What we can control is often what goes smoothly, like planning and scheduling our days down to the hour. Building this scaffolding to the day gives us the best chance at being successful with our goals, allows us to work smarter and more effectively and importantly, ensures there is a quantity of quality family time for connection, fun and growth (for all of us).
For the past 5 months we have been working so hard at building a new iteration of our website and an online store. Jen and I are not particularly literate with technology (I admit that I have been actively avoiding learning it like running out of a house on fire), so we’ve hired a company to do it for us. That being said, we still have to come up with writing the content, the design, the layout, the images…so although we aren’t doing the coding, we’ve had to do everything else. We’ve been getting up at 4:30-5am every day to make time for fitness and to plug away at these concepts, putting in 2.5 hours of work before our kids get up. My Chinese doctor insisted I give up coffee (I only started drinking it as an adult when I started this business and was able to give him 6 weeks. I mean, really). To say that this hasn’t been a stressful and anxiety-inducing period of time would be untrue, both Jen and I bolt upright regularly in the middle of the night with ideas and more items to add to the to-do list. Another common feeling for many entrepreneurs.

I love this post! Congratulations to you and Jen for making it happen. I have no doubt all of those early mornings and hard work will pay-off.
Also, giving up coffee for 6 weeks during the process? That is a true feat, my friend.
-written while enjoying my coffee and pumpkin muffin