By: Cecil McIntosh

In my many years of working with moms they all overwhelmed by life’s pressures and need to slow down. This will allow them time to stop and smell the roses and recognize that they are doing too much and STOP!

However, most moms today are not satisfied unless they are busy. Sitting quietly is not an option. Every minute must be filled with some type of task, creating a hectic life. And weekends rarely offer any relief.

I am here to tell you that there is an easier way because there are several little know ways that can save you time and money, and I am about to reveal three of the best to you. Here are 3 stunningly simple stress and time management tips to side step feeling overwhelmed.

What is it that moms do that makes them so busy?

1. Taking care of the home, laundry, shopping, cleaning, etc.
2. Taking care of the family: being a taxi, helping with homework, etc.
3. Earning additional income

Mom’s day is busy from morning ’til night – and that’s every day!

Mom’s time management

Let’s be realistic. Are all the tasks mothers do in a day really necessary? For example, does the dusting and vacuuming need to be done every day.

What if it wasn’t?

Would the world come to an end?

How about the cooking?

Couldn’t you order out once in a while?

Do all these chores make you a better person when they’re done?

I bet no one would notice if you skipped a day or two.

Moms feeling overwhelmed by their children

How about the children?

Do they need to be enrolled in every activity under the sun?

Years ago many of these activities didn’t even exist.

Today, moms have their children enrolled in sports, musical lessons, before and after school activities, religious instruction and other activities to enrich the life of each child.

The problem is, who schedules all of these activities. And who drives the family taxi?

Who carries the load?

3 Tips for moms who feel overwhelmed

#1: Each additional task mom takes on results in increased feelings of being overwhelmed and stressed.

#2: Moms need to say ‘No’ and to give themselves ‘me’ time throughout the day.

#3: You will have time to read a book, get a massage, take a nap or whatever you enjoy.

Simply follow the information presented above and you will come across how to apply the missing short cut to stress and time management. Now, I challenge you to do something about your problem by finding a piece of paper and getting busy deciding how you can say NO as I outlined above.

We eagerly look forward hearing your stories of success and even enjoying life’s challenges by means of these new approaches. Peace.

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By: Paula Eder
gement is highly prized by most people – and finding time is even preferred over earning more money, recent studies report. But if you don’t use your time effectively, you simply lose the time you have found.

This is where task templates will help you. Task templates help you manage your time and shape your schedule in a simple, straightforward way. Once you start using them, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without them!

Task templates FAQS:

Q: How will task templates help me?

A: Task templates make life go more smoothly and efficiently by preventing potential logjams, forgotten appointments, late charges, last-minute preparations and unsuccessful attempts to recall how a project was completed previously.

Task templates capitalize on what your mind does best, which is creating patterns. Those patterns highlight where you want to go and what you want to avoid in a given period of time. The human brain isn’t engineered to remember, re-file and re-order multiple items without assistance. But the task templates you create will put everything in front of you quickly and clearly written out. This frees up your mind to assess your options, prioritize and launch into action. And that frees up your time.

Q: What kinds of activities can task templates help with?

A: Any repetitive activity with multiple steps can be streamlined with task templates.

Use them as a framework for your activities. By creating task templates, you develop a simple outline for your projects that you can refer to time after time. For example, they can help you with tax preparation, holiday planning, spring cleaning, packing for trips and financial reports

Q: How do I get started?

A: Follow this template and see how much time you save.

Task Template Step One: List activities or projects where a template would be helpful to you, using the examples above for a guide.

Task Template Step Two: Select one project you’d like to work with first.

Task Template Step Three: Jot down each activity associated with this project. If applicable, also include all supplies you will need.

Task Template Step Four: Order them chronologically.

Task Template Step Five: Place all the task templates you create in a loose-leaf notebook or in a dedicated file on your desktop. This keeps them easy to access.

Task Template Step Six: Place your current template in the area where you will be using it. If it’s helpful, print out several copies to post in multiple locations.

Task Template Step Seven: Review your task templates to see if important areas have been overlooked. Revise accordingly.

Task templates are astonishingly versatile time management tools. The more you utilize them, the more constructive uses you’ll imagine, the more confidence you’ll place in them, and the more confidence you’ll have in yourself.

Use task templates to focus your energy. Then draw on additional time management techniques to enhance their effectiveness, such as to-do lists, setting boundaries and visualizing the sequence of tasks.

The more frequently you use these time management techniques, the more creatively you can combine them. And the more success you will enjoy at finding time.

Paula Eder, Ph.D., The Time Finder, has guided individuals and organizations to effectively align values with their time choices for 35+ years. For free weekly time tips & an award-winning monthly Ezine, visit http://www.findingtime.net/ezine.html
And for even more time thoughts and techniques, visit our blog at http://www.thetimefinder.com

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By: Odessa Flores-Lemence
Learning time management skills is learning life’s personal management of time. The principle is very basic: Start managing your own personal time.

Learning effective time management is more about consistently learning and applying the system. There are people who got thrilled on the idea, tried it, learned from it, and eventually never did get the hang out of it!

Meeting deadlines and completing tasks in and out of ones career life is quite struggling, but relieving and fulfilling! So, here’s how to help you in achieving and finding time management a lifetime habit with only 5 essential time management tips to follow:

1. Plan and prioritize. Make a list of all the tasks you need to do in a day. An essential tool to properly list all that you need to carry is a To Do List. This is one of the most simple and effective tool to effectively manage ones time. Simply, segregate it to major and minor to do’s. Or better yet, categorize it to urgent, important and essential tasks.

2. Focus and set goals. Once you have identified and list by category all the necessary things needed, allocate a reasonable time to finish each task. Think of the bigger picture of what you want to achieve. Break these down into smaller parts and set tagets when you must hit to reach your goal.

