.
I'm trying to find someone thatcan work for just works with me.
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In a way that's like I don'tneed it.
I don't need them for many hoursa week.
I just like a bunch of stuffthat needs to get done.
And I'm trying to find someonereliable, which is not as easy
as it would seem.
But I think that, like Irealized that there's a bunch of
stuff that like require, likethere require doing every single
week.
And I was like, I am, I've notbeen batching it enough.
So I've started committing to,every Sunday is looking at all
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my meetings for the week.
And copying, pasting, updating,and scheduling out.
All of the call reminders forthat week.
Downloading, uploadingrecordings, having like an
immediate sort of Like a habitwhere as soon as I don't leave
my office until the recording isrendered and then I immediately
download it and put it up onVimeo or loom or wherever I'm
putting it.
Back and forth communicationreviews of their work.
So like reminders every day tocheck for.
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check for.
client audits and the check ofour client audits.
And then put it into my calendarto review when I have time that
day.
So those kinds of things reallydo make a difference.
And and I really do find thatbatching them have made has made
things so much easier becausethings aren't falling through
the cracks less.
And so again, I've had VA's thatwere amazing with this, and then
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I've had ones that really werenot reliable.
And like that I was like lastminute being like, can you
please just do this thing?
If you could please just do thisthing.
Okay.
Whatever, I'll just do itmyself.
And that to me, like I wouldrather know that.
I'd rather know that.
I have to do everything myselfthan depend on someone else to
do something and then end updoing it myself.
Last minute with a lot ofstress, because.
When I know I have to dosomething myself.
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Then I can plan for it.
You.
Proactively in my schedule.
Whereas if it's always happeninglast minute, it just is very
stressful for me.
So this again is going to bepart of your process.
And I want you to figure outlike, is there like one day a
week where you can batch all ofyour client tasks that are,
you're like client tasks thatneed to happen, or I, that's why
I love doing like VIP days typethings or VIP day.
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Offers.
Whereas you can, if you aredoing content creation for.
For a client every month.
Then why not just do it all inone day.
Like you can have her one weekeven, you have one week for a
client.
For a couple of weeks forclient.
And.
I feel like maybe there's acertain level of.
We let things drag out becausewe have the time officially.
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But what if we just didn't give.
Give ourselves the time.
What if we didn't give ourselvesthat extra time, what if we're
like, okay this is my, whatever.
My Mondays are my days foroutlining the content for the
client and then chooses thisfrom actually writing the posts
and then Wednesdays, when wecreated the graphics.
And like you can do like up tofour clients a month.
Just like dedicating a week toeach client hypothetically.
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And and if you have multipleclients, you can do maybe.
Eight clients a month.
If you are using a judicious.
Amount of AI to take existingcontent.
And then help use AI to helpyou, right?
There's so many things you cando faster with AI, honestly.
And I do not.
Using it to create content fromscratch.
It is not for that.
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Anyone can create content fromscratch with the eye, and then
you're not going to stand out,but taking your existing content
and using AI to turn it intodifferent little pieces or
outlines for different pieces ofcontent to disseminate out into
the world.
I see no, no problem with that.
And I think that it just it'sbeen helping me get things done.
Like I literally took.
I literally brain dumped a wholebunch of stuff into a, an audio
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and I dumped it into.
I dumped it into AI and then itliterally took it and helped me
organize it into a podcastscript for you.
I just found that that has beenhelping me save so much time.
So I would love for you tothink, how can you incorporate
AI to save time in yourbusiness?
And I think, again, that's goingto be another podcast by itself.
I have to put that on my list.
You know how I'm using AI in mybusiness to help me get more
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done in less time withoutoutsourcing my entire brain,
because that's why I'm veryworried about is losing all my
creativity because I'm dependingso much on AI and.
I really don't want to do that.
That was a total side.
Side quests.
So that is that about the clientcare routine?
You are literally getting behindthe scenes of this was my
journaling brain dump.
Okay.
So like you're literally gettingexactly what I'm doing.
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And what I'm setting up formyself and you do not have to
take all these, maybe some ofthese you have totally under
control.
You're like I've got meal plans,like nail I've got, yes.
We wake up early every morningand we're always off to school
on time.
Great.
I'm just personally looking atmy life and seeing how I can
optimize it.
And my business and how I canoptimize it.
Now again, back to businessroutines, like I said, things
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are going to change in everyseason and I highly recommend
you listen to episode 41, whichis a four things to do my
business everyday to growconsistently.
I think that those things can befit into your day.
In 30 minutes to an hour a day.
