Alizah Josette, Spherehead Pillow is honoring her body between desk jobs:
“This year, I am starting a new habit of stretching in the evening. I am a paralegal during the day, sitting at a computer. I then work on my company in the evenings, also sitting at a computer. I began stretching when I return home from my day job, before beginning Spherehead work. Moving my body, getting the blood flowing, is low impact and tremendously helpful to my mind and body. It is taking one hour for myself to connect with my body and relax in between desk jobs.”
An hour to connect with her body. Not to produce. Not to perform. Just to be in her body before asking it to carry her through another work session.
by Sofia Aramayo on February 5, 2026
The hardest work? Time management. Here’s the truth nobody tells you when you launch a business: the hardest work isn’t the strategy, the sales calls, or even the late nights. It’s the inner game. It’s learning how to be kind to yourself when the revenue dips. It’s remembering you have a body that needs more than caffeine and adrenaline. It’s finding something—anything—that grounds you when entrepreneurship feels like building a plane while flying it through a thunderstorm.
We asked 50 women founders one simple question: What’s the ONE small habit or ritual you’re owning right now to light up your year?
No need for perfect. Just real.
What emerged wasn’t a highlight reel of 5 AM cold plunges and color-coded planners. It was something far more powerful: a collection of quiet, fierce, deeply human rituals that prove the most successful founders aren’t grinding themselves into dust. They’re choosing themselves. They’re breathing before the inbox. They’re trading perfectionism for progress and hustle for healing.
This is the inner game. And these women are winning it—one intentional moment at a time.
The Bottom Line: Your Inner Game Is Everything for good Time Management.
Here’s what these 29 founders are teaching us: the most powerful rituals aren’t complicated. They’re not expensive. They don’t require a complete life overhaul.
They require one thing: choosing yourself.
