As a woman juggling multiple responsibilities, you know how easy it is for life to feel overwhelming. And if you have ADHD, maintaining an organised home can feel like an even greater challenge. The constant clutter, the nagging feeling of disorganisation – it can all contribute to stress and anxiety.
Manage Your Home Like A Pro With A Home Management System
Establishing a home management system is an investment that will pay off over the rest of your life and will benefit you at many different levels.
10 Life-Saving Time Management And Organisation Tips For Busy Moms
Whether we work full or part time, at home or outside, or are a full-time mother, it always seems that there is so much to do and not enough time to do it. When I left the corporate world to set up my own business working from home around my then two-year old son’s schedule, I thought I’d have the best of both worlds. The reality was not as ideal and smooth as I thought, and I quickly had to apply a few organising principles to make the juggling easier. Here are 10 organisation tips that have proven to be the most valuable to me over the last 15 years. I hope they can help all the busy moms out there keep their sanity and focus on what truly matters.
4 benefits of meal planning that will encourage you to get started
Meal planning is one of these things that many women aspire to but don’t make happen. If that’s your case, instead of focusing on the task, try to focus on the benefits as it’ll surely encourage you to get started. And, as you’ll find out below, there are plenty of benefits!
How to create a weekly schedule
In a previous post, we examined the reasons for creating routine in your schedule. This month I’ll give you some practical tips on how to create your weekly schedule.
Why adopt a routine schedule
Do you ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get things done? That you have little time if any to do the things you truly enjoy? Are you struggling to juggle work and family? Well, these are common issues that many of my clients face. And my first recommendation is almost always to adopt a routine schedule where they assign a time and day in their week for all the activities that are important to them, whether it is driven by a professional target or by a personal aspiration.
Plan your meals in 5 easy steps
Meal planning is a key pillar in our home. Being able to put a home-cooked meal on the table on time without worrying whether we’re missing any ingredients and ensuring that we’re having a balanced diet remove in my perspective a huge amount of stress from our lives. I just wouldn’t be able to operate without it. What about you? Do you plan your meals, or do you believe, like most people who don’t, that it’s hard work? Well, let me demonstrate to you it doesn’t have to be.
How to avoid the morning rush
Are you always in a rush in the mornings on school days trying to make sure that everyone gets ready on time? Do you make the school bus wait or drop your children to school past the time? Do things, whether it’s your child school work, her PE music instrument or your exercise gear, tend to be forgotten at home? Although this moment of the day is short, it can be very intense and charged with crankiness and low patience level. So with the imminent start of a new school year, let me share 5 tips to help you avoid the morning rush.
