Celebrate Your Birthday

Your birthday is the only day that is truly just yours. Not Mother’s Day, when all mothers are celebrated. Not Christmas, when everyone exchanges gifts.

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We plan parties, make gift wishlists, and make cakes for our kids. But, what about us?

I have a very good friend who always takes the day off for her birthday (yes, even as a working mom) . She may go see a movie, go to the spa, even enjoy a nice lunch. But, she always takes the day off for herself. I have secretly been jealous of her planning and celebration of herself. If that inspires you, I recently posted a list of gift ideas for moms. You could treat yourself to any of those items.

My birthday falls on a Tuesday this year. (It’s tomorrow, if you were wondering ;) ) Thankfully, it’s a day I normally don’t work. And, thankfully, both of my kids will be in school, for most of the day. So, I plan to indulge as much as I can.

Here are some freebies I plan to get:

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Here are links to other resources:

Things You Can Get for Free on Your Birthday
‎Birthday Freebies, Clubs & Specials
Birthday Freebies
How to find hundreds of birthday freebies

A former boss would ask us each on our birthday: “what’s the best thing…?” and “what’s the worst thing…?” that has happened since your last birthday. Most years were unremarkable.

This year I would say that the worst thing was my surprising unemployment and all of the life changes that came with it. The best thing was recently getting a new part time job that allows me the flexibility to grow this blog, learn more about marketing/writing/and blogging, and the freedom to do so. I am happy to say I have come full circle.

Do you make a big “to do” of your birthday? How? Why not?

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Tell Your Time: How to Manage Your Schedule So You Can Live Free by Amy Lynn Andrews is a great book for overwhelmed moms. It solves the problem of trying to be everything to everyone.

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In a straightforward, easy-to-follow way, this book will help you:

1.  Identify the most important things in your life.

2.  Set long-term goals for each.

3.  Determine how you can reach those goals in doable, bite-sized steps.

4.  Manage your time efficiently so the important things don’t fall through the cracks.

Best of all, you will learn how to do it all in thirty pages.

How She Does It

She asks the hard questions:

Where do you want to be?

Are you headed there?

Where are you stuck?

Once you follow Amy’s advice to determine who you are and what the most important goals you want to achieve in life are, she helps you breakthrough being unsure of your goals, not having a plan to reach your goals, and overcoming the impulse to give up on your goals.

What You’ll Find

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Why It Works for Me

I’m an impatient reader who looks for paragraph breaks, bullet points, and bold type to get to the meat of what I’m reading.  Amy made it easy to make it through this quick read with her no-nonsense, straight to the point tips and methodology.

Why You Should Buy It

In my opinion, Amy is definitely qualified to give us working moms advice on managing it all since she’s the sole person responsible for my decision to finally launch this blog.  Amy showed me how to do it, easily, step-by-step, while holding down a full-time job and taking care of my family.

Now, go buy Tell Your Time, and see for yourself!  Come back and let me know what you think.

Disclosure: Affiliate links used.  All opinions are my own and not influenced in any way by the publisher.