In the last year, I have been living this crazy mad life where I slept only 3-4 hours every day and then caught up with perhaps 7-8 hours on 1-2 nights every week. There was a domino effect from that, of course. First of all, I read that I could actually just DIE from lack of sleep. My hormones were not functioning well and my immune system was low. Secondly, I was hell moody and the kids bore the brunt of it. Thirdly, I had so many commitments that I just could not say no to, but they were killing me.

Now is the turning point of my life.

I was lucky in that the Charity that I used to work for let me go graciously once they found a succession. I was also lucky that the Parenting Website I write for has given me the leniency to slack a bit. But you know what? I’m still shit busy……….I don’t have the time to check all my personal emails, nor even facebook messages (yes, yes….complete time-waster, but people actually contact me via FB). In any case, I was losing control so I decided to draw up a time management plan for busy working moms like myself.

In a week, there are 168 hours (24 x 7). What I did was to draw up a table with all my daily activity time slots on the left and days of the week on top. My categories were:-

Sleeping (Last night I had 2 hours….*sigh*)

Eating (Some allowances made for dining out but otherwise, I only have enough time to drink my meals)

Showering (Super snappy but thorough)

Getting Dressed (Only for Work Meetings and if I don’t want to be recognised)

Driving (A bloody calculated 10 hours!!! Seriously would consider hiring a driver!!!)

Working (The MUST DO)

Family Time with Kids

One on One time with T1 (5 hours)

One on One time with T2 (5 hours)

Exercise (3 hours per week)

Groceries

Cooking (Less these days as my Helper learns more dishes)

Organising and Planning (Very important)

Household

Waiting (Whenever I have to wait, I will attempt multi-tasking)

Blogging (5 hours)

Me Time (Non-existent. Yet.)

Husband Time (Only one hour allocated for him each week. He doesn’t have time for me anyway!)

Reading

Friends (I see my friends maybe once a quarter? No kidding.)

Wasting Time (this includes FACEBOOK and random WhatsApp messages about industrialized powered batteries for vibrators etc)

Miscellanous

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I then had a column for what is ideal and then below the days of the week columns, I’d add in my actual hours spent on each task to assess where really my time was going. The reality of it is, there wasn’t enough time. Period. But it is nevertheless an interesting exercise to start balancing your life and ensuring that you get the best quality out of it!

 

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.