Life Management
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4 Steps to Life-Altering Habit Hacks
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How to leverage “Atomic Habits” this Elul to make the habit changes you want to stick. It’s that time of year. Opening the door to crisp cool mornings, kids flying out of the house with snacks and homework in hand, settling in for the long year ahead. And wondering. What will the new year bring?…
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The Easy Way to Manage a Busy Schedule in a Bullet Journal
This DIY planner concept is super functional and all you need is a basic notebook. Start the year off organized! EDITOR’S NOTE: Here on BCP, we’ve designed a couple different DIY planners that you could download and print. We called them “Life Pages” and they work when standard planners just don’t. Does your life have…
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Budgeting Strategies for Your Daughter in Seminary
How can you plan a budget when you don’t know what the extra expenses will be? Knowing what to expect makes a big difference–here’s an outline of the expenses your daughter may come across during her year in seminary. Are you sending your daughter to seminary/yeshiva in a few weeks? Are you already worried about…
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Fertility Treatment with Family: Seven Tips to Ease the Juggling Act
Those dealing with secondary infertility have a unique challenge. These are tips from someone who has been there. It’s a rough juggling. You’re running a blessedly busy household. You are also emotionally depleted from your fertility treatments. You also feel so alone. But remember there are so many other women dealing with this. Here are…
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The BCP Summer of Growth Challenge
Don’t let summer go by without making the season a meaningful one for you. Often, when summer starts we have big dreams. We have dreams of what we’re going to accomplish or how we’re going to enjoy the season. And, too often, summer just goes by. We keep running like we do all year, without…
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Catching Up with Friends? How to Be Mindful
Even the questions you think are innocent can sometimes be offensive (and yes, it can be offensive to ask someone if they’ve lost weight!). Here’s a quick guide. It may be while taking a power walk on a country road, on a midnight run to Walmart, or at the local ice cream store–when summer comes,…
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Spontaneous or Scheduled Summer? You Can Have Both!
In the summer months ahead, it gets even harder to keep a structure and feel efficient. We want a schedule–but perhaps with some more flexibility than we have all year round. Does summer, in your book, equal endless hours of fun and relaxation at the beach? …Or is it more like, endless loads of laundry…
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9 Tips on Returning to Work after a Baby
Going back to work after a baby is never easy. These tips will ease the transition. How do you make the most of this time off so you’re ready and rested when it’s time to resume a schedule? Organize Your Life Before the Baby Your maternity leave is not a great time to catch up…
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9 Practical Tips to Boost Your Productivity
So much to do and so little time! We can’t create more hours in the day, but we can make little changes to a workflow to make it more efficient. Here are nine practical tips that you can implement today to become more productive. One of these will click with you and really make a…
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17 Things You Can Do to Enhance Shabbos
This list was actually a brainstorm at a weekly shiur I give. So credit is also due to the ladies from the Zichron Shloime shiur in Toms River! 1. Do something every day of the week towards Shabbos prep. 2. Find an inspirational idea on the parsha / any Torah idea and prepare it to…
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