18 Tips to be Productive as a Stay at Home Mom/ Homemaker

  Habits to Follow to Become a Highly Productive Homemaker       

       

         "Being productive doesn't mean that you do all the things". It means you've carefully chosen what is important and keep your focus there". 

        We have many distractions at home that will keep us away from the day's responsibilities. Believe it or not, we have an enormous time at home to spend productively. But intentionally, we are spending most of our time on overthinking, gossip, social media, television and other sources of entertainment. 

        At home, there is no compulsion to be productive apart from your household work. And there are no constraints to submit your work to anyone like an office goer. If you are happily enjoying your homemaking lifestyle, go ahead without pausing. But if you are worrying about your future and just wasting your time, think about the productive work you are doing daily.

        Homemaker/ Stay at home mom is not a despicable lifestyle like most of you think. But, when you persist only on homemaking chores like cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids etc, sometimes you feel frustrated that you are not productive. 

        I try to find my own productive time for blogging, doing crafts, online courses to upgrade my career and skills. I will try to give some time for all these things in my leisure time, which feels a more productive and happy day. However, I have those days when I don't get enough time for myself and I don't know how to manage it. Now, I have overcome that by trying some magical rules listed below.

1. Have a Daily to-do-list

        You might already know this, but a little difference I'm following is to note down a time schedule for every listed work. Then I try to do it on time and put a tick mark for finished work. Once you put a tick mark you will be more excited and try to do the remaining work. Yes, of course, I couldn't complete every work daily but it's okay. "We can learn to grow through our imperfection". 

2. Say Bye to Social Media

        By all means, we couldn't say bye to social media but we can restrict ourselves from that by giving lesser time. Social media is the biggest distraction that will make you unproductive. It makes you a too lazy person and mentally you will get tired when you spend so much time on social media. And you don't know how much time you are spending.       

3. Do Important Tasks First

        Pick out the important tasks and prioritize them to do first. If so, you will get relaxed and move on to the remaining tasks.

4. Be Intentional with your Time

        Being intentional with time is a bit difficult to practice and implement in your life. Once you practice, you will get wiser decisions and get done with your priorities on the checklist. Surprisingly you will get a lot of time for your own, family and kids, work etc.

5. Get the Basics Done Everyday

        Basics in essence cleaning, vessel washing, laundry etc. If you haven't finished it daily it will pile up and become a huge burden for the next days. So as much as possible do it every day.

6. Fix Some Works Once in Week or Month

        It is mandatory to do house cleaning daily, but leave the mopping and organizing work once in a week or month.

7. Stop Wasting Energy in Repetitive Works

        Parenting is so messy and we could not be organized all the time and follow our daily plans. For example, there is no use in spending time for organizing your baby's toys. Once you are done, they will clutter everything. This will going to happen for a whole day. So I don't think it is possible to do it all day. Rather leave it and concentrate on other work. Maybe organizing toys is not much more important than other household work.

8. Never be Ashamed of What you Do

        People follow you until your success. Once you succeed they will leave you and search for others to blame. So do what you love and what makes you happy.

9. Get Up Early

        Once you stick to an early morning routine, life will get very easy and you get much more time for yourself personally. Most of my preferred work will be done in the mornings without any disturbance.

10. Do Exercise, Get Dressed & Attitude

        Is it related to productivity? Yes certainly, every activity you love to do every day will make your day more productive. Starting with a morning walk will make your full day energetic and if possible do simple exercises. Then dressed up, it doesn't mean you should create a gaudy look. Wear a comfortable dress, tie your hair, wash your face, and do simple skincare. It looks better than your usual drowsy look.

11. Set a Space for Productivity

        You should have at least a small space like a room corner for your productivity and set that space to your wish. When you sit there you should feel good and it encourages more to step in for the next level.

12. Set Goals

        Your goal will be your motivation. No one will come and motivate you daily. If you have a certain goal, that will push you to do next and next to achieve the goal.

13. Set Alarms

        You may have important tasks to complete on that but you forget. So set alarms if necessary.

14. Take a Break

        When you run for a full day you will get exhausted and irritated. When you complete every planned work take a small gap for a break and look at nature for some time, chat with your family & friends, take a coffee break, play with your kid, do a small dance, go for a walk etc.

15. Say No

        Keep limitations for every work at home, if you can't do more than that say 'No' immediately. And you might have a disturbing friend or close relatives around to chat for a long time. But it will be a total waste of time if you are a mom. Keep some limited time for them and say 'No' to the extended discussions. Because you are at home, so they might think you will be always available.

16. Communication

        Finish all your obligations and communicate with your partner or anybody in your home to take care of the baby. They don't know what you are going through. So seek help and carry on your career work or anything that you want to do.

17. Write Things Down

        Make a note of what are your upcoming plans and what is required to prepare for them.

18. Enjoy Every Minute

        And finally, enjoy every minute of life whether you are a homemaker or a working woman. We are running hard to raise our kids, enhance our financial status, building our careers to the next level. Whatever the reasons may be, at the end of the day you should be happy about what you are doing.

Hope you get superb tips on how to be highly productive as a homemaker. Our lifestyle may get different but we are on the same track of parenting and homemaking. So these tips will be surely helpful to you. For more useful content, stay connected to Lp's Diary and keep on supporting me. Thank You!