Our “Dear Stay-At-Home-Mum Series” contributed by Mrs Sandra Akpujiha is a lovely piece that aims to teach and help Stay-at-home Mums live their best life. You can read the other stories in the series here.
How to increase your productivity at home
Hello mums, trust we are doing great today?
In my journey of working with stay at home mums, I realise that one of our major problem is actually proper time management.
We complain about chores, family and every other thing taking our time and for that reason, we don’t have time for ourselves.
I can remember when I was an unproductive housewife too; My excuse was always “no time” whenever anyone tried to suggest i do something from home no matter how small.
No time to read a book, learn a skill on YouTube, or make enquiries about something that will make me a better person. But I had all the time to watch Telemundo and ZeeWorld. Follow all the gossip blogs and chat away my life with my co jobless Stay-at-home mums.
When I borrowed sense, I realized that there are 2 major periods of our day we don’t utilize to the fullest.
1. When the kids are in school
Mums usually enjoy this period because it gives us time. Where we fail to maximize comes from the things we do at this time.
After the school runs, you do your chores and be done by 10 to 11am maximum. You can open your home office, drop Mummy duties at that time and work for yourself.
2. When the kids are sleeping :
Some of us use this time to catch up on chats and so many unproductive things online.
Try sleeping 2 hours late or wake up 2 hours earlier and do something to improve yourself before the kids are up.
At the end of the day, it is who we are becoming that really matters to the world.
Let’s consciously and intentionally learn to improve ourselves and get better daily.
Contributor
Sandra Akpujiha is a certified Result coach and NLP practitioner, she is also the Founder of The Mommies House Facebook Group where she coaches women to rediscover their passion, have their own identity, become productive and create a balanced life of success.
Popularly known as The Queen Mother, she is a mother to 3 amazing boys and a professional work from home mum.
