How I Eliminated my Mom Stress

I believed the lie for too many years! Motherhood will just always feel stressful.

The lie that you can’t have little babies and toddlers and still have a clean easy to manage home.

The lie that we are all just drowning in motherhood.

I had a baby on my hip and a toddler at my feet and was trying to put away towels when I looked around my home and for the first time realized it was my HOME that was causing me my extreme mom stress.

I so desperately wanted to enjoy my kids more. I was so tired of the chaos, the overwhelm, the “mom brain”, feeling like I was getting nothing done in my day… 

Is this you too?

Princeton did a study that showed the chaos of your environment (home) directly relates to you stress levels🤯

And man did I feel that as a busy mom of lot of kids (ok, just 4!).

I kept trying different things and it felt like nothing was helping.

I tried ruthless decluttering, I even did a decluttering challenge. Only to see that the clutter came immediately back just a few short weeks / month later.

I tried buying all of the cute decor baskets, but the toys always found themselves on the ground and NOT in the baskets.

Then I had tried creating huge long to-do lists, but they left me feeling even more stressed and even more of a failure when I didn’t get cross off the items on the list.

Don’t get me wrong, decluttering, organizing, and list making are all so helpful and are great places to start in simplifying your home.

But those things didn’t teach me HOW to maintain a simplified home day on and day out. 

How to manage the endless laundry, cleaning, meals, etc… that being a mom requires of us daily!!

So What Worked?

Here’s what ACTUALLY WORKED:

I added effective ROUTINES to my day to get my home on autopilot. 

This ONE change was game changing💃

Why ROUTINES?

Routines are easier for our brain. They become autopilot, things we naturally know to do once you create the habits. 

I started making small changes to my home, creating easy to-do routines and I’ve been SHOCKED how I’ve been able to eliminate my mom stress and get my home on autopilot, where it only takes me minutes to clean / manage each day.

This is important as a busy mom because you will use less brain energy and your tasks will naturally get done with minimal effort. 

Any time we can make motherhood feel easier, get more done in less time it is a BIG win!

And the results have been so much more than I originally thought they would be🎉

What did I learn from this journey?

Decluttering & organizing your home were only just bandaids and a SMALL portion, but were not fixing the ROOT issue.

Adding daily routines, anchors & productivity tools gave me the needed tools to solve the root issue.🔥🤯

Hi, I’m Amy, Founder of Genius Mom Hacks

I’m a mom to four kids and I was drowning in motherhood, had two kids at the time, the twins were not born yet. I thought my stress was because of so many other outside factors, but the root issue was not having effective routines to manage my home easier.

Having 4 kids all three and under, forced me to make changes, do things differently than other moms. “Winging” motherhood was no longer an option. I needed tools, systems, hacks, routines, a game plan.

This has made such a huge difference in my motherhood journey, that I created this page dedicated to sharing tips, hacks, systems, routines and strategies to help other stressed and overwhelmed moms.

Motherhood Now Feels Easier

In the last 6 years I have:

〰️ Eliminated the overwhelm and stress plagued by most moms

〰️ I Get HOURS of “me” time each week without having my kids sit on TV or devices

〰️ Created a home I love that takes minutes to clean each day, even with four young kids at home

〰️ Escaped laundry prison with eliminating the piles of endless laundry 

〰️ Have energy to be an active present mom even with toddlers and babies 

〰️ Get more done in less time 

〰️ Have my toddlers play for hours independently

What NOW?

I am so passionate about ALL moms learning these strategies and effective routines that I created my Genius Home Hacks Guide.

Wanna learn exactly how to eliminate your mom stress? How to create an autopilot home, get more done in less time, and now relax on your weekends instead of playing catch up with chores?

Don’t Just Take My Word For It

It’s exactly how this mom of two Littles calmed the chaos in her home too. 

“Amy’s hacks have helped calm our chaos and my husband and I are forever grateful!!  Amy has absolutely mastered the art of the system & routines in the home.”

And how this working mom of 3 manage to get her home on autopilot in ONE week!

For more on feeling stressed and overwhelmed as a busy mom, check out:

15 Hacks for Coping with Overstimulation as a Mom

By learning effective routines I was able to eliminate my mom stress, get my home on autopilot, get more done in less time, enjoy being a mom more and LOVE my home.

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