Parenting and Careers: Completing Your To-Do List for Today

Parenting and Careers: Completing Your To-Do List for Today - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. If you are, like many busy working mums, you may have a mile long to-do list. And at the end of the day “oh, gosh I did not get everything I wanted to get to today”. So, something that can really help, and it is quite simple, is to take a hard, honest look at that item on your list that carries the most resistance, because we all have a tendency to put whatever that item is on the back burner. When we should be putting that on the fun burner and tackling it very first thing in the morning. We often have more energy and more focus first thing in the morning. And if you can schedule that into your calendar, whatever that project is, or that to-do is, have it on your calendar, and then again make that a non negotiable date and time. So you do not answer your e-mail, you do not pick up the phone and always over estimate the amount of time you think it is gonna take to accomplish it. Because we tend to under estimate what we can accomplish in the short term. So over estimate it, you know, maybe add extra half hour on to whatever the schedule calls for, and then make sure that you are just focused on that goal at that time and then anything else once you are done with it, anything else that you accomplished during the day is just gravy. You just feel great because you already gotten rid of the hardest thing that you wanted to do.