Do you feel like you’re running out of time?
Between family life, the kids’ schedule, your partner’s travels or total absence 🙄 and your job, I thought you’d always be happy to read my 5 tips for saving 1 hour a day.
And saving 1 hour a day adds up to 7 hours a week, or the savings of a day’s work, and 30 hours a month, or almost the savings of a week a month.
You can imagine all the free time you’d have for sports, a meal with friends or a weekend in the sun – in short, enough time to balance your personal and professional life 😄 and feel more serene.
- Organize your schedule
- Plan your vacations
- Delegate
- Share your schedule
- Prepare menus in advance
1.organize your schedule
This goes without saying, but it’s not always so obvious. Planning your schedule is the first, most valuable and effective way of saving time.
It has many benefits:
- structuring the day
- putting our objectives and projects into action
- setting an example for our teams
- make us more efficient
- reduce procrastination and stress
You’ll find these topics on the podcasts of mentors Jenny Chammas and Pauline Laigneau. Two talented personalities brimming with valuable advice that I recommend you listen to. A real source of inspiration and effective training.
2. Plan your vacation
I plan my vacations 3 to 6 months in advance. This has the advantage of boosting my motivation and giving me a goal when I lose interest.
Planning our vacations in advance feeds our thoughts when we’re dreaming, and sets a course, a goal when we get up in the morning.
It’s a little tip that gives you a boost when you’re feeling down.
3. Delegate
Delegating saves time. The important thing is to give clear instructions.
If you’re lucky enough to have an au pair at home, you know how much time you save by delegating the task of picking up your children from school and accompanying them to their activities.
You can also ask the au pair to :
- help prepare meals,
- tidy the children’s bedrooms
- wash the children’s
- laundry
- unload the dishwasher
These are just a few of the daily tasks that will help you save time and make your family life more worry-free.
4. Share schedule
Getting organized is good, and so is delegating, but you can’t do that without letting people know about it. So you have to communicate.
At work, this means sharing calendars, thanks friend Google and time management tools such as Asana, which has become one of my best allies.
At home, we have the calendar magnetized on the fridge, next to the slate on which we find the week’s menus 🤓.
5. Prepare menus
If there was one subject that weighed heavily on my mind, it was coming home every evening and saying, “What’s for dinner?
One of the things I had to do to reduce my mental load was to solve this daily equation.
So I set up an efficient organization when the children were born: on Saturdays I plan the menus for the week’s dinners.
In the kitchen, I write the menus for each day of the week on a board. This way, the children (and the au pair!) know in advance what we’re going to eat. It’s reassuring for everyone 😂.
I prepare the shopping list according to Saturday morning and order my groceries online. I get the drive back and the fridge is full for the week.
This way I manage to keep balanced menus and have peace of taste, and I save the 20 minutes a day during which I was looking for culinary inspiration.
I hope you find this article useful. If so, leave me a comment. And now to your resolutions, all you have to do is open your diary!
