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10 things you can do to improve your life today

Many women are SO stressed out and they don’t even have a clue where to begin to change. This post will show you 10 things you can do that will begin to make a difference right away. As always, I don’t necessarily encourage you to try to implement them all in one day. That may be too stressful! Two or three at a time will still help you make some lasting changes to improve your stress level.

1. Most Important Things (MITs) – Before going to bed, make a list of the THREE most important things you must do [...]

For when you don’t know what to write

One of the challenges we face as bloggers is writer’s block. Not knowing what to write about. There are several steps to help you overcome your block and get you merrily writing away.

1. Build an editorial calendar. Using an editorial calendar will help you plan and know what you are writing when. You can use Google calendar, or a WordPress plugin that will build you an editorial calendar.

2. The next thing is to consider if you want to create or participate in a weekly meme. A meme is a blog prompt that is suggested by a large number of [...]

Learning to work with the time you have

So many women are under the pressure to get THIS MUCH work done in an itty-bitty amount of time.

Whether you work for yourself or someone else, when you work from home, especially with kids around, you have to learn to get us much done in as little time possible.

Making the most of the time you have:

Do things that don’t require a lot of thought or attention when your kids are underfoot or playing nearby. Things like weeding through email, retweeting, scrolling through Facebook liking and responding. And Pinning.

Also use time when you can’t give your work your [...]

Divide and conquer to get more done

This past week found me sick in bed for days with strep throat. I will be keeping things a little light around here for the rest of the year, as I want to have time for my family, plus I am working on a great project for THIS website. It will probably be January 1st before the reveal, but we will be getting a great new name and domain, TheStressedMom.com!

Here’s my post for Life Your Way last week. May it help you conquer and ENJOY the last two weeks before Christmas!

In our busy society, there are plenty [...]