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6 Things You Need To Do To Make Your Business More Fun

September 6, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 4 Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “time flies when you’re having fun” as I reflect back on the past 4 years.

It feels like minutes have passed in my life but when I look at my girls I know it’s been a lot more time than that.

They’re 4 years older, 4 years bigger, 4 years more self-sufficient than they were when I first started my business.

Where did the time go?

How did it pass so quickly?

The answer is so simple.

FUN.

I have loved doing what I do so much in the past 4 years, it went by in the blink of an eye.

We cannot possibly think we’re going to sustain our businesses if we don’t believe in our heart of hearts it’s a fun way to spend our time. If it’s not fun for you yet, might I suggest that you’re not doing it right.

Now, it’s not always going to be fun and for me easy doesn’t equal enjoyable, but for the most part I love what I do. Do you? 

People that learn to make their jobs fun are more successful and have a higher retention rate. If you have a team around you, you should work on making it more fun for them too!

If your business is more stressful than fun for you, here 6 things you need to do to make your business more fun:

1. Cultivate a group of your people that you can open up to. I find the really hard stuff a lot more fun when I can share some crappy comment or harsh email with my friend Melissa or Liz. They know my business and they know what I do. Most importantly, they know my heart and me. They can put it in perspective for me and laugh with me a lot of days, which is the medicine for that kind of thing. They help me keep my business light when I get intense.

2. Use the talents, skills, abilities and hobbies you developed before you started your business. Be willing to give people the thing you really love doing. For me, that was creating graphics on the computer. It was identifying needs. It was also writing. I love doing those things now just like I loved them before I started my business. What can you share with people?

3. Play a little more. If you have a team, get into wherever you communicate and play with one another a little bit. If it’s just you, do this on social media. Talk about personal stuff. Create connections between people you know. Form new relationships. Business doesn’t have to be so serious. It can be really…wait for it…fun.

4. Brainstorm. Getting inspired by new ideas and getting a new project off the ground is really satisfying and working hard to get it started can be one of the most fun parts of being your own boss. Get out there. Find a group of likeminded people and create something together.

5. Work in new places. Take your laptop out back today to work. Take it to a coffee shop and get yourself your favorite drink. Go to Chick-Fil-A and enjoy work with a side of Chick-Fil-A sauce. Ok, maybe that last one is just for me but try mixing up your regular routine to inject some fun into the day.

6. Give yourself a challenge. I always get really inspired and excited about having a new goal to go after. I love the way it makes me feel. Challenge yourself (and your team) on a new goal to work toward. Maybe it’s a daily challenge and maybe it’s just short-term. Your call, but make it something to strive for.

Don’t believe the lie that it’s only worthwhile in business if it’s hard and boring. That’s not the truth.

If I’m missing time with my family for it, it damn well should be a lot of fun. I better want to spend my work time doing my work and not wishing it was over.

XO,

Filed Under: #LadyBoss Life, Business Tagged With: #LadyBoss, Business, Friends, fun, How-To, lady boss, Me, the not-so-shiny, tips, Work, Work at Home Mom

One Easy Trick For Getting More Interaction On Social Media

September 1, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 1 Comment

The other day I shared a little bit of my story and why I do what I do on InstaStories. (if you’re not following me on Instagram yet, I’d love to connect!)

I’ve said it a million times before, but I love my job and you can tell when I’m talking about it.

I got more interaction on my emotion toward what I do than anything else.

We like to see joy and excitement pour out of people when they talk about their craft or their career or their passions.

Remember that.

People want to be a part of true and real joy.

Are you communicating that in your business?

Let’s not get so caught up in striving to grow we forget to communicate how much we love what we get to do.

XO,

Filed Under: #LadyBoss Life, Business Tagged With: #LadyBoss, Business, Dream Big, lady boss, Me, social media, Work, Work at Home Mom, writing

The Space Between

August 10, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 2 Comments

This is the portrait Jeremy Cowart took of me on Friday night.

As we sit on the plane ready to take off for 2 other small work trips, I’m still trying to put my finger on the answer to his question that should accompany the image.

He asked, us to describe our in-between. Liminal means “the space between,” and you can see that light represents just that. So what am I in the middle of right now?

As a person that constantly finds herself in new situations creatively and professionally, I feel like I am always in between the beginning and end of a project. Always.

As a whole though, I find myself in a holding pattern as I take on the biggest ask of my career. Writing a book for an audience that spans outside of my normal following. I’m dipping into a larger group of women to see if I can’t do some good there — to see if I can’t help some moms that may normally say no get their business ideas off the ground.

