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62. From Scattered to Strategic: Building CEO Mom Routines That Give You Room to Breathe in 2025

• Yael Bendahan

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The holiday season has ended, and if you're feeling scattered trying to get back into a rhythm with your business and family life, you're not alone. Between unpredictable schedules, holiday disruptions, and kids adjusting back to normal routines, January can feel overwhelming for mom entrepreneurs.

As a mom of six (including a 6-month-old who's still figuring out naps!), I'm sharing my honest journey of rebuilding routines for 2025. Because you don't need perfect routines - you need routines that work for YOUR real mom life.

In this episode, you'll discover:

  • The 80/20 rule for identifying which routines actually matter
  • How to create flexible weekly workflows that adapt to mom life
  • Practical ways to implement self-care without overwhelming yourself

This episode is perfect for you if you're:

  • Struggling to get back into a rhythm after the holidays
  • Looking for realistic approaches to family and business routines
  • Ready to create predictability without rigid schedules
  • Wanting to stop comparing your schedule to other moms'

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So many things that you see happening like that maybe are not working for, you can actually be accomplished or addressed by changing just one thing. And I'm going to be sharing some stuff in this episode I'll be sharing like my 80, 20 rule. What is my 80 20, what is my big domino that knocks down all the other dominoes? What is the 20% that is affecting 80% of my life? And and then they'll see how I apply this to myself. Welcome to the Raising Your Business Podcast. I'm your host, Yael Ben Dahan, founder of CEO Mom Academy, mom of six and lifelong reading addict. This podcast is here to empower moms to run their businesses and lives like the powerhouse CEO they are. I want you to believe that you can have the business success you desire. And be present with your family and to give you my best tips and strategies for how to make that happen. I'll be sharing the honest reality of balancing business and motherhood, biz models that work for you, marketing simplicity and the mindset of a CEO mom. Now let's dive in. Hello? Hello. Happy 20, 25 and welcome back to the podcast. Wow. The last few episodes were like, that was like hardcore. It was. It was. A lot of episodes in a row and actually really Really showed me that I can be consistent even with a baby. I'm literally sitting here with the baby right next to me. The title's right next to me, he is. So active right now. Like he, he can sit up by himself now. So you can play from a more seated. Situation, which is really cool. And I think that I think he's enjoying it. I think he's enjoying this new perspective and this new outlook on the world. And I haven't tried to record while 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, my other kids, I was much better at being like, okay. Sleep training and you're six months old. You're on, you're eating solids. Because we train you. Boom boom. And he does go to sleep independently at bedtime, but we're still working on naps. And because we're working on naps, a lot of what happens is it takes, I have to rock him to sleep. And then he sleeps in his grip for 30 to 45 minutes. And then I will nurse him to keep him asleep a little bit longer if I name sleep a little longer. That's been our routine and I've really been working on this week now that we're back to our normal routine. And this is leading really well into this episode because this is week. It really is like we're, I'm in this place of resetting, like looking at my life. Oh, things have not really been working so well for me. I've been a little bit are reactive instead of proactive when it comes to routines. And so going to this new year, now that everything's back to normal kids are back in school or back in like a regular, like schedule. However regular, it can be in the winter with children. We I'm like looking at our routines and be like, okay, now we have to get back into more consistency. And so what I'm doing a little peek behind the scenes, this is how I sleep during my children. What I'm doing is this week I'm working on being very consistent with putting him in his crib for two naps a day. As best as I can. So sometimes he falls asleep in the car seat when I'm bringing my daughter to preschool. So I'm also working on waking up early enough and getting out the door early enough. So he doesn't do that, which I'll get into soon. And then this week is gonna be very hardcore, in the crib. For two of his, two main naps. And then he has a little mini nursing nap, a micro nap in the evening just to keep them going until bedtime. That's going to be like this week's focus is. Consistent naps in the crib. And then. I'm going to be moving towards. Okay. Now that you know that our nap time routine. Exists. In your room every single day, a couple times a day. Now we're going to start doing, putting down and teaching him to fall asleep independently. But I find that they do that better. And they get used to it better when there is the existing routine and because life is crazy and he's number six, he's been pulled along on the go. And so that's my little behind the scenes of what's going on as mommy of six kids, including a six month old baby. 