Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms

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I coined the phrase “making space for grace,” which I think describes exactly what you are talking about. Kate: For me in my own life, I wrote this book because I struggled so much with hyper productivity and an obsession with getting things done and then I had two children and well, the one kid before I wrote the book but anyway, and I was shocked by the amount of pressure that my identity had wrapped up in being productive and being busy and I began to look at that because… And we’ll talk about this later maybe but… During that pregnancy, I cut my work hours about in half and also during the first year of motherhood, way even less than that and we had a sick baby, I had postpartum insomnia and anxiety. Unless you are a well- off entrepreneur with a solid support system and a great deal of control over your daily schedule (in which case why are you so stressed? By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

I’m like, no, it’s the best thing ever, get more wigs, more wigs, more dancing, but my point is this, that is part of my vital few as well. Ever since my first book, Money: A Love Story , came out in 2013 I’ve been waiting for the “next big thing” to emerge. There’s a lot of different ways to talk about it and for me, I really did the analysis on my business and I saw, oh for me it’s creating content but it’s also connecting with people. I moved to Vancouver, Canada 7 years this March, alone, from my home London,England to find myself and heal myself.Kate Northrup has written one of the most relatable, current, and savvy books for this new era of womanhood. I just kept on keeping on, making things that seemed like they’d be fun to make and useful for other people to receive.

You know those times when you feel like everything you’ve done in your life up until a certain moment has prepared you for that moment? You and I obviously both remember a time when we were running our businesses and social media didn’t exist. I’m an intrapreneur in my company (Kate, you actually helped me realize that during the incubator work you and Mike offered during the 2017 B-School period) who wants to start a side business (thanks to my work with you guys and B-School) so the idea of doing less ignites some fear but if I can actually be more intentional and focused, I’m in!Kate: Yeah, exactly because if we are trying to do six new initiatives or six new strategies at the same time, just because everyone else is doing them and we saw a webinar on Instagram ad or whatever, we don’t… I don’t care what the strategies are. Whether or not our energy has anything to do with the moon, the stars, or our bleeding patterns doesn’t much matter to me.

My word of the year is FOCUS and I have spent the first 10 days slowing down, feel like it has been s moment of reflection and connection.As opposed to focusing on "fitting it all in," time management, and leaning in, as so many books geared at ambitious women do, this book embraces the notion that through doing less women can have--and be--more. That’s the thing, it’s so disempowering and I see it with parents a lot and I do this myself, so I’m not pointing fingers and I see it in relationship a lot, where we have this overinflated sense of self importance.

She doesn’t run around up and down the fallopian tube wondering if the sperm is coming to fertilize her.

While I may not follow her exact methods, there were several parts that got me thinking about ways that I could do my own experiments to help me ‘Do Less’. Seven years on, I’ve found myself in Québec, learning french full time and not at all practising my profession. And when you breathe deeper your parasympathetic nervous system is activated, which switches your body from stress to relaxation. Let’s talk about scheduling your week because I know productivity is a big thing and it’s a topic we both love and many in our audience love, so I love these three questions that you ask yourself before anything goes on your list. And I find myself making little progress because I’m spinning around from one corner of my brain to the next with no clarity.