Working Moms, especially those who run their own businesses, have it pretty tough! Not only are they trying to start, build and maintain a business, but on top of that, they are responsible for the wellbeing of their children. Plus, there’s the ever-present guilt – if you are with your kids, you feel bad that you aren’t working on your business, and if you’re working on your business, you feel bad that you aren’t with your kids!
It can all feel incredibly overwhelming, and being overwhelmed makes it so much harder to effectively plan a strategy. This is where business coaches come in.
Defining Goals
The great thing about a business coach is that they can help you gain clarity on all of the conflicting ideas that you have in your mind.
Most entrepreneurs have so many ideas at once that it’s tough to know where to start, and you can end up in a cycle of starting a lot of projects and never finishing them!
A good coach will talk with you and help you to understand what your most important goals are, and help you to define the steps that you need to take to reach them. Once you know what you are doing and why, this will give you more clarity and will mean that you can actually start achieving your goals.
Overcoming Guilt
This issue is especially debilitating for Moms. By helping you to understand exactly what you are doing and why you are doing it, the feelings of guilt will start to subside. A lot of guilt can come from wondering if you are doing something wrong. If you know that you aren’t, then that takes away a huge reason for guilt!
If this is an issue that you are wanting a coach to help you with, it’s important that you find a small business coach who understands motherhood. There are a lot of complexities to raising a family which will naturally need to be taken into consideration when you’re deciding how to run your business, and a coach who already understands that will be best placed to help you.
Striking A Balance Between Work And Family
Another difficult issue for Moms is working out how to find the right balance between work and family so that they can run their business successfully, and still feel that they are being a good parent.
Working with a coach can be helpful in deciding exactly how much energy you dedicate to each, while still ensuring that you have enough energy left for yourself!
Successful Execution of Strategy
There are a lot of skills involved in pulling off your business strategies, such as how to communicate with people to get the best results and how to effectively market yourself. Sometimes it’s hard to know what skills you even need! This is where coaches come in. They will help you not to be sidelined by hundreds of expensive courses that you don’t even need, and to zero in on the skills you really need to hone.
Community
Coaches often have a network of clients, and this can be a really great way of being introduced to other small business owners like yourself. This can be invaluable, not only for your business but also for you to feel that you have a community of like-minded individuals that you can share your trials and successes with.