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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 [...]

You know you say YES too much if…

Any of these things, or something similar may have applied to you:

You are going to the grocery store at 10 pm to get ingredients make brownies for your child’s class tomorrow. You wake up at 4 am to clean house because you are hosting a bible study at your house this morning. You snap at your husband when he asks what’s for dinner when you have spent all afternoon cooking for a friend who just had a baby. Your 4 year old asks you to read a story and you tell her that you are “too busy” right [...]

Make an appointment with yourself

As busy moms, we struggle with wanting to make improvements and changes, but we also struggle with finding the time to DO the things we are wanting to do.

First, decide WHAT it is you want to do.

There are hundreds, thousands of things that people want to change at the beginning of this new year. Maybe yours is on this list below:

Some of these are changes you need to make in every day life. You can use other activities as triggers, or reminder if you will, to do the thing you are [...]

Keeping up with the little things

As busy women (and men) we have so many things running through our heads. We have so much to keep up with in our day-to-day lives.

Honestly, though, we shouldn’t expect our brains to remember little details. We need to save storage room for the important things in life…like remembering our spouse’s birthday!

Here are some of my favorite tools for managing this minutiae…

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How to stop wasting time

TIME.

We all have the same amount each day, but each person is given a different number of days, which none of us knows. Steve Jobs’ passing has me thinking about how I am using my time that I have been given. Am I spending my time wisely or am I wasting it?

For each of us this would look a little different, as it will depend on what we have deemed as most important in our life. Then it will also depend on if we are actually living out those things we deemed important.

If you [...]

How Productivity Can Lead to a More Fulfilling Life

Productivity: the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services.

We are all always looking for better or more efficient ways at being productive. And when we use the word productive, we are usually referring to being able to get more done is less time. What I want to challenge with you this post today is to know why you want to be more productive? Why do you want to get more done?

Now, I know that might sound like a stupid question at first, but take just a [...]

Reducing clutter to reduce stress

In our busy world, we have too much.

Too much of a lot of things.

Too much to think about.

Too much to do.

Too many belongings to keep up with.

Too many belongings to maintain.

To reduce your stress level, to truly simplify your life, you need to reduce the amount of clutter in your life.

Reducing your belongings

Start with attacking unnecessary stuff in your main living area. Use a trash bag, liberally. Work quickly. The faster you work, the easier it becomes. If you start having to deliberate, it slows the process down. [...]

Making your to-do list work for you

I have always been drawn to the concept of time management. I have worked for corporate America in the past, and took many time management courses, as well as studying time management on my own.

I think it is kinda funny that we actually think we can manage time, when time is going to keep marching itself along tick, tock, tick, tock, no matter what we do or don’t do!

Time management systems

One of the most popular systems recommend that you use a priority system on your to-do list, giving items an A, B, or C designation, [...]