10 Tips On Making More Time

10 Tips On Making More Time
By Mary Lennox

1. Make sure everyone else does their share.

2. Have chores shared out fairly.

3. When others do chores, allow them to do so in their own way. Dont be tempted to do things again in your way.

4. Prioritise

5. Plan ahead. This can be useful in terms of shopping, batch cooking and freezing.

6. Weigh up the personal benefits of putting some tasks out to tender, i.e. ironing, cleaning. It may be worth the money.

7. Can you use the time when you are exercising to do some mental planning.

8. Commuting time may be right for you to catch up on your reading, or doing some work related task you would otherwise do at home.

9. Only watch television programmes that really interest you. It can be useful to code in what you want to watch and otherwise keep the box switched off. This will give you time to go for a walk, do gardening or even COMMUNICATE.

10. De clutter and housework will be minimal. It will also take less time to find things you need. This can be applied to your wardrobe too so that you do not waste time on trying to decide what to wear. What is in your wardrobe should be ready to wear, be items you feel and look good in and not so abundant that you are spoiled for choice.

This article was submitted by Mary Lennox an experienced counsellor and intuitive life coach. The combination of her education, career background and life experiences enable her to have an empathic understanding across abroad spectrum of circumstances.

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Your Success

Your Success
By Frank Schmidt

Success starts in your mind.

Positive Thinking creates the advantage.

Success comes with a good mood.

Listen to your most preferred CD before an important meeting.

Success is increased with a little attention.

Give others something maybe a nice gesture is enough.

Success comes when your body is healthy.

Body and soul are inseparable.

Success comes with partnership.

Show this others by thinking for them.

Success is also a question of your outlook.

Do not leave it up to coincidence; instead plan carefully from head to toe.

Success is determinant with your security.

Everyone wants to be on the side of the winner.

Success is ruled by your target.

Set yourself realistic but always higher goals then demanded.

Success is a question of stamina.

Stay in the court! Hang in there! (Even when things seem to drift away)

Success is based on systematic work.

Without engagement no success.

Success is predetermined.

Train over and over again all possible situations.

Success is a state of your mind.

Check and if necessary change your old attitude towards others and situations.

Success is also the success of others.

It is no secret how they are successful! Watch them and let them teach you.

Success is the opposite of failure.

Delete the possibility of failure from your mind, since you are successful only.

About The Author

Frank Schmidt is a seasoned Management Consultant. Over the past 12 years he has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies to assist other managers improve success ratios and performance within their organizations. Visit his site http://www.geniusone.com today for additional details.

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Your Success: Obtainable or Sustainable?

Your Success: Obtainable or Sustainable?
By Deon Du Plessis

The desire to consistently improve your life is one of your most fundamental needs. That feeling that comes from knowing that everyday you are becoming more is part of your nature. Knowing that you are affecting and improving your environment through your own influence is immensely satisfying. It is a key ingredient in living a happy and fulfilled life. At some level we are al pursuing success of some sort. We are constantly looking for ways to have more, to be more and to gain more, thinking that once we have it all we will be happy and life will be perfect. Then, we can take it easy and relax and just enjoy life.

This way of thinking, this mindset, acts like a virus that can kill you. If not emotionally then spiritually. Our modern culture is filled with numerous examples of top achievers who seemingly have everything but they are deeply unhappy and constantly have to battle with the challenges within their own character. They fail to grasp the true purpose of success. From it's latin origin, the word success actually means o advance or o progress which implies that success is not something you get at the end but a process that has very little to do with the end result. From this point of view success is what will improve your life as it is what moves you forward to a better experience of life.

In their pursuit of a greater quality of life most people loose sight of the real reason why they actually want to be successful in the first place. It is never the hings but rather the way you believe these things will make you feel once you've got them. Your success will be either obtainable or sustainable. Most of your desires will be obtainable within your lifetime but this no guarantee that you will be happy and fulfilled. When you strive for collecting and accumulating hings you will experience very little fulfilment as you will always rely on something external to give you the feelings that you want to experience inside you; feelings that you believe will come from having what you pursue.

