Life Lessons for Busy Moms: Essential Ingredients to Organize and Balance Your World

Organize Your World, Your Kids, Your Time, and . . . Make Room for Mommy

If you don't have enough hands, enough time in the day, or enough energy to balance everything—much less fit in a bit of "you time," then Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons forBusy Moms has the realistic, doable, and time-efficient tips that can transform your life. Moms who have been there will share how their quests were not focused on perfection, but on organization and ways to create the balance we all yearn for. Find out their secrets and learn how to:

• Nurture yourself—which in turn nurtures the family
• Keep an organized home and get the kids involved in chores, while bonding
• Feed your soul and find quality time to spend with yourself, friends, and partners

In this timely and much-needed book, the authors and busy moms band together and offer thirty-two life lessons that have worked for them. This book also provides a source of encouragement to promote balance and a greater quality of life for you and your family.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling coauthors, are professional speakers who have dedicated their lives to enhancing the personal and professional development of others.

Mark Victor Hansen is a professional speaker who in the last twenty years has made over four-thousand presentations to more than 2 million people in 32 countries. His presentations cover sales excellence and strategies; personal empowerment and development; and how to triple your income and double your time off. Mark has spent a lifetime dedicated to his mission of making a profound and positive difference in people's lives. Throughout his career, he has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to create a more powerful and purposeful future for themselves while stimulating the sale of billions of dollars worth of goods and services. Mark is a prolific writer and has authored Future Diary, How to Achieve Total Prosperity and The Miracle of Tithing. He is coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, Dare to Win, and The Aladdin Factor (all with Jack Canfield), and The Master Motivator (with Joe Batten).

Time efficiency coach and America's most trusted professional organizer, Dorothy Breininger, CEO of the Center for Organization, devotes her life to teaching people how to create the possibility of living a life you love--through organizing your pace (time), face (energy and enthusiasm for life), space (your environment) and grace (gratitude and spirit). She is the coauthor of Time Efficiency Management and The Senior Organizer. Dorothy has appeared as an expert on the Today Show, the Dr. Phil Show, and has been featured in the LA Times, Forbes, Woman's Day and Entrepreneur Magazines.

Debby Bitticks, CEO of Delphi Health Products, Inc. is the coauthor of The Senior Organizer and Time Efficiency Makeover. Debby was the founder and CEO of a national multi-unit intergenerational company that cared for children and elders. She also provided the busy parents with a 'Family Resource Center' to assist them with parenting issues, family issues, and balancing life's competing priorities. During this time, Debby was raising her own four daughters, implementing her organizing concepts and strategies. Debby has appeared on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, Dr. Phil, CNN Financial News, and other cable shows. She is a member of NAPO – the National Association of Professional Organizers.

Lynn Benson is the coauthor of The Senior Organizer. Lynn was a regional director of a national intergenerational company and oversaw the operations that cared for children and elders. Lynn worked intimately with busy parents, providing them with support to get through their daily hectic and stressful lives. She holds a Master's Degree in Social Work with a diverse and significant background working with children, families, and seniors. She lives and breathes the life style of a busy mom--she is the mother of two young children.