I have always wondered whether there is time management once you have kids. In my opinion kids make it even better to manage everything from the waking up, especially if your husband or father of the kids is understanding or providing you care and support. Time management for me became especially important when I started working. Once you work for a company, initially what you have to pack in a day looks so much - waking up on time, doing small stuff or a training before or after work and in best case scenario meeting friends or watching a movie.
Time management begins with good planing, you either can do it every week depending on your personal yearly plan in the best case scenario or/and each day in the morning. A good way to prioritise is: putting important (long-term) tasks first, then putting important-urgent ones, focusing on important-non urgent and leaving the non-important ones rushing in the moments between the more important tasks.
Whenever you work with people, priorities normally come with the people we associate work tasks with. This is when time management with kids becomes different, this is what makes you most happy and this is where you want to invest most of your efforts into. Many of my friends say because kids are the future and as self-determined as we are, this is the truth. Investing the time with your kids with love and attention, will pay you and their future.
Think of the best example you had recently when you have met a perfect prioritisation plan that worked just perfectly. Try to implement it as often as possible and see you succeeding in both being a lovely parent, a badass woman with an amazing career or own business.
I think that time management and kids works even better. The answer is that with kids the inspiration and motivation is bigger than without. When you take care of someone, many of your own personal priorities change. Especially for women.
A great way to think of organising your time management is through having the kids as part of your activities. Not only they learn to socialise, but they become part of your daily routine at home, at your companies. By getting them in touch with all you do, they themselves can start learning and the time of your days is neither lost, nor spent wrongly with your children.
What if you create a visual board with targets for the week together with your child’s to-dos. Try merging them together and see what a beautiful calendar you will have.
Time management with kids should not be an impossible task. While I very eagerly try to stay connected to my friends every day, online social life helps me do exactly so. Can something like a family app work to improve time management once you have kids? Coordinating with them through the phone but also not overly depending on this connection. I’ve recently read so much about Optimus and other robots, like the ones from Nvidia, and am sure that a robot would ultimately do a better job in freeing hours - taking my kids to and from school.
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