The real purpose of a goal is never to obtain something of material value but rather the qualities that you will gain as a person in your pursuit of the goal. For you to have success that is sustainable you must develop a new mindset; a mindset that focuses not on what you must do to get what you want, but on what you must become to attract that which you want. What you become is what you get to keep. When you shift your focus to developing your character, you can start to use goals and success as a means to an end instead of it being the end-all and be-all of life. You start to distance yourself from the need to have stuff in order to feel that sense of joy and fulfilment.

Knowing that you can be successful is not enough. You want the experience of success. You that feeling of success as a part of who you are as a person; as part of your character. When your success is obtainable, when you are able to collect the things, then your experience of success rarely lasts very long. There is no consistency in the experience. So often we see amazing success stories of young achievers that reach their all their goals in a short period of time, only to break down emotionally soon after. The reason is that they haven't learned the key to lasting success which is the ability to create success in your life that is sustainable. Sustainable success is inexhaustible. It is consistent and takes care of itself. With the qualities and attributes that you learned through the experience of pursuing your goal you are able to re-create any achievement as you are the source.

The concept of obtainable and sustainable success is best illustrated with Aesop's fable of the Goose and the Golden Egg. The goose as the source of the gold could consistently produce the gold, but the farmer out of his impatience and ignorance wanted it all and he wanted it now. So, he cut open the goose only to find out that there is nothing. The moral of the story is that you should nurture and develop yourself in order to sustain your happiness and success. If your focus is just on obtaining goals you will not get any more golden eggs as the real value is in what you become and how that makes you feel.

You can either obtain success or you can become it. The objective is the same but the mindset is very different. You can either get the hings that will make you feel successful or you can become the source of your own success and fulfilment. You want lasting results and this will only come from your ability to create and re-create, on demand, that what you whish to experience during your time on earth. Adopting the mentality of creating lasting success, of becoming sustainable, starts with realizing that true success comes from giving and not getting. In the giving lies the getting in that what you give away is what you get to experience and your experience is what you get to keep forever. Ultimately, to sustain anything you must give and receive for this is the very nature of growth and life itself. Success is a feeling and in making that feeling part of who you are, you will never be without success and you will never be left wanting anything outside of you.

Let go of your need to obtain stuff and focus on the experience of life and the emotional content of your life. Improve yourself by pursuing goals that will make of you the kind of person that manifest that which you want most. That which you obtain will eventually disappear and loose its value. That which you sustain will grow and expand and continue to increase the quality of your magnificent life. Obtainable success is static and like anything in nature that does not grow it will eventually die.

This article is published with the permission of the author, Deon Du Plessis. He is the founder of The Self Improvement Gym, and author (in)action, a groundbreaking new action guide on eliminating procrastination. For more of his in-depth insights into personal development and access to his free self improvement library visit http://www.The Self Improvement Gym.com

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Wardrobe Planning: Organized Style Saves You Time and Money

Wardrobe Planning: Organized Style Saves You Time and Money
By Stephanie Dray

Do you have a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear? Do you shop without really knowing what your wardrobe needs? Do you buy gorgeous separates and never wear them because you don't know how to work them into a stylish outfit?

Impulse clothing shopping can cost you hundreds of dollars a year in wasted spending. And that doesn't even count the time wasted trying to find something to wear to business meetings or other events. But how can you put an end to it without buying an expensive closet organizer or hiring a personal stylist? Here are some steps to get you started.

1. Plan Your Outfits In Advance. Use plain old paper and pencil, or a free clothing planner, and start jotting down outfits for events you're likely to attend this year. Your list isn't going to be complete overnight. It'll take some time, but this is a starting point. It will help you determine what you need to buy and what you already own too many of. Once you're done, it will help you dress on auto-pilot and save you time every time you need to get dressed.

2. Try Everything On. Approach this mission in baby-steps. Dedicate just fifteen minutes a night. Trying things on is the only way to give them an honest appraisal. Each item in your closet has its own quirks. Maybe it doesn't look as good as it did a few years ago. Maybe the shoulder pads are no longer in style. Perhaps it needs to be tailored. A good tailor can shorten sleeves, lengthen hems, or otherwise add flattering darts to give your garments a better shape. The point here is to give each item in your closet a chance to justify itself. And don't get discouraged. It's the clothes auditioning here, not you.

