REMINDERS for the week!!!

• Make time for your workouts - put it on your list of to-dos!
• Count your calories and track them.
• Schedule time to pay bills & keep your checkbook balanced.
• Pay cash for items - DON'T swipe the card everywhere you go.
• Stick to the budget! Stick to your shopping lists!
• What's your # 1 priority today! This week!
• Who are your # 1s?
• Keep margins in your time.
• Pack healthy snacks when running errands.
• Make time to play in the backyard w/ the kids.
• Make time to listen to your spouses heart & pray for him/her.
• Be responsible today & don't procastinate.
• Start the week out strong & focused!
• Smile on the inside & out! 

I work hard to play hard...but sometimes I focus on the work part a lot more than the play part. And when these 2 are my playdate buddies....how can I not stop what I'm doing and have some fun?

My #1s!!!!



This is what I needed to remind myself of today before I start another week a little disorganized & in a hurry!

ORGANIZED TIME = ORGANIZED LIFE

Today is Friday, the last day of a week that I implemented a new strategy to get my life more organized and efficient. I touched on some things that I was doing in my posts this week, but thought I would recap in case you missed it:

Here's some new things I am doing to be a better time-manager:

1. Up at 5 a.m. to workout. I was working out at 9 or 10 a.m. which was a primetime for either the park/playing with the kids, or running important errands (without suffering 100 degree weather).
2. Start my 'work' at 6:30 a.m. to about 8 a.m. while the kids sleep. Blog, emails, FB stuff done when they wake up hungry.
3. Get self in gear & showered by 9ish. Out the door by 9:30/10 a.m.
4. Write out my to-do list the night before to wake up w/ a plan for the next day.
5. Practice laser-beam focus when on the internet to get 'work' done & not get sidetracked.
6. Plan a fun activity w/ my boys & follow through. This week we made it to a spray park & a museum. Planning something else today.
7. Home by 4 p.m.

The results of this new strategy:

1. Increase in productivity. Gained ground and momentum with business & increase in sales.
2. Time available to friends in need.
3. DAILY workouts...no hit or misses.
4. Home in time to have dinner hot & ready for hubby.
5. And most importantly: more QUALITY time with my kids.

What's awesome about this is...these are my priorities: Husband, kids, personal fitness, a successful business, and time left over to help others.

I'll say it again: ORGANIZED TIME = ORGANIZED LIFE!

Flexing my organizational skills!

Just relocated across the town I live in. Have 2 kids & a husband. Just launched my own home-based, internet-managed business. What does this all mean?

In RE: to my home:
1. I still have a little bit of stuff to put away.
2. I have a house to decorate, but need to paint before I do that.
3. Find a smokin' deal on some coffee brown, low-back leather sofas.
4. Keep my awesome kitchen counter (off from the garage) decluttered.

In RE: to my kids:
1. Need to plan out park days better.
2. Need to schedule daily story/activity time regularly.
3. Got to get more energetic & creative.
4. Get out of the house more (backyard, museums, playdates, etc.)

In RE: to my husband:
1. Schedule date-nights w/ him.
2. Continue our brainstorming mornings.
3. Work cooperatively w/ him.

In RE: to my Beachbody Business:
1. Listen to training calls & watch training webinars.
2. Place an order of marketing tools.
3. Find the health-oriented/desperate to lose weight people.
4. Execute my program & get in the best shape of my life.

Now, the hard part...I need/want to do all of the above NOW, and I still have things like laundry, grocery shopping, family bbqs, and day-to-day chores. All the while, I need and must keep my time with the Lord as the #1 priority to help everything else flow & happen. This week, I need to flex my organizational ability.

For me, this entry above has helped get it out of my head & in front of my eyes. Next step is to make a realistic list of things I need to focus on just this week. And then daily, put one of those items on my to-do list. For me personally, journaling and writing out all the stuff I need and want to do helps. Sometimes when I read what I've written, I am able to cross out the non-essential stuff & then highlight the high priority items.

I think it's Dave Ramsey who has coined the phrase "On Paper - On Purpose". I've lived like this for quite sometime w/out a catch phrase. But nonetheless, we all know that when we write down our goals, we are more likely to achieve them. So look at your everyday 'to-do' list as a 'List of Goals for the Day'. Try it yourself & see what you get done this week. Got my list going...now to get my time organized, my mind flexed & focused! Let's get 'er done!!!!