Originally published August 26 2005
Time management for working mothers
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Women'sIssues.com offers tips on how to keep order and balance in your life if you're a working mother.
You may want to set aside weekends for your son's baseball games, in which case you need to make sure your work doesn't require weekend work.
Write down all of the goals that you have as a business woman and as a mother.
Break Goals Into Smaller Tasks and Set Deadlines Typically goals can be broken up into smaller tasks, with smaller goals.
For instance, let's say that one of your goals is to be a leader in one of your child's activities.
You can break that goal into smaller tasks; researching different leadership roles and what's involved, determing time commitments, figuring out what interests you the most.
Then you can start attacking each of these smaller tasks and set deadlines for when you want to accomplish them.
Your priorities are your own ideas of what is more important to you and what you would like to see achieved first.
Maybe set up a scale of 1-3 and set all of your top goals at 1 and all your bottom goals at 3.
Make Time to Plan Set aside time each week or month where you can plan out your schedule.
Revise activities that are conflicting or don't seem to work out for you.
Delegate if Possible If you find yourself with a huge deadline at work, don't ignore the fact that your child needs a ride to her piano lessons.
Call up your husband or mother or friend and ask them if they can do it.
Have a Flexible Schedule Leave ample space in your schedule for interruptions.
Involve your children in creating a magnetic calendar to place on the refrigerator, where they can add in their own activities.
Reward Yourself As you accomplish your goals, reward yourself!
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