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- How do you keep your busy schedule straight?
- How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc)
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I write out my goals for a day the night before. Somehow it gets in my brain and I find myself working on projects without even checking the list. I also carry a calendar with me all the time and a small notebook where I keep track of all kinds of things. One book and not all the little notes that used to get lost.
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc)
Too many sometimes! I am a writer, wife, mother, friend, seminar leader, organizer of a monthly event at the arts council and Gatherer!
* How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc) I'm a mother, wife, business owner, and have a job. There are days I'm not sure how to do it all.
* How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc): Mother, Stepmother, Sister, Aunt to be (sis having a baby in sept.) Administrative Assistant, Grandaughter/help to Alzheimers patient, Daughter (to mom who is a cancer survivor), Domestic Violence Survivor, Wife, Writer, VOLUNTEER (volunteer for relay for life, and walk for alzheimers), Donor (Donate clothes and food items to battered womens shelters and other worthy causes), Soccer Coach, Friend, Motivator, Guardian Angel (honestly one of my friends calls me her Angel), Optimist, and hopefully sometime soon I can add student to be followed by counselor/psychologist. LOL
I don't...LOL...I do have a calander with big spaces that everything gets written in on the right date in color coded markers....BUT, I still manage to miss and forget things.
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc) I`m a wife, mother of a grown son, housekeeper,gardener,take care of 4 dogs, shopper,cook,etc.
Hmm...way too many. When one comes off, another one goes right on. I'm also a dance mom, a Boy Scout mom, a wife, a taxi service, a chef, a caterer, etc...
Many ways...white boards, chalk boards and software to remind me.
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc)
Wife, Caregiver, Sole Proprietor, Computer Trainer, and much more.
Don't schedule too much, make sure you keep a calendar and check it periodically
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc)
mother of two fabulous young adults, part time student at aeronautical university where i work as an administrative assistant for many, wife to a husband who just retired, grandmommy to two adorable doxies, sister to 3, aunt to 5,
I wear many hats at my job too! LOL Talk to you all later!
So my answer to it all is to have a schedule that works for me and the family being sure to take the time during the day or evening that is just for me. This is usually when I am home alone. When the kids were very small it was nap time and when I worked outside the house it was that hour after I put the kids to bed.
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc) wife, mom, writer, blogger, buck club leader, book reviewer...
My hats are full-time college student, girlfriend, and volunteer. On campus, I'm also a member of three different student organizations.
I get home about 5:30 and start dinner, get them to ball practice and pick up oldest up from work. I keep myself very busy. A schedule routine helps me out alot. As does the Cranergy I tried yesterday, I was not exhausted when I returned home in the evening. I comtinued doing.
How do I keep my busy schedule straight? My planner, of course. Modern technology is all well and good, but I prefer having something that won't crash, doesn't need a power source, is lightweight and is easily portable.
I help to care for my sick in laws, thank God they live beside me.
I help my own Mother who is recovering from shoulder surgery.
I am a Mother, Wife, Office Manager and I also help with light cleaning duties at work. I wear myself out trying to keep up with taking care of everyone else.
I have a pretty good memory - if I didn't I'd be sunk. I have so much to do every day. I make a lot of lists for everything and post-it-notes!
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc)I am a doting aunt of three, soon to be wife, scientist, and wonder woman! I am the family confident for health information and employment advice. Of course, I am a blogger as well.
Ok, I think that is all of them!
How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc) wife and adoptive mother of a wonderful dog named Foxy and soon to be started a health product business
* How many hats do you wear? (e.g. mother, student, wife, etc) mom (to 3 dogs), wife (kinda), doting daughter, loving sister, favorite aunty
HA!