How to create a Schedule for Yourself

If you are going to get the best of both worlds, also be able to work at home and build yourself a successful business and also take care of your children, you will have to create a schedual for yourself that works. Creating a schedule is not that difficult however there are some critical points before you plan your schedule, that I would like you to take into consideration.

First of all take the schedule very seriously, without it you will not be able to achieve your goals. If your goals require you to work a certain number of hours a day, then you must incorporate that into your busy schedule. Stay at home moms  have a lot to accomplish, but believe it or not it can all be done. I guess all mothers are super moms with just a little effort.

The most important skill for stay at home moms to posess is the skill to multi task. If you can listen to your children while you are folding clothes, or cook while you sing to your baby, then you got what it takes.

If you want to to be able to juggle both a job for mom at home and also take care of your kids and manage the household it is crucial for you to have a good schedule to work with. You must stick to it faithfully, otherwise it is impossible.

Lets say you want to be able to work on building your business from home or you have found that perfect job for mom, now you want to dedicate 3 hours a day to work. If  you have a baby you should get the baby accustomed to a nap eveyday at an exact hour. I place my one year old , little David in his crib exactly at 8:30 AM everyday. He has gotten use to sleeping for 3 hours straight.. That gives me 3 hours of uninterrupted quiet time to work. I can be my most productive during those hours.

You see according to this I have already on my schedule:

8:30-11:30 David Naps, I work.

It is important during this quiet time where I can focus and concentrate, not to do other household tasks, Household chores and responsibilities can be done while the baby is awake. I will explain how. Do not waste your precious work time on other things either like phone calls to friends or supermarket shopping.

Now about household chores, you must designate one day a week to really clean and take care of the house.  By doing this the house will stay clean with just some simple tasks that have to be perfrmed on a daily basis. In fact 30 minutes to 1 hour a day for upkeep, not including kitchen and cooking.

Stay at home moms usually take on most of the responsibilities of the house. Is that fair? To a certain degree yes, because if your spouse is physically out of the house for his work, and comes home late. He really doesn't have the opportunity to actually help out around the house except when he comes home and he 's hungry and exhausted. You can have him do a few tasks but I do not think it is fair to dump on him to much.

I also designate on my cleaning the house day cooking more than usual to help me have some food frozen for other days of the week where I find I hvae less time for cooking, My Fridays are my day, for straightening up the house. I strongly recommend a house cleaner if you can afford one. I have someone that helps me on Fridays which makes my work so much easier. But if you cannot afford one at this point, don't worry after you start working you will, and in the meantime you can accomplish everything if you scedule your life correctly.

When cooking, cleaning, or folding the laundry, I make these tasks fun with my baby. I sing, talk, and play with little David while I accomplish these household responsibilities. So what if it takes me longer, he loves the attention. And my baby is learning that Mommy also works, and just can't sit and play with him all day.

I have created a corner for David to play in the kitchen which is removed from the dangerous part of the kitchen, such as stove, oven, ect. In this corner he has 3 draws to play with that have plastic bowls, , 2 pots, plastic fun stuff and large plastic spoons. Yes, he copies Mommy when I cook. He is also cooking with his pretend plastic stuff. This way I can accomplish my cooking and also he has fun.

Baby can crawl around if you make your house and office fully baby proof.  if you have to tidy up the living room , again make sure he is interacting with you, play with hime, and always make sure there are toys in every room in the house for your baby to play with. This will make your job easier wherever you have to clean ect.

Make sure to leave some personal time in as well, like to meet with a friend for coffee, or to go shopping. Once so often a mom needs a break from her busy schedule. Here your husband can really help, by giving us an evening off. Maybe he can take the kids for pizza or ice-cream.

The most important thing is that stay at home moms do not get overwhelmed by all the things we feel we must accomplish in our schedule. Remember we are still only human. It would be great to accomplish everything all the time, but that is not realistic. If however you can accomplish most of your tasks and work that is in your schedule most of the time, that is great.