Working from Home.
To a single mother, it almost seems like a day’s 24 hours is not enough to complete everything on our to-do lists and we often end up confused, frustrated and stressed out. You may be surprised, but a simple time management and letting go would do us a lot of wonders, and it’s never too late to start re-arranging your lists.
1. Set-up an alarm! I know we have all been doing this, and often we set-up the clock a couple of minutes early, chances are you will be thinking since it’s still 5 minutes, you will take a little 5 minutes doze off. Have the discipline to get up once the alarm makes its noise.
2. Before going to bed, my mom would always remind us to prepare so for tomorrow we don’t scramble for our life. It’s always good to sort out the clothes you’re going to wear and the make-up that matches it too. This will lessen your morning rituals because you already have a good picture of you when you wake up.
3. When driving, even commuting, it’s always advisable to ask around or the driver the shortest way to get around to your work or to anywhere you needs to go. It pays to know the short-cuts.
4. Late? Still come in style. At work, I noticed that those “pretty girls” who come in late don’t get too much reprimand, because they don’t fuss too much about being late; they come in the room pretty and with finesse. Once they hit the door, they give out a shy smile. So, don’t stress out explaining too much or looking for excuse, just admit that you got into traffic or explain the delay minimally without putting too much effort in it, you can always explain later.
5. When something comes up that needed your immediate attention; try to decide which is the task is urgent and if it’s possible to finish it up in a day; if not, post-its is a good tool to mark up the work that needs to be done the next day.
Keeping your stressors in check or listed down will help you to trim down and zone in on the things that you need to focus on, especially if you’re working at home.
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I used to have sooo many post its on my station at work! They do remind me of stuff that needed doing
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Can you believe this story from Denver?
I just saw this story and had to share it with all of you.
This poor woman, just can’t believe that this actually happens in this day and age, what a shame.
I just thought it was important to share.
(CNN) — Three police cars pulled into Christina FourHorn’s front yard one afternoon while working from home just before she was supposed to pick up her daughter at school. The officers had a warrant for her arrest.
“What do you mean robbery?” FourHorn remembers asking the officers. Her only brushes with the law had been a few speeding tickets.
She was locked up in a Colorado jail. They took her clothes and other belongings and handed her an oversize black-and-white striped uniform. She protested for five days, telling jailers the arrest was a mistake. Finally, her husband borrowed enough money to bail her out.
“They wouldn’t tell me the details,” she said.
Later, it became clear that FourHorn was right, that Denver police had arrested the wrong woman. Police were searching for Christin Fourhorn, who lived in Oklahoma.
Their names were similar, and Christina FourHorn, a mother with no criminal record living in Sterling, Colorado, had been caught in the mix-up.