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productivity

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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!This post was first published on March 23, 2009.
Reader Marilyn asks:
“I am struggling to set some kind of schedule for [...]

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Big Rocks First

by Tsh on March 5, 2010

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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 [...]

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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 that [...]

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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 plate [...]

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Post image for My Daily Docket is my Daily Lifesaver

This post was first published on April 25, 2008. Many of you have shared with me your positive experiences in regularly using the Daily Docket, and I’m so thankful for your encouraging feedback. For those of you who are newer readers — feel free to first download the Docket and see what you [...]

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Post image for Ring in 2010 with Tangible, Reachable, Optimistic Goals

New year’s resolutions get a bad rep, and I can understand why. Almost nobody keeps them past January. Why? They’re usually overly-ambitious, they’re made in haste, or the timing is off. The post-holiday letdown tends to give people excuses to throw in the towel before they’ve given their goals a fair [...]

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The following is a guest post from Angie of The Creative Mama and of Angie Warren Photography.
Pictures are souvenirs.
They are gifts to which we hold tight for years. Oftentimes, images of our childhood are the only tangible treasures we have to remind us of that fleeting time. To me, the photographs of my family are [...]

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