Posts in Simplifying Life
How to Find Time to Read When You're a Busy Working Mom

If you want to start reading or want to read more this year, it's totally possible with a rhythm and routine that works for you. Come to my free workshop - Reset Your Routines - on January 9th and we can walk through the process of getting started together. You'll learn how to create a sustainable routine that will stick.  Whether it's a reading, morning, meal panning, budgeting, or any other routine, you can apply the framework and customize it to your life.

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How to Build a Second Brain

A second brain can be a great way to share household responsibilities by making information readily available. With a shared school second brain, any adult in your household can call your child in sick or send an email to the teacher with a question about that project that's due! Here are some other categories or notebook pages that I'm in the process of creating (just to give you some ideas).

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How to Make Your Everyday Life Feel Like Vacation

But what if you could incorporate just a sliver of your vacation life into your everyday life? What if you could read for 5 or 10 minutes a night? Or spend an evening playing cards or puzzling? How would that change the way you felt about work and all your responsibilities? Maybe then, you wouldn't need a vacation like you need a lifeline. Maybe you wouldn't have to spend the week decompressing from the stress of your everyday life.

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Meal Planning Made Easy

Creating a simple and realistic meal-planning routine is the most common topic that working moms bring to a Planning Intensive. After working through dozens of these meal-planning routines, each one slightly different from the last (because no routine is one size fits all), I know that all it usually takes is 30 minutes and we can have a plan mapped out so that you'll know exactly what to do next to put it into action.

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How to Create a Realistic Summer Bucket List

Do you create a summer bucket list? I love the idea of going into a season with some intention. Choosing how you're going to spend the time as opposed to letting the weeks just pass you by. But I know the downside could be that it turns into something that creates overwhelm and pressure to do all the things. Not to mention that if summer doesn't go according to plan, you could wind up feeling disappointed or guilty. Well, what if we approached things differently? Realistically? I think it's possible and here's how I'm going about it.

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How to Survive Maycember

This is the time of year when everyone realizes that it’s almost the end of the school year and so we rush to fit all the things into the calendar while also juggling the holidays and other events that are fixed in May. I don’t have it all figured out, but I’m borrowing some of the strategies I use in December to create an intentional holiday season and applying them here.

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What to Do When You Over-Commit

It's incredibly easy to get swept up in the excitement of warmer weather, being with friends, celebrating end of school and everything else. So of course, the topic of over-committing is top of mind. Maybe it is for you too. Maybe, like me, you’re in a position where you’re already in the thick of it, wondering what you can do. What can you do if you've already said yes, submitted the registration, or made the commitment in some shape or form?

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