5 Ways To Staying Organised

I stay organised, kind of anyway. I like to have food plans, calendars and spreadsheets, but it all depends on which aspect of my life I am concentrating on at any given moment. Especially with the pandemic, home schooling has become a real thing in our house. So not only are we cook, cleaner, washing clothes etc we are now teaching our children, while working and staying coherent and mostly engaged in this crazy age of COVID.

Now, I will say this. I am very lucky that I have been able to work through the pandemic and keep providing for my family but for everyone it has been tough.

So without further a do here are my 5 tips for staying organised:

1. Make time for everything. Daily or weekly planners are a really good way of doing this. It doesn’t have to be granular details but you do have to make sure you are factoring in chunks of time for work, breaks, school work, kids meetings or online classes.
2. Make it clear to everyone, what they are doing. I by no means do all the house work in our house. We all live here, so everyone chips in. Sometimes we split chores with the kids. For example they empty the dishwasher (except sharps) and then we do those and tidy up the kitchen, this is something that is done everyday. A household responsibilities chart can be really useful for this.
3. Have clear cut off times from work. Make sure that if you are moving your time around during the day, that you monitor this and only add on that time when delivering projects. I myself have had to come away from my work computer during the day to home-school, I would then forget to note down how much time that is and then in the evenings would find myself working more than I had actually moved around earlier in the day. So I started to use a time log, I would pop in the times I was away from my computer then the log would calculate how many hours I needed in the evening to deliver my projects.
4. Meal plans. If we didn’t plan our evening meals week to week no one would have dinner. It would be take out or relegated to what could be scraped together from what is around the house. So we plan out each week what we have, sometimes as a family, sometimes split meals as my husband has work. It helps with the constant question of “What’s for dinner?” 😉
5. Family calendar. Whether this is digital or physical I always have a calendar. Here I put my husbands shifts or holidays, the kids activities, my holiday days, birthdays etc. Everyone in our house uses it.