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Guest Posts Worth Reading
I’ve had a busy month writing many guest posts… I guess everyone is trying to get organized for summer! And yes, I’m planning to scale back a little over the next couple of months so I can actually...
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How Do You Work Best?
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about WHERE I work best, WHEN I work best, and HOW I work best, partially because I’m weird and like to think about those things… but mainly...
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5 Choices When You’re Short on Time
As much as I don’t want to admit it, the lazy days of summer are winding down, and the crazy, busy back-to-school days are just around the corner. Since Dave is a teacher, our day-to-day routine...
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My Thoughts on Busyness, Routines, Over-Commitment, and Recharging
The following are a few of the guest posts I wrote this past month… click on the title to read the full articles. Are You Committed to your Commitments – or Just Over-Committed? I’m busy — I’m sure...
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Weekend Giveaway: TidyMighty Printable Organizers
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to: Kimberly (mcmurryzoo@…) Melinda (melt003@…) Maria (maria_fala@…) We’re almost 2 weeks into the New Year, so if you haven’t made any New Year’s goals...
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Organize Your Office… 5 Minutes at a Time
It’s a common misconception that any amount of organization must take lots and lots of time and energy. However, that’s simply not true. Not only can you GET organized in 5 to 10-minute increments,...
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How I Took Control of My Email Inbox
If there’s one thing I absolutely cannot stand, it’s an Inbox filled with emails — especially READ emails that are just waiting for me to respond to or take action. On any given day I might get a...
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Time-Management and Multi-Tasking
Would you like to make MORE time? Join the club! And what about multi-tasking? Do you love it or hate it? I think I fall somewhere in the middle on that one… Today I’m sharing two guest posts I...
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Working With Self-Imposed Deadlines
About 4 years ago, I made the transition from working full-time outside of the home to working full-time from home. During those first few months working from home, one of the most difficult things...
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How I Changed My Most Productive Time of Day
Over the past 12 months, I’ve been on a mission to change my most productive time of day from the early morning hours to later in the evening (keep reading to learn why.) For those of you who are...
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Make More Time by Dropping Tasks
Last year, I wrote a post about 5 choices when you’re short on time. The 5 choices I mentioned were: Get stressed out, worry, and lose sleep. Streamline the activities so they take less time. Steal...
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Thoughts and Reflections after a Month Away
In case you missed it, I took the entire month of August off from blogging. It was a really nice break, but I will admit, I was just a tiny bit hesitant to take a full month off — especially leading...
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My ‘Plans’ for Working After Baby + A Blog Survey and Giveaway
Several of you have questioned if I’ll take a maternity leave or not… and what my plans are after this baby arrives. To be honest, I’m not sure! I know, it’s totally not like me to NOT have a plan —...
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5 Tips for Better Time Management
The following is a guest post from Crystal Paine of Money Saving Mom. NOTE from Andrea: I’ve been working with Crystal for over 2 years now — and let me tell you, this lady knows how to manage her...
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Do It Now: My Personal Time-Management ‘Rule’
When it comes to “getting stuff done” I consider myself an expert — no, I’m not bragging. In fact, it’s sometimes overwhelming and even annoying that I literally CAN’T sit if I know there’s something...
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Daily Maintenance is Key: Lessons From My Maternity Leave
Dave’s Spring Break was two weeks ago — which meant we had 10 glorious days without a schedule. And although we rarely ever go anywhere or do anything special over Spring Break, I will often take some...
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5 Tips to ‘Do It Now’ When You’re Super Busy
Several weeks ago, I shared a post about my time management rule of “doing it NOW”. That post generated a lot of emails questioning how I could possibly “do it now” all the time with a toddler, an...
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A New Normal… how I changed my most productive time of day again!
Last May, I blogged about how I changed my most productive time of day to the evening hours after our sleepless Nora was FINALLY in bed for the night. It was a long process to make the change, but...
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race
A few weeks ago, I blogged about our super overwhelming yard project — pulling THOUSANDS of tiny maple tree seedlings out of our planting beds and other various location around our 1-acre yard. It...
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Reduce Procrastination by Making it Easy to Start
No matter who you are, I’m guessing that you struggle with procrastination every now and then… or maybe it’s just me! I try really hard not to procrastinate — not only because it makes me look bad...
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