It’s not just about time management, it’s also about discipline. Discipline is something I’m going to need a great deal of over the next few months in order to make my working from home plan continue to work. I have been doing very well working from home since about October of 2007. All this time, my son has had 1/2 days of preschool. Now, he’s out for summer, and there are going to be 100s of distractions for me, not just him, but his activities such as VBS at church, my mom is off (she’s a school teacher) and there will just be more temptations to do something OTHER than work.

A fellow WAHM wrote on this topic on here blog, and I loved a few of her suggestions. In fact, today I’m going to try them. They include not turning on the computer before I eat my breakfast, get dressed, and do some housework.

Another is that I spend a specific amount of time on certain tasks and then stop. I am bad about just messing around online for endless amounts of timing hopping from one task to another. Though I am organized and do have a plan, I need more discipline to actually STICK to it. So it’s not JUST about Time management for me it is also about discipline.

Finally, I agree that I should have a quitting time each day and for the summer especially since my children will be home all day with me I think this is going to be important. Especially with the new baby coming I need to be disciplined with my work so that I have time to enjoy my family too.

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I love it when I can breath a sigh of relief that all the bills are paid and we are not in the red. What a blessing! That was the case today and even though the stimulus $$ from the government came today, we had the money for the bills regardless. Thanks the Lord!

Today was a relaxing day. I did not do much work wise, but I enjoyed the time with my kids and went to see my mom and grandmother for a while, they watched the kids for me for a bit so I could go to the grocery store and now I am back home, but will soon head out to my son’s tee ball game and to a late dinner out with my family.

This weekend we are busy as usual with a cookout for my son’s preschool class to end up the school year tomorrow night and I am hosting a shower for my good friend April who is having a baby at the end of the month. Sunday will be a busy day, with the shower and church.

Hope everyone enjoyed this week of Mommyfest and will listen to my audio over there on “The Advantages of an Organized Life”.

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When I saw this…

I was excited too, Wow! I thought I’m featured at the Mom Bloggers Club. This is a super cool, chick club I just joined probably weeks ago because yes, I am a MOM blogger. And I love to connect with other mom bloggers. So, this was a fabulous place to do so. I was even so inspired by the network/club itself that I formed my own network for my newest venture, Organized Life by Design.

Though I love my new network, I am still fascinated with how well the Mom Blogger’s Club is run and it still is an inspiration and somewhat of a challenge to me to do as well with my own network/club. It is updated almost by the hour it seems and the owner The Mom Salon does sooo well with it. I wonder if she isn’t constantly working on the site, that or she has a fabulous team of people working for her.

I know my favorite part of the Mom Blogger’s Club “look” is their graphics, I am soo envious of the awesome graphics that I have started trying to create my own graphics, so again they’ve inspired me to take action. I love anybody that does that! I like to be inspired.

So, I was honored to see my face on the main page of the network this morning. Hope you’ll come check out what all the fuss is about over at The Mom Bloggers Club.

P.S. The Mom Salon or your fabulous graphics team if you’re reading this…. “How did you lighten my face and make my photo look so much better?”

Edited to add: The Mom Blogger’s Owner who is known on the site as The Mom Salon is actually named Jennifer James. I was hoping to find out her real name!!!

Plus, I obviously got excited before I scrolled because after going back to The Mom Blogger’s Club I found this: 

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How do you like my new digs? On Twitter last night as I was chatting about changing my theme I had people screaming “NO” because they liked my old customized header/graphics and so do I. However, I’m a pregnant momma and pregnant women well we like to rearrange things, organize things, nest a little as they say. So, I’m just nesting, it’ll be over soon enough. See that little baby counter thing at the bottom left of my blog? It says 92 days, yes 92 I”m amazed at how fast it counted down. When I started using that thing it had over 200 days on it. Time flies! So, you won’t have to look at this theme much longer than 92 days. I promised after that I’ll go back to my old theme, which I (heart) by the way and I will have someone put my newest additions picture in the header with my other two cutie pies and life will be just grand, or my house will be a circus, one or the other. After all I will have three children, ages 4, 17 months and newborn.

However, for now I like my new digs, my sidebar is clean and fresh rather than cluttered. The clutter was bothering my newly organized mind. Oh and I even figured out how to put my little buttons in the footer, (look down there and check it out, please, humor me). So, don’t throw tomatoes just yet, I am going to change it back but for now, I am enjoying my preggy mama theme.  Oh and if you want to… go read my About page, I updated it this morning too.

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My friends Aurelia and Judilynn both posted Monday Motivation posts today on their blogs. Monday Motivations is a way that they get motivated to start a new week, now I am going to join them today as I had a bit of difficulty getting motivated myself this morning. Luckily, After reading their posts and looking over my client list of articles and my monthly income list I realized if i was going to make that income I had to actually write the client’s articles brilliant revelation huh?

But seriously, I have been trying to stay better organized, which was one of Judilynn’s ways of getting motivated and I am trying to create some new habits. One of which is to go to bed with my desk clean every night, another which isn’t really related to my writing is to go to bed with a clean kitchen, no dishes in the sink, counters wiped, dishwasher running, everything put away. I attempted to create a habit of doing this earlier in the year and lets just say I fell off the wagon. So I am at it again. They say it takes 21 days to develop a habit, last night was day 4 this go round for my attempting to create a habit of cleaning my kitchen before bed.

Setting goals normally helps me to stay motivated, so do TO DO lists. I am an avid To Do list maker. Of course i made my TO DO list for today over the weekend. Making your TO DO list the night before can save you time.

Aurelia share her TO DO for the week over on her blog. She also asks how we plan our week. Well, normally mine first centers around any family activities or appointments, then church activities, then my work/ministry.

This week I luckily don’t have alot going on outside the home. I find the fewer outside the home activities I have the better. I can get much more done. Tonight I have TOMgirls my favorite outside the home activity, getting together with a group of gals at church for food, Bible study, prayer and fellowship. Tonight we’re being honored by the WMU (older ladies of the church) and they are treating us to a meal and entertainment I hear. I can’t wait!

Ok, I’ve motivated myself today, I hope you can get motivated too and enjoy your week!

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