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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Welcome
=> Feature Article: "12 Steps
to Holiday Survival"
=> Household Tip
=> Column: "Top Ten Ways to Organize
and Simplify Your Life"
=> Parenting Tip
=> Classified Ads
=> Guest Column:"Managing Multiple
Priorities"
=> Pampering Yourself
=> Can You Help this Reader?
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WELCOME
It's official--the holiday season is kicking into high gear. So this month's issue is dedicated to helping you survive! We've got articles on survival strategies, organizational ideas and time management.
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching (in the USA) you may want to take a look at an article entitled the "Blessings We Take for Granted" This issue was getting too long to feature it here so you can find it at: http://betweenfriends.vjungle.com/thanksgiving.html
Don't forget my new book, "The Business of Mom: How to Manage Your Home and Family Like a Successful Business"! It can help you get your home under control for the holidays (and beyond). Please take a look at http://www.betweenfriends.org/1.htm
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Feature Article:12 Steps to Holiday Survival!
By: Jacqueline McLaughlin Hale
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1. Many grocery stores offer complete holiday meals for, often times, less than what it would cost you to make it yourself. Save hours of shopping and cooking and take advantage of this terrific service.
2. Do as much of your holiday shopping online as possible. Most Internet vendors will wrap and ship gifts for you. Sometimes their shipping and wrapping charges add up to less than it would cost you to do it yourself.
3. Begin making out holiday cards now! You don't have to send them but at least they'll be ready to go.
4. Write out holiday cards while you're watching TV.
5. Wrap gifts as soon as you purchase them to avoid last minute gift wrapping rush and stress.
6. If you don't already have one, purchase a cordless phone. You can do dishes, wipe down counters or pick up around the house while you're talking on the phone.
7. Before the holiday season kicks into high gear, sit down with your partner and agree in advance on what the priority commitments will be. Then if things start to get hectic say "no" to all the rest.
8. Buy one nice black dress and a pair of black shoes. Wear them to all your holiday parties and minimize the stress created when you "have nothing to wear". Differ your looks with coordinating accessories.
9. You don't "have" to bake. If you enjoy it, do it; if not don't. If you want your family to have holiday goodies--buy them and relax. Where is it written in the "Mother's Handbook" that they "must" bake?
10. If creating a "Martha Stewart" holiday table adds too much pressure and work to your holiday meals, then don't do it. The purpose of a holiday meal is to gather together with friends and family to share in their company--not to impress them with your best china, silver and table wears!
11. If you put up a lot of holiday decorations every year and constantly forget where they go, take pictures. Next year you can refer to your pictures and decorate much more quickly.
12. When you take down your holiday decorations insert a note in the boxes about all you hope to accomplish in the upcoming year. It will be fun to review it next year when you pull out your decorations again!
Jacqueline McLaughlin Hale is a CPA and the editor of Between Friends: Resources for Mothers (http://www.betweenfriends.org) Between Friends contains household hints, time management tips, organizational skills, parenting tricks, money management ideas and articles on self improvement. Subscribe to its FREE monthly ezine, The Balanced Woman. Visit today!
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HOUSEHOLD HINT OF THE MONTH
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"Top Ten Ways to Organize and Simplify Your Life"
by Maria Gracia
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In the words of Henry David Thoreau, Simplify, Simplify. Here are the Get Organized Now! Top 10 ways to organize and simplify your life.
1. LESS IS MORE: It's more important to have a few nice things that you truly enjoy, than to just have lots of stuff. Say goodbye to things that don't fit, are out of style or are unflattering. This goes for clothing, furniture, knick knacks, and other possessions you're not happy with.
2. CONSOLIDATE CREDIT CARDS: Most stores take Visa,
MasterCard and American Express. Pay off your other credit cards, and
in the future use only one or two of these major credit cards. Or, if possible,
pay cash for purchases.
3. DON'T BUY DRY CLEAN ONLY CLOTHES: There are plenty of nice, washable clothes available for both business and pleasure. You'll spend less time and money at the dry cleaners. The same goes for bedspreads, curtains, etc.
4. SCREEN YOUR CALLS: Let your answering machine take all your phone calls, and return calls on your time.
5. DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF: Don't allow trivial
matters to aggravate you. If the milk spills, wipe it up and move on
to more important things.
6. GET HELP: Don't try to do everything yourself. Split up household responsibilities among family members. Delegate to your staff. Outsource projects, repairs and so on.
