Time Management is vital to succeeding in balancing your life. Once you have written down your goals, create a 24 hour timetable broken down into half hourly increments. Map out your day the way it is now. For example, 6.30 wake, shower and change; 7.00 breakfast; 7.30 out the door.
You must also keep focus of times during certain things that happen throughout your day. This will help maintain an accurate account of time being spent. This exercise will help you to recognize how all time is spent. Also, you should be keeping track of your commuting or even traveling to and from work. In addition, your household chores will not be easily forgotten.
For small children, consider having a sitter stay in your home as you work privately in your office area. The sitter can tend to your children’s needs while you work and only call on you if there’s an emergency. This enables you to stay home with your children while still working set hours in a home office setting.
Communicate with your family and try to work out which commitments could be dropped if required. You might be surprised at how much time you could save by alleviating some unnecessary tasks and this means you have more time to dedicate on the essentials in life and will streamline the multiple tasks that you have to fit in on a daily or weekly schedule.
It is dangerous to mix work with the personal life as it can create problems in both areas. You should be able to divide and prioritize your time to keep your sanity and enjoy a satisfied life. Nurturing relationships is equally important to enjoy the quality of life and avoid regrets in future. You can also avoid complaints from your family and friends while equally contributing to your career or business.
Juggling the demands of work and school can be challenging. Balancing assignments due along with work responsibility, along with a family life – and the variety of other commitments in your life – is a true exercise in time management. Throw in travel for work and you’ve certainly upped the ante even more.
Another inconsistency about work is that people work so hard to obtain the luxury’s of life such as a beautiful house, a luxury car, vacations overseas, but because they work so hard they do not have the time to take pleasure in the fruits of their labor. But it is also a fact of life that people need to work to be able to support their family and enjoy some leisure time or even engage in some creative activities.
Life is a balancing act. The best thing we can do is to set out goals in concrete, and our plans in sand. You won’t always be able to work at the same time each day, but if you consistently work hard you will achieve your goals.So don’t wait another second. Stop doing the juggling act and get your life in balance now with the Real Life Guidance to Balancing Work and Family report.