How can a working woman manage everything at home?

Many people repeatedly ask themselves various questions related to how they can manage everything at work and at home. Of course, every person wants to be able to do everything and combine everything perfectly in order to achieve any desired results much faster. Let’s take a closer look at useful tips that will help you start to manage everything not only at work, but also at home.

Tip #1: Plan your household chores

Take your household chores, as well as your work ones, as seriously and responsibly as possible. After all, you should understand that the chores and tasks that you perform around the house are also a kind of responsible and quite serious work. Also, in some cases, household chores can be much more important than work ones. Therefore, you should always properly plan your chores around the house in order to know how much time it will take you and for what exactly. As a rule, this approach to household chores allows you to start doing everything around the house without experiencing fatigue, irritation and overwork.

Schedule

Time management starts with planning your day. It’s good when a person knows how to draw up a daily schedule, or better yet, write it down in a diary. Goals, objectives, plans and daily schedule written down on paper are more likely to be achieved than those that are not written down.

By creating a daily routine, a person better remembers what he has to do. And you won’t be able to forget anything, because everything is written down!

Another positive aspect of the daily routine is the division of tasks into important and less important. By writing down the exact time by which a task must be completed, a person sorts all tasks into urgent, priority, and those that can be rescheduled.

The daily routine organizes and obliges the individual to be responsible and punctual. You must try to strictly adhere to the schedule.

Tips to help you stick to your daily routine without getting out of line:

Order

In order not to waste time looking for things, they need to be kept in order. Each thing should have its own place so as not to remember where it was left.

If a person has everything on the shelves on his desk in the literal sense, then everything is also on the shelves in his head in the figurative sense. A good housewife has all kitchen and household utensils, linen and food in their place, labeled and sorted.

Distractions

How to manage everything when there are so many distractions around? TV, telephone, Internet, distracting smells, sounds - these are all time sinks, distracted by which, a person gets out of schedule. There should be time for communication, relaxation and entertainment, but it should also be included in the schedule.

If there are too many distractions, you need to take steps to eliminate them. Yes, a friend who calls just to chat may be offended if she is denied this. But do you need a friend who doesn’t understand that now there is no time to talk to her and continues to bother her?

Automatisms

Some everyday procedures can be brought to automaticity. While doing them, do something else at the same time. For example, a girl wants to learn a foreign language on her own, but cannot find time to study because she is busy with housework. She identifies a habitual activity that she does automatically (washing dishes) and, by doing it, learns the language (listening to a tutorial in audio format).

Rest

Persistent and hardworking people, answering the question: “How to manage everything?”, decide to extend the working day by refusing to rest. They simply stop resting. As a result, labor efficiency decreases, a person becomes overtired, loses interest in work, and along with it, health.

You need to rest physically, mentally and morally. Outdoor recreation and cultural recreation are a great opportunity not only to relax, but also to recharge your batteries and be inspired for new achievements.

Start the day and end it on time

People who set their alarm clock for another five minutes after it has rung, doom themselves to be late, fuss, turmoil and worries throughout the next day.

It is better to always get up at the same time. Going to bed at the same time is also useful, the body gets used to it, and the process of falling asleep goes faster. This is the prevention of insomnia.

Tip #2: Plan your work routine

Working time planning allows you to correctly allocate time to complete all the tasks assigned to you. In addition, you will perfectly understand how much time you will need to complete the work you have set for yourself. In other words, during the planning process, you calculate the approximate time it will take you to complete a specific task. This way you understand how much time it will take you to complete all your work. Accordingly, if you stick to the schedule you set, you will be able to complete the work you set for yourself on time.

Tip No. 5. Competently combine work and home chores

Sometimes work and home affairs begin to overlap, which pushes a person to multitask. In this case, it is necessary to competently combine work and home affairs, while first correctly prioritizing all the tasks assigned to you. Of course, at the very beginning it will be quite difficult for you to combine everything at once. But, despite this, over time, you will accustom yourself to this mode of work, which will allow you to manage everything. The main thing is to be prepared to overcome difficulties and, moreover, do not “give up” if something doesn’t work out for you.