3. Declutter Your Closet. It's hard to find outfits to wear when you can't see what you own. When clothing is so tightly packed that you can't take it off the hanger without knocking three other garments on the floor, it costs you time and money. Time, because it takes you longer to assemble an outfit. Money because you probably keep buying the same pair of pants over and over again, not realizing you have three new ones already tucked away in the back of your closet. It's time to purge. If a garment needs to go to the tailor, put it in a bag and deliver it to your car right now. Don't let it sit in your closet for another year. If a garment needs to be mended, put it in a basket by your sewing machine. If you're not going to mend it, throw it in the rag bag and be done with it. Also, keep your junk clothes to a minimum. Everybody needs an outfit to paint, to garden, or to clean the house. But if you were to stack up all the stained and threadbare clothing you've been hanging onto, it's probably a larger collection than the rest of your clothing combined. Pick out your favorite comfy, just-for-home, outfits and send the rest to the rag bag. These items are robbing you of space and self-image. Out they go.

4. Take Inventory. Using your list or clothing planner, you can now identify gaps in your wardrobe. Business women typically lack sufficient casual wear for weekend outings. Stay-at-home moms tend not to have formal or business attire. Young women often forget to buy clothes for weddings or formal events. Planning allows you to see what holes need to be filled when you go shopping, and take advantage of the sales. It will also let you see if you have items that can be sold or donated. Many women do a thriving business on Ebay selling clothes that are lightly used, or have never been worn at all. You too can turn your fashion mistakes into cash.

We've all seen those women who dress as if style comes to them effortlessly. Well, maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. But following these steps, you can look like they do, natural or not. Remember, planning ahead will save you money and give you time to devote to the other passions in your life. Because fashion is important, but it's not everything!

Stephanie Dray is the author of Curvalicious and Living Large, a resource for plus sized women.

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Where Employee Training Fails Spontaneous Coaching for SelfDevelopment Can Help Your Company

Where Employee Training Fails, Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development Can Help Your Company
By Tayo Solagbade

The Need To Be Versatile

Anyone wishing to remain competitive, and relevant at work/in life must become what I like to call a Practical Learner. That is someone who continually seeks/adopts new (and appropriate) knowledge, attitudes and skills, so as to become more useful/valuable to herself and others.

Lets consider an analogy based on a popular sport - Soccer. Some players learn to use both feet equally well so they can play on either side of the pitch. Some learn how to play defensive, attacking (even goal keeping!) roles. They are often called Utility players.

Coaches love to have them in their teams because when tricky match situations occur, such individuals give the coach more options to consider in terms of substitutions to be made. For those individuals, you will notice that except when injured, they not only command a place in any team, but also often get into the starting line up! The reason: they fit in easily i.e. there is always a role they can play.

Now relate this to the workplace. Imagine a company having an individual with proven versatility in managing various processes, coupled with an ability to quickly settle into - and function efficiently in - virtually any role, even when it is in a higher capacity.

Add to all these a genuine interest in developing others around her to be equally as competent, if not better than she is. You get what could be called the Ideal Employee! Her boss is likely to consider her a most valuable asset, and will often readily recommend her for secondments, and promotions (she would have trained others to do her job, making it easy to be replaced)!

But how does one become like the kind of person described above? Is it in fact possible for one person to be like that? To both questions, the answer is yes. I am convinced that diligent application of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development (SCfSD) techniques is all that is required. My conviction derives from over 7 years of successfully employing those same techniques.

Why Employee Training (Sometimes) Does NOT Work

You might wonder why I didnt mention Employee Training as a requirement for producing the Ideal Employee. Its because evidence abounds that sending people on routine training courses does not guarantee their workplace performances will improve.

Why? Among other reasons, it is because the decision to attend a course is often made for them and not by them. So they might not feel that course will equip them with the specific skills set they believe will help them improve. Consequently, theyll pay little attention during the course. Ultimately, the money invested is wasted!

To avoid this, decision makers in progressive minded companies now involve employees in deciding courses to attend. However, I believe even better results can be achieved by creating an enabling environment for people to want to develop themselves.