Broken up throughout the day.
And and those things, if youfocus on those things, Your
business is going to grow.
Like it literally cannot helpbut grow.
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And I'm not even going to gointo all of it because that's an
entire podcast episode byitself.
So go listen to it.
But.
Again, remembering that yourroutines responsibilities may
change each season.
So new year's is a great time toreevaluate.
Like what platforms are you on?
Is this working for me?
Am I trying to get work doneduring a time that used to work
in now?
No longer works.
Am I it is the way I'm creatingcontent like aligned with the
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way my brain works.
Like it's always good toreevaluate every three to six
months just to see if whatyou're doing actually makes
sense for where you are rightnow.
Yes.
Do those four things, but youcan make those four things work
for you based on your schedule.
And the last thing I want totalk about is relationship
routines.
Now.
I'm not going to get into oh,schedule, Schedule intimacy.
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I'm not going to.
I don't want to, I don't wantthis to turn this.
Turn this into an explicitpodcast, but if we were like,
oh, we schedule.
We have a schedule for intimacyor whatever.
I'm not talking about that, butI'm talking about is This year,
we really did focus very hard onour marriage and spending time
together and spending just likeregular like just like spending
just a regular, like fun timetogether.
And trying to bake it into ourday as much as possible without
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having to like, make it likeofficial, oh, regrowing on a
date.
We're going on a date.
Grabbing a coffee together justwhile after we dropped the kids
off from school and be like,let's just go get a good, go get
a coffee.
Let's just spend a few moreminutes together.
It's just a really nice thing todo.
And I really like and I foundthat has really helped
contribute towards our marriage.
Improving is just being able tospend time together.
Like off the cuff, but we cannothave a standing date.
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A weekly date.
Like I remember my parents usedto go out every Tuesday night.
Every Tuesday night was liketheir date night.
Cause my dad used to work inJerusalem at the time every
Tuesday evening and my motherwould come in and meet him and
then they would go out and.
And share this big fat saladthat they really love from a
restaurant that they reallyloved.
And that was our date night,every single week for years and
years.
To the point where I remembersomeone was talking to me about
something and they went, theyvisited my father on this day.
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You're like, oh yeah, Your dadwasn't home.
And I was like was it a Tuesdaynight?
And they were like, yes.
I'm like, Hey.
He was out with my mom.
It was just such a given thatthey were on a date together.
But I can't do that because Idon't have a scout.
My husband does not have aschedule like that.
And my husband's not a schedulethat lends itself to any sort of
standing weekly, anythingbecause he has shift based work
and it's two shifts are going tobe different every week, every
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month.
And so when I am going to bedoing is scheduling a weekly
marriage meeting.
Every Saturday night, becausegenerally he does not work on
Saturday nights where it doesnot need to be long.
It's not going to be like anhour long because people do like
I have our weekly marriagemeeting.
It's an.
It might be, but even if we onlyhave time for 15 minutes just to
sit down, look at the week, goover everything, remind each
other.
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Remind each other.
Sorry.
Of whatever we need to remindeach other and decide, okay.
When is going to be our datethis week.
Let's look at our week.
Let's look at our schedules.
Let's find a time.
Okay, awesome.
This is our time put in thecalendar.
We have a joint calendar andthat is what we're doing.
So instead of scheduling likeweekly dates, because we can't
have a standing weekly day, I'mscheduling a weekly.
Little marriage meeting to touchbase and actually schedule the
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date on a weekly basis.
And I really do think it's thoselittle things that help build a
relationship.
And I really want to focus onthat more because.
When you have six children, whenyou have very busy life, like
your relationship really can getjust left by the wayside, so to
speak, because you're just sobusy with everything, and I
really don't want that tohappen.
It's really important to me thatdoesn't happen.
And so I'm really focusing on.
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Relationship routines that willcontribute to our growth as a
couple.
That's it, those are all thethings I've been thinking about
this year.
It feels like a lot.
And again, you don't need totake all of these.
You don't need to be like.
You don't need to be like, ohoh, I must do this.
Or I must do that.
I have to make all theseroutines to my schedule now.
No start small.
Start with one, start with two.
And think about the routinesthat will give you the room to
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breathe, because I really dobelieve.
That rest rest.
Comes from routine.
Your nervous system will calmdown with routine.
That is is so crucial.
It is so important.
And I really do believe thatthis is going to be the game
changer for you.
If you feel like a little bitscattered and you feel like
things are overwhelming and youfeel like life is happening to
you, it's not happening for you.
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You can make decisions, you cantake actions that will lead you
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