What Can I Do To Better Manage My Time?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Spanish influencer Belén Canalejo has a mission from her famous @balamoda blog and is to help her followers become the best possible version of themselves. It should not be bad, because each of her podcasts immediately climbs to number one of the most listened to lists in Spain as soon as she shares them on her networks.

A mother of four children and a successful businesswoman, she has just published her own Method in her endeavor so that people learn to manage their time. She reminds us of what Benjamin Franklin said: "For every minute dedicated to the organization, you earn an hour."

Whenever they ask him: "Bethlehem! How can you have a podcast, publish a book and constantly produce such a large amount of audiovisual content and still have time to spend the afternoons with your children?” She always answers the same thing: "Organization!"

If you want to achieve a balance between being a mom and fulfilling your professional career, these are the tips that Belen shares so that you learn to manage your time and you can include them in your New Year's resolutions. We tried?

1. Get more hours a day early. I usually get up an hour and a half or two hours before my children do. This allows me, depending on the days, to take time out to do sports and meditate, or to advance things about my work.

2.- Plan your day well with the help of a planner. I have created my own method fruit of years of work. For me it is very important to spend 5 minutes planning before starting my day: knowing the day's tasks, priorities, and assigning a specific time for each thing.

3.- Write down in one place the tasks related to my work and my family. If I decide not to write down the personal, it stays in my head fluttering and makes a lot of noise. The noise distracts you from your focus.

4.- Don't be distracted. Each thing in its time and a time for each thing, that my father would say. I try to focus on each activity that I carry out one hundred percent. If I work, I try to stay focused without interruptions; If I play with my children, I try not to look at the cell phone. Conversely, going from one activity to another makes you waste a lot of time and wears out.

5.- Distribute household chores according to the responsibilities that each one can assume. When each one contributes something to all the needs of the family, it is more possible that you get to do more things and be calmer. However, if you throw everything on yourself in the end you will always be exhausted and overwhelmed. Your children can help pick up the house, make bed …

6.- Take a little time for yourself, even briefly, to disconnect and rest. It can be sitting down to read or taking a hot bath… Any activity that is pleasant for you and that makes you disconnect from the maelstrom of each day. These moments recharge you and help you be more productive and more focused later.