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Work At Home Moms: Two Tips For Effective Time Management |
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Andrew John |
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One of the best thing a mother can do is to stay home with kids. The bad thing is that most families now require both husband and wife to work in order to keep the family budget intact. It's not surprising that working at home is becoming more and more popular among young mothers willing to stay close to their children while still working. They hope working at home to be the solution to all their problems. Truth is, it can solve them, but not until one catches the basics of time management.
Your Work Schedule
Creating a work schedule for each day separately is a great way to organize your work and other duties with only minimal thinking. Without a schedule you will forget about things every so often and as the result, you will become more and more stressed. How to make an effective work-at-home mom schedule? See the tips below.
First, make sure that your children know your schedule and that they are aware that sometimes you're not available for them even though you are at home. If your children know that they should leave you alone when you're working, it will be much easier to run a company. You can also minimize time required for keep the house in good shape by assigning as much work as you can to your children. Your role would be to help and supervise, not to do everything all by yourself. Make sure your children get used to it - it will reduce time needed for the household issues and allows you to spend more time at work.
Multitasking is A GOOD Thing
Any work-at-home mother soon finds out that she is up to her eyes at work. However, working at home gives you also the possibility to greatly reduce the amount of time needed to do everything. It is multi-tasking - doing two or three things at the same time. For example, you can respond to emails while doing laundry or helping your children doing their homework while waiting for a phone call. Remember: every hour less at work is an hour more for your family.
The devil is, as usual, in the details. We know the general rules, we just don't know how to use it in practice. Take a look at these two examples of multitasking - each of them can save you five-six hours a week. First off, remember to make a list of errands. This way you can do everything on your list when you're out. Otherwise you may rest assured that you will forget about something. Another example is doing the secondary tasks such as reading through the offers or emails while doing housework.
If possible use timer. This is the only way of keeping you from overworking. End work and "get home" as soon as your working hours are over. Schedule anything you have left to do for tomorrow. You need to relax a bit, too - one can't work all the time unless one wants to risk burning out.
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Article Source: http://www.statssheet.com/articles/article55758.html |
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