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 my favorite age, but this is a really cute age because they start to become really interactive and smiley and the react. And they have those happy squeals and they. And they start making sounds back at you, like really like consistently and. And they're just so cute, but they can't really move around yet. So they're not like you don't like 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 away from this is ideas for routines that you may want to look at and potentially reset in your life, in your business. Yeah. In your business in 2025. And I'm going to just caveat here. This is my disclaimer. You do not have to do all of these. They're just ideas. These are the things that literally came to me as I was brainstorming and journaling out, like what I want to improve in my life. And so I thought I'll just basically share it. This is literally my process for I'm looking at my existing routines. And getting ideas for how to improve them. And what I think is really important, and this is hard for me because I'm a very much an overachiever. Is Implementing when you come to implementing your routines, you need to start small because you don't want to take on too much and then inevitably not be able to do it. And then. And then be like, oh my God, I'm just a failure. Why can I stay consistent? Where I'm going to keep my commitments to myself. Try starting with small things, small habits. That will compound over time. And what I want you to remember. Which is really important is the 80 20 rule. So many things that you see happening like that maybe are not working for, you can actually be accomplished or addressed by changing just one thing. And I'm going to be sharing some stuff in this episode I'll be sharing like my 80, 20 rule. What is my 80 20, what is my big domino that knocks down all the other dominoes? What is the 20% that is affecting 80% of my life? And and then they'll see how I apply this to myself. Okay. The first thing you think about is looking at your life right now, like looking at your life and seeing where the pain points are coming up. So what I was finding was that very often I would just let the day happen to me. I suppose in the past couple of months, like since between the holidays and now and then we had the Hanukah again it was more holidays and. The baby has been all over the place. Like a schedule wise, it's been really hard to pin him down to a regular routine. And so I wanted to look ahead of like my day to day and write down what does an average day look like for me? And I literally wrote this down, like in my notes, I was thinking like, just brainstorming on what is it. 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 up between seven 30 and eight o'clock because I'm so tired from the night before. My daughter is then inevitably late for preschool. The baby will inevitably fall asleep on the way home because he's tired. Cause it's his nap time already. And as we doesn't have a proper nap. I don't manage to get work done in time. And so what ends up happening is that I I will. I will end up like working very late into the night. Four. Because I didn't get as much done as I want to do during the day. And to be fair. I just want to say I accept that about my life right now is that I will sometimes work until midnight or 1:00 AM. Because that's the season that I'm in right now. I have a baby. He is not reliably napping and sometimes only to catch up on work and that doesn't make me oh you 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 really important to accept the seasons that we're in. Because if you don't accept the season that you're in, he tried to push, pass it and try to fit. Your life into someone else's framework or someone else's routine or someone else's weekly rhythm or flow. It's going to be very frustrating. It's going to be very frustrating for you because you are not in their shoes. You are not in their situation. And I was saying like, I, a friend of mine was like, oh, this is how I had this results in, Ah, I'm over maternity leave. We're just going to after maternity leave. And I was like, okay, that's really cool. And then she mentioned, yeah I haven't had any come for a few hours a day, so I have. X amount of hours, day to work. And I'm like, that's really nice. I don't have that. I'm not complaining. Okay. I'm not complaining. And it's very hard to find nannies here in this country. And it's hard to find someone for I only want someone, if I was going to get in any ER or childcare, it would be for like, literally like maybe two hours a day in the morning. That would be my ideal. And so I've been actually like doing some brainstorming on creative ways. I can make that happen. But. I realized, like comparing my results to hers. When I'm literally a completely full time, like 24 7 mom, and I do not have any childcare for my baby, like whatsoever. And my husband. I might be able to help when he's home. He does take care of the baby when he's home. So cause I can go and get a couple hours of work done, but again, he's not reliably home. Like right now he's working. He has a seven to three shift it's for. And this is right now as I'm recording it. It's 