In Need Of Time Management Skills / Work Organisation

As I don’t have any!

No, I’m being unfair to myself – I don’t have a fixed time-management routine, but I need one. I am very tempted to go and buy Time Management for Dummies but I’m hoping that the people who know about multi-tasking the best (ie parents!) will be able to help.

A few things I know I need to address are:

I have no fixed work-space. We sacrificed the office to have a nursery for Taylor so files /folders / everyday work and household paperwork seems to be scattered all over. We have a desk downstairs but this has the main PC on which is Roy’s (and no table space) so it tends to be a laptop on the knee (I know) or kitchen table job for me.

Having a 13wk old baby, a strict time-management schedule isn’t an option but I need to find some way of organising myself and my to-do list more efficiently than with scribbled post it notes,keywords on the family calendar and just “remembering” stuff.

I need to be more efficient because I’m not doing myself any favours. I am working the equivalent of full-time hours at home now, am a full time Mum to Taylor (13weeks), and to Kieran (4.5yrs) who is at school, wife to Roy & run the house. The whole 24hrs in a day rule is a stupid one in my opinion and whilst everything is done, and on time, Roy & the Boys get all the attention they should, this does mean running myself ragged sometimes to ensure deadlines are met, and work is completed promptly.

So any hints / tip? What do you do to organise your time better, what tools do you use, what gems of advise do you have?

Feel free to link to your website / blog /etc if it will help me, or anyone else.

Looking forward to reading your comments, when I get a minute!