Time Organization for Those Who Work from Home

Daily I see posts here and there by work at home agents who are at a loss on how to organize their time. Usually the agents have full home lives, some have outside jobs as well as working from home jobs and some just have many work from home jobs. I myself fall into two of those three categories.

I first started working from home in 2005. During that time I had four young children and several pets and a husband. Now my kids are older and much easier to work around. Back then time was something that was always crammed here and there with daily living, let alone adding a job to it. Needless to say, it was a mess until I figured it out.

The first step to clearing up my time and enjoying life more I had to get out my paper and pencil. I am a list maker, with a busy life it is the only way to get through everything. Since I have more than one job I wrote each down and how much I made at each beside it. Of course a couple of my jobs made more at certain times than others. This made putting them into time slots a bit easier. My list looked liked this:

5am-wake, make kids breakfast, start Crockpot or take out food from freezer for dinner

6am- kids awake and ready for school, take animals out

7am- kids off to bus

7:30am-quick clean bathrooms and kitchen

8am to 12pm-work job 1

12 pm-lunch, take dogs out

12:30pm to 3:30pm- work job 2

3:30pm- kid's home from school, help with homework

4:00pm to 6:00pm-start dinner, eat, clean up and finish kid's homework

6:00 pm to 8:00pm- kids take showers and get settled for the night, tuck kids in

8:00pm to 10:00pm- work job 3

10:00pm-shower and bed

If you make a list similar to this you will be able manage your time better. Always make sure you take at least one day off a week to reduce stress. I used to work 7 days straight and got burnt out pretty quickly. I use my day off to spend time with the family, do major cleaning, grocery shop, making monthly menu's or do my once a month cooking. Of course I will spend that evening doing my favorite thing to do in my time off and that is to take a hot bubble bath and read a great book.