How you do you make time for everything you want to do? What if you want to do more? I think there are two things you need to know to be able to answer those questions. Read the full article here on Lifehack.
Be More Productive At Home and Still Spend Quality Time With Your Kids
The 5 strategies I’ve implemented to get more done at home and still spend quality time with my kids.
I’ve spent a lot of time recently working on my time management and I’ve come up with 5 strategies that really help me get stuff done while still spending quality time with my girls. You’ll probably recognize a couple of them because they are basically my foundation. But a couple of them surprised me and I’ve been told they surprised others too.
You can read the whole article over here on Lifehack.
4 Reasons You Need a Minimalist Wardrobe
A few months ago I was in a place where I felt like I was barely making it through the day-to-day. Every day I would come home from work, get the girls from daycare and make dinner. By the time we sat down to eat, I would say to myself, “I don’t have the energy to” whatever it was I had to do that night. I felt like I could barely make it through the girls’ bedtime.
I thought to change anything I needed to do more, but the idea of doing more stressed me out. It seemed like it would take too much effort to change. Then somehow I found Courtney Carver again, and I started reading her blog Be More With Less. I had heard of Courtney before, but it had been a while since I had thought of her. I read about her minimalist fashion challenge Project 333 and bought the microcourse. [Read more…] about 4 Reasons You Need a Minimalist Wardrobe
How Cleaning Up For 5 Minutes Makes You Feel Like Less of a Failure as a Wife and Mom
We need to talk. It’s about all that stuff you’ve accumulated in your house since you had kids and how it’s affecting you.
Almost every mom I talk to says they just have to accept the mess even if it bugs them. They deal with it even though they don’t like it. They just don’t look at it. They don’t obsess about cleaning anymore.
There are places in our homes we don’t go because we don’t want to see the mess! I’m guilty of this too. For me it’s one of the rooms in the basement. It’s like a thrift store threw up down there. There’s stuff everywhere that we’re not using.
What are we doing about it? Ignoring it!
What to Do When You Have a Total Meltdown and Question Everything
I’m on a journey to show other working moms that they can get it all done but there are still times when I doubt myself. What if I can’t do it all? I feel like I’m failing. I’m losing it. I just want to cry. I don’t know how to do anything.
I’m not going to lie. It can be a roller-coaster, just like everything in life I guess. There will be good days and there will be bad. You can have a streak where you’re doing good and feeling confident. Then something happens and you fall to pieces.
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Do You Think of Yourself as Ambitious?
I don’t think of myself as ambitious. Stubborn, yes. Determined, yes. Ambitious? No. I mean, I certainly haven’t climbed the corporate ladder. I don’t make 6-figures at my 9-5. I live in a small house with nothing exceptional about it. It took me ages and ages to finally make it through college. But as I was writing this and thinking about it, I happened to type ambitious into Word, double-click on it and look at synonyms. You want to see the list? [Read more…] about Do You Think of Yourself as Ambitious?