This year I am ALL about better management, I keep saying this as if I am a terrible manager of my life and I am wasting it away BUT long story short I just want to make sure I am utilizing everything efficiently. With this in mind, I decided to audit EVERYTHING, including my time. In my own defense, I am a good on-the-fly auditor of my time but I wanted to get a more in-depth look. For the first few weeks of the month I’ve decided to chart and time my tasks.

Grocery Shopping: What I found out is certain things take much longer than they should, for example, grocery shopping. I tend to plan 2 hours for grocery shopping, however, it always takes half of the day. I honestly did not understand why grocery shopping took half of my day so auditing greatly helped. From tracking my times I realized I visit multiple stores, neither of the stores are in my neighborhood, and one of them is at least a thirty-minute drive. My preferred Target already starts me at one hour of time spent. Now, I specifically go to that Target for food for my son. The Targets in my neighborhood do not carry the Kidfresh Brand. A task also included in grocery shopping is cleaning down each product and as well as repackaging and dating.

Phone calls: take a minimum of 30 mins.