125 | Motherhood changed my business brain chemistry

So one of the first and most obvious ways that having a baby has changed my business brain chemistry which is something I mentioned a few podcast episodes ago and that is just the fact that I have less time.

Like obviously I have more limited time now even though he's at nursery it still feels very different how it used to be because I can't just oh if I've got other stuff that I want to work on or if I'm um working on like a personal project that i just want to get done i can't just work on past like four or five o'clock i can't just pick up my laptop on the weekend and do some bits here and there like i obviously have to be present with my family with my baby which is what i want and it's what i possibly should have been doing before but i actually love my business and i really enjoy working and i don't think i quite realized how much of that extra work i was actually putting in to my business pre-baby yeah i would just sit on my laptop in the evening sometimes and work over weekends when i had spare time like yes i had hobbies um i love that i'm saying had hobbies um at some point maybe i'll have time to pick those hobbies up again um i used to like gaming and i love going outside like we live in cornwall going to the beach getting in the sea doing that kind of stuff Like I didn't just live to work, but I probably did work a lot more than what I was realising.

So just with generally less time and more limited time, it makes you really refocus on what's important and make you want to streamline and simplify even more.

Even though a lot of people will probably know me as the kind of organised, streamlined person, I still couldn't tell you what I was doing with all my time.

I clearly was just not as streamlined and as simplified as I thought I was because now I'm like, no, no, there's a lot of room for improvement here with how streamlined I could be with my business basically and so there's a lot of things i've done in terms of stripped back the tools and softwares that i use i'm paying for way less subscriptions now because i just consolidated everything i've been looking at tools that can do lots of things rather than having to pay for separate things been looking at tools that are free rather than having to have a subscription cost For example, using Affinity, which is a free design software that can basically replace Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, all of that stuff.

So I now use that.

I don't pay for any overcomplicated onboarding and automation software anymore because I just have stripped that back and made it simple.

And I've stopped just doing a load of stuff that I just don't really need to do anymore, like creating new courses and... spending hours on short form content when actually long form content is what really gets me more mileage for my marketing.

I've really stripped back on just all of those things.

So that's one obvious way that things have changed.