By setting clearly defined goals, combat any unnecessary factors that comes your way. When you achieve the goal, go to the next step immediately and then again, set your goals. 

Remember this mneumonic (SMART): S- Specific, M- Measurable, A- Attainable, R- Realistic, T- Time-bounded.

3. Overcome procrastination. While this may sound a bit complicated, beating the habit of procrastination is learning to say no. Self-control is the key. Identify bad habits and try to overcome them. The habit of procrastination impedes everything you have worked for. It delays important tasks for unnecessary ones, which to some degree becomes a destructive practice. Chances are you get less productive that may lead to less effectiveness and maim your chances towards success.

4. Review and ponder. A good way of getting going is by the end of the day you have to get yourself re-evaluate all the day’s work. Take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done your task. Ask yourself questions. Have I achieved the goal for the day? If not, just as long as you learn from this, get back to the unfinished business and make necessary adjustments for tomorrow’s to do’s. You’ve got to reflect growths and failures in your knowledge and experience.

5. Commitment. Once you have decided to learn time management, keep the process going. Continuously review and update your daily tasks. As time goes by, learning time management skills will surely become your skill! And you will absolutely get the most out of your life!

Getting excited about the idea? Check first some time management tools in < a href=”http://www.tamingtime.com/learning-time-management-skills.html”>learning time management skills to increase your knowledge of how time management can benefit you.

Odessa has successfully used time management for over the years. She is now into writing to share people her experience being a progressive employee, from R&F to managerial level. She is now a stay-at-home mom of 4, a writer, and a choreographer taming her time to do the jobs all at once.

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By: Nick P
What do you think of time management – get more work done in less time. That’s what precisely time management tips deals with. Better time management skills mean activities, ideas or methods that help a person perform them in a speedier, quality-conscious manner within an allotted time frame, be it personal or professional.

Business time management centers on utilizing time as a resource while in planning and performance stages. Time has immense potential and if not taken care can lead to redundancy. Therefore, on should not lose sight of the rare and limited resource of time and see the goals as definite milestones to achieve. It’s important to do things as per time-frame within the given time at one’s disposal.  

Businesses are characterized of their overwhelming pressure of multi-tasking activities. They are good many of them to accomplish, more so, a variety of activities that one is faced with. One has to be extremely orderly and methodical in handling these jobs or activities. The official planner on the table should set the work plans for the particular day. While the previous day should be spent on scheduling the activities and the probable time for that, one has to carry them off the next working day, keeping to the planners, as far as possible.

Prioritization of activities makes goals attainable and less stressful. The most important ones go fast in the list and disposed of early, leaving some room for relaxed-thinking, which often is at the bottom of creative thoughts. For the not-so-important tasks, one may also keep them for the time of the day when one goes low in terms of productivity. Some prefer deliberate over-planning of targets with an expectation of achieving more, a technique which may or may not work at times.

In today’s world of fast communication and Internet one can manage correspondences systematically and without over-performing them. While managing emails, telephone calls one must think of concentrating less on ineffective exchanges of communication and more focus on the right things, both in written and verbal communication.

Knowhow of technical skills becomes the call for the day since communication and execution are being growingly taken over by high-tech gadgets as we usher into more technically advanced scenario. Businesses require speedier performance of the jobs at disposal and more re-usable time for productive utilization thereof. Time management for businesses largely depends on well-groomed and effective networking with the right kind of people, leading to substantial savings of time.

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By: Denise Landers
How much do you have running around in your head right now? There are tasks to remember to do, projects to develop, things to worry about, and the future to anticipate. With so much shuffling around, fighting to gain prominence in your thoughts, how can you prioritize your day?

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, claimed, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” That can be pretty scary, if you manage to actually find the time to reflect on the meaning.

One solution is to be sure that you always write down everything. It clears your mind, ensures that you will not overlook a task or deadline, and allows you to prioritize. However, do not create long ToDo lists. Instead write down one thing only on a sheet of paper, and file that in a Daily Action filing system according to the day or upcoming month when you might be able to get to it. It is okay if you have to move it to another day. At least it will not be forgotten, and it frees your mind to focus on the most important activities of the current day instead of keeping one part of your mind constantly trying to recollect all that you have to do after this day’s work is completed.

At the end of each day, you can take out the next day’s papers listing each of the activities you hope to work on, and you can prioritize the single sheets so that when you start your new day, you immediately know where to begin.

However, you do not always have a full sheet of paper handy. I recommend to my clients that they carry index cards with them at all times. These cards are both sturdier and less expensive than stick-on notes. Any time a thought comes into your head, jot it down on the index card. Remember, only record one item per card.

When you come into your office or home, take the cards out and drop them into your inbox or basket. At the time you process the latest stack of mail from your index, attach the card to a full sheet of paper. You do not want to waste extra time rewriting anything, and you also do not want the small card to be lost in a folder. That full sheet of paper is what gets placed in your Daily Action file.

I call these index cards my “No Brainer” cards. Nothing is ever overlooked because you have taken it out of your mind and placed it into an Action file. Your brain is freed to focus on current activities.

Even if there is no specific date that something needs to be worked on, but it is something you want to recall sometime in the future, you can create a “Someday” file. That folder might include a new restaurant you want to try, a book to order in the future, ideas for a new marketing brochure….The key is that it is an item you do not want to forget, even if you cannot anticipate when you might have a chance to pursue the action.

Once you get the hang of carrying these index cards with you and writing everything down, you will find the stress of remembering things is gone. Try it. It’s a “no brainer.”

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Denise Landers uses her time management expertise to help optimize your workflow for maximum productivity. Read more free SOHO organization and time management tips and visit her blog, Productivity Today.

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