Homemaker or Family CEO

I’d like to you to take a grander view of the homemaker role. As many mums know the role of parent is often under-estimated, thankless and exhausting. Let’s look at these 3  
1. Under estimated - I’m going to assume that if you’re in a cluttered pickle right now then you’re no longer underestimating the task.
2. Thankless - well it doesn’t have to be that way - your attitude about the job and about yourself in the job makes a huge difference to how others treat you,  Don’t expect children to understand the gravity of your responsibilities but remember your not here to be their slave either.
3. Exhausting - much of that comes down to minimising your workload by being organised, having less stuff to deal,  maintaining a good diet and exercising.  Think like an athlete, they know that to do a job well, they must take care of themselves.

Try approaching the job like running a business (forget about the fact that you’ve created your clutter) and  imagine that you’ve just purchased a run down profitless but potentially lucrative business and you’re going to build it up to be a successful thriving one. Your kids are your apprentices learning on the job as they go from your example. Successful business people teach others all the tasks required to run the business so that it can still function in their absence, so this business of your household requires you to train your employees how to run their own households, yes I know it’s a 17 year apprenticeship but that’s just the nature of this business.
Your first task then is to clean up the place so that everything can run efficiently.
That’s it for this time, in the next episode Setting Goals for super fast success.

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The secret weapon of the super organised
 

Put simply TIME! The clock keeps ticking away no matter what! It’s extremely easy to loose track of time, to get distracted and waste time, and most of all to be vague about your priorities and spend time doing pointless things.
Most people will tell you that spending quality time with family is about the most important thing we can do in our lives. Many would believe that they probably do that but if they were to have some kind of activity tracking device on them 24/7 they might find that huge chunks of time each week is spent looking for lost things, & other such pointless ventures
It’s easy to think your spending time with family in these scenarios after all your searching for the car keys to take little Johnny to soccer but i think little johnny would have a different view of the situation
 
Managing a household is a busy job-  there’s Regular housework, Home maintenance, yard maintenance, family finances, family health, kids education and other activities.  Managing your time is at the heart of ensuring you get everything done efficiently so that you keep chore time to a minimum and have maximum quality time with your family.
One strategy you can use right now is to make a note of what you do when you do it and how long it takes to do things currently. If at all possible to it in 15 or 30 minute increments - this will give you some idea of how long chores take to do and where you might be wasting valuable time.
 
Another important time management strategy to learning to say NO, many people find this difficult but guess what? saying no won’t kill hte other person, and managing your own affairs should be a priority - these events will show up when you log where you spend your time.

When it comes to a schedule Start by blocking in those areas of the day that are committed like your work and kids stuff  work from there to block in all of the tasks you need to get done each day.
Once you’re top the time train you’re really on your way to being organised.
That’s it for this time, in the next episode  Homemaker or Family CEO

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 The mental clutter that stops you before you start

Without exception the mess you find yourself in is entirely a result of what’s going on (or not going on) in your mind, whether you like or hate that idea here’s the upside.  The absolute one thing that you have total control over in your life is your thoughts, with the exception of mental illness cases of course. Really consider that, whilst you may have great influence, be that positive or negative  over  kids, parents or pets, career etc, You do not have ultimate complete and total control over them or over anything else for that matter, in fact that very sense of no control is at the heart of many of our fears and anxieties.  BUT, the upside is we can with practice, control what we think & change our attitudes.

That’s it for this time next episode I reveal the secret weapon of the super organised.

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I just opened an email that a friend sent last week and followed the link she had attached. I am so excited about this site I just had to post about it immediately. You see I don’t cook! My partner really enjoys cooking and finds it relaxing! (can you believe it - but hey each to their own! I find organising relaxing! go figure!)

So he does all the cooking - I don’t mind baking sweets but otherwise if I have to cook for myself I’m lucky if I bother to cook some pasta and through some stir-through sauce over it! Buttered crackers is a common option for me! WHY? because I can never think of what I can make out of the ingrediants we have and searching through recipe books to find something that has those ingredients is a complete pain!

But this site is the solution and I offer it here for a number of reasons. 1. Realisitically it’s not possible to be totally organised all the time and even the best organised person will find those times when it’s necessary to create a meal out of what’s left in the fridge. 2. If you’re yet to get around to sorting out a meal planner system this could be a very handy tool. 3. If like me you aren’t the one who cooks but sometimes finds yourself ‘on you own’ and you, also like me, have no intention of ever planning for those occasions if when you’re aware of them beforehand then this is definitely a brilliant tool. 

Go checkout cooking by numbers if you don’t alredy know about i, I think it’s brilliant!