178: How to Find Your Focus As a Mom and Business Owner
We all know people who put all of their attention on focusing on tasks in their business or home, or connecting with others in their business or family.
You’ll see this imbalance depicted as the workaholic type who works late hours every day and is never home, or the social butterfly who amounts to nothing career-wise in the eyes of family and friends. Most people are naturally inclined to lean towards focusing on tasks over making social connections, or vice versa. They haven’t mastered the balancing act needed for maximum success.
So how do you figure out where you are on the focus and connection scales as a mom and business owner? And how can you integrate a better balance that’ll have you feel like you’re at your best?
In this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll hear about the paradigm between deciding what to focus on as a mom and business owner and whether that could jeopardize your chances of connecting with others. I’ll teach you about the importance of balancing your focus and connection in your business and personal life, how to find the right spot on these spectrums, and examples of the positives of doing so and the consequences if you don’t.
What’s Covered in This Episode on How to Find Your Focus As a Mom and Business Owner
2:10 - Why you need to balance your focus and connection as a mom and entrepreneur
6:30 - What you need to understand to help you find that sweet spot for success in your business and personal life
9:06 - Examples of rewards and consequences of striking a balance between focus and connection versus being all in on one over the other
15:47 - How to figure out where you want to be on the focus and connection spectrums and find a better balance in business and life
18:24 - How to know you’re not in your sweet spot and what integrating better focus-connection balance requires of you
Mentioned In How to Find Your Focus As a Mom and Business Owner
She Thinks Big by Andrea Liebross
“10 Ways Working Moms Can Balance Competing Priorities With Ease” | Career Mom Community
Quotes from the Episode
“Connection creates conversation, and then conversation creates conversion.” - Andrea Liebross
“There’s a magical combo of focus and connection. The secret sauce is ultimately what we feel like when we’re at our best.” - Andrea Liebross
“Working in isolation [or] connecting and not focusing can only take us so far. You can’t make big things happen staying in one camp or the other.” - Andrea Liebross
Links to other episodes
96: The Difference Between Doing Work and Doing the Work That’s Worth Doing
142: The Impact of Book Writing On Your Personal and Professional Growth
141: She Thinks Big: The Experience of Writing a Book For the First Time
177: How to Handle an Unsupportive Spouse or Partner As a Big-Thinking Business Woman
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