Strategies for Overwhelmed Moms
Being a mother is one of the most overwhelming jobs on the planet, and you almost have to trick people into think that you are not overwhelmed and able to get anything done. Most children do not know how much work that their mom’s do in the run of a day, speciality if you choose to be a stay at home mom. Both children and people that are not parent think that stay at home mothers sit on their butts all day and do nothing, but that could not be farther from the truth. Being overwhelmed is going to happen at some point, but there is strategies that can make it easier to make things run a tiny bit smoother.
Stop trying to attempt to “do it all”
There is not enough hours in the day to be able to get everything done, and life …show more content…
If you have before bed, or during breakfast, you can take about 5 minutes to make a list of the things that you need to get done during the next day, or that day, depending on when you put the list together. If you want to organize the list, do it after you have everything that you want to get done, written down, and then start to organize the tasks as you see fit. You could use the amount of time the tasks will take, or the things that need to get done first. If you want to go digital, there is a number of apps you can use.
Multi-task
Multi-tasking can be great if you can do it. If you know you cannot multi-task, just save your time, and do not do it. We are also programed to want quantity over quality, and that is not a good thing. But there is a lot things that you can do at the same time, like brushing your teeth and brushing your hair at the same time, while this does not seem like much, doing this little tasks at the same time can add up to extra few minutes that you use to do other things. You may have to think outside the box when it comes to multi-tasking, but you can save a lot of time in the long run.
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Being a mother is one of the most overwhelming jobs on the planet, and you almost have to trick people into think that you are not overwhelmed and able to get anything done. Most children do not know how much work that their mom’s do in the run of a day, speciality if you choose to be a stay at home mom. Both children and people that are not parent think that stay at home mothers sit on their butts all day and do nothing, but that could not be farther from the truth. Being overwhelmed is going to happen at some point, but there is strategies that can make it easier to make things run a tiny bit smoother.
Stop trying to attempt to “do it all”
There is not enough hours in the day to be able to get everything done, and life …show more content…
If you have before bed, or during breakfast, you can take about 5 minutes to make a list of the things that you need to get done during the next day, or that day, depending on when you put the list together. If you want to organize the list, do it after you have everything that you want to get done, written down, and then start to organize the tasks as you see fit. You could use the amount of time the tasks will take, or the things that need to get done first. If you want to go digital, there is a number of apps you can use.
Multi-task
Multi-tasking can be great if you can do it. If you know you cannot multi-task, just save your time, and do not do it. We are also programed to want quantity over quality, and that is not a good thing. But there is a lot things that you can do at the same time, like brushing your teeth and brushing your hair at the same time, while this does not seem like much, doing this little tasks at the same time can add up to extra few minutes that you use to do other things. You may have to think outside the box when it comes to multi-tasking, but you can save a lot of time in the long run.
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