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Concurrent Activity

"I always think "what can I be doing at the same time as I am doing  this".  This "concurrent activity" mindset  really helps me use my time effectively.  

For example, I make sure I go from the post box and do the recycling bin on one of the many errands I am running for my kids.  I make sure I have different activities going on if I am in the kitchen, cooking, washing etc.  "  By Frances - Reading
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Take a look at   the Websites We Like to find the products and information that are useful to you. We also love to hear your time saving tips and any websites you are happy to recommend.

 

As a busy working Mum of four children (and more recently three step children), I have had my own fair share of challenges so I know how overwhelming life can feel at times. Although I do my best to juggle all the people and projects in my own life, as my children will account gleefully,  things do not always go according to plan. Try taking a look at our Thats Life section, or if you want to find more about me go to the About Us page.
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Club Penguin

One of Help for Busy Mums readers contacted me about this site. This is what she has to say about Club Penguin. " A teacher friend of mine suggested a safe kids site for my children. Club Penguin is a virtual world where children can play games, have fun and interact; it is owned by Disney. You are a penguin and get to roam around an ice world, visit penguin shops and play games. You have your own house which you can decorate. You can even buy special virtual pets called Puffle's. Playing the various fun games earns you coins to buy things for your house and pet. You can join and fully interact at Club Penguin for free but being a paid member allows you access to extra items. My children all have their own penguins and still enjoy this site since they joined last year as it has special events, new puzzles and changes in the virtual environment. We use membership as a reward for our kid's star chart."

Celebrity Fashion

Goddiva is a UK-based online clothing retailer, specialising in Celebrity Fashion trends, and is a shopping destination for 16-34 years old fashion-savvy women looking for the latest styles. Goddivas collection offers chic, feminine and affordable designs for evening and casual wear, as well as the latest Celebrity fashion styles. Goddivas newest Celeb Style catalogue introduces fabulous pieces that are a must for any fashion connoisseurs wardrobe. With main manufacturing based in the UK, Goddiva produces new celebrity styles every week.

Tiffany Rose Maternity

Tiffany Rose Maternity offers pregnant mums the chance at last for fun and glamorous designer maternity clothes. Theirr range, exclusive to the UK, includes classics, tops, bottoms and dresses - all guaranteed to create that glamour factor! Pregnant mums can now look forward to dressing up and showing off their figures in bold colour prints, classic black chic, fun party dresses, evening gowns and even wedding dresses! The answer to every fashionable mums' dreams

Fun Mum Maternity Clothes

Funmum.com is a brand unto itself making maternity clothes for women who want to look and feel great as their bodies change shape. T

Job Agency that pays you

Jobtonic is the recruitment website that rewards visitors for referring friends to new jobs. If a visitor refers a friend and that friend goes on to get the job, we reward the referrer with up to £1,000 in cash! There are over 1,000 jobs on the site offering rewards with more being added every day.
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Do You Really Know How You Spend Your Time?

 

Does how you spend your time refect what is personally important to you?

Too many of us spend our lives unaware of how we really spend our time. 

Days, weeks years drift past and the things we have promised ourselves to do fail to materialise. 

One of the things which we seem to forget is that the time we have is finite ….and none of us really know how long we have got.

If you hear yourself saying “I don’t know where the time goes” or “I just don’t have the time” – then maybe you should try the following simple and I promise, not time consuming exercise.

When you have a few moments write down the areas of your life that are personally important to you in your life right now and where you feel you should be focusing your energy.

Then taking your diary work out where you spend your time. Include things like commuting, sleeping, work, housework, socialising, time with your partner, children or close friends. 

Then refer back to your original priorities.  Does your time reflect what is personally important to you?

I have done this exercise with a number of clients and they are really astounded when they see in writing how they spend their time.

Often it is not on the things which they think it will be, or on the things which it should be.   Worse than that, the people and things which they rate as a priority in life actually feature much further down the list than they had ever realised.

All of us will have different priorities at different times in our lives. Sometimes there is a work project  that means you have to work late to get it completed. 

Other times you may need to spend time decorating or getting your house in order.    
However if your children or partner are your highest priorities it is important that they do not end up down the bottom of the list all the time.  Sometimes we are so caught up in day to day activities we fail to notice this.  

Having an awareness of how we spend our time can be a very valuable tool and help highlight when our lives our lives are not reflecting what is personally important to us.

 
Copyright 2007 by Diana Groves