11:30 AM. He has this shift until three o'clock and then he has he's doing a training for for new EMT. This evening. And so he's not just not going to be around. The times that I can actually get work done. And so I think it's really important to accept the season that you're in and try to figure out how to work around it, because that's your only option. Okay. If he keeps trying to wish that. That it looks different or that it is different than what's, how's that. It's not con it's not conducive to actual productivity. It's not conducive to actually getting the things on that you want to get done. And I've had people say, I have this. A couple of problems at home or, and I don't really know what I can work and I get that. Okay. I totally get that. And so I just want to say to you is I would take a really good, hard look at your day and just realistically make a plan if you plan okay. I know that. From eight to 10:00 PM. I'm going to work because my kids are all in bed by eight. So I'm going to work every night. From eight to 10:00 PM because that is the season that I'm currently at. And you know what, next year when they go to daycare or maybe 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 if you're proactive about that, You just this is just how things look like right now. Then, like that's all you can really do. Okay. That's all you can really do as a mom. As anyone really, you have to accept the season that you're in. And can you change things? Yeah. You can change things. Am I looking for someone to come and take care of my baby? A couple of hours a day? Yeah. I am. But I just don't, I just don't think that complaining oh, You fell down. I don't think that complaining about my season and being like, oh, why is it like this? And why is it like that? It's really going to be very productive. And I'm just really working on enjoying this because time. Passes so quickly. time. Passes so quickly. I'm here. I'm holding my baby's little hands. He's just smiling at me and like really excited because I'm paying attention to him. And and I just really I want to just focus on. on. enjoying every second of his development, because it will pass. So very fast. Yeah. So that is my first kind of caveat. Is, start small. Look at, look at your 80 20 and accept the season that you're in. All right. So that is, that's the first part that I really want to emphasize when we talk about implementing routines. Okay. First let's talk about your weekly workflow. I'm going to think I'm going to do 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 my coach Taylor calls it your weekly rhythm, your weekly flow, whatever you want to call it. What are your, knowing what your minimum viable things you have to get done every week? And knowing what these are going to do then. On average, right. And that is going to, it's really going to depend on how you set things up. What your days look like? When you have support when you have childcare, when you can make time for yourself, whatever that is. It really depends. And it's going to change based on the season. And so I'm still working out like my ideal weekly workflow. I do like to oopsie. You fall down again? Oh, no, he just keeps, it keeps like tipping over. So I like to have my weekly workflow be as batched as possible. And I'm gonna talk about this when it comes to other routines like marketing routines and business routines. I like to make it as bashed as possible. So like being like, okay, this day I'm focusing, this is my main focus, is like content outlining or, this. Th that on this day. Quiet work is my main focus. I actually have two days where client work is a big focus. One is like where I do a lot of reviews. And then one is what I do, like the client calls or things like that. And it also include reviews. I'm doing reviews about twice a week to three times a week, depending on how many there are to do. What do you know, knowing what your average day looks like? Again, this is gonna change from month to month, especially, when you have a baby who's scheduled those change, their wake times change their nap times change. Oh, you could've been me. So that is important to pay attention to. And then from there you can figure out what weeks you'd look like. Once, you know how many hours you have to work, then you can figure out what you can fit into those hours. Okay. And knowing what your minimum viable. You know what. W what you must get done. And I talk about this in episode 41. I'll link it below. The four things I do every day to grow my business. And that is, those are priorities, but then you have like other things, right? My coach Julie called us like the process, what are processes, that have to happen on a regular basis. Like for me, This podcast is a process. Sending out call reminders are our processes. Uploading and uploading videos from you. Call recordings to, to our portal. Every week is a process, right? So these are all processes. So number one, like what are the processes happen half happening on a weekly basis? But then what are the projects that you're working on that are going to fill the rest of your time? Those might be your own projects or client projects. Like it really depends on again on your season. And what you're currently focusing on. For example, my processes would be like things like my client care and my client