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Time management and goal setting

Time management and goal setting

From the course: Balancing Work and Life as a Work-from-Home Parent

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Time management and goal setting

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- Working from home means constantly prioritizing the needs of others. If your kids are very young, then there are never ending physical challenges, feeding, diapering, managing crying, theirs, not just yours. If your kids are teenagers, then you may be constantly fretting about social media, household chores, or their moods. And kids in the middle maybe taking up your whole day just needing help logging in for their math assignment. Let's be clear, these demands are ridiculously steep and you have finite time and attention. So we've got to adjust our expectations. Your goal on any given day is to protect the physical and emotional health of your family and to not get fired. It really is that basic as a baseline. As time becomes more precious while we juggle all of these multiple demands, we've got to protect it. Even as time gets weird in other ways, like what day is it? What month is it? So we've got to manage our…

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