If you are interested

This is an email I got today. And I wanted to pass it along.

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Dear Moms...

I hope each of you are doing wonderful - that you had a great summer, and are glad to be back in the routine of the school-year. Personally I'm pretty sad to see summer go since most of my summer was involved in getting ready for a new baby and then adjusting to having one! But I am also grateful that we've finally gotten into a routine - and the school year has really helped with that.

I wanted to let you know that I am hosting a Five Steps to Less Stress workshop this next Thursday - September 27 at 7:30pm. These five steps are the very basics of the Mind Organization for Moms program written by April Perry, based on David Allen's book Getting Things Done. The M.O.M. program has helped me so much in becoming more of the mother I want to be on a daily basis - and that is why I'm taking the time to host this workshop for other mothers! If you have the time and desire to join me, please follow this link to the registration page. There is a small fee of $15 for this workshop, and the size will be limited in size so that we can have great discussions and really learn from one another.

Tenille Eyre Cundick
Power of Moms Certified Trainer

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The link http://powerofmoms.com/upcoming-retreats-and-workshops/five-steps-to-less-stress-workshop-in-salt-lake-city-may-31-2012/

A Mind like Ivy

I was out tacking a yard project this morning.  Well, I guess I should say I wanted to tackle a yard project.  After being in this house for 3 years, I discovered cement curbing!  Under overgrown ivy.  It was like discovering buried treasure.

I started pulling the ivy out like this

All in a bundle.  It was too hard.  All my amazing upper arm strength couldn't make it budge.  I got discouraged.  My self talk was like, "this is just too hard. , I can't do it.  I don't have time for this." 

Then I thought of trying one vine at a time.  

Like this. 

And it was super easy.  And I pulled out a nice long, satisfying vine!  And I was making progress!  And it took some hard work, but I did get my curbing uncovered!  

It really reminded me of my brain.  Sometime it is a jumbled tangle of vines and I don't know where to start, and it is all too hard and I get discouraged and want to give up.  But if we take that tangle and focus on one vine at a time we can make progress on all the things that are on our mind!  

One vine at a time, one thing at a time.  We can make progress.  So when everything you have to do is jumbling up your mind, take a few minutes to do a great mind dump, and start doing one thing on your list at a time. 

If I can do it, You can do it!

School STUFF!

A new beginning a new school year, a great time to get a system that you trust!  

I loved my in box.  I dumped out the small pile of junk collected in there.  And then I put in the things that really needed my attention.  School papers!  

I filled out forms*.  I signed what I needed.  I scanned info.  I sorted things that were relevant and things that we junk.  It took about 15 minutes for 3 school kids.  I saved one paper that I needed to look at more closely and do something online with the computer.  

Then I had Stuff left over.  What was I going to do with the stuff.  It was important because it had information on it.  I had read through the class info, but I wasn't ready to throw it away.  It still had value, but I didn't want it crowding my counter space.  

Da da DAH!  Folders to the rescue!  

I just made three folders.  Kid #1 School Info, Kid #2 School Info, and you guessed it, Kid #3 School Info.  So now I have reference folders for the info that I don't need right now, but I might as the year goes on.

*lest you think I am some super crazy lady, I did let my kids watch tv and relax after school, and even let them play outside for a long time, and we got our 15 minutes of getting things done right before it was bedtime.