I’m between my role as a sales person, marketer, and leader and a role as a writer and speaker. If I’m being honest it’s really scary because insecurity and lots of hours. It’s also really exciting — hence the hidden, huge grin on my face. Who knows what 2018 brings, I’m just trusting that God’s upstairs opening the right doors for me at the right time. I’m ready to go.

I’d like to take the time to thank all of you for your love and support no matter how you found me here on social media. I’m excited we have connected and I hope to always bring value to your time.

XO,

Filed Under: #LadyBoss Life, The Good Life Tagged With: #LadyBoss, Business, Dream Big, Family, goals, lady boss, Me, travel, Work, Work at Home Mom, writing

She Designed A Life She Loved

August 8, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 1 Comment

Sometimes I wake up and I am so grateful that I don’t have to feel like hiding from my day. Sometimes I take it for granted and forget what that felt like.

Have you ever had a job like that? Where you just dreaded getting up in the morning and going to work? Me too.

For three years I have loved the life that Michael Moreno and I designed. One where we never get that gut-wrenching Sunday night feeling. One where the weekend often comes too quick. I mean, I love Mondays you guys. Love them and look forward to them.

What is your heart calling you to do? You should design a life around that. Find a way to make your passions, skills and gifts your life’s work. Find a way to let those things pay your bills. You can do it. You might be like me, where you look back and realize it is also the hardest you have ever worked but you’ll love every hard part. I promise you will.

 

What’s your best talent, skill or gifting? What is something you can confidently tell me you do well?

Be bold. I want to hear it. Mine is saying the thing most people won’t. Now the key is working that “thing” into your business and sharing it with the world.

Go. Do.

XO,

Filed Under: #LadyBoss Life Tagged With: #LadyBoss, Business, Dream Big, gifts, lady boss, Me, Michael, passions, skills, tips, Work at Home Mom

Getting Noticed Book, Coming Soon!

December 3, 2016 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 2 Comments

My first book was published this week.

It’s called Getting Noticed.

Getting Noticed Book by Lindsay Teague Moreno

It is a no-nonsense guide to standing out and selling more for momtrepreneurs who ‘ain’t got time for that’.

This book started as a PDF guide and as I was writing it it turned into so much more than just a PDF. It turned into a book. The words just flowed out of me and I overshot my word limit real fast.

So, this wanted to be a book and a book it did become.

This book is for every kind of momtrepreneur. Makers, sellers and doers of all types will be able to use this book to create more traction for your business online and grow their business. Everyone from the Etsy shop owner to the direct saleswoman to the photographer will be able to use this book as a guide to their own success. I took my successes and failures and put them into this book to show you exactly how I was able to create a multi-million dollar business completely online.

I am so excited to see this change businesses around the world and watch people actually connect online. I’m tired of seeing great businesses lose the sale to big box stores. We can do better and this book is going to show you how because we need your product and your perspective in our world.

This book will be available exclusively on Amazon. Make sure you’re following me on Instagram for updates on when it’s available for sale!

Getting Noticed Book by Lindsay Teague Moreno

Here’s the description:

You don’t have time for another “change everything you’re doing on social media and be just like me” book. You need information and you need it fast. Do you want to grow your following, sell more product, and experience the freedom that comes along with being your own boss?

Getting Noticed isn’t the “secret to social media” – it’s a no fluff, take charge guide to the way we present ourselves, our business, and connect with customers online.

Lindsay Teague Moreno knows the hardcore mom life. In between wash cycles, putting kids to bed for the fifth time, and balancing a to-do list that would make Santa jealous, she grew a business from nothing into a team of over 300,000 people producing over $15,000,000 each month in just three years. Lindsay knows you don’t have time for another book that leaves you with temporary warm fuzzies but no real content to actually building your business. Getting noticed is the first step to entrepreneurial success in our fast-paced, online world. Step up your game.

Lindsay Teague Moreno

 

Filed Under: #LadyBoss Life, Books, The Good Life Tagged With: #LadyBoss, books, Business, Dream Big, entrepreneurship, goals, How-To, Me, My Favorite Things, reading, Work, Work at Home Mom, writing

They Grow Up Fast

October 26, 2016 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 24 Comments

My little ones are funny. Especially, the smallest of the little ones, Kennedy. She tells me all the time she doesn’t want to get older. She asked if she could stay five this year when her sixth birthday rolled around in the serious way that five-year-olds talk about Disney Princesses being actual, real human beings. She believed it so it could be.

Kinda strange.

