If I Don't Get Out of This House I'm Going to Go Crazy!

The work is piled up on the desk. Your business is thriving and you have been working 80 hours a week to keep up with the demand. You get out only often enough to go to the grocery store and take or pick the kids up from school.

While you sit at the computer trying to accomplish something that seem remotely productive, the laundry is washing, the evening meal is bubbling in the crock pot, and the phone is ringing. Your bed still hasn't been made. Your husband will be home with the kids any minute and you still haven't picked his suit up from the laundry. You know that when he walks through the door he's going to ask about it and then, when you tell you you haven't had time he'll say, "Well, what have you been doing all day?"

To top it off, when you try to concentrate on the task at hand (the one that brings in the money) you find that your mind goes blank and your fingers won't do what they are supposed to on the keyboard.

You wonder when you will be able to get it together and make everything happen that is supposed to happen in a day's time. If you just had two more hours in a day you might be able to find the time to go out to dinner an a movie once a week, or sit on the sofa with your honey and cuddle. But if you take to the time, you'll end up so far behind that you'll lose customers because their work won't be finished by the deadline. So what can you do?

Well...Here are just a few suggestions.

1. Would it be worth your sanity to spend $30.00 a week to have a houskeeper come in and do the vacuuming and dusting? Call one. It will give you two or three hours, one day a week, when you can concentrate on work while she does the chores. Do all those "little" organizational tasks that will make the rest of the week run so much more smoothly.

2. How old are your children. At the age of 9 or 10, they are old enough to earn a few dollars by helping you do the filing and it will make them feel very important in your life. They will feel like they have just spent some quality time with thier mom, and you will have saved 20 minutes of your time. You can spend that 20 minutes, later in the day, playing ball or tag in the back yard (or taking that well deserved bubble bath).

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