Time Management

I don't know if it's just a natural phenomenon of getting older, but it seems like time just keeps speeding up. It doesn't help that while my husband is still in school we're still living our life divided into semesters, and moving every few months, both of which seem to be big reminders of how much time has gone by. Whenever I think that I still have plenty of time to work on a project, or clean the house, or lose 20 pounds I realize that a few hours, weeks, or months have slipped by and no progress has been made.

In light of this I am re-implementing a time schedule that I used a few years ago, pre-baby. I can't say for sure that I followed it to a T back then, but now that my son is older and into a pretty decent routine again that allows me to have more control over my time (rather than planning my day around naptime, feeding, diapers and the like) and I have more freedom to work on projects.

This is only week one, so let's not hold our breathe about anything, but so far I've spent a lot more time actually cleaning, and catching up some things I've been neglecting (like a stack of papers to sort on my counter) and much less time aimless on the computer.

Here's a little peek:

There are still quite a few empty squares in the whole weekly schedule, so this week I'm sort of feeling it out and making adjustments. I also have "free time" scheduled in a few places just so I don't get overwhelmed and feeling to trapped into this. But I feel really confident about how it's been going for the past few days.

Hopefully though this will help me to exercise regularly (daily) and also actually make time for working on projects without feeling guilty that I'm stealing time away from something else (like cleaning the house!) because everything important is scheduled in.