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I hope you and your family are well after the nice holiday weekend! We sure enjoyed ourselves and even took in a drive-in movie and trip to Great America. Now it's time to get busy and finish the year out strong!

This month's e-zine is dedicated to providing you with some great tips and resources for being more organized and reducing stress. The feature article below, How to Control Paperwork, is authored by my new friend Sue Kirchner, owner of the Chocolate Cake Club. Sue and I were connected by the power of networking through Jennifer Dallas of Morgan Stanley (we presented the "Your Money & Your Life" workshop together earlier this year).

Jennifer met Sue at an event and saw her passion to make life easier for busy parents, so they can have more "Chocolate Cake Moments", and knew she had to connect the two of us. Sue and I share a passion for helping busy parents using complimentary services. I hope you enjoy her article and will check out her e-boutique. You'll even find a discount code for 20% off your first order on the Preferred Partners page of my website.

Continuing with our theme, could you use 35 Ways to Reduce Stress and 100+ Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals? Well I'm happy to give them to you as a thank you for 5 minutes of your time. I'm looking for your assistance to clearly understand the key challenges, top issues, and struggles you are currently facing by filling out a short 14-question anonymous survey. I plan to use this information to offer more useful resources, tips, and services in order to help my readers and clients feel less stressed and attain their goals more quickly. Click here to take the survey.

Lastly, for those who live locally to me, I have several upcoming events in October and November designed to ensure you hit your goals and set magnetic ones for 2008. Check out my updated schedule for all the details. Don't miss October 12th where I'll be hosting a Client Appreciation Party in YOUR honor! I'll have more details out about this soon.

To Your Success,

Victoria

“Self-Caring. While true self-caring comes from the visible things we do for ourselves, it also comes from the compassionate, life-affirming, invisible thoughts we think about ourselves. Ask yourself what kindly thoughts you could think about yourself today?”

From Gail Van Kleeck's book, Simple Wisdom for Challenging Times http://www.simplewisdom.com

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

How to Control Paperwork

By Sue Kirchner

Does it seem like every time you turn around there are more and more stacks of paper everywhere in your house. Do you think they multiply at night? Do elves come in and wave a magic wand to watch your papers grow? Do they get points for this? If only the tooth fairy would leave us a dollar for every piece of mail, school papers, or newspaper we accumulate!

The day-to-day volume of paper that passes through your life is definitely a challenge. We have put together some tips to help you deal with a few of the more challenging paper clutter sources such as mail, kids' school papers, take-out menus and coupons or store flyers.

HERE’S THE MAIL, IT NEVER FAILS...

Mail is like a weed, if you don't create a routine to manage it, it multiplies like crazy and will take over any free space you have in your house. One day I looked around my house and saw paper piles on the kitchen counter, the kitchen table, the wash machine, the family room coffee table, my office desk, the printer, the stairs and in a stack in my car. Agh! It's just too much and spread out in too many places. It's hard to find anything.

The National Association of Professional Organizers estimates that 25% of Americans pay their bills late because they can't find them. I know I've called Visa begging for forgiveness from late fees as I explained that I put the bill in a pile and forgot about it. However, I decided that this clutter was a problem and I went about looking for the following tips and tricks to help me get control of the paperwork chaos. Not all of these tips may appeal to you or work with your lifestyle, but hopefully some of them will be easy for you to adapt and start you on the path to defeating the paperwork elves.

Click here to read the remainder of the article and get tips for managing Bills, Artwork, Magazines, Newspapers, Take-Out Menus and Coupons.

Sue Kirchner is the founder and President of www.ChocolateCakeClub.com, an e-boutique that aims to make life easier for busy parents, so they can have more "Chocolate Cake Moments" - when they are smiling, relaxed, and appreciating their role as a parent. The Chocolate Cake Club is a trusted source for products that help busy Moms put their feet up and smile. The boutique features products that help Moms get organized, encourage their kids to be more self-sufficient, and distinguish them as a Mom-who's-got-it-together with must-have gifts and parenting tools. She is also the mother of two young children.

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You'll find several local opportunities to attend an upcoming workshop or event in October!

DON'T FORGET: Save Friday, October 12, 2007 in your calendar. I'm throwing a Client Appreciation Party in YOUR honor! More information to follow.