Home Time Management Step 4: Create Your Action Plan

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Home Time Management
Step 4:
Create Your Action Plan
(c) Home Time Management 2013 | Mary Segers http://marysegers.com

Without a doubt, this action plan is going to either
set you up for success or set you up for failure.


If you really think about it, nothing gets accomplished without
planning … even if it's unconsciously.
You don't just walk out the door, get in your car, and drive away
without knowing where you're going.
At least you don't if you have something you need to accomplish
such as going to get groceries or pick up a kid.
Even if you're fighting with someone and "take off" your plan is to
drive or walk off steam.


Another (somewhat comical) example that really
drives the idea home is to think about how often
you walk into your bathroom and just fall into
taking a shower.
At some point you've made a plan that you're
going to take a shower.


If you'll generalize this concept of planning being
the impetus of setting yourself up for success or
failure into the problem areas of your life you'll see
where lack of planning has probably been letting
golden opportunities to reach your home time
management goals pass you right on by.


For instance… and this is a wacky, but true, example.
I've always known that washing dishes gets me in a
serious cleaning mood.
My kids became aware of this at a young age and
used to try their best to keep me from washing the
dishes because they knew it may lead to a springcleaning type of day or evening.

On the flip side, I use that on my cleaning day to get myself into gear.
In other words, I use this knowledge to set myself up for success.
I would occasionally go through periods when I… for some reason…
just lose my zest for cleaning house (hey, it happens… even today).
I could jumpstart myself by leaving the dishes on Friday night and
waking to a kitchen that needs to be cleaned (I know it’s nasty but it
was only once in a great while).


So, now that I've convinced you that you need an
action plan I guess you're wondering how to create
one?
While there is really no step-by-step guide that works
in all situations I can give you a few general
guidelines.
Remember, these are ACTION-oriented and… for
maximum effectiveness… I'd suggest you tackle one
area at a time.

I guess I need to point out that each of these has multiple
steps that someone would need to take in order to see that
real and lasting change.
For the sake of brevity I'm only going to list the very first
step.

Too, what I list here relates to action steps… this is
assuming you've already talked with your family about
what's going to change and why.

Creating Weekly Meal Plans

 help think of their
Sit your family down and have everyone
favorite meals.

Let them know they should think of places such as at home, at
their friends' houses, at school, or even at their favorite
restaurant.
Very soon, you should have quite a list from which to begin
making your weekly meal plans.

Keep collecting new ideas and aim to have
recipes/meal ideas for 30 days, 60 days, or
even 90 days or more.


Getting Your Children Helping with
Chores and Laundry

 is to teach them what
The very first thing you'd need to do
they need to do.

This may take a week or more of you keeping a close eye on
what they're doing to make sure they 1) Remember what they
should do, 2) Remember the order (if there IS one), and 3)
Actually DO what they should.


For instance, if you're teaching your 6 year-old to clean the bathroom
he may need several days to create his own little routine.
Just make sure that he does everything you want him to do right
from the beginning… even if it takes him a long time to get it down.
Don't roll your eyes and mentally resolve that you'll just have to XYZ
because he just can't seem to do it right.
Give him time… he'll get it.


Oh, and trust me when I say it's so much easier to
have him learn to do it right from the beginning than
to let him develop bad habits and try to change them 6
months from now.
I've been there, done that, and don't advise it.


Getting and Maintaining a
Clean House

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If it's been a good long while since you've attempted to clean house
then… by all means… start in one corner of one room.
And don't feel bad about it either.
Very soon, that one corner will start to look a whole lot better than it
did when you began.
Then, when you get that one corner looking good you'll be ready to
move on to another area.

Cooking Smarter

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There are… literally… hundreds of different ways you could begin
action in this area.
I'll give a single example of giving yourself a night off from cooking.
The next time you're cooking cook double. If you're browning
hamburger then brown an extra pound and freeze it. If you're making
spaghetti sauce then cook double and freeze the rest. If you're making
a meatloaf, then mix a double portion and freeze the extra.

Then, later in the week when you're running low on time
pull that extra hamburger out and make sloppy joes, or
hamburger and gravy over rice, or any of a dozen other
dishes.

Turn that spaghetti sauce into beef-a-roni, shepard's pie, or
any of… again… a dozen other dishes.
Turn that meatloaf mixture into stuffed peppers, flavorful
patties with gravy, or… once again… a dozen other dishes.

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Expert, Coach, and Speaker
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 My goal as a Home Time Management Coach is to help you save
time on the things you HAVE to do such as:
• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Laundry
• Housework
 So that you can reinvest that time into:
• Your marriage
• Your kids
• Your family and friends
• Yourself

As a matter of fact, this video has been created from
an excerpt of my free 16 page eBook titled…

5 Steps to Creating Lasting
Change in Your
which is available for download from my website @

http://marysegers.com/lastingchange


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Home Time Management including saving time on:
• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Laundry
• Housework
And then spending that time on:
• Your spouse
• Your kids
• Your family and friends
• Yourself

Remember…
You only have ONE LIFE.
It's up to you how you live it.


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