Most of us have a few weeks left before our kids go back to school, which means a front row seat to the goals we set and didn’t even come close to accomplishing. Meanwhile, we are feeling the guilt of counting the days until our kids go back to school, yet torn because, yes, we also want our kids at home. If you’re searching for summer productivity tips for mompreneurs, you’re in the right place. These next few weeks before school starts are the perfect time to pause, reset, and reclaim your energy with this quick five-minute mindset shift.
The season that’s supposed to feel light and breezy often turns into a logistical avalanche. Juggling childcare, swim lessons, travel, guilt over too much screen time, and client calls squeezed between frantic calls from our kids for pickups is killing us. And we don’t dare go on social media only to scroll past beachy “out of office” posts while our Slack is pinging, someone’s asking for a snack again, and our to-do list hasn’t had a thing crossed out in days.
Sound familiar?
If summer’s got you feeling like you’re running a business and a summer camp without a break or a plan, this post is your lifeline. Here’s a five-minute mindset reset to get you grounded, focused, and feeling a little more like yourself in these last few weeks of summer.
Step 1: Name the Chaos
You can’t manage what you’re pretending doesn’t exist. So take one honest minute to name what’s overwhelming you right now.
Mutter it under your breath in the pickup line. Write it on a sticky note. Whisper it into your coffee.
- “I feel like I’m failing at everything.”
- “I’m tired of making big and little decisions.”
- “My business feels stuck, and I don’t have the headspace to get us back on track.”
- “I want to be present with my kids, but my brain is stuck in Slack.”
Naming the chaos doesn’t make you negative. It makes you aware. And awareness is the first step to resetting anything.
Step 2: Ask the Million-Dollar Question
Once you’ve named the overwhelm, ask yourself:
“What actually matters today?”
Not everything. Not everyone. Just today.
Most mompreneurs carry a double burden: the pressure to scale a business and be deeply emotionally available at home. But not everything deserves equal weight. One day, the business needs more. Another day, your kid might need more from you, and that’s okay too. Maybe it’s a rare rainy morning with nothing on the schedule, and you think, why not play hooky today? Or maybe the kids are mostly occupied, and with one last-minute babysitter, you could string together a full morning of focused work (outside the house, obviously).
Let go of the need to “balance” everything. Pick what matters just for today. And throw yourself into it.
Step 3: Slash the To-Do List
Reduce the noise. Pick three things max that absolutely need to happen for the day to feel like a win. That might look like:
- Send one customized follow-up email to a potential client.
- Spend 30 minutes with a potential service provider who might be your answer to your businesses stalling Meta ads.
- Sit on the couch and read one book to your youngest child who will still cuddle with you.
Everything else can wait. If you get it done, great. If you don’t, it doesn’t affect your value as a mom or an entrepreneur one bit. Give yourself some grace.
Step 4: Reframe the Season
Repeat after me: “I can work less in summer and my business will not fall apart. Slow can still be strategic.”
Your brain might want to tell you you’re falling behind because you’re not producing at your normal pace. But here’s a truth many mompreneurs miss: seasons of lower output are not seasons of lower value.
Summer might be slower in sales and marketing acquisition, but it could be perfect for reflection, relationship-building, or testing small pivots. It might be when your next big idea quietly arrives while watching your kid get up on waterski’s for the first time.
There’s more than one way to build momentum. Sometimes it’s a sprint. Other times, it’s slow, steady, incremental progress. Cycles. Aha moments. Pauses that lead to clarity. You need all of it to move your business forward, and move your business forward without burning out.
Step 5: Remind Yourself of Your Why
You started this to achieve financial freedom for your family and an escape from the corporate grind. You wanted the freedom and the flexibility to do exactly what you are trying to do this summer: spend more time with your kids without feeling chained to your work.
This doesn’t mean giving up. It means checking your angst and ego at the door of summer and accepting a little slower pace. Resetting. Reconnecting to the version of you that had vision before the overwhelm took over.
Stay off social media—it’s a pressure cooker of things you don’t need right now. The posts, the trends, the noise? They’ll still be there in three weeks. You started this business for a reason. This is the moment to double down and make it work for you.
This isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence,in your work, in your home, and with yourself. And summer is a time you can be a little more present with your kids. Seize that opportunity. Being a mompreneur in the summer doesn’t require superhuman effort. It requires perspective.
You don’t need a 90-day plan or a miracle morning routine to get back on track. You need five minutes to reset and take the pressure down a notch.
You didn’t build this life to copy someone else’s version of balance. You get to define exactly how this works for you.