Cousin Valya

We're coming. The time is half past seven in the evening, cousin Valya is lying on the sofa and watching TV! Her 10-year-old son and husband went swimming in the pool; they have a membership. As always, tidy and clean. I swallow the lump of pride stuck in my throat and ask: “Listen, your apartment is always so clean.” I thought you never rested. And you're lying around, watching TV. How do you manage to maintain order? – And I get up an hour earlier in the morning. - In terms of? - Well, in order to get myself in order, prepare breakfast for the men and get to work, I need to get up at 6.30. And I get up at 5.30. - For what? – I’m cleaning the apartment, preparing dinner. - Every day, or what? - Yes. It doesn't work otherwise, I tried. To be honest, I was taken aback. I get up at a quarter to seven, 15 minutes are mine, then I wake up the children, prepare breakfast, get my son ready for school, my daughter for kindergarten, all running, putting on makeup at work (like the women in the old movie “Office Romance”). The unwashed pan remains in the sink, I don’t make the bed (let it ventilate), things are scattered, slippers are lying on top of each other in the hallway... I come at seven in the evening and start preparing dinner while my husband is busy with the children. After dinner, I need to check my son’s homework, then bathe the children and put them to bed. I read a bedtime story to my daughter, my husband reads a chapter from a book to his son. Then I wash the dishes for half an hour, that’s the eleventh hour. I don't have a dishwasher! My husband asks for a shirt for tomorrow, it needs to be ironed. “Listen, stroke it yourself, I’m tired.” He fishes a shirt out of a pile of laundry and irons it. I make a list of groceries that need to be bought tomorrow and give it to my husband - he will go to the store after work. Daily hand washing - children’s underwear, I hang it on the loggia, I throw the dried clothes into the ironing - there’s already a mountain of it, but I don’t want to iron it. I want to stretch out on the bed to my full height so that my back can rest. It would be nice to wipe the floors at least in the hallway... I ask my husband. “To hell with him,” he reacts philosophically and sits down at the computer to play poker. Twelfth hour. I sit down in front of the TV, I want to watch a good movie, have fun. I go to bed at one in the morning, and sometimes later. There’s nothing done – and I’m tired. Does one morning hour really give so much? Valya describes her day to me, gives me some advice along the way, I listen. So, she gets up at half past six, and at half past eight she has to leave the house. In two hours she manages to: 1) start the laundry, then hang out the laundry, 2) prepare a dinner of three or four simple dishes, 3) wipe the floors in the apartment, starting with the loggia, 4) make the beds, 5) take a shower, clean the bathtub and sinks, 6) get dressed and put on makeup. Here are her tips for me: 1. In the kitchen, remove excess dishes and cutlery. There are four of you in the family, leave four sets in the dryer. Hide the rest. You'll see, you'll have to wash fewer dishes. 2. Keep a mop bucket handy. Find a place for it so that this “device” is not conspicuous, but you could grab a mop at any time and wipe the floors, for example, in the hallway. 3. Do daily cleaning in the morning - wipe window sills and radiators with a damp towel and wipe the floors. Treat this activity like fitness. Useful for your figure, free and effective. Vacuum every other day. The more often you clean, the less time and effort it takes to clean. 4. Don’t prepare complex dishes during the week; leave culinary delights for the weekend, when you have time. And then it’s better to cook with the whole family. 5. Be sure to plan a cultural outing and sports event for one of the weekends. Don't sit at home! The less you stay at home, the less cleaning you'll have to do. The main idea is to get up an hour earlier and do all household chores before leaving for work. Well, I'll try wiping the floors every day instead of exercising. I wonder if many women plan their workday this way?

Tip No. 6. Don’t put off your business until later.

Never put off your business until later. Train yourself to be able to do everything you plan. Of course, there are sometimes situations in life when it is simply impossible to accomplish absolutely everything that you have planned. Of course, in such cases, you can move and reconsider all your plans. But at the same time, try to make sure that there are as few such moments as possible. Thus, over time, you will begin to manage everything and complete the work you have set for yourself exactly on time.

Tip #7: Make the most of your time

Make the most of your time and don't waste it completely. Remember, even if you have completed absolutely everything you planned and you have some free time left, you don’t need to waste it. Use it to your advantage so that you don’t regret later what you could have done. This attitude will allow you not only to keep up with everything at work and at home, but will also help you achieve any success in your life.

How to become a master of your time

To finally become a pro in the matter of time management, pay attention to the author’s course by Evgeny Popov “Master of Time”.

From the course you will learn how to properly organize your life so that work and family become friends forever. Everything about time management, its monetization, as well as a lot of other interesting information is contained in the course and is waiting for you to study it.

After spending very little time, you will learn to build your schedule in such a way that every day will bring you profit and a sea of positive emotions.

Maybe you like to sit at the computer and dream that your hobby will bring you income? “The Master of Time” will tell you how even the most useless activity can bring you dividends. The planning approaches that are described will open your eyes to many things.

Having carefully studied the information and applied it in practice, you will forget what a lack of time is. They won’t talk about this at school or college. You won't find such information on the Internet. All the secrets, all the tricks of time management are outlined in this course and are looking forward to you using them.

Friends, our conversation today has come to an end. Dear readers, share your rules and secrets, how do you manage everything? I will look forward to your answers.

See you again!

