How to make small accomplishments when you feel overwhelmed
Becoming a single parent definitely came with a lot of challenges, but becoming a successful work at home single parent, I am discovering, might be a bit of a miracle!
There were a lot of times that I got so overwhelmed with trying to balance my workload and my kids that I felt like I could possibly suffer spontaneous human combustion! Well, perhaps that’s a little exaggerated, but you know, I was close to that!
Once I realized that I needed a better strategy, I started making lists (I am certainly not a list person). I made lists of everything that I needed to do – I included household chores, and kiddie duties as well – but the problem was that some of those tasks took such a long time that I was never able to finish about 90% of the things on my list!
I may have read this somewhere, but I don’t remember (don’t credit me, and thanks to whoever thought of it!), but I decided that I would spend 30 minutes on each task. This worked pretty good because even if I didn’t finish a particular task, at least I was making progress on each thing I had to do. I also started feeling much less overwhelmed because it was no longer inundating, gigantic, hours of work, but small bite-sized chunks.
Would love to hear other ideas on reducing that “overwhelmed” feeling when working on a multitude of things at once!
