Wed 14 Jan 2009
Life By Design’s Weekly News
January 14, 2009
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News this week:
~ How to have smoother mornings
~ The search for leadership excellence with Victoria DePaul
~ Quote of the Week
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How to have smoother mornings
Most mothers that I talk to describe their mornings as “hectic”, “chaotic” and “rushed”. Usually kids scattering in a zillion directions, looking for homework, books, shoes…and while you are directed traffic you are trying to make sure that they get semblance of the most important meal of the day.
Does that sound familiar? If so here are some tips to having a smooth morning and a better start for everyone’s day.
Make sure that everyone is getting enough sleep, especially you! If you and your family not morning people it is more important that your kids and you are getting enough sleep to feel rested in the morning. Depending on the age children from 5-12 still need between 10-12 hours of sleep where teenagers need between 8-9 hours of sleep.
Set up a bedtime routine. To reduce running around in the morning have each child set their homework, books and everything they need for school the next day in a designated spot. Set out clothes as part of the night time routine will cut back on tracking down clothes in the morning.
To help with breakfast dilemmas, plan what you are going to have the night before, add into your night routine assigning one of the kids to set the table. You could even cook up scrambled eggs using leftover meat and vegetables from dinner, place in a microwave safe container and put in the fridge for morning. In the morning pop in some toast, server with fruit and juice.
Baths or showers the night before cut back on morning bathroom lines and make the time it takes everyone to get ready faster.
Hopefully, these will give you some suggestions to help your family start off the morning with less hassle and less stress.
~ Coach Tonya
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The search for leadership excellence with Victoria DePaul
This week on Journey to Self we will be searching for leadership excellence with author Victoria DePaul.
With more than 24 years experience in corporate America, Victoria C. DePaul knows a thing or two about effective business leadership. After struggling for many years with how to motivate employees to perform at their best level, DePaul discovered that the basis for motivation is the person’s desire to be happy.
In her new book, Creating the Intrapreneur: The Search for Leadership Excellence, DePaul uses her personal and professional experience to guide readers toward achieving true success in business and life. She explains that all organizations and communities are energy systems in which the basic unit of power is the individual. In order to achieve results, people must be empowered to experience and express their creative self. Only then will they be truly happy and productive.
Based in personal experience and application, the concepts that Victoria introduces are more than theory - they are the proven steps to organizational transformation. Further, she discovered what true happiness is - the full experience of our creative, spirit Self. In order to achieve excellent results, all that was necessary was to empower others to express their unique creativity. In other words, she learned to provide the vision, guidance and tools and then got out of the way. The natural result was a motivated and innovative workforce, leading to increased production results, high levels of morale and accountability.
Victoria, parent of two teenage sons, holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies - Business Administration, from the New York Institute of Technology.
Join me Thursday January 15th as Victoria DePaul and I talk about her book and the search for leadership excellence. Listen live at 10am pst / 11am mnt / 12pm cst / 1pm est on Blog Talk Radio ~ http://blogtalkradio.com/journeytoself
You can join the chat room during the show, use the “click to talk” feature, or call in (347) 215-8942 with your comments or questions.
If you can’t make it to the live show - no worries, all shows are archived and available with the show notes soon after the show on the Journey to Self Website ~ http://journeytoself.info.
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Quote of the Week
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.”
~ Phillip C. McGraw
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