reviews. This podcast, my content creation, or those are all processes. My projects are that I'm currently working on a new masterclass for you. It's going to be happening in February. And also I'm working on the curriculum for my baby proof, your business course, the maternity leave course. So those are my two projects that I'm currently working on this quarter. Okay. So yeah. Yes. You are the cutest. You acutest do not look at that microphone because you're not getting it. So knowing what your average week looks like, what are your processes that you have to do every week? And then what are the projects that you fit in? In between. Then you also want to know your monthly workflow, like what has to happen on a monthly basis. So I like to do like sales planning on a monthly basis looking at the month, making sure that I'm on target, seeing, cause I will, I do plan like six to 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 planning documents, which is in my CEO mom's planning party and I will. Yes. Yes. I will get, I will also link that below where you can buy the CEO I'm planning party, plus Get access 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 in my Google doc and also my master business spreadsheet. It's amazing stuff. I'm going to link that below too. So I like to look at the beginning of every month, be like, okay, so what is happening this month? Say, sales wise promotion wise behind the scenes. What programs am I running? And and that is also really important as well. So you have to pay attention to are you actually staying on track with your goals? Because if you're not, if you have a goal you wanted to accomplish something by the end of the quarter, if you're not looking back on a weekly, a monthly basis to see if you're on track to hit that, then. Are you even working towards a goal? I don't know. I don't think so. Here. What this key. No. So that is that's what kind of weekly, monthly workflow. And that again, that's going to be its own podcast. Now let's talk about self care routines. So this for me is like a lot of health. I'm really focusing on health this year because I, I had a baby he's six months old. I I, I put on a little more weight than I would've liked actually. I've put on weight since the baby was born. Not necessarily. From pregnancy because I tend to be more active and I'm pregnant and. And having a baby just lends itself to a lot of like sedentary. This cause it's a lot of just sitting in nursing and sitting and playing with them and just sitting in. And so I'm trying to incorporate more movement and into my life and also more healthy food habits. For me personally, this meat looks like. At least 15 minutes. 15 minutes. Of daily movements. Yes. And I want to try to get in three workouts a week. I'm going to be using Kim. Harry's workouts, which are very doable with kids around. I'll link her. Alinker where her program's below. She's amazing. And then I want to get in at least one protein and one vegetable at every meal. I have like about two meals a day. I don't usually have more than two meals a day. Because I'll have coffee for breakfast. And I do a little bit of like intermittent fasting ish. So I have coffee have breakfast, and then I will. And then I'll have a good lunch and a good dinner. That is Those are like my goals. And then for self care I try to get into some breath work every morning for at least like 10 minutes. And that could be usually after the kids go to school because when the kids are, you. We're all we're getting ready to go to school, like taking out some time, do breath work is just not really, it's not really going to work. So once I'm home, either right before the baby's nap or when the baby goes down for his nap, I try to do that. Because it just really helps to set me up for four really fantastic. For really just fantastic like. 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 health routines. And so again, those are, these are small things. I'm not trying to be like, oh, I'm going to eat. 1200 calories a day, and I'm also gonna meal prep, everything. And I'm also going to exercise every single day. And I'm also going to do those. Like I'm trying to find like small things, short workouts. 15 minutes of daily movement, right? Like standards that I can hold myself to and commitments that I can actually keep, because I didn't give him into that. You can't keep is just going to teach you in your mind that you do not keep commitments to yourself and possibly to others. And that is not. That's not conducive to. Any sort of healthy. Relationship with yourself and relationship with your own. I guess commitment levels. I don't know what the word is. That loyalty, but. Faithfulness. I think maybe faithfulness is a good word. I also am praying. Like focusing on praying once they like officially once a day short prayers, but just like getting those done in the morning because they really make my day just feel so much better. I feel so much better when I can just put my, all my problems on God. I've gotten God's hands and be like, okay. You did this, you deal with it. Like I'm only human, What's best for me. Please take care of this. It just feels really nice. Okay. Those are mine. Those are my personal self care and my personal commitments to myself. Then I'm looking, I've been looking at my home routines and like