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How Mom's Can Have It All- Work, Family And Fun

One of the most difficult changes for moms is trying to juggle everything that needs to be done and still have time for "you". Days are spent hustling and bustling just to get basic chores done. By the time all you chores are finished, you are tired. The week has ended and it’s time to start all over again.

However, there is a solution to the crazy and tiring circle of all-work and no-play. With STARTplanner you will be amazed at what you can organize. In fact, you will learn that you can finally dream big. You will be able to make things happen. When you are able to organize your time with a STARTplanner product.

Projects

When you organize your projects effectively, you will have more time for family, friends and the hobbies that you enjoy. And since projects are what take up most of your time, you want them well arranged. Our products are designed to help you with your daily and weekly goals so that will actually have time off to do the things you love.

Goals

Setting goals is a wise choice for many things. They are needed so that you have something to aim for. Both long and short term goals are important. And with each small goal you reach in your planners, the closer you get to the big picture.

Finances

With a busy life and schedule, it is extremely important that you keep a good record of your budget and finances. In fact, many experts agree that a planner can help keep finances in check so that you know how much and when a bill is owed. Staying on track with your budget is also a great way to save money. In truth, a plan can show you how much you spend on what, where you need to cut back and how you can save for the family vacation.

Health

When you have a busy life, sometimes it is easy to take care of others and not yourself. However, the stress of taking on too much can catch up with you and affect your health. The good news is, with a daily and weekly planner your time will be well-organized. In fact, the long overdue break will finally arrive.

Schedule

Knowing how to schedule can be tricky. But instead of just marking dates on a calendar or placing the doctor’s card on your fridge, you can organize place the date in the schedule of your planner. That way you can keep track of appointments and check your schedule daily. As well, the planner can help you manage your time wisely.

Grocery List

If you are the type to always forget your grocery list at home, then a planner is a must. Oftentimes when lists are forgotten, you rarely come home with the items you need but have a ton of items that caught your eye in the grocery. Not only will a planner help you remember items you need, but it saves a lot of money on items that normally you wouldn’t buy.

Holidays and Vacations

The greatest thing about the START Planner is that it keeps you organized so that you can save both money and time. In truth, you can finally have enough saved to plan a trip for the holidays or go on the vacation of your dreams. In addition, STARTplanner.com helps you achieve your goals so that you can have everything - all- work, family and fun.

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Who uses STARTplanner? Stay At Home Mom's Working Moms. Anyone Who Wants To Get Organized

Setting New Year's Resolutions Already? Organize Your Life And Hit Your Goals

It's almost that time of year again. You know, the end of the year where we inevitably plan to start new exercise routines. Eat healthier, develop a savings fund. Give to charities, and transform our lives over the course of the next year? These ideas always seems like a way to start fresh and gain control of our lives again. These big ideas usually peter out within the first month. Our grandiose ideas are then postponed until next New Year's Eve. When they reappear right on schedule.

Let's Start at Square One
But how would you feel if you actually tackled your goals!? Oftentimes, these ideas seem so out of reach because we just don't know where to begin. Such life-altering goals usually go unmet, due to a lack of planning or motivation. Organizational aides such as planners and organizers are often overlooked. Yet, they can help with managing time. Planning meetings, event, projects even date nights. And, can help keep you accountable for achieving your pre-determined goals.

Moving Ahead with Organization
Once you have made the decision to proceed with organizational help, selecting the right tool is essential. You could use those smart phone apps...you know, the ones that you forget about within a day? Or you could use sticky notes that disappear in the trash. When you have ruled out these methods, you should take a peek at STARTplanner.com. We offer a variety of functional, yet cute planners that keep you on track. From big work deadlines to simple grocery lists, STARTplanner helps plan your day step-by-step.

Exploring STARTplanner Products
Stay-at-home moms. They use STARTplanner. Working moms? They use STARTplanner. Our products help make prioritizing meetings and work deadlines, a snap.  You can choose from pre-bound planners that cater to the needs of daily routines, business endeavors, or calendars. Or bare binders that can be customized for your specific organizational needs can be created. Accessories, such as pens, pencils, stickers, tape, and electronic wallpapers are available to keep you motivated and excited about your organizational goals.

Keep it Exciting
Although traditional paper planners may seem like a tool of the past, the key to effective planning is to keep the process exciting yet relevant to your goals. By incorporating personalization of our products, customers are able to change their binders as often as they modify their goals. From holiday planners to moving lists to babysitter survival guides, STARTplanner has a product for all of your milestones.

