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I’m Michelle

I provide a holistic approach to productivity and organization challenges women face in trying to balance work and household.
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Where Do I Even Start?

You are juggling demands from your business and household to-do list. You do what’s required, but things are starting to slip through the cracks. Self-care being one! Oftentimes we don’t take action because we don’t know where to start. With this worksheet, you will determine your top two roles, then prompts to guide you to first action step(s). Simple as that.

Five Productivity Tips for the Solopreneur

Being my own boss offers amazing flexibility! But too much freedom can also impact my focus and productivity. If you work for yourself, these five tips will help you better approach your daily work and better utilize your precious time to get more done.

Easy Ways to Reset Routines

It’s the second “New Year” of the year! Summer schedules are wrapping up, and ever since kindergarten, we’ve been programmed to reboot our lives in the middle of August. I’m surely not the only one who is feeling like I need to get back to better habits and routines. Implement these essential actions to start resetting today.

Should is a 4-Letter Word

Every time I hear someone say, “I should” my shoulders cringe up. Words we use matter. We are all made differently. We have different habits and routines. What works for me, doesn’t work for you. Should implies obligation or duty and doesn’t give you action or power to improve your ways.

Because that’s how my mom did it.

Just because your mom did it that way, doesn’t mean it’s the best way for you. Our habits are often formed based on how we were raised. We are either embracing the habits, intentionally trying to do things differently, or lost (and frustrated) in the shuffle. Which are you?

Procrastinators’ Guide to Get More Accomplished

Over 20 percent of American adults are chronic procrastinators, and most struggle with procrastination to some extent. Here are five proven actions to become more efficient with your time and change your habits.

Trick to being Productive when you Wear Multiple Hats

In the morning I’m shoveling feed into cattle bunks. By 8:30a I’m cleaned up and on the road to a client’s house. Then I run into the store…Women wear multiple hats in a day, which means we have multiple transitions that reduce our efficiencies and derail our focus. Being mindful of your transitions is key to having a day that flows smoothly. Learn simple ways to improve your transitions so you can increase your productivity, save time, and minimize overwhelm.

Are You Giving Your Time Away?

I am an Enneagram Two, and I help because I truly love to help. A “healthy” two can ask for help and offer help out of a place of gratitude with healthy boundaries. When I’m “unhealthy,” I help because I have guilt and selfish ambition. I work with women who are exhausted because of the mental and physical battle — feeling like they “have to” do things and their time isn’t their own. And it’s wearing them down to the point of tears.

Are you just being lazy?

Are you lazy or is something else in your way? Women give me millions of reasons for not being motivated to organize, sort papers, conquer a project, self-improve. It can be paralyzing to face the piles and consider new ways of doing things. Identify if you’re just being lazy or not.

Do you know how long tasks really take?

We waste so much mental energy avoiding our to-do list. We labor over the effort and annoyance of the tasks. We procrastinate and find excuses. The dread over doing a task often takes more energy than it would to complete the actual task.

5 Ways to Check Items Of Your List this Year

Are you one of the millions who have invested in a planner hoping it will make you more productive this year? Here’s the secret — it’s not the list that makes you more productive, it’s the way the tasks are executed. Here are five keys ways to get more checked off your to-do list this year.

The Trick to Having Less Hectic Days

When you are balancing work, home, meals, kids, volunteer work, and a million other things — margin is your secret tool and super power! Margin takes discipline and forethought, and it will be one small thing you can change in how you plan your day that will make a tremendous difference. Starting today.