From Diapers to Deadlines: A Time Management Guide for Busy Parents & Professionals

The useful part

You rush out the door, drop the kids at school, and realize you forgot to eat breakfast. After dinner, you do your best to help with homework, with half your brain doing geometry, the other half feeling guilty for all the tasks you didn't get done at work. Kids finally in bed, you crash onto the couch, pick up your phone and just start scrolling.

How it works

• There's a good chance you had poor habits related to time back then, and you didn't fix those habits prior to having kids (more on how to fix your habits below).
• Work is back to back meetings, with your final meeting running long.
• You're going to have to do the work for it to be different.
• You know it's not what you actually need, but you just need to shut off your thoughts for a bit.

What to take from it

Around 9:30, you open your laptop back up "to get ahead of tomorrow", see all your unread emails and feel overwhelmed. After a deep sigh, you say to yourself, "There's just not enough time." This. Before you had kids, your life already "felt" full, meaning you were already running either right at or just above your actual capacity.

Details worth keeping

It's 7:12am and you're rushing to get kids fed and backpacks packed. It is the rare parent that feels they have this all figured out. Having kids took your already full schedule, and sucked hours o...