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You can learn more about these products at STARTplanner.com. Browse through our planners, take a look at our blog, and contact us with any questions. This product was perpetuated by a dream, a dream that was only as big as we were willing to plan for. Let us help you organize your goals and dreams, too!

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How To Plan A Christmas Party Without Losing Your Mind

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it can quickly become the most stressful time of the year if you’re not careful. Between shopping, baking, and wrapping, it can be difficult to make time for life’s necessities, let alone have enough time to plan and throw an unforgettable Christmas party. But throwing a Christmas party doesn’t have to be overwhelming, or time consuming. When you do it right, a Christmas party can be fun without becoming too stressful. Here are some steps for how to plan a Christmas party without losing your mind.

Make A Plan

Decide what kind of party you’d like to throw, whether it’s an adults only affair, or a family party, a formal event, or a casual get-together. Choose the type of food and drinks you will serve. Your menu will depend on the type of party you’re planning. Choose some activities for your guests, like a gift exchange, or a fun game for the kids. Write down the who, what, when, and where for your Christmas party. A well-planned activity is much easier to carry out. Remember to keep it simple. If planning parties is not one of your strengths, consider using a day planner like ours :) STARTplanner to help.

Make a Schedule

So now that you’ve decided on the details of your party, now’s the time to schedule out your tasks. Make a list of everything that needs to be done – everything from cleaning your house, to buying ice, to baking your dessert. It’s okay to take a few days to make this list, as you might think of more things to add as you go throughout your day. Once you have your complete list, start scheduling. Put each task on a specific day on your calendar. Move tasks around to make sure you’re not trying to accomplish too much on one day. For example, don’t put 12 to-do’s the day before your party, with only 2 to-do’s the day before. Spread out the work load as much as possible so you’re not over scheduling yourself the day of your party. It can get overwhelming trying to remember everything that needs to be done all the time. When you use a calendar, you only have to focus on completing today’s tasks. If it’s on the calendar, it’s off your mind.

Prepare Ahead of Time

With your schedule in place, start accomplishing your to-do’s. If you have finished all of your to-do’s for the current day, consider looking to the future and seeing if there is anything else you can complete from another day’s to-do’s. Do everything you can ahead of time. Whether that means baking something and putting it in the freezer, or deep cleaning your house a few days early, or ordering something from the caterers, earlier is always better. Continue to complete your to-do’s and your party will be a success!

Don’t let planning a Christmas party ruin the fun of the holiday season. Christmas parties don’t have to be over-the-top to be a success. The important thing is to celebrate the holidays with the people you love. Follow these steps to make your next Christmas party your best one yet.

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Tips for Sticking to Your Fitness Regimen

The hardest part about starting a new fitness regimen is probably sticking to it and getting a rhythm going. It’s easy enough to start working out, but often we peter out and lose interest, which is what we’re trying to solve with a few simple tips.

One of the biggest needs for keeping with a good workout plan is to be internally motivated to push yourself towards goals. Various studies of people trying to acquire better lifestyle habits have found that external motivation can get people started on the right track, but external factors are always in flux and often enough people who start working out for external reasons will run out of that motivation. People who are internally motivated to be healthier, to feel better, to be stronger are the ones who will stick to the workout and see their progress go on. To put it simply, do it for yourself, not for him, her or them.

Another big helper with sticking to your program is to have a workout partner. Having at least one of your weekly sessions scheduled with a personal friend or family member gets you invested, so while you might skip some of your sessions because you’re not feeling it, your biggest, hardest session with your friend will less often be skipped due to the commitment. On that same note, having a coach or instructor can also fill this void and help you not drop the ball on working out.

The final simple tip is all about using your daily planner to keep track of your workouts.

Fitness experts advise that we get at least 150 minutes a week of exercise. The most common setup for this is every weekday morning for half an hour. This plan works especially well if you like to have a few drinks on the weekend as working out the morning after drinking is both miserable and less effective. The regular short intensive workouts are also good for your cardiovascular system and help you feel a lot healthier and happier and more energized for your workdays. Think of it as a way to get your body activated and ready to take on anything the day throws at you.

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Running Your Own Social Marketing Campaign

Small business owners often find themselves at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to how they want to manage a social media campaign. While there is always the option available to hire a company that will handle your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/or Pinterest accounts, you give up a lot of your ability to communicate directly with the people who have showed an active interest in your products or service.

