Being a Work at Home Mum is a juggling act. Whether you are running your own business or working your job from your home based office, it takes A LOT of organisation.

The Secret to Success for a Work at Home Mum

Planning. Be organised, get ahead of yourself and just follow the plan. You can make your life so much easier just by writing it down. Writing your tasks down can stop procrastination and reduces your mental load.

Here’s the one page, weekly planner for a work a home mum that I use:

You can see that there are prompts for both your family life and business commitments.

My planner includes:

• Date space so you don’t have to keep buying planners – just print one page over and over.
• Birthdays and events – never forget a big day again
• Meal Plan for breakfast, lunch and dinner to save time and money but to eat healthier too
• Time Blocking sections for work and family commitments, such as kids activities
• Daily Sales – meet your target
• Sales Value to keep you on target for your goal
• Exercise Tracker with a tick box. Count your steps, do your reps!
• Top Priority Section to highlight where you need to focus
• Project Tracker to meet your deadline
• Bill Tracker to note payments you need to make this week
• Invoices to Send to get your money in your bank!
• A Budget Section to keep you on track for the month
• Cleaning Planner with tick box for when your room for the day is done
• Notes for, erm, notes!
• Shopping List Box for the things you run out of and need to note down!

And the background to each section is feint squares because I can’t write very neatly!

Make Time Work For You

I print off a months worth at a time and put them in my planner. The sheet for the current week is taken out and stuck on my office wall, right in front of my face! It works for me!

If you’d like to organise and balance your home and work life, give my planner a try! It even comes with a free bonus cleaning schedule for the week! For a limited time, my planner is just 99p on Etsy, so grab a bargain and give it a go!

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