Time Management: Mom, Student and an Active Family

Time Management: Mom, Student and Gymnastics Being an Mom, Student and having an active family life is something that requires plenty of attention to detail, time management and plenty of flexibility. More often than not we ourselves to be overbooked or there is not enough time in the day. After reading these articles and implementing them into my daily plan I became better at managing my time.
Making a Plan
Being a military spouse, mom, and a student makes life a little challenging. Most of the time I ask myself where does the time go, or what did I do today that I didn’t get the major things accomplished. Most of the time it was my ability to manage my time, I was wasting time by prolonging tasks and procrastinating on a regular basis, waiting last minute to complete assignments and not actually spending time doing the things that I needed. Realizing that time management was paramount, I then began to start new, good habits and leaving the bad habits for someone else. By waking up earlier to make the most of my day, and sitting down at the table with a planner and scheduling out your day. First writing the high priority items, and making actual appointments so your day runs like a full day of appointments (Denison, 2001). After scheduling the high priorities everything else should can be filled in, of course in priority order. When I first began working out on a regular bases and my children were old enough to participate in activities such as gymnastics, soccer these techniques really came into play.
Helpful Planning Tips That Helped Me As I began implementing some of what I had read about and learned I started seeing that some of the ideas didn’t work in my favor, so I began tweaking thins so that it did. Just because you have made a plan, doesn’t mean you have to use it if it does not