54. 3 Hidden Habits Blocking Work-Life Harmony for Mompreneurs
Episode 54 •
6th February 2024 • Harmonious Mompreneur: Helping Moms Create Harmony with Life and Business Systems • Phylicia Pough, Life & Business Systems Strategist for Moms
You’re doing all the right things, but harmony still feels out of reach and you’re not sure why.
In this episode, I’m sharing 3 common barriers that quietly block work-life harmony for so many mompreneurs. I’m breaking down how comparison, community, and boundaries play a deeper role than you might realize—and why they’re essential if you want to build a life that works with your business, not against it.
Each of these will get their own deep dive in future episodes, but today’s conversation will help you start noticing what’s getting in your way, and how to shift it.
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When we get caught up in the past, we don't have the capacity to create what should be or what can be. Okay, so number one, the first thing that's hindering you from experiencing work life harmony is comparison.
You are now tuned in to the Mom CEO Suite podcast. I'm your host, Phylicia, wife, mom and entrepreneur.
In this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur journey along with strategies that will help you build your online business operations in a sustainable way. The goal is to help you build a business that fits into your lifestyle as a mom who values putting family first.
We will also hear the experiences and expertise of other moms with service based businesses. You'll get a peek into our journeys so you'll know that you aren't alone. Motherhood gets hard, entrepreneurship gets hard.
But together we can do hard things. Welcome to the suite. Hey, friend. Welcome to another episode. Thank you for being here.
So I am actually recording this episode, literally the day it is going to be released. I was kind of going back and forth on what I wanted to share this week and in the next coming weeks on social media and in my email list.
I have been teasing my one to one consulting program that's going to be the flagship program. I've been lightly talking about that, but I did not feel 100% released to start focusing on that right now.
And so I really just like, lord, what is it that you want me to talk about? And literally last night he gave me the whole concept of harmony and really focusing on that.
And so today we're going to be talking about three things that's hindering you from experiencing work life harmony. And in the next few episodes, that's what I'm going to be talking about, not balance.
And in episodes 27, episodes 53, I talk about why I don't really subscribe to the idea of work life balance, but harmony instead. And so I will link those in the show description. But we're talking about harmony, experiencing work life harmony.
And in this episode, I'm going to give you three things that are specifically hindering you from experiencing that. Um, now when we think about harmony, harmony defined is the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole. It also means agreement.
And so when we apply that to our lives, we're really talking about creating something that is in agreement or something that is pleasing to our lifestyle and to our core desires. And so one of the main things that hinders us from experiencing work life harmony is, is comparison and comparison in two facets.
So number one, when we compare our lives to others. Right?
Because we're trying to create or we're trying to force something that is not in alignment with who we are, with how we operate and our desires. When we compare our lives to others, it takes us out of the space of being able to create the harmony that we desire in our lives.
The second area of comparison is comparing our current lives to our old lives.
And so when we are stuck in what used to be, we have to stop comparing our lives to others, and we have to stop comparing our current lives to our old lives. All right? The next thing that is hindering us, number two, is the lack of community.
I'm going to be talking about this in a future episode, so definitely make sure you stay tuned. But when we think about the lack of community, we have to understand that isolation fuels internal conflict. Right?
So all of the conflicts that we have, if we are in isolation, they remain internal. We're thinking about them. We keep them in our minds, we keep them just in our hearts. And we don't have a space to share that.
We don't have a space to really get it out. And so as isolation is fueling this internal conflict, our capacity is consumed by conflict instead of creating harmony. Okay?
And so we need to really get to a place where we can find a community that is suitable for us. All right? So that's number two, lack of community. And then number three is the lack of boundaries.
Now, I am going to be doing two future episodes about boundaries because there is just so much to unpack when it comes to boundaries unless I am led in a different direction. But I'm pretty sure we're going to be talking about boundaries in the next two episodes.
But a boundary is something that indicates or fixes a limit or extent. Right? So it creates a limit on something. And so the problem is that we have not established what our boundaries are going to be at home.
We haven't established what our boundaries are going to be at work. Or it could be that maybe we've established them, but we have not enforced the boundaries. Right?
So boundaries that are created but not enforced are ineffective. Right. They're pointless as well. And so lack of boundaries is also hindering us from experiencing work life harmony.
All right, So I just wanted to come on really quickly and give a high level look into these things. And I'll be unpacking these in the next few episodes as we talk about work life harmony.
And I'm super excited, though, because I'm going to be launching a group action and accountability circle. And this is going to be specifically for the Christian mompreneurs who want to create and experience work life harmony.
I have not figured out all the details about what it's going to look like. It's going to be somewhere between 14 days and one month. But you'll really be in a space where you can take action.
You'll have this community of other people where you can share, but you're really going to get the tools that are necessary for you to be able to create your work life harmony because it's going to look different for everybody. It's really about getting the tools and putting them into action and having that accountability piece with it as well.
So if that's something that you are interested in getting more details about, if you want to be a part of the founding circle and you want to actually help create this experience so it can be as beneficial as possible, just shoot me a message on Instagram. Just shoot me the word harmony and I'll know what you're talking about and we can just go ahead and chat from there.
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