Girl, Get Your Ish Together: An Entrepreneur Mom’s Guide To Practical Time Management

By Aliah Wilcox

Published author, entrepreneur, homesteading mom, and slow living enthusiast Aliah Wilcox has a message for women: You CAN run a business and STILL be the homemaker, wife, and mom you aspire to be.

Aliah is a mom of two, a wife, a daughter, a published and active author, entrepreneur, and stay-at-home homesteader. What's more, she's achieved these things without a staff of even 2, the ability to sleep two hours a night or driving herself batsh*t crazy. She's figured out the key to having it all: Priorities, babe.

In her second book, Aliah provides a no-BS blueprint for women to figure out how to get their ish together and keep it that way. She explains why saying YES to everything and everyone really means saying NO to the things that matter — to your goals, your dreams, and your true self.

The key to achieving your wildest dreams isn't to downsize them. It's to embrace them more fully, and discard everything that isn't serving them.

This book will teach you how to:
Zone in on what really matters to you, so you can ditch everything that isn't serving your dreams.
Recognize and embrace your true worth as a provider, partner, and all-around kickass human.
A special section just for network marketers!
Say no to the millionth request from your team to jump in yet another damn zoom —without experiencing guilt.
Establish boundaries that stick with coworkers, friends, and family.
Stop feeling like an imposter in your own life.
Create habits that protect your time and energy.
Kick fear (of not being lovable, pretty, or good enough) to the curb once and for all.

Written in the same down-to-earth, accessible style that made her first book, Girl, Just Be YOU, favorited by network marketing leaders, this book is for every woman who wants to live a fulfilled, authentic life without feeling stressed and exhausted. Aliah is living proof that it's possible, and you will be too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387524099

Book preview

Introduction

Congratulations mama! I’m so excited to join you on this journey of well... getting your ish together. As busy mamas, we have to manage not only our lives and household, but also our families lives as well. It should be considered a full-time career based on how many hours we dedicate to doing so. It can be hard to imagine trying to cram ‘one more thing’ in our already packed schedules, though it is putting in a little effort to better manage them. One of the most asked questions I get is How do you do it all?

At first, I would pause before answering. I thought it was me putting my head down and getting things done. To a degree, some days, that’s how it certainly feels. Managing a family is challenging, then add a whole business to the mix, and it’s no wonder thousands of Entrepreneur moms have walked away from the industry feeling defeated. I spent weeks reflecting on this concept, and how I would answer this question. I didn’t understand that my ‘routines’ were beyond ‘getting through the day.’ I started thinking about what it was I wanted as a new homemaker and newly married mother. I want to create systems not routines. In my mind systems stick around no matter the season of life you’re in, routines can and often do change and have to based on the season of life. It was one of the reasons that I had created the mundane in my life. Initially and to this day I aspire to live a life where my simple systems will keep me on task, finish with work and chores sooner, and allow for my family to live off schedule and keep the slowness our family had created, so we can enjoy more family and hobby time. After this realization came, I knew I had to share it with those who had been asking.

Over the next few days, I got out a piece of paper and wrote out every single activity and task that I performed throughout the day. After sharing my systems with my audience for months through social media, it inspired me to reach more people. My desire to reach a wider audience, led me to ponder the method I would use to share and that’s when the perfect idea struck me, I am going to write a guide on time management. Not only did I have a method that has been working for me, but it could for others too! That’s how Girl, Get Your Ish Together came to fruition!

During the age of self-help, as a business owner, if you can provide valuable content to your audience, team, and customers, you’ll always have a name for yourself.

It is my hope that this guide will not only help you learn and adapt systems to better control your calendar and days, but allows you to live as the main character in your life, while living the one you’re in love with. Isn’t that why we all become that girl who decided to start up a small business on social media? Don’t get me wrong, the companies we sign up for or create have their own benefits no matter if you own your own business or are affiliated with a company. We truly do all that we do so that we can spend our precious moments on Earth with those we treasure the most.

Happy Managing,

Acknowledgements

To my kids; Kairi, Lucas, I absolutely love you so much, and I’m proud to be your mom! Thank you guys for all your patience, love and encouragement through this entire progress and being the best ‘writing’ buddies ever! It’s because of you guys, I decided to pursue my passions while raising you into the best humans!

To my husband; Joe, I love you. Thank you so much for all of your support, love, encouragement, and to be there for me whenever I need you. I couldn’t have done this without you. Thank you for showing me I deserve to follow my dreams and that I can do anything no matter what.

To the readers; Thank YOU! Without each and every ONE of YOU, I would not be able to continue living out my dream life and to have the career I was always meant to have! I can’t wait to hear your feedback on this! Thank YOU once again!

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Your Closing Shift

We are starting off our journey by taking a deep drive into your evenings. I know that sounds kind of backwards, believe it or not productivity increases throughout the day if you have a consistent night routine. With all that being said, I want you to close your eyes; How do the mornings currently look like and function for you?

• Are they chaotic?

• Are you waking up to screaming kids begging for breakfast?

• Are you waking up to find the kitchen still a disaster from the night before with dishes piled in the sink?

• Is leaving the house a circus act?

If you answered yes to one of these, this is your official sign you need to be implementing a closing shift night routine.

Let’s back up for a minute, before we can talk about what activities and priorities to focus on implementing during this time, we need to define what a closing shift is and learn what it typically consists of.

A C.S. is the nightly ritual or routine