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Conquer Time Management by Tracking Your Time
Why time tracking is an essential time management skill for working moms
It’s Sunday night. The dinner dishes are clean, the kids are in bed, and your partner is sitting on the couch watching television while you’re at the kitchen table looking over an ever-growing to-do list.
You cross out several items you completed for work, family, and self-care: met a project deadline, set up annual doctors’ appointments, worked out once or twice, and did a few other miscellaneous items.
It doesn’t feel like much got done. And if you are honest with yourself, it feels like this day after day, week after week.
The to-do list grows and your frustration of never getting things accomplished grows with it.
You’d like to take more time for self-care, but you can’t find more than two times in the week to work out — and that baby weight is not coming off by itself. And let’s not even begin to talk about what you want to do to nurture the important relationships in your life.
Now add in the pressures that come from being a work-from-home mom, whether you’re trying to build a business or working in your career field.
You never get any traction when it comes to moving the needle on your career and personal goals, and all you do is create lists of more things that need doing.
You know you have 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, and yet what did you get done?
This was me three years ago when I left my full-time job to stay home with my first baby and start an online business. Between taking care of a baby and being in the endless loop of the same scenery that comes from working from home, the feeling of not getting things done was intense.
I could not figure out how I was spending my time.
When I worked outside of my home, I could tell you exactly what I did because my day had a defined start and end time. Plus, I had a detailed job description, and I knew what I needed to do each day in that job.
But that wasn’t the case now that I was a mom working from home. I was in the weeds when it…
