March 12, 2010
What can I do to feel more organized and in control especially when I wake up in the morning.?
I work full time but commute so don’t have to go into office every day. When I get up in the morning, I just feel overwhelmed amd disorganized
and seem to spend hours just trying to get the basics done, laundry, getting ready, straightening my things, do some work, do some shopping, do some more work, just never accomplish anything, feel overwhelmed all the time. It’ making me very depressed and irritable with my husband.
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Short and sweet – do it before you go to bed.
you might consider sleeping earlier, hence you would have more hours of sleep, but you can wake up earlier. However, its highly likely you’re sleeping in different times of the night (ie. 12 on tuesday, 10 on wednesday, 2 on thursday- (now that would be freaky if the times were spot on :S), your biological clock is a mess, so the best thing to do is stick to the same “sleeping time” and “waking up time”… after a while, you’ll get used to it, and you’ll automatically feel tired when sleepy time approaches, and you’ll wake up automatically at around the same wake up time too…
Well, what you could try the first few days is right a note or tie a ribbon to your finger to remind yourself that you want to be more efficient. Then while you’re doing the morning chores, think that you want it done faster, so you’ll try to cut out the less important stuff. This will probably become habbit and problem solved, but another way that might help is having your husband or a friend help you out with you’re schedule. Put things in their place before you go to bed every night so that when you wake up you’ll have less to do. I used to have a little bit of trouble getting organized every morning so that’s what i did ^^ Good Luck!
get some of ur stuff ready at night
You might try putting together some lists organized by day. So that on certain days you do certain things. Some things you may do every day. Some things not. When you get up you just have to follow the list for that day. You can add or delete from the lists as you go to make them work better for you. THe lists build routine into your days so that you don’t have to worry about forgetting what you need to do to keep your life together
I work at home too, and here’s what I do. I have a program on my computer called Big Ben Chimes. I have it set to chime at 15 minutes before every hour and again on the hour. It first goes off when I need to sit down to work. I start working, and then 45 minutes later, I hear the chimes and get up to do some work around the house. Then it chimes, and I stop what I’m doing (even in the middle of a task) and go back to work. I do this all day, and by the time the day is over, I’ve gotten all my work done, and all my housework too.
If you have errands outside of the house, do them at lunchtime, just like you would do if you were in the office that day. Or do them at the end of the day. If you do them at any other time, it will eat into your schedule, and you’ll have wasted too much time.
You have to be willing to work during work time and leave it to get up and do the housework. You have to be willing to stop the housework in the middle and go back to work on time. Sometimes that means that you only get half the clothes folded or that you get the floor swept but not mopped this hour. But you’ll be surprised how much work you can get done in 15-minute increments.