Before Breakfast Second Cup: Build in life maintenance time
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Nov 29, 2025 Successfully managing your household deserves a spot on your calendar! Learn how to treat life maintenance tasks like scheduled work hours to minimize stress. Discover tips on leveraging brief moments, like lunch breaks or planning sessions, to tackle household chores. Laura highlights the difference between flexible and inflexible work environments and offers strategies to protect your valuable life-maintenance time. Embrace the reality that managing life is a real job that requires dedicated time!
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Block Official Life Maintenance Time
- Treat life and household maintenance as real work and block time for it in your schedule.
- Use a consistent daily slot (e.g., 4:30–5:00 pm) to tackle tasks and cross them off methodically.
Household Management Is Real Work
- Managing your household is a real job that requires real schedule space.
- Accepting this reduces stress and leads to wiser scheduling decisions.
Listener With Inflexible Workday Example
- A listener working 8–4:30 with a 30-minute lunch had household tasks piling up with three kids.
- Laura recommended using 4:30–5:00 pm a few days a week, working from the car or nearby space to complete them.