Does your email drive you crazy? Is your inbox overflowing? Do you check it often throughout the day and find yourself getting sidetracked and not getting other stuff done? Yeah, I’ve been there too. Here are five tips that might help:

For the first five years, my doula business finances were a mess! I was getting plenty of births, but I had no idea if I was making a profit, how much, and when it came to the end of the year, figuring out my expenses for tax time was just awful!

And then I stumbled on a product that has solved all most of my accounting problems. It’s called the “File-it!” calendar, and I’ve used it for the last five years with great success.

In my house, paper breeds. Despite the attempts I’ve made to recycle, throw out, file and pile, paper still grows. Although I haven’t perfected the system, here are 10 tips that can help you take control of the paper in your life.

Do your days run you? Do you feel like you spend a lot of your time reacting to what’s going on around you right now than deliberately planning your day? Are you ready to slow down and take control of your schedule? Are you ready to do more meaningful activities and live more consciously?

Yesterday you went through an exercise of visualizing your life one year from now and writing down goals to help get you there. Today we’ll just talk about goal setting in general. In order to create powerful goals, think of the acronym SMARTER