Well, hey friends, welcome to the Melanie Mitro show. It's your host, Melanie Mitro, and we're back for another week and a new episode.

I don't know about you, but I feel like I need to take a big exhale right now. My kids are back in school. We're in the swing of a new routine. And it's been a little challenging here in the Metro house.

Sometimes I feel like people think we've got it perfectly organized and it's on lockdown.

But sometimes it's a bit chaotic.

And getting two teenage boys back in a routine, lunch is packed, organized when they don't

really want to listen to you is definitely a challenge. I'm sure you can

feel that too. And then you add that back to school sort of tiredness on top of it. And let's just

say it's been a real challenging experience. But anyways, I feel like today's episode is going to be

just resonate so much over the last couple of weeks.

We've been talking about back to school. We've been chatting through. How do you get back

into a routine? How do you handle your business during a busy season? How do you not put it on

the back burner? Last week on the podcast, we talked about time blocking and creating space

for yourself and your mindset, but also your business, because

that's why you're here listening to this show is because you want to know how to show up at the

highest level in business and in life. And I hope that the past two episodes now that I've

shared have been, have allowed you to sort of drop into this

high performance mentality, this mentality of it doesn't have to be all or nothing. And there

are going to be some seasons where there's a little bit of a misalignment because there's

chaos that is happening. There's more tasks than there are hours in the day.

And my hope and my wish for you is through repeated practice and repetition that you begin to

develop some new habits and routines. And even when life gets busy, you're able to maintain your

business. You might not be thriving in every area, but you're able to still

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