In the last year, I have been living this crazy mad life where I slept only 3-4 hours every day and then caught up with perhaps 7-8 hours on 1-2 nights every week. There was a domino effect from that, of course. First of all, I read that I could actually just DIE from lack of sleep. My hormones were not functioning well and my immune system was low. Secondly, I was hell moody and the kids bore the brunt of it. Thirdly, I had so many commitments that I just could not say no to, but they were killing me.

Now is the turning point of my life.

I was lucky in that the Charity that I used to work for let me go graciously once they found a succession. I was also lucky that the Parenting Website I write for has given me the leniency to slack a bit. But you know what? I’m still shit busy……….I don’t have the time to check all my personal emails, nor even facebook messages (yes, yes….complete time-waster, but people actually contact me via FB). In any case, I was losing control so I decided to draw up a time management plan for busy working moms like myself.

In a week, there are 168 hours (24 x 7). What I did was to draw up a table with all my daily activity time slots on the left and days of the week on top. My categories were:-

Sleeping (Last night I had 2 hours….*sigh*)

Eating (Some allowances made for dining out but otherwise, I only have enough time to drink my meals)

Showering (Super snappy but thorough)

Getting Dressed (Only for Work Meetings and if I don’t want to be recognised)

Driving (A bloody calculated 10 hours!!! Seriously would consider hiring a driver!!!)

Working (The MUST DO)

Family Time with Kids

One on One time with T1 (5 hours)

One on One time with T2 (5 hours)

Exercise (3 hours per week)

Groceries

Cooking (Less these days as my Helper learns more dishes)

Organising and Planning (Very important)

Household

Waiting (Whenever I have to wait, I will attempt multi-tasking)

Blogging (5 hours)

Me Time (Non-existent. Yet.)

Husband Time (Only one hour allocated for him each week. He doesn’t have time for me anyway!)

Reading

Friends (I see my friends maybe once a quarter? No kidding.)

Wasting Time (this includes FACEBOOK and random WhatsApp messages about industrialized powered batteries for vibrators etc)

Miscellanous

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I then had a column for what is ideal and then below the days of the week columns, I’d add in my actual hours spent on each task to assess where really my time was going. The reality of it is, there wasn’t enough time. Period. But it is nevertheless an interesting exercise to start balancing your life and ensuring that you get the best quality out of it!

 

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