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Establish your time, prioritize, plan, and organize your own time so you’re not stuck in survival mode. Get your schedule, goals, and personal systems in place so you feel in control—not constantly behind.

Establish Your Time

Podcast #17: Let’s Talk Mental Health – Stop Spreading Yourself Too Thin

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When I became a mom and went through all the first time mom-feels: joys, discoveries and all the challenges. It REALLY became apparent on my mental load after I had my second baby.

I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt that I was spread way thin.

I was still adjusting to knowing my daughter, a very different baby than my first, and all the tricks that were working before, didn’t work at all or as effectively with her. I felt, as millions of moms out there also felt: like crap. I had no idea what I was doing. Well, I knew the basics but this was a whole different personality. It’s as though I was starting back at square one; but STILL trying to be present and attentive to my son and at the same time be a loving and supportive wife: 24/7 , 365.

My mode was either OFF, which felt like a blink, or ALWAYS ON: there for everyone AND everything. Doing things on my own and trying to figure things out, is just who I am. It’s part of my ‘being’.

Now, this isn’t to say that my husband didn’t help or wasn’t present. Not at all. He’s a very involved parent and husband. When I was in massage therapy school every second weekend, he was perfectly fine taking care of our son. And our son…. knew no difference!

But, while Onnig was asleep, call it stubbornness on my part or just wanting to ensure he’s at his best for his employees and business partners, I would rarely wake him up overnight. I tended to all the wake ups from either one or both kids.

Now don’t get me wrong, we had many conversations about me needing to wake him up, even if it was to bring the baby to me, wait for the feed, and bring her back to her crib – he was so on board with that. But my thoughts were about taking care of him too.
In hindsight, I wanted and needed to do the work: feel all the feels, gain the experience and knowledge about myself. As much as my babies were growing, I was too.

But my mental health was also taking a toll. I didn’t know or didn’t pay much attention then, but I do remember one night, annoyed after a quick feed, standing by the corner of the bed, awake but exhausted. What felt like months and months and months of trying to keep it all together, while feeling like I was being pulled in all directions, I felt resentment brewing.

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Podcast #16: Time Management: A Conversation With Professional Organizer Marie-Odette Moubayed

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So in today’s episode, like I mentioned earlier, is something different where I’m sharing the conversation I had with fellow pro organizer, and gal-pal.

We’ll be covering Time Management, how we set up and plan our weekly schedules, how we set up our goals, and also share what works for us when it comes to managing our tasks.

Remember, this WAS a recording from an Instagram Live so the volume or sound might be a little different from what I normally put out each week. And I almost forgot to mention, I’m so glad to be able to share this with you because, like Instagram Live newbies that we are, it was accidentally deleted from her feed just a few minutes after we went LIVE! (laughs)

And now you have it right here, for your listening pleasure any time you want!

So let’s get this whole thing started. Let’s go!

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MO: This is very exciting. Our first LIVE together and I’m happy. I’m actually happy because you know, I have problems with time management and I know you’re pretty much an expert in time management. I have a few questions for you….

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Podcast #2: My Origin Story

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I’m a teacher at heart and love to help people discover more about themselves and their capabilities.  Always looking for the silver-lining and lessons to be learned so that we come out a wiser, more aware and grateful version of ourselves.  I wasn’t always so organized and for a good chunk of the 10+ years of being a mom, I’ve spread myself pretty thin, trying to be everywhere and doing everything – all the time. And sometimes all at once! That’s just a disaster waiting to happen.
I also struggled for a long while with the thought of:

“Is this it? Is this my life, just a mom? And when the kids are grown and doing their own thing… then what?!”

Join me now, as I’ll be taking you, way back, to the beginning of my organizing journey.

Establish Your Time

Podcast #1: 5 steps to finding time in a busy schedule

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Ugh I don’t know when I’m gonna get this done.

I can’t do this until (insert the name of the person you need) is here to help.

Sometimes I’m SO booked with driving here and there,  doing everything for everyone, I barely have time to THINK about tackling the things I want to get done around the house.

Do you ever confide these to a friend or even say it under your breath? When it comes to getting something organized like your closet, the books scattered all over the house or the kids’ toys that are taking over the living room and now, into the kitchen???

Often we end up reorganizing and rage purging late in the evening and working well into the night.  Next thing you know, we’re deep in clutter and in even MORE of a mess than when we first started. Other times, we feel guilty the next day because we got rid of something we MAYBE shouldn’t have. 

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