I said, so much things can be solved by being proactive. And we have this the 80 20 rule where if you look at what's going on. 80% of your results are usually affected by, but 20% of what you're doing. And I realized that the morning. Is setting the tone for the whole day and the nights at the tone for the morning. So I would say that the morning is 10. Sorry, the morning is 10% of the night is the other 10%. So that's 20% together. And that really like it has to work 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 more for my four year old. My older kids can get their own stuff ready, but. Getting your clothes ready the night before. So we don't have arguments in the morning. I braid her hair now every night. So like in two braids because he loves having two braids and I just find she behaved herself better. When she has two braids in your hair, don't ask me why. I think she feels like she really she feels like really put together and really cool. She loves how she looks with braids. And it just makes her in a better mood. Like when she wakes up in the morning the one, her hair is all messy all over her face. I it's hard to, I don't understand it. I do understand it cause she it's like getting dressed and putting on makeup. You feel like you have things more together. So her version of that is her braids. So I've been breeding over here in the evening, even though it takes me a little bit more time. An extra five. Minutes or so five to seven minutes. At bedtime, but it really makes a difference for how she wakes up in the morning. I've noticed he wakes up like literally with a smile on her face. Even preparing her breakfast is she out to have oatmeal in the morning? So just putting in a bowl with the toppings on and. Like sticking out on the table. So it's ready for the morning. Yeah. You have a lot to say. So whatever I can do to make the morning easier I learned this from the lazy genius way, which is An amazing book by Kendra DACI and one of her lazy genius principles is what can I do now to make things easier later? And I very much, I realized that was a principle I was doing already, like automatically with a lot of stuff in my life. And so I'm just making it more of an official thing. No, you can not have a microphone. You can. Not have a microphone. I'm sorry. I know it looks very interesting and pink. But you can't have it? No, here. Take this tour. Yeah. He's like, why would I take a Tori when there was something that is not a Tori that I could touch? So that is the night before. And the other thing is going to bed on time. And this is so hard for me to do because 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 goes down over time throughout the evening. So I can't commit to being embedded a certain time every single night. It's just not realistic. And again, it's just going to set me up for failure and I'll be like why can I just, I just do things. I just commitment to myself. But my goal is to try to get to bed by 1130, at least three times a week. And only stay up late in the nights when my husband is going to be home the next morning to help with drop off in that way. My morning will be screwed up by. Because I'll be able to like rest a little bit more. I won't be able to, I won't have to like necessarily leave the house. First thing in the morning. If I don't need to. And so it'll make it easier for me to. To get my daughter off while still being tired. So that is. That's my goal is to try to be in bed by 1130. At least three times a week, if I can do to three times a week. Because you feel so much better when I go to bed on time This morning, I felt so awake and we all woke up on time and earlier, and everyone got to school on time, except for one of my children which we are not going to discuss. And my. And when I had to go to the doctor with my 13 year old. So I took my daughter to school first, and then we went to the doctor, which was. I'm an amazing feat of time management. I can tell you. You were so cute. And you're making very cute sounds, but. Yeah, but let me just finish this and then we're going to play on the floor. Okay. So that, that's like thinking about what does that 80 20 rule, but, so the morning really affects my whole day and the night before really affects my morning. So those are the dominoes that I am going to work on knocking down. When it comes to. Am I even going to get into meal routines and things like that? I actually discussed this in in my plan, I see your mom masterclass. So I'll link that below, too. But I've been, I decided to go back to doing daily themes for our meals. And when I say daily themes, it doesn't have to be like Indian night, Italian night whatever. I'll have the themes like breakfast for dinner, chicken. Ground meat, like ground meat is a 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 or dairy and pasta. So what I realized was that when I had that, it was so much easier to make my meal plans for the week, because it was just a very light. It's Monday. So it must be chicken. It's Sunday, so it must be breakfast for dinner. Oh, And and so that's, I'm trying 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 life so much simpler for me. But the last thing I wanna talk about is a couple of things is client care routines and also relationship routines. So when it comes to client care routines, and