5 Online Calendar Applications

Scheduling can sometimes be a nightmare. You have to remember Susies dance class and guitar lessons and Bobby has two games this week. Not to mention gym classes, dry cleaning pickups and your husband’s boss is coming over to dinner! Lifehack.com looks at 5 different calendar applications and gives the pros and cons for busy moms. Our favorite: Google Calendar.

Ever since it launched in April of 2006, Google Calendar has quickly built a reputation as the premier web-based calendar. GCal owes much of its popularity to its anywhere accessibility and for bringing the look and feel of a desktop calendar into the web browser. It’s fast, it’s reliable, and it’s continually improving. Even better: GCal can sync with virtually any desktop calendar.

21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life

Zen Habits breaks it down to 21 Hacks to make your life a little easier.  From keeping e-mails to just 5 sentances to limiting your food intake to only 7 items a mom could adopt a few of these to make life just a little bit simpler.

I use these “hacks” myself (in this case, “hacks” refers to workarounds or tricks to reach your goal), and I’ve found them to be effective in many cases. Please note that you might have read some of these once or twice (or thrice) on this blog before, but I thought it would be a useful resource to gather them all into one post.

Also, don’t try to implement all of them — that would be far from simple. Not all of them will apply to your life anyway. Pick one or two and try them out.

Simple tricks to simplify your life:

1. Three-box decluttering. If you’re trying to declutter a room, drawer, shelf, desk … use three boxes to quickly sort everything. Just quickly go through each shelf or drawer or flat surface at once, putting things into three separate boxes: Trash, Donate, Maybe. The first two boxes are obvious … the Maybe box is for stuff you’re not too sure about — you can put this in storage for a few months and decide later. Put everything else — the stuff you love and use — back neatly.
2. Create a no-distractions zone. This is great for when you want to do some focused work — which is just about every day for most of us. Create a zone with no distractions — no phones, no email, no co-workers or kids or spouses, nothing on the walls, no IM or Twitter, no web surfing. Just the tools you need to do your work and nothing else. You could also create a time within your schedule for this distraction-free zone — say 8-10 a.m., for example. No distractions within that block of time. You can do email and phone calls before and after, but not during. I like this hack for when I need to do some writing but have a hard time concentrating.

Create a short-list.

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