Time Management Made Easy for Work at Home Moms

December 23, 2007 | No Comments

Being a mother is a difficult task in itself and if you are a working mother along with it, you are in a tougher situation where you are not able to spend quality time with children. Consequently many mothers opt for working from home in order to be able to look after their kids. Many mothers do not realize that even this requires time management in order to achieve what they set out to do by choosing the option of working from home.

Work at home mothers obviously want to make a success of their business venture as well as bring up children in a healthy environment. Time management can go a long way to strike a balance between the dual roles that they are in.

Time management is a simple procedure where you have to earmark time for different jobs at hand. The first and foremost requirement for work at home mothers has to be that of resisting the temptation to postpone things. For that purpose keep a planner and fix your time for work and then stick to it.

Apart from household chores, looking after children, shopping for groceries etc. work at home moms have their work to look after. It is imperative that you schedule your time for these different activities. Mothers, as it is, are expected to be super human beings but that does not mean that you have to actually try to become one. In many cases outsourcing will prove to be of great help if you are not able to manage all the work by yourself. You can ask your spouse or any one else to help you out in areas where you expertise is not required.

For example if you feel that you are being hassled too much by phone calls or have to attend to mails more often than you have time for, you can seek help from a virtual assistant. This can in a way spare you time for more productive work.

There are cases where you are required to do many tasks at the same time. Completing similar tasks together by grouping them will also save to you precious time. Depending upon the nature of your work, you can try to various methods by which you can complete your task in a manner that it saves time. For instance, instead of handling team members individually, you can do that in groups.

Similar time management can be thought for saving time in household chores. You can manage your time in the kitchen effectively if you cook for more than one meal at a time. Try to evolve recipes that will survive longer and prepare sufficient quantity so that the next time you are in the kitchen you have to work for a lesser time.

The age old maxim says that necessity is the mother of invention. As a work at home mom, your need for time management is based on your necessity of finding time for the different tasks that you are duty bound to complete. As you go forward, you can invent newer means of saving time for work depending upon the circumstances that you are in.

Written by Radhika V. Rao.

Posted in Work at Home Moms