7. DON'T TRY TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING: There's no need to store it in your memory. Write it down.
8. WATCH TV ON YOUR TERMS: If your favorite program isn't on at a convenient time, use your VCR and record it. Then, watch it when you want to--without all the commercials!
9. DON'T OVER-SCHEDULE YOUR CHILDREN: Too many activities can cause a strain on your children, and you!
10. PLAN EACH DAY: Spend 10 minutes each night, planning for tomorrow. You'll be focused and ready to take on the world each morning!
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PARENTING TIP OF THE MONTH
I have tried to use natural consequences and they don't seem to work. What can I do?
When natural consequences don't seem to work for your child it's probably because the "consequence" is not important. For example, if you tell your adolescent, "I won't wash any of your clothes that aren't in the clothes hamper," will not work effectively for a child who doesn't care whether he wears clean or dirty clothes. Try this: "If you place your dirty clothes in the clothes hamper, you may stay up for a an extra half hour tonight." In other words, use whatever your child nags you about (staying up later, for example) to your advantage.
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MANAGING MULTIPLE PRIORITIES
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
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We all have "too much to do". As a professional speaker, I hear that all the time from my audiences. And that says a lot of good things about you, if you have "too much to do" because, obviously, a lot of people have entrusted many things to your care and have confidence in you.
Every priority claims itself as the most urgent and crucial thing in the world screaming for your immediate attention. The problem is, we can only do one thing at a time. So, here are four nifty ideas to help you to Manage Multiple Priorities.
1. Keep the focus on personal balance first. Our lives are made up of
Seven Vital Areas: Health, Family, Financial, Intellectual, Social, Professional,
and Spiritual. We will not necessarily spend time every day in each area
or equal amounts of time in each area. But, if, in the long run, we spend
a sufficient quantity and quality of time in each area, our lives will
be in balance. But if we neglect any one area, never mind two or three,
we will eventually sabotage our success. Much like a table, if one leg
is
longer than the rest, it will make the entire table wobbly. If
we don't take time for health, our family life and social life are hurt.
If our financial area is out of balance, we will not be able to focus adequately
on our professional goals, etc. As in the medical profession, it is said
that you cannot be sick and make other people well. In Time Management,
then, we have to keep ourselves healthy first, in balance first, or it
won't matter how many or how important our priorities are, we will not
be able to properly handle them.
2. Schedule Daily Planning. I set aside at least 30 minutes each night for Daily Planning, a time to have a Board of Directors meeting in the most important corporation in the world, Me, Inc. I make up a list of things for the next day that includes not only all the items I "have to" do, but, more importantly, the items I "want to" do. Putting it all down in writing is vital because if you want to manage it, you have to measure it. This will tend to overload your next day, which is useful because it permits us to take advantage of Parkinson's Law, which says, in part, that a project tends to take as long as the time allocated for it. If you give yourself one thing to do, it will take all day to do it. If you give yourself three things to do, you get them all done. If you give yourself twelve things to do, you may not get all twelve done, but may well accomplish nine. Having a lot to do, being a bit overloaded, creates a healthy sense of pressure on us to get through our list.
3. Review each item and ask, "Is this the best use of my time?". There is a lot of difference between "I do it" and "It gets done". Which is more important? "It gets done". Sure, it's great to accomplish things ourselves but we only have 168 hours per week to accomplish results. (And if we take away 56 hours per week for sleep, that only leaves 112 hours!) So, each night during Daily Planning, I review each item on my list and ask, "Is this the best use of my time?". If it is, I will plan to work on it and if it is not, I will try to find a way to delegate it to someone so that it gets done.
4. Prioritize the list. Typically, our "To Do" lists will contain "crucial" and "not crucial" items. Some items will be more important, some not so important. Typically, the "not crucial" items are quicker and often more fun than the "crucial" items, which tend to take longer and are generally less fun. So what happens for many is that without prioritizing our list, we have a tendency to do the "not crucial" items first, substituting the quantity for the quality. Identify the most important "crucial" item on your list, the one you would want to tackle if you could only work on one item tomorrow and then label that as "#1". Next, identify the second item you would work on, if time permits, and label that as "#2". Continue prioritizing the entire list in that fashion and tomorrow start with #1.
These four steps will help you to more effectively Manage Multiple Priorities and increase your daily results and that a good thing.
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Pampering Yourself
Invite your friends over for a dinner party, to play games, to watch a video…to be together
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