“I don’t have time.” Yes you do. You just haven’t decided it matters… yet.

Hey there…

I’m gonna tell you something that might sting a little…

When people tell me they don’t have time… to build a side hustle… start a business… learn something new… 

What they’re really saying is… It’s not a priority yet.

I don’t want to hear about a lack of time from anybody… 

Not after the years I spent as a single mom with zero family in town… no backup… no village… doing it completely alone…

Full time college courses. Working. Room mom. Den mom. Soccer coach. Baseball coach. Tutoring my son’s homework every night.

One year at our first Cub Scout meeting when I told the parents that my one expectation is that one parent be present at every meeting… I meant it. Once a month. Two hours.

And I had a mom look who told me… We’ve got a busy schedule at our house. We may have to just drop them off.

So I looked her straight in the eye and said… Look, I get it… I understand busy. I’m a single mom. No family in town. No one to call. I’m the room mom, the den mom, the soccer coach, the baseball coach, and the homework tutor.

So if I can be here for two hours once a month for your son, so can you.

Here’s the thing about time… we all have exactly the same amount of it…

Twenty four hours. Seven days. No exceptions. No refunds.

What we don’t all have is the same priorities. 

And priorities… are a choice.

Nowadays, I work 90+ hours a week on a truck. My son just had surgery this week. My right knee is bone-on-bone. My left hip needs replacing. I need surgery for a hernia. I’m helping my BFF navigate her cancer. And I’m navigating a major court case 

And I’m still building a business.

Not because I have more time than you.

Because I decided it was priority number two.

One more thing before I go…

When my son was little, I thought the hard part was temporary. I thought when he grew up I’d have more time.

He’s forty now.

He didn’t expect to not be able to hold down a full time job as an adult. And it eats at him sometimes… having to continually find ways to keep moving forward when the world expects something from you that your body and your brain won’t allow.

I’m still a single mom… just of an adult now.

So when I hear someone say they’ll start building something when the kids are older… when life settles down…

I think about my son.

Because he didn’t expect this. I didn’t expect this. And life kept moving anyway.

You don’t know what’s coming. Neither do I.

What you know is right now. And right now… you have time.

The question is whether you’ve decided it matters.

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