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Time Management For Single Moms – Attitudes That Save Time |
Time is a resource that single moms need to allocate well. If you are a single mom, then you need to know the right attitudes that lead to excellent time management skills in order to face your tasks and life in general. Time management need not be difficult for single moms.
In life, it is not so much aptitude as it is attitude that gets people to the top. Surviving life is also a function of your outlook towards it. How you make decisions will be based on how you actually look at the situations you are faced with.
Time Management for Single Moms Attitude #1: Calmness
If you want to be able to face life and hurdle all the tasks you have to accomplish, you must conduct yourself with calmness. When the pigs start to fly around you, you need to keep a clear head. You need to be able to think yourself out of difficult situations; and calmness is an asset to be able to think clearly. This requires a degree of detachment from high-stress situations so you can take a step back and analyze how you are to finish your tasks.
Another aspect of calmness is to not take things personally. When people offend you, when life's stress gets to you, don't get into the victim's mentality and think that the world is out to get you. The truth is, it just isn't. It's a fact that life is difficult. Don't take things personally. Detach; don't react, and move on.
Calmness saves you time wasted on wallowing and nursing toxic emotions that you can spend on nurturing your kids or working for them instead. You have to get out of the mentality that the cards are stacked against you. As I said, do not take things personally, clear your mind, get up, and move on.
Time Management for Single Moms Attitude #2: Humility
They say that the greatest men are those who are humble. Humility is a virtue that will take you far. Not only does this attitude attract people to you, it also helps in time management. How? If you are humble enough to admit that you have limited capacities and resources, as you are a limited being, you will realize and admit that you need help and will delegate the tasks that are too much for you, to someone else.
Yes, I could understand why you want to do more. I could understand that you are frustrated with others' work that you can't help but do everything yourself. Well, that is a surefire road to becoming burned out. Not to mention that the only things that task hoarding can achieve are pushed or missed deadlines and slipshod work.
Be humble enough to admit that you need help. Get that babysitter. Put the kids in daycare. Give that paper to type to your assistant. Yes, you may not be satisfied with how they did the task, but do save your sanity. What's a teeny-weeny typographical error here and there anyway? Modern word processing and productivity software have spell-checkers. And don't worry, your kids will not grow up to be serial killers if you put them on daycare.
Time Management for Single Moms Attitude #3: Discipline
You need discipline to stay on track, stay in focus, and be able to streamline your life. It takes discipline to let go of tasks; it takes discipline to keep yourself calm in the midst of stress; and most of all, it takes discipline to stay on schedule. Train yourself to stay on track and to force yourself to let go of things that you should. Be it a task that is eating at you, or toxic emotions and relationships, discipline is essential in being able to make up your mind to do what you have to.
Time management for single moms is a breeze when you are armed with the right attitudes. So take heed, take these to heart, and learn to streamline your time through attitudes that push you to win!
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| [By Kimber Fulcher] [05/May/07] |
