Five tricks for juggling your calendar for work, home

Read on to learn how to juggle your calendars for work and home.

The challenges of maintaining multiple calendars

It’s hard to balance your career and personal life. You have commitments at work and at home. Calendars are the only way to stay organized—but having two or more causes problems, too.

Using more than one calendar can make you feel like you can’t keep up. You may struggle to:

• Let people know when you’re available
• Track both work and home events
• Keep calendars up-to-date

A survey found that 60% of U.S. adults at least sometimes feel too busy to enjoy life. You might have experienced this feeling, also. For example, you may rush to events or meetings. You may arrive late. You may turn in or complete tasks after the due date. You may struggle to coordinate with family or friends. Or you may feel like you never have any downtime.

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These are all symptoms of struggling to juggle your calendars for work and home.

The benefits of cloud-based calendars

You may already use digital calendars for your work and personal life. But you won’t be able to get the most out of them if they don’t sync with one another.

A digital calendar that syncs, like Outlook, can help you streamline your work and home schedules. These calendars live on the cloud, giving you extra benefits without taking up more room on your desktop or smartphone.

A cloud-based calendar will:

• Allow you to create multiple calendars. Outlook, for example, allows you to create different schedules that show up on your central calendar. You can create a distinct calendar for work and another for your personal life. Each calendar will have an identifying color so you can distinguish them from one another.
• Offer access from anywhere. You can access a cloud-based calendar from your connected devices. Check to ensure you have an internet connection, enter your password, and you’ll be able to access it.
• Enable you to add a friend’s calendar. You can also add a friend’s or family member’s calendar to your digital calendar. Their events will show up on your master calendar, together with your timetable. You can change each event’s privacy settings, hiding details if they are sensitive.

Five tricks for juggling your calendar for work and home

You’ll find it a lot easier to manage your work and home calendars with the help of a cloud-based digital calendar. They make it easier to see your events side-by-side and share them, too. Some tricks can help you even more.

You can:

• Write everything down. A fundamental problem with juggling work and home is that there’s so much to do. New tasks pop up all the time. Be sure to remember them all by writing actions down each time you think of one.
• Choose and focus on your priorities. Identify each day’s priorities the evening before. You will ideally have one work and one home priority each day. Then arrange your tasks in order of importance from there.
• Schedule out your days. You can schedule out every hour of your day if you are having problems with time management. This practice empowers you to precisely know what you need to be doing and when. Be sure to schedule free time if you choose this path.
• Save time for transitions and unexpected delays. You don’t have to forget a single event or meeting with help from your cloud-based calendar. These tools allow you to set reminders for an amount of time before you need to be somewhere. They can alert you on your desktop or even text you if you need an extra push.
• Set reminders. You don’t have to forget a single event or meeting with help from your cloud-based calendar. These tools allow you to set reminders for an amount of time before you need to be somewhere. They can alert you on your desktop or even text you if you need an extra push.

Use these tips and your cloud-based digital calendar, and you’ll find that you have a lot more time for work and home alike.