09.1.10
I currently work, go to school for my Masters degree and have a 2 ½ year old daughter. Many have successfully accomplished keeping each of these important commitments in order. However, it is more like mastering a dance than achieving a perfect balance.
I’ll be describing a tool that has worked to keep my assignments and papers under control.
First of all, if you think that you can do everything over the weekend and be just as efficient as if you were splitting up tasks over the week, you’re mistaken. You may jeopardize your grades.
In fact, by working long stretches of time over the weekend, you will become less efficient, more ineffective, and you will try to get stuff done just to get it done and not to get it done right. Sound familiar?
So what are you supposed to do and how do you save time on the weekends for family and household tasks? By Chunking.
A chunk of time is a short span of time (like 15-30 mins) and can be found anywhere during the weekday, weekend, whenever. Use chunks of time to do chunkable tasks.
Chunkable tasks are things that:
Now, what does this leave for the weekends?
On the weekends you should do tasks that reward long uninterrupted spans of time.
Things like:
In Summary to save your weekends: