Summer is one of the most difficult seasons for entrepreneur moms. Juggling work with kids who need extra attention and outside playtime can make for some stressful days. You want to have fun, but you also know that the demands of business require your attention. Here are a few tips that will help you get through the summer and stay sane in the process.

Our home of 30 years went on the market last Friday. And even though we filled a debris box with stuff over a month ago, I can see that I'm not going to want to move a lot of what's left, either.

So I got organized and made a list of what I want to get rid of and how: sell, donate or dispose of. I also did some homework and made a list of resources.

If decluttering is on your "spring cleaning" list, you'll find my resources helpful. You'll find them here, in my April newsletter.

Last week, I wrote about the need to conduct a Personal Brand Audit in my life. Having been greatly inspired by a certain Digital Princess - @AmyJoMartin from Digital Royalty, to clear out the clutter, simplify where needed and increase organization to maximize my day, I wanted to give you an update on my progress, lest you think I was full of you know what. 

After all, follow through is key!

I’m often asked how I am able to do so much and stay sane.  My secret is simple:  I take small daily steps to stay organized and free of clutter, both at home and work.  Below are five quick tips for just about anyone, even those who think organization is impossible.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.--Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is often assumed that working at home is easy.

I disagree.

Convenient? Yes.

Easy?

Not if you are prone to being distractable.

I can be generating a list of contacts when the phone rings. I stop what I am doing to take the call rather than letting it go to voicemail.

I may be writing a blog post when a text comes in. I stop my train of thought to answer the text.

The dryer button dings. I stop whatever I'm currently working on to unload the machine.

It's kind of like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

I am going to share a story from the Pink Suite, one of many that changed the mission and values in my life. It is June 24, 1993, my son had been sick for several weeks and I had taken him from one doctor to another, hoping to get an answer to his mounting pain and illness.

Like most people, my email inbox is full of promotional emails...newsletters, etc.. So I "unsubscribe" to ones I don't find useful.

I just clicked the "unsubscribe" button on an HP Newsletter.

They made me fill out a survey before they would allow me to unsubscribe.

If I had the time or inclination to fill out a survey I probably wouldn't be unsubscribing.

Does anyone else think this is outrageous?!!!

So in my never ending quest to find a job and not get one, I decided to go back to school. I applied to Walden University and I got in. Yae me!!! I am going for my Bachelor of Business Administration degree with an HR Management Concentration. I have experience in Human Resources but haven’t received any call backs in the year that I have been looking for a job. Actually it`s been over a year. I was told by a recruiter that experience doesn’t matter as much as a degree which makes no sense to me. I would rather have someone who has knowledge about the job than a degree.