Girlfriends, episode number 341, Five Ways to Be More Productive.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know you're worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week we are talking about ways to be more productive.

I know you have a lot on your plate, and I want to help you out with that. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? So glad you're here. Thanks for connecting here on the podcast. I always

love our weekly chats here. So this week we're going to talk about ways to be more productive.

But first, I just want to do a check-in with you. How are you doing? I hope your fall is

trucking along. Now that it's at the start of October,

it's so funny because I have, speaking of productivity, I have an older sister who's always

had her game together more than me. She's just a more organized personality type. And I remember

once she told me that the way she got her family Christmas

picture taken on time to be able to put them in cards and into everybody's mailbox, like right

at the start of Advent, was that as soon as she saw a pumpkin, and this would, of course,

you know, I don't know. I guess I don't know about other states, but for sure, up here in the

northeast, you start seeing pumpkins around, like at the grocery store, at the hardware store, everywhere's kind of got

like their little pumpkin display or where you're able to pick up one for your fall decorations.

But she said the minute she would see a pumpkin, she would set up their photo shoot for

their Christmas picture, which she did every year. And, you know, along those lines,

I think when the calendar turns to October, we should begin to think about Advent and not in a

stress you out kind of way. I know, you don't want to hear about Advent, right? You're just barely

getting into your back-to-school routine. But, you know, I think it's important to keep that at the front of our mind,

like ahead of time. Those little cues, I think, can be really helpful. So not that I'm taking

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