I’m excited to let you know that I will be the guest expert on a call with Momnificent’s Lori Radun on Wednesday, March 3rd at 10:30am PT/ 1:30pm ET. The call is part of her monthly Mom’s Club teleseminar series, which is full of fantastic resources to fuel your personal and professional growth as a mom.
Wednesday’s call is all about LEVERAGE. Because when you’re short on time (that’s all of us) and low on energy (helloooo!), you need to yield big results with little effort. Knowing how to leverage everything from your smartphone to your family members will help you maximize your two most precious resources— time and energy.
In our hour-long gab session, we’ll discuss how to automate, delegate and delete the things in life that drain you, making room for you to be more present with your children and work and have a more joyful life. We’ll tackle the negative mindsets and beliefs that keep people from getting the support they need, and how to overcome them. And we’ll talk about how doing less actually makes you more productive, and the myth of multi-tasking.
To learn more and to register for this teleclass, please visit http://www.tinyurl.com/marchmmc. Momnificent! will send you a reminder with the phone number and access code you will need to join me on this teleclass.
Shel Silverstein was one of my favorite childhood authors.
Even as a kid, I remember thinking that he was a ballsy dude, with his no-color illustrations and his hand-drawn typefaces.
His stories were some of my favorites then, but the themes have revealed themselves to me over the years in ways I couldn’t have understood as a child. Now as a mom, they’re a mirror I can use to examine my own life, and a blueprint for values I want to instill in my children.
One of my favorites then, and still now, is The Missing Piece. You know, the little guy that looks like a pizza pie with a slice missing that goes rolling through life on a quest to find someone to complete him? He has some bad dating experiences along the way— pieces that are too loose and fall out, pieces crack in his too-tight embrace, and a piece that’s too pointy and just plain hurts.
When he finally finds his “perfect fit,” he discovers that “perfection” means he can’t stop to talk to a worm, or smell a flower. He can’t even sing his happy song (because his mouth is full) and he thinks to himself:
“Aha, so that’s how it is.”
The little guy literally has an “Aha moment”. He figures out what so many of us have trouble seeing— that he’s okay the way he is. That within his perfectly-imperfect self lies everything he needs to lead a happy, fulfilled, super-awesome life.
If you’ve tried looking to your husband, your children, your job, your house or your brand-name diaper bag to make you happy, and nothing works, it’s time to look to Shel Silverstein for some guidance.
The Perfect Moms Finish Last 6-Week Course is all about giving you the keys to a life where you feel COMPLETE just as you are, where ALL PARTS of you are expressed and you don’t have to sweep parts of yourself under the rug.
You can talk to the worm AND smell the flower.
This is not about “having it all,” proving to the world that you can do everything so that you’re so exhausted you can barely stand.
It’s about embracing all the parts of you:
The part that wants to stomp in puddles with your kids, to watch worms, to peel off your raincoats, and make hot chocolate with extra marshmallows.
AND
The part that longs to write on a whiteboard, collaborate with colleagues, roll up your sleeves, and feel the thrill of the successful work project.
AND
The part that wants to travel with carry-on luggage only, to read The New Yorker, to put on a pair of skinny jeans and heels, have a beer and discuss politics.
All these parts don’t make you the “Perfect Mom”. They make you perfectly YOU. And if you can embrace who you are, just as you are, you’re on the path to Missing Piece-style fulfillment.
Join me on the preview callTHIS THURSDAY, February 25th at 10am PST/1pm EST, where I’ll be spilling all the details of my 6-week course and opening registration. I can’t wait to finally share the curriculum with you, and help you shed your Perfect Mom Disorder and embrace your multi-dimensional self.
If you’ve been following the Perfect Moms Finish Last Interview Series, you’ve heard me talk about Perfect Mom Disorder, the affliction that plagues most moms I know. We’re all obsessed with doing everything “the right way” and we obsess over even the tiniest decisions, afraid to make a mistake, afraid to let our guards down that we don’t have it all under control.
In this video, I reveal how PMD rears it’s ugly head in my life, and how I almost had a nervous breakdown producing the interview series I designed to help battle it! I’m sharing stuff I’ve never shared before about how difficult motherhood was for me in the beginning, why I started Mothercraft, and how all roads have lead me to write the Perfect Moms Finish Last 6-Week Course.
If any of this resonates with you, and you’re feeling a little PMD, you’ll want to register for the preview call I’ll be hosting on February 25th at 10a PT/1p ET. I’ll be unveiling the entire syllabus for all six weeks, and registration will open immediately after.
Plus, I’ll be announcing the grand prize for the “I Heart Organizing Giveaway”, and you must be registered for the call to be entered to win the grand prize!
What’s your Perfect Mom Disorder Story? Please send it to me, I’d love to hear how you overcome your PMD (or at least give it a try!).
Hi gang! This week, I wrote a guest post for a good cause. Head to Modern Mom to read my post, entitled “Return to the Kitchen,” all about how to get cooking with confidence. Then head over to Kelly Ripa’s Cake Off For A Cause from February 10th to the 19th. Why? Because Electrolux will donate $1 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund for every vote cast in the Cake Off. You will also get great tips on baking from Kelly and the Cake Boss himself. And don’t forget to enter to win an Electrolux Induction Range while you’re there!
Multitasking is a way of life for moms, but study after study warns of its perils— that it makes us less productive. That doing too many things makes us dumber. That… ummm, what was I saying?
Sorry, I was just checking my email.
Unfortunately, all this research does is add one more thing to the guilt heap for moms. When your “office” is a laptop at the kitchen table (which doubles as a Play-Doh workstation), and your kids need diapers changed, juice, more juice, and help extruding hot pink spaghetti from the Fun Factory, you’re lucky if you can focus on a task for more than two seconds, let alone get it done without multitasking.
And the worst part is, we attribute our inability to focus to “Mommy Brain!” How self-deprecating! Career, self-care, household, finances, marriage, relatives, friendships, and the round-the-clock needs of children… as if someone who did not have the brain of a mom could even come close to keeping all these balls in the air! Yeesh!
Multitasking is definitely a lifeline for moms, but there is a right and a wrong way to do it. Of course texting while driving to Mommy & Me is a bad idea (duh!), but there are other multitask combos that can make you more productive, decrease guilt and lower your stress level.
In Week Four of my upcoming “Perfect Moms Finish Last” 6-Week Course, I’ll share my system for multi-tasking the right way, and how to make use of all those tiny, unexpected bits of free time that crop up (waiting in the carpool line, at the doctor’s office…). Make sure you sign up for the preview call on Thursday, February 25th at 5:00pm Pacific/8:00pm Eastern to get the goods.
Here’s to playing Candy Land while you fold the laundry!
As the mother of a 2-year old, it’s hard to stop myself from comparing my daughter’s development to that of other kids her age. Better than anyone else, Carley is able to cut through to what is important and help me enjoy the developmental stage Hannah is going through right at that moment, rather than focusing on what she is or is not doing yet. — Lauren S., Advertising/Sales & Hannah’s Mom.
I’m excited to let you know that I will be the guest expert on a call with Momnificent’s Lori Radun on Wednesday, March 3rd at 10:30am PT/ 1:30pm ET. The call is part of her monthly Mom’s Club teleseminar series, which is full of fantastic resources to fuel your personal and professional growth as a mom.
One of my favorites then, and still now, is The Missing Piece. You know, the little guy that looks like a pizza pie with a slice missing that goes rolling through life on a quest to find someone to complete him? He has some bad dating experiences along the way— pieces that are too loose and fall out, pieces crack in his too-tight embrace, and a piece that’s too pointy and just plain hurts.
