Ways

Your Life Balance

To Enhance

Tips to increase life balance with family and career:
1. Set priorities and delegate task
2. Create a plan and schedule for all activities in advance
3. Develop monthly, weekly, and daily routines
4. Be intentional
5. Be present in the moment
6. Set aside time for fun, reflection, and relaxation
7. Set boundaries

Confidence

How To Build

In Your Children

1. Don’t get upset with their mistakes but use them as a learning opportunity
2. Encourage and help them try new things or learn something new together
3. Allow them to fail
4. Celebrate their efforts and improvements
5. Embrace their imperfections
6. Eliminate harsh criticism and verbal abuse
7. Encourage curiosity and allow them to figure out problems by themselves
8. Have conversations with them and allow them to express their feelings and thoughts
9. Make giving them attention a priority
10. Give them small jobs to do that will help around the house (start this early).

You can naturally deodorize your home using a simmer pot. You can create a simmer pot by placing ingredients covered with water in a pot on the stove and allow them to simmer. You could also do this with an uncovered mini slow cooker.

Did You Know??

8 Simmer Pot Recipes:
1. Orange slices, whole cloves, cinnamon sticks
2. Cinnamon sticks, apple peels, orange rinds, whole cloves
3. Sliced apples, vanilla, cinnamon
4. Lemon slices, rosemary, vanilla
5. Lime Slices, vanilla extract, mint, thyme
6. Almond extract, ginger, orange slices
7. Lavender petals and/or lavender essential oil, dried rose petals, vanilla extract
8. Pomegranate, cinnamon sticks, fresh cranberries, whole cloves, vanilla extract,

You can also bake vanilla extract in an oven-safe dish for about 20 minutes at 300 degrees. This can also been done with any extract you like.

Ten Ideas For

Family

Fun Activities

1. A family cooking night with taste testing
2. A game night marathon
3. A trip to the farmers’ market
4. Go camping inside
5. Movie night
6. Dance party with karaoke
7. Bowling
8. Nature walk
9. Create a herb garden
10. Go roller skating