PRODUCTIVITY HACKS FOR WORK AT HOME MOTHER

Times changed!!

After pregnancy, women are not ready to be at home. They were looking for work from home opportunities and the employees also offering them to work from home. But the question is, is it easy to work at home for mothers?? When children are around, whether newborn or toddlers, it is more than difficult to concentrate on work. Daily household chores are itself harder, if Mother's need to concentrate on her career, it needs good planning. Here are some tips for more productivity for work at home mothers. 

•  No social media: 

Strictly no social media!! I know it became a great stress buster for a mother. But to balance your work and child you need to get rid of that in your work time. 

• Batching:

If you want to do the dishes, you don't pick every dish and wash it. You wait for some time to pile up and after that, you do all the dishes at a time. This is what exactly batching means. As a mother you will be interrupted constantly, batching of work will help you. Instead of multi-tasking, you batch your tasks. By this, you can handle if there is a potty emergency and go back to work. 

• Prioritize and schedule

For a mummy, priorities will change, strict schedules will be crashed. But you need to prioritize your tasks according to your emergency and convenience.

• No Mom guilt

You have chosen work from home just because you have a life to attend at home. Don’t be guilty when you have a meeting to attend, or a task to be completed. Ask your family to help or hire a nanny if you are not able to focus.

• Brain dump

At times, you feel so confused, as so many threads running in your mind. In these times, you feel stress and anxiety. Whenever you feel like your mind is overloaded, write it on a piece of paper. Your schedules, or to-do lists, or the thing which is disturbing you put down on a paper. I am damn sure, it will help to empty your disturbances and you can focus better.

• Get a planner

The best thing about a planner for a mother is you can simply know, list of things we are not going to do!! (Yes we mothers can never follow as per plan. There will be a lot of things which will object in the way)

However, get a planner, at least you can know what important and urgent tasks are. It organizes your thoughts and tasks.

• Find your productive time

Some may be energetic during the day, some can be during evening time. Find your productive time and plan your tasks (whether it is household or official). You can become more focused. Work at home mothers has no time to waste. Use time wisely.

• Dressing and Placement

Generally, if a woman works from home, they wouldn’t concentrate on the dressing. Yes, it will be more comfortable in pyjamas than in formal attire. But dressing up like you are going to the office will help you to concentrate on work and your thoughts will be more directional. Your subconscious mind is trained for a particular dress code and place of work. Use this point for your productivity.

Likewise giving your laptop or PC or your work items space, it can help you and your children to distinguish your workspace from remaining home. They can be sure, that mother will be working here and you can make them understand you will have some limitations there.

• Pomodoro Technique

This is the technique I deeply appreciate and learnt through the internet. In this method, work undisturbed for short sessions, and take a break after every session. This is a proven method for increasing productivity and also method to teach your toddlers that you don’t want to be disturbed during work. Meanwhile, they can be engaged by colouring or making a toys line or play dough, or books.

The activities that engage your kids can be ordinary ones which they do in normal times.  

• Unload Your Mental Clutter Before You Get to Work

Last but not least hack which works like magic. Before you start working, dump your brain on a paper in the form of a to-do list or done list. By which you can be clear what is to be done.

Organizing is not a onetime thing. It is a lifestyle. Organize both your home and work with these tips. It is scientifically proven that women can handle so many tasks at a time. We can balance both work and home at the same time. And we can be the best.

Good luck!!!!

Happy Motherhood!!!

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