Nicole Jaques

That is the title because we're managing so much more than just kids schedules and

diapers or making baby food or packing lunches and getting them to school.

And I think once you start time blocking your day, you'll realize, oh,

I have a lot more time to focus on things I want to be focused on, which is how I realized then I could start a platform and continue to work and still not need a nanny or a sitter to take care of the kids and run, you know, a 12 person business, write a book and do things like that because it was very efficient in the home at time blocking.

So that's like my number one tip, time block.

So when you become, I remember birthing my son and feeling like I had left a version of myself in the past, someone I don't know anymore.

And I desperately wanted to sit down with her and have coffee and say, you have no idea the beauty, but also the chaos that comes in parenting.

Because I was so naive, right?

We all are until you have your first kid.

And

I think that that's fair to say.

But I think what I realized that I never really valued prior to having kids was rest, that I underutilized rest.

And I think that this is going to tie into this.

So stick with me here.

The mindset of rest is rest.

You know, not just a necessity.

I'm not talking about just sleep or taking a nap.

I'm talking about resting your body on a couch or doing something that just allows you to escape.

Rest is just as important as work, okay?

So if you're not giving your body rest, you're never resetting your nervous system, which never really resets your mood, your sleep, and everything else that helps you really take care of you.