Choose Your Platforms - Don’t stretch yourself thin trying to have active accounts on every social network available, especially if you’re planning to do this all on your own. Instead, choose those that either best fit your product or service, or just go with what you’re comfortable with. There’s no point in creating accounts for social media sites that you’re barely going to touch - you can easily put those off until you have the time to learn and become more comfortable with them.

Find a Voice - If you’re working with a small group of people who have access to your social media accounts, you should have a meeting about how you want to present the company as a whole. With that decided on, you should then come to a consensus about how the account will present itself. Will you post in first- or third-person perspective? How often will you post? Will you share content from other sources? These and other questions will help solidify how you and your company come across to its fans.

Give Offers - As mentioned before, you will be interacting directly with customers who like your business in some way or another. Give them a reason to share your content or participate actively on your posts by creating special offers just for them. These don’t have to be massive, but these social media marketing offers can mean the difference between someone being interested in a product and someone becoming a repeat buyer.

If you are looking to keep your social media and online marketing campaigns primarily under your control, the 2017 Hustle Business Daily Planner has a section just for you. In the “BIZ” area near the end of the planner, there is a “Marketing & Social Impact” page dedicated to each month that helps you keep your online interactions and promotions in check.

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How Entrepreneurs can Stay on Top of Everything

As an entrepreneur you have to fit a whole lot of hats on your head to stay in the game, and the task of keeping up with everything and having your business continue going forward can be absolutely daunting. But there are a few qualities you should practice if you want to be a proper successful businessperson.

Organization - it is absolutely key to managing your business. You need to know where your money is going from to maximize profits and trim excess spending where it is not garnering you enough return. You also need to maximize your use of your time. You are the most important part of your business and when you waste time, you are wasting the businesses time. Make use of a business planner, because your clock is the businesses clock and a successful business runs on time.

Reliability - after organization you need to be reliable to all of your clients, investors, partners, everyone who helps your business runs. No successful business person is going to get to the top by being a flake. Your word is your bond and your bonds should never be broken. If you can’t make it to a meeting, can’t reach a deadline, or anything of that sort, it is going to be a mar on your record and can lose you future contracts.

Accountability - because you can’t always be reliable. There are unforeseen circumstances that will blindside you from time to time but you should own these faults. It might not be your fault, but there was a problem, an error, some form of conflict and when dealing with that you should own it and make it a thing to make sure that problem never comes up again. You can have mars on your record, but if you keep driving on to be better you will earn a lot of respect from your employees, partners and clients.

Healthy - probably the most overlooked or neglected aspect of many people trying to become the model business person. Good lifestyle choices are not only good for your body but also for your mind. A balanced diet and a daily workout keep you motivated, sharp and ready to take on the day's work with ambition - probably the biggest asset you can generate as an entrepreneur. Making healthy choices for yourself can help you make even more forward thinking plans and stick to them to see your business grow to the top.

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Feel Like You're Losing Hours? Here's How to Track Where They're Going

Sometimes a good plan isn’t enough to get you through a productive week. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances stretch out your tasks until you have to give up plans and everything falls apart. A little bit of extra work right now can help you get a better grasp on where those extra hours and minutes are really going (And get you on track on how to get those hours backs.)

First off you should try for a week giving projected times (And then afterwards actual times) for each of your planned projects. You may want to plan some buffer room between each task for overlap, but this project is to get a good idea of how long things actually take so you can record the averages at the end of the week.

Another big loss of time are many of the minutes we lose in idle tasks, checking your phone or facebook while at work may only take a moment, but those moments add up over the course of the day and it can be absolutely shocking how much time we lose in little minutes like that. You might want to take time recording how much time you spend doing tasks like normal in your planner, and then try again another day where you run through the same tasks but buckle down.

Time you save from staying dedicated to your work can be invested into proper breaks that allow you to actually refresh. Little facebook breaks help us keep up on news, but don’t do anything to relax our brains, so trimming those out and saving them for later can give you the time to take a few 20 minute breaks during work so you can actually rest and recharge gaining even more efficiency when you hop back to.

Thinking about hard work and buckling down can be a little disheartening, but framing these ideas in investment/returns style helps us see the time wasted as something we can invest into more entertainment when all of our work is all done. While work pays the bills, we all need to treat ourselves at the end of a hard day to keep polished for the daily grind.

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