Time management for Working Mothers

If you are a working mother, you are already a SUPER mom, juggling many things in life. Work, home, child/children, in-laws/parents and partner!

If you are mother at home, you are already a SUPER mom too!, juggling many things in life. Home, child/children, in-laws/parents and partner!

Working mothers, is a relatively new concept, but already a norm rather than an exception! Regardless of the reason why she works, a working mother is on the job all the time!
Earlier too, in culture like ours (Bharat’s), has been primarily an agrarian culture. Women here always worked in fields or at home full time. Our grandmothers are full of stories of how they worked like normal till the day of delivery and soon after.

The difference being, now we travel a lot to work, sometimes for days, we manage a lot of people, we are in corporate world, we are mostly brought up in nuclear families and do not have elder siblings to learn things from, we lead a sedentary lifestyle, we think a lot, we ourselves and the people around us expect a lot from us and overall we are STRESSED!

Too little time and so much to do! How can we manage all this in 24 hours! There are some hacks. Why only manage we can even enjoy this journey and raise very happy kids.

Cut out the unwanted stuff – Unwanted calls, negative people, delegate some tasks, divide some tasks, say ‘no’ to certain tasks, even unwanted thoughts. All these stuff take away our energy and then we feel drained and in worst cases, this actually increases our stress. You will definitely have more time in your hand now!
Find out the need of the moment – The eternal dilemma should I finish this office work or should I give my family time? And there is no right answer for this. It depends on situation to situation. Find out the need, objectively and go ahead based on facts. Whatever the decision, well done! ‘no guilt’ will follow then. In the time available do the best thing possible.

Learn, learn, learn – Learning is the only way to manage, face and solve the issues. Learn parenting (ideally before you conceive, start learning), learn time management, learn life management, learn quick hacks, learn to delegate, learn to ‘let-go’, learn to increase your capacity, learn to de-stress, learn to meditate, learn to learn!

Energize – “Energy’ is the one thing which is required in anything you do. Right from lifting a pen to being a Mother! All our daily activities and the overthinking-mind take our energy. We need to replenish it. Learn to preserve it and then use it wisely. Right breathing, Right exercises, Right perspective, Right mindset (in this sequence) will energize you. The energy and the enthusiasm will make this journey much lighter and easier. The more the energy more efficiently the task will be done and in lesser time! Time saved is time earned.

Schedule and prioritize – Last but not the least, the main part of time management is schedule your things to do list and according to its importance prioritize and as far as possible stick to the schedule.

Working Mothers are one of the most sacred. She can enjoy well rounded happiness, in all spheres of life, by making slight corrections!

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