I realized that there was a lot of just quiet admin 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 that can work for just works with me. In a way that's like I don't need it. I don't need them for many hours a week. I just like a bunch of stuff that needs to get done. And I'm trying to find someone reliable, which is not as easy as it would seem. But I think that, like I realized that there's a bunch of stuff that like require, like there require doing every single week. And I was like, I am, I've not been batching it enough. So I've started committing to, every Sunday is looking at all my meetings for the week. And copying, pasting, updating, and scheduling out. All of the call reminders for that week. Downloading, uploading recordings, having like an immediate sort of Like a habit where as soon as I don't leave my office until the recording is rendered and then I immediately download it and put it up on Vimeo or loom or wherever I'm putting it. Back and forth communication reviews of their work. So like reminders every day to check for. check for. client audits and the check of our client audits. And then put it into my calendar to review when I have time that day. So those kinds of things really do make a difference. And and I really do find that batching them have made has made things so much easier because things aren't falling through the cracks less. And so again, I've had VA's that were amazing with this, and then I've had ones that really were not reliable. And like that I was like last minute being like, can you please just do this thing? If you could please just do this thing. Okay. Whatever, I'll just do it myself. And that to me, like I would rather know that. I'd rather know that. I have to do everything myself than depend on someone else to do something and then end up doing it myself. Last minute with a lot of stress, because. When I know I have to do something myself. Then I can plan for it. You. Proactively in my schedule. Whereas if it's always happening last minute, it just is very stressful for me. So this again is going to be part of your process. And I want you to figure out like, is there like one day a week where you can batch all of your client tasks that are, you're like client tasks that need to happen, or I, that's why I love doing like VIP days type things or VIP day. Offers. Whereas you can, if you are doing content creation for. For a client every month. Then why not just do it all in one day. Like you can have her one week even, you have one week for a client. For a couple of weeks for client. And. I feel like maybe there's a certain level of. We let things drag out because we have the time officially. But what if we just didn't give. Give ourselves the time. What if we didn't give ourselves that extra time, what if we're like, okay this is my, whatever. My Mondays are my days for outlining the content for the client and then chooses this from actually writing the posts and then Wednesdays, when we created the graphics. And like you can do like up to four clients a month. Just like dedicating a week to each client hypothetically. And and if you have multiple clients, you can do maybe. Eight clients a month. If you are using a judicious. Amount of AI to take existing content. And then help use AI to help you, right? There's so many things you can do faster with AI, honestly. And I do not. Using it to create content from scratch. It is not for that. Anyone can create content from scratch with the eye, and then you're not going to stand out, but taking your existing content and using AI to turn it into different little pieces or outlines for different pieces of content to disseminate out into the world. I see no, no problem with that. And I think that it just it's been helping me get things done. Like I literally took. I literally brain dumped a whole bunch of stuff into a, an audio and I dumped it into. I dumped it into AI and then it literally took it and helped me organize it into a podcast script for you. I just found that that has been helping me save so much time. So I would love for you to think, how can you incorporate AI to save time in your business? And I think, again, that's going to be another podcast by itself. I have to put that on my list. You know how I'm using AI in my business to help me get more done in less time without outsourcing my entire brain, because that's why I'm very worried about is losing all my creativity because I'm depending so 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 client care routine? You are literally getting behind the scenes of this was my journaling brain dump. Okay. So like you're literally getting exactly what I'm doing. And what I'm setting up for myself and you do not have to take all these, maybe some of these you have totally under control. You're like I've got meal plans, like nail I've got, yes. We wake up early every morning and we're always off to school on time. Great. I'm just personally looking at my life and seeing how I can optimize it. And my business and how I can optimize it. Now again, back to business routines, like I said, things are going to change in every season and I highly recommend you listen to episode 41, which is a four things to do my business everyday to grow consistently. I think that those things can be fit into your day. In 30 minutes to an hour a