Organize Your Family's Schedule ...In No Time

Achieving Balance

A family's schedule will stay organized when everyone in the family is committed to it. And that commitment will develop if everyone in the family has a sense that the schedule is fair. This sense of fairness will exist when

• You've assigned everyone in the family an appropriate share of the work.

• You've given everyone's interests an equal amount of attention.

• Your expectations of how much the family will accomplish are not impossible or unreasonable.

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  Here are four quick ways to free up time:

  • Stop watching daytime television.

  • Take advantage of free services such as in-store gift wrapping and automatic payroll depositing.

  • Establish a separate email address to use for non-personal contacts.

  • Concentrate on what you're doing instead ...