If your mornings consist of having to choose between a relaxing shower, a boosting meal, or arriving somewhere on time you may have a problem. Arriving on time is as courteous as it is essential in win over trust and respect. Thankfully, punctuality doesn't cost you your health and happiness. A few minor changes to your daily routine will keep you on point.
1. Plan Your Weekly Outfits
Prepare your Monday to Friday fashion ahead of time and catwalk your way to the office all week long.
Outfit five hangers with pants, coordinating tops, and necessary undergarments. Spice each outfit up with blazers and accessories. Ready your matching heels and bags.
On a Monday morning, grab the mix you feel like wearing and start your fabulous week.
2. Make "To-Do" Lists
Cathy Radcliffe of single parenting blog Flazzled Homemaker carries a handy planner that's complete with her daily to-do list. She uses Google Calendar for appointments and monthly tasks. Lastly, she hangs a calendar on the refrigerator so family members can write down their appointments.
3. Organize and Store Everything in the Right Place
When you use things together, you keep things together. Crayons and colored pencils, towels and shower cups, scrarfs and hats and the like should be kept in baskets and boxes.
Make sure your containers coordinate in terms of colors and sizes so your house will look appealing and not cluttered.
Label kid's items and teach them to return things to the proper places.
4. Prepare for Things You Can't Control
Think like this, "If something can go wrong, it will." Sickness, weather, traffic and inefficient people are realities of life. Plan with them in mind. Wake up earlier, stay healthy, maintain savings, and be extra smart, MSN suggests.
5. Schedule Online Hours
Social media networks and other Internet sites are built to keep you online and can be a major time suck. Set a "play time" and a "work time" schedule and stick to it.
6. Get an App
Apps are great for helping you organize your life. Evernote, for instance, organizes your travels, hotels, and tickets.Find one that's right for you.
7. Organize Your Bills
Face your responsibilities head-on. Be aware of all your bills, schedule them, line them up, and include them in your plans. If this helps you to spot an overload period, you can request that companies change your billing date to a more convenient time each month.
8. Ask for Help
If your have older children, ask them for help in preparing breakfast, handling the laundry, vacuuming. Working together is its own kind of bonding and creates more dedicated bonding time for later.
9. Say No
Recognize your priorities and say no to things you just can't accommodate.
