Business with a Baby #3

Hello, Jasmine here, sharing with you my perspective of what it's like managing a small business and a small human being in my series called Business with a Baby.

So first and foremost, I just want to say thank you to everybody that reached out after last week's video to offer congratulations and tips and words of support. It absolutely gave me the boost to go ahead with the new normal, that is my life at the moment. So a heartfelt thank you to everyone who did reach out. I do appreciate that. 

As I mentioned last week it was my first week of trying to look after baby by myself. And also trying some new things with the team. So we did have our start of week meetings and our one on ones which went exceptionally well, highly recommend! And then as well, for me, I'm trying to be kind on myself having one big sort of goal that I'm trying to do each week. And last week, my goal was to do an hour of study every day and which I did achieve.

So I am using this "downtime" to upskill myself. So I am learning my PRINCE2 Agile practitioner certification. And I did set aside a minimum of an hour a day, each day last week, and I was able to do that. So just having a goal and having something that I was looking forward to was great.

But of course the other thing that comes with running a business and having a baby is that plans can change at any point. So there were times where things didn't go to schedule, I had to be a little bit more flexible. Didn't get to do the study at the time that I wanted to because the baby needed me. So he's my number one priority at the moment. But I still managed to get everything done, which was great. So that was last week. 

This week I'm focused, I've got a new goal, so I'll keep doing my study, but there's something else that I'm looking to do. And that's to have a look at the LVL Up website and see how we can improve that. So that's my goal for this week. And then eventually over time, I'll just have more and more that I'm doing each week. And that'll be much easier once myself and Van are in a little bit of a routine. 

So that's where we're at. That's what we did last week, this week will be more of the same, but balancing out; study, business, being a mum and also socializing as well using this time to, to connect with some other mums.

That's me, that's business this week. If you have any tips or anything else that you think I should be focusing on, I'd love to hear from you. Please reach out and I'll see you next week for my Business with a Baby. See ya.