Practice What I Preach: Routines

While coaching, I’ve told people time and time again to make routines flexible to accommodate the family’s schedules and needs. What is the point trying to do your full house cleaning on the day the kids have 3 activities they need to be at – and you are their taxi driver?

Well I’ve finally evaluated my routines, for work and for home. Even when hubby got his promotion that required a shift change, I didn’t make any changes. His work schedule is now Tuesday through Saturday, so our weekends are now Sunday and Monday.

But I was still trying to work on Sundays. I was still frantically trying to get things done like pre-posting blog posts and publishing my talk show. It’s just not working! No matter how much work there is to do, family must come first.

So I’ve evaluated and re-configured my routines to work for us. I will not work on Sundays – it is our day for family time. I may jump on the computer occasionally to check email and catch-up with my friends on Twitter, but that’s it. And I will only do ’some’ work on Monday nights after my boys go to bed.

Having said all of that, the major change that you will see is the day I post the newest episode of the Talk Show. I will now be working on this Monday nights, to post for your listening pleasure Tuesday mornings. Otherwise you will not notice a difference. That is the point of having a routine specifically for my work tasks: customer expectations and service will remain the same – if not better!

To find out more information on balancing your home and your home-business, check out Organized WAHM. Lots of information and inspiration for the work-at-home-mom!