Last Updated on July 1, 2022 by Brie
What goes wrong with time management as a single mom? I feel as if most days, I have no idea where the time goes, and I am on some rabbit wheel of life—bouncing from one rabbit wheel to the next. At the beginning of the month, it was decided that some things needed to change as I started a new job. So I began keeping track of my time a little better.
More from this series:
- How it Began in November
- Time Management for Work from Home Moms
- Time Management for Single Moms
- Time Management for Homeschool Moms
Android Simple Time Tracker for Single Moms
As a single mom working from home, I use the android simple time trackers app for time management. The app is so simple to use. I set up cards for the things that I want to track in my life. I have something like:
- Work
- Homeschool
- College
- Playtime
- Cleaning
- Self-care/workout tasks
- Sleeping
After setting up the cards, I have to tap one whenever I start an activity and tap it when I’m done. It automatically tracks my time, and I can see how much time I spend each week doing what.
Time Management for Single Moms Working form home:
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I am still, again this week, in the “trial period” for my next gig, which leaves me not having very much paid work to do. I say fortunately because I have been feeling very frazzled. It could be because of the lack of paid work, making me nervous.
One thing I did in October was run myself ragged and down. I was so tired that the last week of October, I was sleeping between 10-12 hours and barely getting anything done because of the “push” I had been making up for the rest of the month leading up to it.
If it can be avoided, I don’t want to do that again. Hafter the amount of time I spent on the self-care activities for myself and my daughter, you would think that we would be looking fabulous. And everything would be running smoothly. Notwithstanding, more work needs to be done. After
I have noticed now, after two weeks now spent with this app, that I am starting to see where my time goes week to week, and I begin making adjustments if I see I am spending too much or too little time in certain areas. It has been beneficial.
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What Time Management Looks Like for a Single Mom:
My top five activities for this week are shown alongside the pie chart of them.
That little pie chart amuses me.
- Starting from the top, I have asleep. Goodness, I have slept more this week than I should, and I hate that. However, my excuse is I am probably still recuperating. I will continue to use this exuuse. Fortunatly, I devoted a little bit less time this week to sleeping than I did last week.
- My next highest portion this week was hygiene and work out. It was a prettty nice week so this included my daughter and I’s walks, as well as all of the bath times, make up times, etc. Still though, this one was a littel overboard I feel like, I need to cut it down in the weeks to come.
- While play time and homeschool were pretty much neck in neck playtime came next. for play time this week we did a variety of things including: spending time outside, watching new movies, painting christmas ornaments, drawing, and sewing.
- Our next catigory was homeschool. The packeted homeschool routine did not work out as I had hopped it would when I initially started this series. So, we are back to square one in that reguard.
- Finally there is the college portion which, thankfuly wasn’t as large as last week but still had a few projects to endure.
Extra Details
There are a couple of other colors up there, like the greens, purples, and dark blues, which are all different categories of my job. This week was a slow week. I anticipate those to pick up in the weeks to come.
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