side hustles for mums
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Turn Your Skills Into Profitable Offers: A Guide for Working Mums

If you’re a working mum who is looking for a way to boost your income without adding even more stress to your life, you’re in the right place. And if you start taking small steps towards this goal now, you can start the new year with a plan that actually works (this year!).

The truth is, you already have everything you need to start earning more—you just need to know how to package your skills into profitable offers that people are willing to pay for. Whether you want to earn a little extra on the side or build something bigger, this guide will help you take those first steps.

The Busy Mum’s Guide to Finding 10 Extra Hours a Week
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The Busy Mum’s Guide to Finding 10 Extra Hours a Week

As a mum, your to-do list never seems to end. Between school runs, work, meal prep, laundry, and the countless other tasks that keep your family running smoothly, it often feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day. Nothing new there…

But what if I told you that you could reclaim ten extra hours every week? Imagine what you could do with that time—start a side hustle, read a book, or simply have a quiet cup of tea in peace. It’s absolutely possible, and this guide will show you how to find those hours without sacrificing your sanity.

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The Power of Prioritising: How Working Mums Can Succeed

For working mothers in the UK, mastering the art of prioritisation is key to juggling the demands of career and family. Stephen Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” aptly states, “The key is not to prioritise what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” This wisdom is particularly relevant for working mums, who need to manage their time and responsibilities effectively.

Here’s an easy-to-follow guide to prioritising can lead to success in both the workplace and at home.

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The Power of Prioritising: How Working Mums Can Succeed

For working mothers in the UK, mastering the art of prioritisation is key to juggling the demands of career and family. Stephen Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” aptly states, “The key is not to prioritise what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” This wisdom is particularly relevant for working mums, who need to manage their time and responsibilities effectively.

Here’s an easy-to-follow guide to prioritising can lead to success in both the workplace and at home.

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5 Proven Strategies to Tackle Work-Life Balance As a Working Mum

Striking the balance between guilt-free working and balancing family life is more than just about managing time. Striking the right balance is not just about managing time; it’s about managing energy and expectations too.

As Annabel Crabb in her book “The Wife Drought” says, “The obligation for working mothers is a very precise one: the feeling that one ought to work as if one did not have children, while raising one’s children as if one did not have a job.”

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Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities: A Guide for UK Working Parents

Work-life balance is a topic of constant discussion, especially for parents, and since the events of recent years, it has become a topic that we can speak more readily about.

But having a work-life balance entails more than being able to work from home or hybrid working. In fact, sometimes the expectation from employees who are granted this flexibility can be even more than their counterparts in the office, even if it is self inflicted. You know, the feeling that you have to do more to prove that you are actually working from home and not just dissing and doing mother and baby coffee mornings with your buddies.

So, it’s vital to have practical strategies in place to ensure you have the work-life balance you need to survive the perpetual hamster wheel of work and family life. The aim for many is not to achieve perfection in every aspect of life, but to find the balance and harmony that works for you and your family.

time management hacks for mums
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Time Management Hack No. 1: Outsource as Much as Possible

I’m all for being as sociable and friendly as possible. But – and it’s a big but – when it comes to time management, if you don’t nip the constant distractions in the bud, you really will suffer the consequences.

Whether you work for yourself, or in a large organisation, there will always be that one person who wants to chat all day long about everything and nothing. 

Never Underestimate the Power of Five Minutes
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Never Underestimate the Power of Five Minutes

Do you always feel like you are running from one activity to the next and never seem to get a few moments to yourself? Do you find it hard to schedule in time to take a break?

Never underestimate the importance of five minutes. No matter how busy a day we have, we all have five minutes to spare in our day. That’s the equivalent of just 5 out of 1440 minutes of each day. It can do so much to change our perspective on the pressures of life. 

Pomodoro What? Find Out How This Technique Can Change The Way You Work
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Pomodoro What? Find Out How This Technique Can Change The Way You Work

Egg timer…check! Twenty minutes to spare…check! Phone on silent…check!

Ok, well that should have given you an insight into what this article is about. A big tick if you’ve worked out that it has something to do with time management. Isn’t it always these days? 

One missing ingredient in your recipe for organised success
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One missing ingredient in your recipe for organised success

Can working in half an hour bursts increase your productivity? Yes – Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have to do?  Do you feel like your to-do list is a never-ending mountain of unachievable tasks that just keeps piling up?

There is a solution – keep reading to find our more.

Looking for a diary that works with an app? You’ll love this one!
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Looking for a diary that works with an app? You’ll love this one!

There’s an app for just about everything today – whether you own an iPhone, Android or Windows phone, there is something to distract you at some point in the day. Serious working mums will know that using a diary system of some sort is very beneficial, but life happens, and sometimes things get lost, or your leave it at home because you’ve changed your bag…or an important page gets ripped out by your toddler.

Three things you can do to make the morning run a lot less stressful
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Three things you can do to make the morning run a lot less stressful

Mornings don’t need to be stressful – seriously. Even if you have a family of 10, there are some measures you can put in place to make sure everything runs smoothly from the alarm clock going off in the morning to when you’ve finished the morning school or childcare run.

Here they are:

The seven deadly sins of time management
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The seven deadly sins of time management

Nothing can put things into perspective than a book that really knows how to tick the boxes and tell you what to do when you or your life really isn’t ticking the boxes you need it to.

That’s why we love Time Management for Manic Mums, by Allison Mitchell (grab yourself a copy from Amazon, or WHSmiths). The chapter, ‘The Seven deadly Sins of Time Management’ resounds with many people, not just working mums – here they are:

Five time wasters and how to avoid them – part 1
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Five time wasters and how to avoid them – part 1

These days, it seems that everyone is trying to fit a week’s worth of work into a day. While it may look like the epitome of efficiency efficiency,  are you really making progress of just deceiving yourself?

Here are five time wasting activities you probably don’t even realise that you’re doing and how to avoid them.

Three time-saving tips for mums
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Three time-saving tips for mums

Life doesn’t get much busier than when you’re busy working mum with small children. With the kids back at school after the half term break that treadmill and juggling is back in full swing so it’s going to start getting a little harder to make time for yourself.

With a bit of careful planning, you can grab a precious hour or two for yourself. Here are some tips to do just that:

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Six distraction-busting tips that will transform the way you work

If you find yourself spending all day to compose an email, write an article, or create a memorable video, chances are that you’re getting very distracted. Do you find yourself lulling away the time and always rushing work the night before because time just evaporated for a few weeks?

If you start lots of projects that take too long or don’t get finished at all, apply these distraction-busting tips:

The 15-minute rule and how it can make a working mum’s life easier
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The 15-minute rule and how it can make a working mum’s life easier

We all know what it’s like when you come home with the children having picked them up from nursery or school and you know that you’ve got a mountain of work that you need to get through.

It’s not unusual to shove a quick snack in front of them and get straight back into the work asking for “10 minutes” to just fire off a quick email.

Video tutorial: how to make the most of your 168-hour week
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Video tutorial: how to make the most of your 168-hour week

If you had an couple of hours every day of the week what would you do with it? It’s something that many busy mums wish they had – along with the energy to really put that extra time to good use.

This video tutorial will give you to tools to help you squeeze as much out of your busy week as possible, managing the time that you and everyone else has to maximum effect.