How do you spend your time as a homemaker? You can be exhausted at the end of the day and still feel like you accomplished very little. You can be exhausted at the end of the day from doing way too much. If you feel like you’re tired all of the time, you may not be managing your time very well.
If you aren’t sure how you are spending your time, it can be helpful to write down everything you do during the day for a few days and analyze where you could make changes. Maybe you don’t realize you’re spending two hours a day on your phone. Or maybe you will find that you spend too much time cooking and it might be helpful to plan easier meals for your growing family.
If you are prone to procrastinating and putting off your tasks or chores until it’s absolutely necessary to get them done – i.e. the bathroom is so gross even you don’t want to use the toilet – then you may have it in your mind that certain chores take way longer to complete than they really do. In fact, you just might be surprised at how many chores only take a few minutes.
Yesterday we talked about the One Minute Rule and I shared a list of 40 tasks that took less than one minute to complete. So much of homemaking is just about doing it right now.
If your house is in need of a lot of tender loving care to get it neat and tidy, cleaning may take longer initially. And that’s okay. Getting your home in order is a process.