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5 Tips to Help Project Manage Your Family
Top five tips to create a smoother, happier family life!
Family Organization Systems That Work
A straightforward approach to set up organizational systems that actually work and can keep your family on track throughout the entire year.
Meal Planning Made Easy
Meal planning doesn't have to be an overwhelming task for busy parents. By implementing these five essential tips, you can take control of your family's meals, save time cooking, and reduce stress around food preparation.
10 Essential Steps for Busy Parents-to-Be: Getting Ready for Baby
Preparing for a new baby can be overwhelming for busy parents. But by following these 10 tips, you can stay organized and make sure the family and the household is ready.
How to Plan a Smooth and Relaxing Summer with Your Family
Kid’s summer schedules may be less structured, but it's a transition that takes some planning and organization. Here are some tips to get your family ready to slide into summer for whatever you have planned.
Create Romance with Communication About Chores
How to proactively talk with your partner about the housework, decide who does what based on capacity, and manage the work day to day using professional project management principles.
Keeping New Year's Organization Resolutions All Year Long
How to keep New Year's organization resolutions all year long by getting the family on board, picking organizational systems that work for every person in your family, and managing them long-term.
Living Gracefully with a Balanced Schedule - a Tribute to my Mother-in-law
My mother-in-law Susan also had some wonderful ideas on how live more fully and gracefully. Here are several things that I learned from her about how achieve a more balanced and restful schedule.
Be a Goose Parent, Not a Seagull Parent
For kids, the beginning of the school year is a lot like starting a new job. For parents, our job is similar to being a manager. If we manage correctly, we can support our kids as they navigate their new "job" this year.
Learning and Readjusting Your Family Priorities
As a project manager, I’m very thoughtful and protective of how we spend our time as a family. We have set up our schedule to match our main priorities of family time, church, careers, and health. We’re also cautious about scheduling too many activities and usually stick to no more than two a week.
Keeping Summer Simple – Tips to Achieve Your Ideal Summer with the Family
I wanted to share some ideas on how to keep summer simple and hopefully a bit more care-free than the school year. Here are tips to achieve your ideal relaxing summer while organizing your schedule and household tasks.
Accomplishing Home Improvement Projects
In project management, scope planning provides an overall picture of the work. It provides a thoughtful framework to decide if the project is even worth doing. If so, scope planning can provide a framework for getting it done. You can use this article to think through a large or small project you would like to get done at your house.
Event Planning: How to be Prepared to Enjoy the Festivities
The largest event I ever planned was for all the General Managers of The Ritz-Carlton with a $1 million budget! Fortunately my project management training helped me streamline the work and stay organized. I’ve learned a few tips along the way and here are seven steps to get ready for a fun celebration, based on professional project management principles.
Six Steps to be Ready for Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day is coming! Planning ahead can help you relax and appreciate the occasion because you know you are prepared. Here are six steps to get ready for a fun celebration with your family, based on professional project management principles.