day. Broken up throughout the day. And and those things, if you focus on those things, Your business is going to grow. Like it literally cannot help but grow. And I'm not even going to go into all of it because that's an entire podcast episode by itself. So go listen to it. But. Again, remembering that your routines responsibilities may change each season. So new year's is a great time to reevaluate. Like what platforms are you on? Is this working for me? Am I trying to get work done during a time that used to work in now? No longer works. Am I it is the way I'm creating content like aligned with the way my brain works. Like it's always good to reevaluate every three to six months just to see if what you're doing actually makes sense for where you are right now. Yes. Do those four things, but you can make those four things work for you based on your schedule. And the last thing I want to talk about is relationship routines. Now. I'm not going to get into oh, schedule, Schedule intimacy. I'm not going to. I don't want to, I don't want this to turn this. Turn this into an explicit podcast, but if we were like, oh, we schedule. We have a schedule for intimacy or whatever. I'm not talking about that, but I'm talking about is This year, we really did focus very hard on our marriage and spending time together and spending just like regular like just like spending just a regular, like fun time together. And trying to bake it into our day as much as possible without having to like, make it like official, oh, regrowing on a date. We're going on a date. Grabbing a coffee together just while 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 more minutes together. It's just a really nice thing to do. And I really like and I found that has really helped contribute towards our marriage. Improving is just being able to spend time together. Like off the cuff, but we cannot have a standing date. A weekly date. Like I remember my parents used to go out every Tuesday night. Every Tuesday night was like their date night. Cause my dad used to work in Jerusalem at the time every Tuesday evening and my mother would come in and meet him and then they would go out and. And share this big fat salad that they really love from a restaurant that they really loved. And that was our date night, every single week for years and years. To the point where I remember someone was talking to me about something and they went, they visited my father on this day. You're like, oh yeah, Your dad wasn't home. And I was like was it a Tuesday night? And they were like, yes. I'm like, Hey. He was out with my mom. It was just such a given that they were on a date together. But I can't do that because I don't have a scout. My husband does not have a schedule like that. And my husband's not a schedule that lends itself to any sort of standing weekly, anything because he has shift based work and it's two shifts are going to be different every week, every month. And so when I am going to be doing is scheduling a weekly marriage meeting. Every Saturday night, because generally he does not work on Saturday nights where it does not need to be long. It's not going to be like an hour long because people do like I have our weekly marriage meeting. It's an. It might be, but even if we only have time for 15 minutes just to sit down, look at the week, go over everything, remind each other. Remind each other. Sorry. Of whatever we need to remind each other and decide, okay. When is going to be our date this 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 the calendar. We have a joint calendar and that is what we're doing. So instead of scheduling like weekly dates, because we can't have a standing weekly day, I'm scheduling a weekly. Little marriage meeting to touch base and actually schedule the date on a weekly basis. And I really do think it's those little things that help build a relationship. And I really want to focus on that more because. When you have six children, when you have very busy life, like your relationship really can get just left by the wayside, so to speak, because you're just so busy with everything, and I really don't want that to happen. It's really important to me that doesn't happen. And so I'm really focusing on. Relationship routines that will contribute to our growth as a couple. That's it, those are all the things I've been thinking about this year. It feels like a lot. And again, you don't need to take all of these. You don't need to be like. You don't need to be like, oh oh, I must do this. Or I must do that. I have to make all these routines to my schedule now. No start small. Start with one, start with two. And think about the routines that will give you the room to breathe, because I really do believe. That rest rest. Comes from routine. Your nervous system will calm down with routine. That is is so crucial. It is so important. And I really do believe that this is going to be the game changer for you. If you feel like a little bit scattered and you feel like things are overwhelming and you feel like life is happening to you, it's not happening for you. You can be proactive. You can make decisions, you can take actions that will lead you towards that next level. You and the next level self that you desire to be in 2025. And if you. Are interested. 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