Ekaterina Kalmykova was with you,

Time cannot be turned back, which is why its value is difficult to exaggerate. You can't get back lost time. Every adult and independent person has the right to manage his or her time. But why do some people manage to do everything, while others do not have enough twenty-four hours in a day? How to manage everything without compromising your physical and mental health?

You cannot manage time in the truest sense of the word. Management means the ability to use time rationally so that you can do everything you want.

Accounting and operational planning of time is defined as (translated from English as “time management”).

Time management allows you to organize your work and personal time within the framework of one day to a week. To determine the ability to organize life in general, the concept of life management (translated from English as “life management”) was introduced.

There is an opinion that knowledge of time management only helps in work and is needed only by leaders and managers. This is wrong. Time management is useful to any person who wants to organize their time and learn how to use it effectively. An engineer, a housewife, and a schoolboy want to know how to increase productivity and save time, because they all work.

The basic rules of time management will tell a busy person how to manage everything both at work and at home, without harm to health.

The principle of effective time management: time is measured not in minutes, but in events. You need to measure time by life events and actions. This unusual perception of time will give a person a feeling of fullness in life.

The main idea of time management: time should be spent on the main things in life.

How to manage everything if it is not clear what exactly needs to be done? To manage time, you need to learn:

prioritize;
define achievable, specific, clear goals;
plan your day, week, life.

Tip #8: Get rid of bad habits

In most cases, it is a person’s bad habits that prevent him from completing any tasks in a timely manner. Accordingly, over time, a person begins to understand that it is difficult for him to have time to do anything. Therefore, you need to gather your strength and begin to gradually get rid of all your bad habits so that they do not prevent you from achieving the desired results in your own life.

Tip No. 10. Keep everything clean and tidy, both at work and at home.

By maintaining cleanliness and order at work and at home, you will be able to focus and concentrate much faster on what you need to do. As a rule, in chaos it is very difficult to concentrate on completing any assigned work, which is why it takes a person much more time to complete any tasks. As a result, this leads to the fact that a person, over time, simply stops being able to do anything. Therefore, in order to prevent this, it is necessary to constantly maintain order and cleanliness, not only at work, but also in your own home.

By adhering to the above tips, you can, over time, begin to manage everything both at work and at home. The main thing is to never forget to constantly work on yourself and improve all your professional skills and abilities. This way, you will not only be able to complete everything on time, but you will also achieve some success in your life.

Are you torn between office work, household chores and childcare? Try to relieve yourself of some of your worries by reorganizing your life in one of the ways that suits you: Laundry

Washing clothes and bed linen takes a lot of time. If small items can be easily washed in a machine, then coats, jackets, which also require careful ironing, are better to be dry cleaned. On average, you will have to pay 400-700 rubles for one item (cleaning winter outerwear can be more expensive). But do not forget that when buying clothes, you should not cut off the tags from them, otherwise you will need to sign a waiver. Try to take things to the cleaners as soon as you have time after the end of the season. On the eve of the cold weather, you will probably have no time.

Bed linen can be sent to the laundry, because at home it is difficult to starch and iron huge sheets and duvet covers well. Washing a kilogram of standard laundry costs approximately 80-150 rubles. It is worth having at least three sets of linen: one you sleep on, the second one for washing, the third one is clean, for a change.

Some laundries and dry cleaners offer courier services, but this will greatly increase the cost of the service. You can take your laundry to the cleaners on your way to work.

"Minuses"

You will have to spend time finding a laundry or dry cleaning service whose quality of work you are satisfied with. There is always a chance that your clothes will be damaged or poorly cleaned. It will take time and nerves to sort things out.

Not everyone likes the fragrances used in the laundry; sometimes they can even cause allergies.

House cleaning

Don't waste your valuable time dusting and mopping your floors. Hire a cleaner - it's not that expensive. It is not at all necessary to invite her every day. To keep your home clean and tidy, it is enough to thoroughly clean it once a week. A visiting housekeeper will provide you with this service for 600-1000 rubles per call. It’s better to spend the freed-up hours on vacation or communicating with loved ones.

"Minuses"

Every housewife is sure that she knows better than anyone how to clean. If you are too demanding and picky, you will have a hard time finding a suitable au pair.

Not everyone is ready to allow a stranger into their home and allow him to touch personal belongings. The presence of a housekeeper can cause psychological discomfort.

It is always worth remembering about security: the housekeeper will always be aware of all your affairs, and at the same time she may inadvertently find out where you keep your money and other valuables.

Shopping trip

Think about how many hours it takes to drive through traffic jams to the store, choose groceries or clothes, stand in line at the checkout and return home. Most products these days can be purchased online. On sites where clothes are sold, not only the size is taken into account, but also other parameters, so that things can be selected quite accurately. In addition, the choice in the virtual space is much wider than in a regular store. Even taking into account delivery, prices may be lower: companies do not spend money on renting stores and salaries for salespeople.