FIVE MUST-DO’S TO HAVE MORE TIME ON YOUR HANDS

 

 

 

Hello my friends,

 

this post is dedicated to all of us who struggle with time from time to time :-)

 I won’t claim to have perfected this yet, but I learned a lot about it by over scheduling over optimistic ideas for way too long. Here are my top five steps to making peace with time…

 

ONE: be realistic about how long things will take. Going to the shops to buy your week’s supply of food in under one hour probably won’t happen. Catching up with your friend over the phone won’t be a 10minute-kind-of-thing. You get the idea. 

 

TWO: less multi-tasking is more. Stop lying to yourself that you can do it all at once. Prioritise, focus and do the things which are really important first. Give them all of your attention. That way you’ll be more productive, make fewer mistakes and end up sleeping better at night, knowing that you took care of what is truly important to you.

 

THREE: plan your week and stick to it. If you find yourself struggling with time this is one of the best tools to use. Make a plan for your week and include ALL of your tasks, including shopping, seeing friends and downtime. Treat them like a doctor’s appointment. No cancellation, no running over time. Be strict with yourself and you’ll end up with more time on your hands and more peace in your mind. At the end of the week, review how you’ve done, where you’ve underestimated time and where you’ve overscheduled. Learn from it and implement your new knowledge into the next week

 

FOUR: reward yourself every time you’ve followed through with your plan. So often we are not in the mood to do something right when we’ve scheduled it. Whether it is to write your blog post or do the laundry. Be consistent and build you willpower-muscled by sticking to your plan whether you feel inspired or not, unless of course there is a GOOD reason to change your plans. But be wary, most of us change your plans way too often for reasons which don’t really hold up in the end.

 

FIVE: repeat steps ONE to FOUR until you’ve created more space and clarity in your life.

 

It’s not easy but it’s totally doable. Again, reading this blog serves as an inspiration but taking action is what will really change things for you. Have a fabulous week and make it work!