435: Finding Motivation And Personal Time In A Pandemic

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Many of you have shared that the biggest and most relentless challenges of this time are finding motivation and personal time in this current version of Groundhogs Day. It is definitely challenging to motivate when you don’t know what’s coming, you feel you have very little control over your future, and you have no space to think through what you want your life to look like right now. I know one of my biggest challenges during this time has been the constant closeness of my family. Don’t get me wrong, there has been some magic in this. But also, it’s a LOT. And it’s never-ending. I was pretty accustomed to (and appreciative of) my quiet days working solo from home. There is nothing solo about my days anymore. Yes, I’m grateful to be working, but it’s overwhelming and exhausting to work full time with a child and a dog constantly by my side. I know many of you are doing this with more than one child by your side. I bow down…. During this time, we must create and fiercely protect small spaces of personal time. This will tremendously help us find motivation and stay motivated. I have been creating little pockets of personal time that break up my day and really help keep me moving forward with a decent attitude. Listen in to hear exactly how you can find more motivation by creating pockets of personal time each day. Thank you to our sponsors: Bulldog Online Yoga: Head to bulldogonline.com and use promo code SHAMELESS for a 30-day free trial and 50% off your next month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 435.
0:04.0	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode as well as any
0:07.5	discount codes from our sponsors, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode
0:12.5	435.5.
0:18.6	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:24.0	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:30.2	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:35.6	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in
0:38.7	our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:44.1	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
0:59.8	Hello, Shameless Moms. Happy Monday. I'm always happy to be here with you. I'm especially happy to be here with you during these wild times. I think we need each other now more than ever.
1:06.4	And I will tell you that if you are in the Seattle area like me, we are entering week seven of
1:12.9	distance learning.
1:13.9	And I count down COVID life from like the time that we schools closed down.
1:20.3	That's like when my world really got flipped upside down.
1:22.4	So we are kicking off week seven here since our daily life changed dramatically.
1:29.3	And wherever you are, I hope that you are safe.
1:33.5	I hope that you are healthy. I hope that you are hanging in there. I know these are hard,
1:40.9	unpredictable times that and things can get overwhelming and real exhausting. And so I'm with you. I'm with you. And I'm really, really honored that we get to be connected in this way and that I get to be in your ear during this time. And I have to say last week we kicked off the Shameless Mom Con collective. And if you have been listening for any length of time, you know that Shameless Mom Con is my live event that we had last April in Seattle for the first time, April 2019. It was phenomenal. We were
2:04.4	supposed to have it just a few weeks ago here in Seattle, and that couldn't happen. So we ended up
2:08.8	moving it to an online event. And instead of it being a two-day event, like it was going to be
2:13.2	when it was here in Seattle, we moved it to a four-week event. And I have to say, I was really,
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