When people take responsibility for their own development, it means they are already motivated to deliver better results. You therefore have less worrying to do about getting them to do their jobs - to the required standard!

This not only costs less in the medium/long term, but also yields more sustainable results in terms of improvements in employee competencies.

Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) : A Complementary Alternative

If you could learn how to help others around you grow and develop in such a way that you not only get their undiluted goodwill, but also consolidate YOUR own development, in a way that equips you to achieve accelerated career advancement, how fulfilled would you be? Very, is likely to be the answer of most career persons.

Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) has two aspects:

A). Spontaneous Coaching

Spontaneous Coaching is a unique approach to coaching that is informal, often subtle and based on the coach's sincere desire to help others grow and develop to their full potential (regardless of who they are or what they do), in a way that benefits the organisation - and him/herself.

One major aspect of Spontaneous Coaching, that makes it different from traditional coaching is the use of what I call Multi-Dimensional Peer Pressure(MDPP) to effect positive changes in work-related behaviour in a person(s) being coached over time.

Another unique feature, is that a Spontaneous Coach will often be found willing to help a coachee resolve non-work related problems, as a means to stimulating improved work-related behaviour/performance subsequently in the coachee.

A summary of key features of Spontaneous Coaching is as follows:

i. Requires coach to have an innate desire to help others regardless of who they are/what they do.

ii. Typified by coachs willingness to help even if coachee is not aware, or does not express gratitude.

iii. Depends mostly on influencing by example from the coach or other adherents (re: MDPP).

iv. To successfully practice Spontaneous Coaching, you must LOVE (or develop LOVE for) empowering people to be their best without feeling threatened by their progress, EVEN when it means they could advance AHEAD of you!!

v. Most importantly, a Spontaneous Coach will engage constantly, as a matter of habit, in self-education relevant to achievement of his/her valued goal(s). S/he will actively seek to use his/her(and other people's) failures and successes as learning platforms on which to develop him/herself - and also use achieved learning to coach others. It is this quality that will ensure s/he remains capable of functioning successfully as a Coach to others.

B). Self-Development

.. the process by which an individual continually and intelligently - uses her own efforts, resources, knowledge and experiences (as well as those of others, voluntarily supplied), to improve her ability to achieve repeated personal or workplace successes - Tayo Solagbade

Peter Drucker, as far back as 1955, wrote in his book The Practice of Management, that development cannot be anything other than Self-Development. Among other things, he explained that for any organisation to take on the responsibility of developing her people would effectively be a waste of time because, that responsibility is the individual employees and no development would happen if the individual does not take up the responsibility to make it happen.

Read my article titled How to make yourself UNRETRENCHABLE! to learn more about other recognised and qualified authorities in the field of Human Resources/People Development who have acknowledged that Self-Development is the most reliable way to achieve significant and lasting employee development.

The concept of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) was developed by combining certain tested and proven Spontaneous Coaching and Self-Development techniques, based on their successful application in real-life workplaces.

SCfSD Will Benefit Forward Looking Organisations

It is my strong conviction that organisations of the future will be those in which the need for formal, deliberate training, and education through direct interventions by the organisation, for employees will drop significantly. Instead, concepts like Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) which make it easy for employees to take control of their own development, in a way that ultimately benefits the organisation they work for, will be preferred.

Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) can be independently applied by individual career persons to achieve dramatically improved workplace performances.

More importantly, decision makers in an organisation can learn how to use it to establish an alternative, cost-saving/self-sustaining system that perpetually empowers their team members to perform optimally in the workplace.

You can email a four page Acrobat PDF e-flyer on Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) to yourself using the File Mailer web form on the Free Resouces page of my website.

Self-Development/Performance Enhancement Specialist Tayo Solagbade - works as a Multipreneur, helping individuals/businesses develop and implement strategies to achieve their goals, faster and more profitably. Download your copy of his 25 Articles Ebook from http://www.lulu.com/content/268555. You get full reprint rights for each article.

