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Thanks for visiting Simple Mom. If you subscribe to the blog via RSS feed or via email, you’ll get helpful tips and encouragement for simplifying life at home sent straight to you, for free!If you suffer from perfectionism, like me, then you’ll know what I’m talking about here. I’ve been staring at this chest of [...]
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This post was first published on June 15, 2009. I thought it a good one to republish for newer Simple Mom readers, though it’s ironically for the opposite reason I mention in the post — I’m incredibly busy getting ready for the baby to arrive and making other life decisions this week. Nonetheless, I hope [...]
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Since our life has been crazy the past few months, I haven’t had much of a routine. But starting this week, our family is getting back at it. There’s still a lot to do as we move in to our home, but we’re ready to get back to normal life, with some form of routine, [...]
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This post was first published on March 23, 2009. Reader Marilyn asks: “I am struggling to set some kind of schedule for my family. I’m new to the SAHM thing (I went back to work after my son was five months) and have a five-month-old and a three-year-old who is now at home with me. [...]
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The concept is simple: You have a jar, and you need to fill it with rocks of different sizes. The most logical way to make sure they all fit is to first place the big rocks in the jar, and gradually follow with smaller rocks, until you top off the jar with the pebbles and [...]
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In the 1960s, Charles Hummel published a little booklet called Tyranny of the Urgent, and it quickly became a business classic. In it, Hummel argues that there is a regular tension between things that are urgent and things that are important — and far too often, the urgent wins. In the business world, this means [...]
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This post was first published on January 13, 2009. “Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain My husband is currently reading a classic business tome called Eat That Frog. The basic idea is that if you do the worst thing on your [...]
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