Find Your Time
You don't need more hours. You need a truthful look at where the ones you have are actually going. This chapter is your inventory.
Wheel of Life
Score each area of your life from 1–10. The shape shows where you're thriving and where you're thirsty.
Life Audit
Zoom out. Where are you thriving, and where are you leaking?
What's working
Which parts of your life feel alive right now?
What's not working
What are you tolerating that no longer fits you?
Energy & Day audit
Notice what fills you and what quietly drains you.
Gives me energy
- Nothing yet.
Takes my energy
- Nothing yet.
A truthful day (notes)
Anything the table below doesn't capture — feelings, patterns, energy dips.
Time leaks
- Nothing yet.
Your truth day — where the time actually goes
Log yesterday (or today) hour by hour. Note how long each task really took, how important it is, and whether it could be delegated or dropped. Then compare it to your dream day.
You could reclaim up to 50m a day by delegating or dropping low-value tasks. That's 5h 50m a week back for you.
Cleaning schedule
A calm, one-task-a-day rhythm so your home stays reset without stealing your weekend.
The gentle cleaning schedule
One focused task a day, not a chaotic Sunday marathon. Rotate rooms across the week so nothing tips into overwhelm — and your weekend stays yours.
Bookmark a few of these for hacks, checklists and low-effort routines.
- @mrshinchhomeSophie Hinchliffe · InstagramThe queen of the daily quick clean
- @gemma_birdGemma Bird · InstagramMoney saving mum + tidy home
- @cleanwithcarolinaTikTokRoom-by-room reset routines
- @vanesamycleanhomeTikTokSatisfying deep-clean hacks
- Go Clean Co@gocleanco · InstagramPro cleaner method + checklists
- Clean Mamacleanmama.comWeekly + monthly home routines
- The Organised Mum Methodtomm.co.uk30-min-a-day, weekends off
Email & phone reset
The quietest 15 minutes a day you'll ever get back.
How many times have you signed up for 10% off?
You used the code once. Now there's 200+ emails a day and only 5 you actually care about. Same with the phone — 20 minutes a day tapping and deleting when it could be 5. That's a quiet 15 minutes back. Enough for a cuppa. Enough to do your hair. Enough to sit in your own peace.
The time you're taking back
Be honest about the "before". Guess the "after". Watch the minutes stack up.
That's a whole face-mask, a whole walk, a whole conversation with someone you love — every day you don't have to fish it back out of your inbox.
Inbox reset
List the brands and newsletters cluttering your inbox. Work down the list one at a time — most emails have an Unsubscribe link right at the bottom.
Add the first brand cluttering your inbox above. Tick each one off as you unsubscribe.
The 10-minute inbox purge (how to)
- Search your inbox for the word unsubscribe — every marketing email has it.
- Open the newest email from each sender. Scroll to the bottom. Tap Unsubscribe. Done.
- For the stubborn ones, mark as spam — your inbox learns fast.
- Create one folder called Receipts. Everything financial goes there, out of your face.
- Turn off Promotions notifications on your phone entirely.
Phone reset
Which apps are eating your minutes? Choose Delete, Mute notifications, or Keep. Ruthless is kind — to future you.
Open your phone. Which app did you last close and immediately reopen? Start there.
Leave notifications on for phone calls, messages from people, and your calendar. That's it. Everything else — social, shopping, news, games — off.
Bury the time-stealers in a folder on page 3. The extra tap is enough friction to stop the mindless open.
Mental load dump
Things you're carrying that shouldn't be yours.
Genuinely mine
- Nothing yet.
Not mine to carry
- Nothing yet.