Breaking the Busyness Cycle Before You Pass It to Your Kids

Every year, you pour yourself into making the holidays special for everyone you love. The decorating, the baking, the gifts, the traditions. But somewhere along the way, did it stop feeling special for you? If you've ever reached the day after Christmas feeling more relieved than happy, I see you. I did that for way too many years. The holidays have always been my favorite time of year. But after becoming a mom and adding more extended family, I noticed I was almost dreading them because they...

Years ago, I went to a full-day "best year yet" workshop at the end of the second week in January. I'm coachable to a fault, so I did every single exercise they gave us. I walked out with an enormous workbook and what I thought was a beautiful plan for my year. That plan was basically useless before I'd even finished unpacking. Part of the problem was that nobody in that room ever asked what my real life and my real capacity looked like. The other part was the timing. Every planner starts in ...

If you love paper planners but your actual life has to be digital, you have probably felt stuck between two bad options. Go digital and lose everything you love about paper, or stay on paper and miss half of what your family adds to the shared calendar. I have been recommending one tool for this for years, and today I got the founder on the show. My guest is Katy Allen, the creator and owner of Artful Agenda, the only digital calendar software I give The Pink Bee stamp of approval to. Katy bu...

If you've looked at a calendar lately and counted the weeks between now and December 31st, you probably thought what I thought: that is so much time! Then I actually counted. And the number on my calendar and the number I really have were nowhere close. Planning your time is a lot like having a financial budget. And right now most of us are spending from an account we think is full, but it isn't. In This Episode, I'll Cover: The four-step exercise I walked through to find out how many weeks I...

Have you ever said out loud, "I wish I had a wife"? I know I have! For years I thought the answer was to hire it out in pieces, so I had a nanny for my daughter and a cleaner coming every week. Then I'd look at whether a laundry service was worth it, or whether I could find somebody to walk the dogs on the days I just couldn't. By the time I added it all up, I was looking at eight or nine different people for eight or nine little pockets of my life and the math stopped making sense. And not o...