Family Management Tip #3: Getting Ready for the New School Year

As you're getting ready for the new school year, here's a question to ask yourself: are you really planning to achieve the most important goals of your life? Are you scheduling in goal-related activities? Does that plan you just put together really reflect your priorities?

Managing Mealtime Madness

Most moms agree that the craziest time of day is from 4- 6pm. Kids need help with homework, everyone is hungry, the phone is ringing and in the middle of it all they are trying to throw a meal together! Managing Mealtime Madness is the story of two families and the way they handle their lives during this part of the day. Additionally, it is full of ideas and tips for managing a busy household during dinnertime.

Relieve Vacation Stress By Planning Ahead

Family vacations aren't always as relaxing as we would like them to be. In fact, sometimes traveling with young children can add even more stress to our already stressed out lives. Relieve Vacatioin Stress by Planning ahead is the story of two families and the way they prepare for their family vacation. Additionally, it is full of ideas and tips for travel both with and without children.

30 Uses for 3x5 Index Cards

This is the second article about Index Cards. The link to the first one is in the Resource Box below. I just keep finding more and more uses for these little cards! I wonder when I can start calling myself the Index Card Diva?

15 Steps to a Clutter Free Home

Do you have an overstuffed home? Sometimes our homes need to lose weight too! It’s time to slim down our house with these 15 easy steps.

Have You Fallen into a Monkey Trap?

Have you ever stopped to think about how you might catch yourself a monkey? Well, it's simple really, even for the monkey trapping novice. Here's what you need to do...

File It to Find It - Create a Filing System that Works for You

Someone asks for a copy of that document. Where is it? You know you have the information for that presentation somewhere. Or maybe you are fighting a losing battle to make sure the bills are paid on time, or your children go to the right performance on the right day. And if we are to be able to find what we need when we need it, and keep control of our lives, our filing systems have to match our finding needs. Learn the secrets of filing so that you find what you need when you need it ... and stay in control.

Get Yourself Organized - It's Now or Never!

Especially for new grads who are out on their own for the first time (but also for the rest of you)...right now is the time to get your home (and life) in order. The stakes can be higher than you'd like to imagine if you can't find that one important item that's hiding in your home somewhere when you need it. So start now using this simple method and you'll be rewarded with the peace and confidence of knowing where everything is...all before the New Year's Resolution season hits!

Are You a Perfectionist? Read this Story of a Perfectionist at Work

You may be a perfectionist and that could be why you are not organized quite yet. Read why.

De-Clutter Your Life - Keep the Good, Let Go of the Bad

It's Autumn. Everyone is busy. Activities have revved up at work, school, church, etc. It’s easy to fall prey to outside pressures, schedules and responsibilities. You are so busy that you don’t have time to think about what you really want and whether you are getting the satisfaction from what you are doing. Here are some ways to de-clutter your life.

Balancing Work and Home

Work is addicting...and more so when your computer is your office or shop! And while you spend hour upon hour to network with other netpreneurs and provide online customer services to your clients, you tend to neglect a dozen odd household jobs.

Getting Organized

Years ago my family and I moved from a cramped two-bedroom apartment into a spacious house. Instead of having to squeeze my home office in half a room, I finally had a nice 10' x 12' room all to myself. Since I was accustomed to working in less than half this area, I knew I'd have plenty of room to work with, so I wanted to intelligently organize it in a way that would allow me to work efficiently on a variety of projects without creating a cluttered mess. While browsing a local bookstore before the move, on a whim I bought a book called Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern. It contained many great organizing tips and adroitly explained where people normally go wrong when trying to get organized. I'd like to share with you what I learned from reading this book and organizing my home office from scratch.

Organizing: A Series of Simple Choices

Do you know the 6 Ds of organization? Read on to discover how these 6 things can simply your life.

7 Steps to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

Want to get organized but don't know where to start? Feeling overwhelmed? Hope is here. Learn the 7 Steps to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed.

Binders in Our Lives

Have you ever lost track of your appointments? Or the telephone number of an important business contact? Then the binder is for you.