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Where Employee Training Fails Spontaneous Coaching for SelfDevelopment Can Help Your Company

Where Employee Training Fails, Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development Can Help Your Company
By Tayo Solagbade

The Need To Be Versatile

Anyone wishing to remain competitive, and relevant at work/in life must become what I like to call a Practical Learner. That is someone who continually seeks/adopts new (and appropriate) knowledge, attitudes and skills, so as to become more useful/valuable to herself and others.

Lets consider an analogy based on a popular sport - Soccer. Some players learn to use both feet equally well so they can play on either side of the pitch. Some learn how to play defensive, attacking (even goal keeping!) roles. They are often called Utility players.

Coaches love to have them in their teams because when tricky match situations occur, such individuals give the coach more options to consider in terms of substitutions to be made. For those individuals, you will notice that except when injured, they not only command a place in any team, but also often get into the starting line up! The reason: they fit in easily i.e. there is always a role they can play.

Now relate this to the workplace. Imagine a company having an individual with proven versatility in managing various processes, coupled with an ability to quickly settle into - and function efficiently in - virtually any role, even when it is in a higher capacity.

Add to all these a genuine interest in developing others around her to be equally as competent, if not better than she is. You get what could be called the Ideal Employee! Her boss is likely to consider her a most valuable asset, and will often readily recommend her for secondments, and promotions (she would have trained others to do her job, making it easy to be replaced)!

But how does one become like the kind of person described above? Is it in fact possible for one person to be like that? To both questions, the answer is yes. I am convinced that diligent application of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development (SCfSD) techniques is all that is required. My conviction derives from over 7 years of successfully employing those same techniques.

Why Employee Training (Sometimes) Does NOT Work

You might wonder why I didnt mention Employee Training as a requirement for producing the Ideal Employee. Its because evidence abounds that sending people on routine training courses does not guarantee their workplace performances will improve.

Why? Among other reasons, it is because the decision to attend a course is often made for them and not by them. So they might not feel that course will equip them with the specific skills set they believe will help them improve. Consequently, theyll pay little attention during the course. Ultimately, the money invested is wasted!

To avoid this, decision makers in progressive minded companies now involve employees in deciding courses to attend. However, I believe even better results can be achieved by creating an enabling environment for people to want to develop themselves.

When people take responsibility for their own development, it means they are already motivated to deliver better results. You therefore have less worrying to do about getting them to do their jobs - to the required standard!

This not only costs less in the medium/long term, but also yields more sustainable results in terms of improvements in employee competencies.

Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) : A Complementary Alternative

If you could learn how to help others around you grow and develop in such a way that you not only get their undiluted goodwill, but also consolidate YOUR own development, in a way that equips you to achieve accelerated career advancement, how fulfilled would you be? Very, is likely to be the answer of most career persons.

Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) has two aspects:

A). Spontaneous Coaching

Spontaneous Coaching is a unique approach to coaching that is informal, often subtle and based on the coach's sincere desire to help others grow and develop to their full potential (regardless of who they are or what they do), in a way that benefits the organisation - and him/herself.

One major aspect of Spontaneous Coaching, that makes it different from traditional coaching is the use of what I call Multi-Dimensional Peer Pressure(MDPP) to effect positive changes in work-related behaviour in a person(s) being coached over time.

Another unique feature, is that a Spontaneous Coach will often be found willing to help a coachee resolve non-work related problems, as a means to stimulating improved work-related behaviour/performance subsequently in the coachee.

A summary of key features of Spontaneous Coaching is as follows:

i. Requires coach to have an innate desire to help others regardless of who they are/what they do.

ii. Typified by coachs willingness to help even if coachee is not aware, or does not express gratitude.

iii. Depends mostly on influencing by example from the coach or other adherents (re: MDPP).

iv. To successfully practice Spontaneous Coaching, you must LOVE (or develop LOVE for) empowering people to be their best without feeling threatened by their progress, EVEN when it means they could advance AHEAD of you!!

v. Most importantly, a Spontaneous Coach will engage constantly, as a matter of habit, in self-education relevant to achievement of his/her valued goal(s). S/he will actively seek to use his/her(and other people's) failures and successes as learning platforms on which to develop him/herself - and also use achieved learning to coach others. It is this quality that will ensure s/he remains capable of functioning successfully as a Coach to others.

