How To Find More Time In Your Day By Putting Your Chores On Auto-Pilot
Chores. No one really enjoys these menial yet essential tasks, mostly because they suck up valuable time we’d rather be spending something else. If you feel too pressed for time each week with all the grocery shopping, cleaning, bill paying, cooking and clothes laundering you’ve got to do, here’s how to put your chores on auto-pilot — or at least shave precious minutes off these tasks each week to find more time in your life. of your life by streamlining your chores as detailed below, but you will save some precious time by putting as much as possible on auto-pilot — and you’ll take a lot of the stress out of your chores.
4 Chore-Busting Principles1. Automate everything you can. Our most important strategy will be to automate as much as possible. Everything from bill-paying to refilling your prescriptions can be set up on a schedule these days. So if you’re looking to save some time on your chores, the first question to ask is if there’s a service or feature that will do that automatically for you.
2. Do things in batches. Consolidating your chores — dedicating a day to cooking or tweaking your personal finance system (see sample schedule below) — can be more efficient than sporadically doing these chores throughout the week. It’s kind of like being in a production line, where working on one specific task or ganging similar tasks together simplifies and speeds up the process. That’s why the sample Google Calendar below dedicates some days to shopping, cooking, laundering, or finances; you can import individual events from the example calendar to your own calendar and customise for your schedule. Cleaning, unfortunately, tends to be an ongoing task.
3. Multi-task and use available idle time. As a busy student, professional, parent, and/or person, you know that every minute counts. One of the best ways to find more time in your life is to make the most of each moment: Catch up on your reading in the waiting room, wipe down the kitchen counters while waiting for your tea to steep, fold laundry while watching Mad Men — you get the idea. Many of the 10-minute cleaning or other chore suggestions can be done in that idle time.
4. Enlist help. Whether or not you use a modern tool like web app Chore Buster to organise and delegate your chores, if you have a multi-person household, you’ll need all hands on deck to get all your chores done. Some things may be best outsourced if you’re really pressed for time (calculate your hourly wage and compare to the cost of outsourcing a chore like laundry to see if the time saved is worth it to you).
Alexandra's Morning Skin and Hair Routine ... - No More Dirty Looks
Sooooo. Routine. I’m kinda terrible at it! For those of you familiar with ayurveda, I have pretty typical vata tendencies (and just by the by, I’m meeting with an ayurvedic doc next week and planning to pick up some tips to share). What this means is that I don’t wake up or go to bed at the same time every day; I can go from being ravenous one week to skipping meals the next; sometimes I’m strong like an ox and full of energy, while others times I feel frail and sensitive. Needless to say when it comes to my beauty rituals I change my products with great, and erratic, frequency. This isn’t exactly the worst thing when your job is to try new stuff, but it’s not the best when you’re also trying to assess results. Just another reason me and the blondie make such a good team!
So here’s a current snapshot…
Name : Alexandra I probably only shower about three times a week if I’m being honest. I also don’t wash my face most days—which is something I’ll get more into in another post. But generally, my transition to clean has ended up with me being, well, dirty. I love water but I don’t think that the stuff coming out of my shower head is necessarily doing me that many favors. I live in a super arid climate and as we’ve discussed in the past , some folks think water in and of itself can exacerbate dryness. I usually take off my makeup with some kind of oil or oil cleanser like this Spieza Organics one. And because I don’t wash my hair, every day is not a new battle to “reset” my curls as it once was—but enough excuses! Ha ha! Sometimes I wish I could be a non-washer, but maybe some of us are just naturally stinkier than others. I shower every day (but only soap where it’s really needed). I recently started washing my hair more often because of a good deal more physical activity, but sometimes I’ll just do conditioner. Do girls out there who do something really sweaty on a regular basis (like run or bike) still try to no-poo? It just seems like I couldn’t do that. I REALLY have a thing about not stinking, so, on the Soapwalla, I love that too. I’ve tried to DIY replicate it in an unscented version – I have a friend who is sensitive even to essential oils – and so far so good, still in early testing phases. I’ll report back when a related post comes up.
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