You have an urgent client deliverable to complete and your kid’s mommy time is due in 7 minutes.

You have booked out this month’s calendar and you are looking forward to working your ass of and exceeding income goals second month in a row. Third day of the month. Phone rings. It’s your mom. She is sick and you must rush immediately to take care of her.

I get you completely because I have faced these and many similar situations in the past 16 years of being a mom, a full time teacher, a freelancer and primary caregiver to my parents.

For days together I used to do things that needed to be done, not because I wanted to.

Finally when I had had enough, I decided to take things in my own hands and started applying time management techniques I had mastered as a professional to my personal life.

And it did wonders for me. I am now doing things I want, not just what I need to do. Like writing for global publications, publishing books, teaching my kids and taking long road trips with my family. Don’t believe me? Look at the numbers I share below.

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