By Tracey Rudd
Time was, when I was rather good at organising my days. As a teenager fresh out of school, I had four simultaneous part-time jobs for a while. Later, I ran large multi-national retail chain stores with some success. Yet, nothing has challenged my abilities more than trying to organise my life around my current No. 1 profession, that of a single mama, juggling a new work-from-home freelance writing/blogging business with an external university degree.
Now, I hope your personal brand of insanity is a little kinder than mine but, whichever way you look at it, we women are rather good at taking on a lot and expecting ever more from ourselves.
I recently read a wonderful blog post debating the wisdom of the trend to multi-tasking, claiming, quite rightly, that it is impossible to do one thing well when you are thinking of other things at the same time, and I whole-heartedly agree.
Still, the reality for most single mothers is the constant need to juggle your responsibilities as a parent with your responsibilities as a business person or employee, often on a moment-by-moment basis. How do you do this, and retain your sanity, without hunting around in your attic for an old brass lamp (or a time machine)?
Read Time Management for WAH Single Mothers (Or, Have You Got A Genie?)
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