Overcoming Time Poverty: How to Maximize Your 24 Hours with Systems and Leverage

I’m calling you out, Frantic Freida…

Your life ISN’T chaotic because you’re short on time.

REAL TALK - 24 hours is enough for Sarah Blakely (of Spanx fame), the President of the United States, and the leading cancer-cure researchers. So it’s probably plenty for you, too, huh?

Ok, if that feels like a big fat bitch slap, please hear me out! I used to think I was a victim of time, too! 🙋‍♀️

I used to cry, “There’s just not enough hours in the day!” And I do LITERALLY mean cry. I came up with the idea “poverty of time,” and used it to justify my frantic and overwhelmed behavior, and general dissatisfaction with "the way things were going."

The problem with allowing yourself to get overwhelmed because of a “lack of time,” is that there is exactly NOTHING you can do about “lacking time!”

How do we create more hours in our day?  

In case you didn’t already shout out the answer – WE CAN’T! 24 is allllll we get, and that’s got to cover sleeping and peeing, too.

If “poverty of time” hits home for you, YOU’VE GOT TO CHANGED WHAT YOU’RE FOCUSED ON.

Read: the problem isn’t what you’re pretending it is.  

Presently: You’re focused on a “lack of time.”

Fact: You can't control time. That makes you a victim, and no longer in control.  

Refocus: Start focusing on a.) Systems, and b.) Leverage. Those are two things over which you have 100% control, and can start making changes ASAP. 

SYSTEMS

There are ALL kinds of systems that you can implement to become WAY more effective and efficient with your time and energy. I share them on the regular on all my socials (look for “Working Mom System for Success” posts) and the blog.

In April, the Working Mom Systems for Success eBook will be out!👯‍♀️🥳 30+ of the BEST systems to support ambitious working moms! These are the systems I’ve used to level up my life (while adding babies, tripling my income, launching businesses, allll the things), in the 24 available hours each day.

LEVERAGE

Girl. HIRE👏IT👏DONE👏

Cleaners. Laundry. Grocery delivery. Hair and nails. Taxes. Daycare. There are SO many ways you can get leverage, and my guess is there are at least one or two that would really help you that you’re not giving yourself permission to embrace.

The top two that we tend to refuse? House Cleaners and Daycare.

Look, you've got your reasons, and you can hold on to them as long as you'd like. Nobody is taking them away from you. But if you're "running out of time" every day, it's not Time. It's You!

You can have your "reasons," or you can choose to change the way you look at things and find a great solution. But you can't have both. You’ve simply GOT to change your mindset about leverage if you want to level up and you’re in major "time poverty." 

Hear this, believe this, feel this: YOU’RE *NOT* SHORT ON TIME.

You might be short on great systems and leverage.

But you’ve already got all the TIME you need to change the world, make great money, and love your family HARD.

Shoot me a DM and let me know how I can help you implement this concept ASAP! IG: @alirspicer

I'm cheering for you! 

-Ali