I can remember being a kid and I couldn’t wait until I was older to be able to make my own choices and not be parented. I could eat all the snacks and watch all the movies. No, I did not want to remain a kid. I wished those years away and you know? I wouldn’t go back to that.

Maybe that means M and I are too easy on our kids? I don’t know. We expect a lot from them and often I think we forget how young they actually are based on what we require of them. Our list of rules is long but I think they’re really good girls. I have to credit that to the standard of behavior we require and not my actual parenting skills because, friends, I’m severely lacking in the sympathetic mom category. I more closely relate to that tiger mother but without the actual follow-through because ain’t nobody got time for that.

Yesterday, Kennedy kept coming into my office at the end of my work day and kinda whining at me. Like a half cry and half whine but she didn’t know why, so I asked her to leave and check her attitude. Again, not sympathetic. She walks back in about 5 minutes later and says, “mom I’m tired.” School recess. That will do it.

I’m not cold to them but I don’t always love my kids touching on me and laying all over me. I like my space. I have 2 little girls who are touchy, feely, girly, sensitive and just generally affectionate. They look like me but I think they’re soft and sweet inside like their daddy. They want me to let them lay directly on me at all times including but not limited to eating dinner, watching a movie, work, picking up, driving the car, talking on the phone, showering. You name it, they want to be on me. That’s not usually Kennedy though. That’s her older sisters. Kennedy likes to play alone. Her teachers were concerned about it this year (even called us into a meeting about it) but  we know that’s just who she is and who she always has been. She doesn’t like to do what everybody else is doing, she’s fiercely independent. She asks a kid at church their name before she leaves just so she can assure us she talked to SOMEONE else that day but left up to her? She’d find something that nobody else was interested in and do that.

As my twins reach the ripe age of 8, they understand personal space and social norms more and more. So the demanded snuggle and consoling is less and less, which I’m both thankful for and fearful of in a strange twist of emotion. I opened my arms up to see if Kennedy wanted to sit on my lap yesterday while I finished work and she crawled up just like this.

addy-snuggs

She wrapped both arms around my neck and shoulders. She laid her chest on my chest and she just put her head on me. I think she just wanted to hear me breathe and to hold her. I realize that soon she’s not going to be this small and she’s not going to want to crawl up on me when she’s tired. I had to let it happen. About 5 minutes later she was done, she unhooked herself from me and she smiled the rest of the night. This is not something I can ever remember doing with my mom as a kid. I don’t think I would have asked her to let me lay on her. Emotions and touching = awkward and uncomfortable. Better just avoid it.

I breathed in every moment of this time with her. I think I needed it as much as she did. Sometimes, as a mom, I don’t feel overly skilled or equipped. Often I feel awkward in motherhood. Sometimes, though, the girls tell me exactly how they feel about how I’m doing. This is one of those times.

I have to be doing something right. I’m reminded that we’re all doing the best we can with what we have. Many of us…ME…grew up in a crazy situation and our model of parenthood was anything but healthy. We’re trying to figure it out, aren’t we? Take these little hugs as a sign that you’re doing it. Give yourself some grace. They may remember that you yelled at them once and completely lost your shit but they’ll also remember that you hugged them and let them just be tired on you. They need to see that anyway. What kind of situation are we setting them up for if they think we always got it right as a mom? They’re going to be miserable when the reality of parenting smacks them across the face and kicks them in the chest on DAY ONE. They need us to be flawed.

I snapped this photo with my computer not 24 hours ago and I’m already at my end with my kids today. This feeling is fleeting. Capture as much as you can. Tell yourself to remember it. Try to think about it when you’re ready to let the neighbors have one of them for keeps.

That thing that moms with grown up kids say to us that we hate? The dreaded 4 words: “THEY GROW UP FAST.” We curse that horrible phrase when it’s said to us standing in Target while the kids beg you mercilessly for things they don’t need and then throw a complete attitude when the answer is no. The stranger looks on our terrible reality wistfully and sighs that annoying “you’ve got the life” sigh. That’s not what we want to hear but you know it and I know it…

She’s right.

It’s going by fast. Just look back and see how fast and yet how slow. As a mom, I tend to forget when I get it right and remember all the things I screw up. There’s got to be more grace, moms. When I say grace I simply mean forgiveness without merit. More grace from us to ourselves. We’re never going to be perfect so why are we expecting it from ourselves? Don’t pretend it’s all going to be 5-minute hugs and great manners. It’s the trenches. It’s hard. You’re doing it right, even when it feels all wrong.

Lindsay Teague Moreno

Filed Under: #LadyBoss Life, The Good Life Tagged With: Family, Me, My Girls, Work at Home Mom

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