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20 Ways to Simplify Life | Clearing The Clutter In Your Mind To Start A Simple Life
You don’t need to uproot the family to simplify your life. There are many ways to simplify life just by clearing the clutter in your mind. When life is busy endless tasks are constantly bombarding us and making it difficult to take small moments to enjoy our life. As a busy working mom myself, I found it difficult to relax long enough to enjoy my family and my life. I was constantly stressed about what needed to get done for the family, the house, work …. the list goes on and on. I found small ways to simplify life for us, and each time I made these changes life got…
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How to Manage Stress | Useful Tools that Reduce Stress & Simplify Life
Living with stress is a delicate balance between it helping productivity and affecting your career, health, and relationships. Truly learning how to manage stress is the only way to maintain a healthy lifestyle. There are many articles that give you ideas for relieving stress symptoms, but relieving the symptoms doesn’t change why the stress is happening. Don’t get me wrong, self-care is important but it is only one main ingredient when learning how to manage stress. It helps relieve the symptoms but when you only practice self-care you are putting a mask over the issue and not resolving it. As an engineer and a mom of three kids, I know…
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How To Simplify Life | Making Small Improvements for Big Impacts In Your Life
There seems to be a misconception that to simplify your life you need to make the big changes like: move the country and start homesteading, sell everything and move into a tiny house, or live in an immaculate home that looks like a magazine cover. If it isn’t about the big lifestyle changes then what is it? Learning how to simplify life is a journey of personal development and small improvements over time. Everyone’s simple life journey is unique. It all starts by sorting through the chaos of your life bit by bit. Sound simple? (I hear you laughing from here…) If life is chaotic at times for you then…
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5 Meal Planning Solutions | When Life is a Constant Whirlwind
What would you like for dinner? I don’t know. Whatever. Sound familiar? Do you get home from work, nothing is planned and there is no time for the store? Here are 5 meal planning solutions for busy moms. There were too many nights to count that I was in this same situation. You ask the kids what they want because you are too tired to think of something after a long workday. The kids respond with the ever so helpful. I don’t know. Whatever. Or my favorite response….food. I was tired of spending money on fast food and having the kids snack an hour later because they were still hungry.…
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3 Reasons to Stop Over-scheduling the Family | Seeking Simple Life
The pressure of being the best parent includes endless after-school activities for the kids. Let’s rethink parenting and stop over-scheduling the family. As young parents, we were told to keep the kids busy and they won’t be bored enough to look for trouble. This is true to some extent but overdoing it hurts the family. Like anything in life, there must be a balance to strive for and this balance is different for every child and every family. There are 5 red flags when you need to stop over-scheduling the family. The kids suddenly hate every after-school activity. They miss their friends from school and the neighborhood. The kids don’t know…
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Teaching Kids About True Friendship | The Day I Discovered Our Son Understood
Parenting is not easy and it is especially difficult watching your child feel rejection or pain over a lost friendship. Let’s be honest. Some kids are mean, hell there are mean adults out there too! Teaching kids about true friendship can be hard, especially when the lessons we have learned over the years can be difficult for your little one to understand. When you are a new parent you aren’t prepared for the challenges of navigating your child’s friendships. There seems to be endless drama around friendships when the kids are growing up and trying to figure out how to coach them through those friendship issues can be challenging. [click_to_tweet…
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Multitasking Affects Your Brain | The Price is Your Health, Career, and Relationships
Busy parents live with a constant bombardment of information and interruptions both at home and at work. Multitasking may seem like a good idea to try and get through everything but in the long-term, multitasking affects your brain, health, career, and relationships. A quick search on Google and you can find multiple articles discussing multitasking. There are various viewpoints on the topic that will support or deny it for various reasons. There are even discussions on whether women or men are better multi-taskers. In my opinion, after much research and personal experience there 8 side-effects to multitasking. All 8 side-effects point to long-term effects on our brain, health, career, and relationships. The price is simply…
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Things To Do In Summer | Summer Ideas When Camps are Full
School is almost out and you start planning fun activities for the kids. Panic sets in as you realize all of the “cool” camps that your kids would LOVE are full! Take a deep breath, it will be okay. This will completely change how you plan things to do in summer, even if summer camps are full. I’ve been there. School is coming to an end and the daycare wants to know what your plans are. Spring activities took over your life and you lost track of time. You thought you had lots of time until you started your google search for theme camps that your kids would LOVE. They…
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5 Ways to Stop Yelling at the Kids | Losing Your Shit Less Often
Dear Mom (that is tired of losing her shit), It’s going to be okay. The kids are saying “all you do is yell!”. You are tired and your nerves are shot. I’ve been there, trust me. I now use these 5 ways to stop yelling at the kids and lose my shit less often. We were raising 2 boys that loved to test their limits. They were boys through and through, especially the second child. He seemed to have no fear when it came to most things and illogical fear for others and was the reason there were 6 years between him and his little sister. By the time we…
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3 Simple Steps Helping Marriages | Growing a Strong Relationship
Marriage isn’t the constant passionate love that you see in the movies. It is a friendship and appreciation for each other that grows along with the love for one another. Life is busy and relationships can feel disconnected but there are 3 simple steps to help your marriage today. It’s our 25th wedding anniversary today and I’ve been reflecting on our relationship quite a bit over the last year. A part of me is in awe that it has been 25 years since we’ve been married. We were young when we got married and have had our struggles as we built our life together. Finding ways to stay connected will…