B). Self-Development

.. the process by which an individual continually and intelligently - uses her own efforts, resources, knowledge and experiences (as well as those of others, voluntarily supplied), to improve her ability to achieve repeated personal or workplace successes - Tayo Solagbade

Peter Drucker, as far back as 1955, wrote in his book The Practice of Management, that development cannot be anything other than Self-Development. Among other things, he explained that for any organisation to take on the responsibility of developing her people would effectively be a waste of time because, that responsibility is the individual employees and no development would happen if the individual does not take up the responsibility to make it happen.

Read my article titled How to make yourself UNRETRENCHABLE! to learn more about other recognised and qualified authorities in the field of Human Resources/People Development who have acknowledged that Self-Development is the most reliable way to achieve significant and lasting employee development.

The concept of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) was developed by combining certain tested and proven Spontaneous Coaching and Self-Development techniques, based on their successful application in real-life workplaces.

SCfSD Will Benefit Forward Looking Organisations

It is my strong conviction that organisations of the future will be those in which the need for formal, deliberate training, and education through direct interventions by the organisation, for employees will drop significantly. Instead, concepts like Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) which make it easy for employees to take control of their own development, in a way that ultimately benefits the organisation they work for, will be preferred.

Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) can be independently applied by individual career persons to achieve dramatically improved workplace performances.

More importantly, decision makers in an organisation can learn how to use it to establish an alternative, cost-saving/self-sustaining system that perpetually empowers their team members to perform optimally in the workplace.

You can email a four page Acrobat PDF e-flyer on Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development(SCfSD) to yourself using the File Mailer web form on the Free Resouces page of my website.

Self-Development/Performance Enhancement Specialist Tayo Solagbade - works as a Multipreneur, helping individuals/businesses develop and implement strategies to achieve their goals, faster and more profitably. Download your copy of his 25 Articles Ebook from http://www.lulu.com/content/268555. You get full reprint rights for each article.

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Managing Time: Say No to Demands

Managing Time: Say No to Demands
By Yara Nielsenshultz

Persistent Demands

Everyone faces demands on their time. Some of those are legitimate. We all have responsibilities to fulfill. The problem starts when we begin to value other people's responsibilities more than our own time.

How does this happen? First, many people, particularly women, let their desire to be helpful outweigh their own priorities and needs. Second, people often fear they won't be liked or they'll be viewed as selfish or lazy if they say No. Third, some people fear that saying No will lead to confrontation, and they don't want to disappoint their colleagues/friends/family.

The Guilt Complex

When people do say 'No to demands on their time, the Guilt Complex can rear up, leaving them feeling unsure, selfish, and depressed. Unfortunately, many people play on this guilt complex to passively influence you to say Yes to demands on your time. As a result, you can become conditioned to say Yes until you find that you have no time left for yourself.

Value Your Time

No one is going to value your time until YOU do. Agreeing to other people's requests for your time devalues your time and emphasizes theirs. When faced with a request, ask yourself:

• Will fulfilling this request energize me or deplete me?
• Is the time I give to this request more important than the time I can give to myself?
• Is fear (or guilt or another negative emotion) influencing my decision to accept this request?
• How many other requests for my time have I accepted this week or month?
• How much time do I have for myself this week or month? Will accepting this request take that time from me (or other, more important, people)?

3 Steps to Get Started Today

Stop saying Yes automatically. Pay attention to what you're feeling when faced with a request for your time and honor those feelings.

Take time to consider whether each request forces you to sacrifice time better spent elsewhere. YOU control your time -- make your choices wisely.

Stop feeling guilty. You have every right to control your time -- it's YOUR time and it's valuable.

If you practice these steps consistently, you'll start to escape feeling overwhelmed and stressed. And as you begin to honor your feelings and value your time, you'll begin to feel a renewed energy.

Yara Nielsenshultz of Living Forward Coaching helps working moms find guilt-free time for themselves by helping them create, nurture, and implement an inspiring vision for who they want to be. Yara brings a unique perspective to coaching, encouraging clients to foster a Deliberate Imbalance(TM). Learn more at http://www.livingforwardcoaching.com/deliberate.html

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