By: Susan Smith

Have a master family calendar

A master family calendar is a great way to keep track of everyone’s commitments, appointments, and activities. Keep it in a central location in your house—perhaps in the kitchen or by the front door—and updated it regularly. Make sure that all the family members know about it and update their appointments as well. This might take some time to work smoothly, but having a master schedule for the family will make your life easier. (It will also highlight any conflicting appointments or activities that might need to be rescheduled.)

Get takeout or go out to eat once during the week

Families often reserve the weekends for going out to dinner or ordering takeout, but consider doing this on a weeknight instead. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, but giving yourself one night off from having to cook in the middle of the week can reduce stress and give the family a chance to catch up over a relaxing meal.

Get your kids involved in helping around the house

Cleaning and cooking are two household chores that can take up a significant amount of our time as parents. Think about involving your kids and getting them to help you with these – or other—household chores. It will teach them responsibility and a good worth ethic, but most importantly, it will allow you to spend time together doing something as a family. Even very young kids can help out—perhaps you can let them wash plastic containers in the sink while you empty out the dishwasher. (more…)

By: David Taylor

Does "The Secret" really work?, or is it just another way to pander to the "get rich quick" mentality which seems to prevail in our society today?. Something somewhere doesn't seem to be adding up, and the expectation that we can all be millionaires and successful at anything we do needs to be weighed with a certain amount of discrimination. All "The Secret" appears to be doing is creating more frustration and a feeling that maybe we are not quite good enough to manifest like the people in the film says they can if nothing happens after a few months. Am I and most of the people I know alone in feeling this?. (more…)

By: Karen Farrell Jaworski

Just for today, imagine how good life can be. There is nothing standing in your way. All things are possible as long as you believe…
All of these things are positive sayings and are meant to help you, but do they really? How often do we hear these sayings and don’t give them a second thought? Then, on the other hand, how many lives they have changed? It all depends on you and what your belief system from your family of origin is. Do you believe that you deserve the best life has to offer or do you think that where you are now is all you will ever have.

There are two ways you can view yourself and your life; positively or negatively,…you have the choice.

You are valuable just because you are. Every person on the face of this earth has been created in God’s image. We all enter the world in the same way and we all leave this world the way we came in so it’s our free will to choose how we live our lives in the in-between time that makes the difference.

Studies show that identical twins raised by the same two parents in the same house all of their lives, grow up to lead very different lives. Even though they had the exact same stimuli throughout their formative years, their free will to make different life choices kicked in and led them down different paths. (more…)

By: Simon Jordan

What do you think success is? Having a loving family, a great career, being debt free or having lots of money to spend time with your loved ones and share your wealth with them?
At school we are taught reading, writing and arithmetic. What about learning how to be successful, how to be wealthy. I’m talking really wealthy and having the ability to live as you wish to live, not how you are told to live, but to live without a boss. To be the master of your life not the victim of your circumstances. Wouldn’t that be truly fantastic?

Really think about that for a moment. Just sit and dream for a while. Sit back, close your eyes and think about what it would really be like. We have all sat back and thought about what we do if we won the lottery. But the lottery odds are not good to win. But lets just think for a minute if you could really accumulate the knowledge that would help you gain massive wealth, where would you live, what holidays would you go on. How would you choose to spend your time and with whom? (more…)

By: Suzi Elton

Do you live your life constantly attempting to finish your To Do list? Are you demoralized on an ongoing basis because the To Do list grows as fast on one end as it shrinks on the other end? Does it seem like your To Do list is a stack of items about two feet high, and consumes all your time? Do you wonder if there is any meaningful way to manage your To Do list and not be “run” by it?
Consider the “Rotating To Do List”. The concept is that you always organize your To Do list with the highest priority items on top, and handle the most important items first. It’s called a rotating To Do list, because the most important things naturally rotate to the top of the list, and off the list when accomplished. Unimportant items naturally rotate off the bottom of the list when you realize they do not need to be done. Items rotate up and down the list according to their importance. (more…)