Anita talks about some of the challenges she faced when putting Robbie in daycare for the first time, and some of the positive notes.
When I was a kid, the ultimate source of information concerning the families activities was mom's calendar. Quite literally, if it wasn't there, it wasn't happening. The problem is, mom's calendar had limited mobility and accessibility, so all too often, either events didn't get added or there was difficulty scheduling around other family activities. But thanks to gCal, the Glocal Family doesn't have those issues. Check out more in this weeks tip of the week.
This week Joe admits that he's been a bit harsh on parents the past couple weeks and tries to correct his ways by joining Anita in offering some practical times to help parents not only spend time with their kids, but do it in a way that helps the kids to grow up glocal.
Along the way Joe and Anita share their thoughts on the keys to glocal parenting, they ponder the oddity of calling pesticide coated food conventional, and Anita shares a baked cinnamon apple recipe that produces the tastiest glaze ever!
One of the challenges of eating healthy is that it costs more. Since the Glocal Family isn't rich and we have to count our pennies, Anita's gone out of her way to figure out what to buy where. In this episode of the Glocal Family Tip of the Week, she shares how she developed her shopping routine and offers thoughts on how you can develop yours.
While organizing your email might sound like an odd way to be glocal, as we discover in this tip, managing your own life enables living a life that serves the common good, because you're bogged down by the less important things that can consume so much of our time. So, to help you manage your own life, this week Joe shares some tips on preventing email from being a time vacuum.
This week Joe sits down with Brandie Kajino who is known as “The Home Office Organizer”. Brandie is an “organizing muse”, author, speaker, blogger and small business owner. Her specialty is empowering micro-businesses and home office professionals with information, technology, tools and simple organizing solutions.
Some of Brandie’s media credits include Portland Family Magazine, Vancouver Family Magazine, The Columbian, WashingtonPost.com and Yahoo.com. She has an internet radio show & podcast called “The O-Myth”, where she and her co-host “debate & debunk life’s organizing myths”. Her resource-packed website & blog offers hundreds of articles, teleclasses, products and a service menu. Brandie is also an active participant in social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Whether working one-on-one with a client, or speaking to a group, Brandie loves seeing the proverbial “light go on”. She uses a mix of fun, humor and honesty to empower clients with tools to cut their frustration in half so they can get things done.
Julie Morgenstern, dubbed the “queen of putting people’s lives in order” by USA Today, is an organizing and time management expert, business productivity consultant, and speaker. A New York Times bestselling author, Julie's five books are timeless reference guides that are insightful, reader-friendly and jam packed with innovative strategies. Each volume features techniques and observations culled from her 20 years of experience as a consultant to individuals and companies.
Julie’s company, Julie Morgenstern Enterprises, is dedicated to using her philosophies and methods to provide a wide range of practical solutions that transform the way people and companies function. Explore our individual organizing services, corporate consulting, and professional training institute.
She also has a line of organizing materials available through Franklin-Covey.
This week Joe reviews a great tool that he uses in order to capture and put to use ideas, potential purposes, and all kinds of other little bits of information that he runs across over the course of a day. The tool itself is Evernote, and it's part of how he manages his glocal life.
This week Anita shares how she organized her cubical at work in order to not only keep things clean, but also to smooth out her workflow and increase her productivity. We're curious, how could you implement similar tips in your everyday life?
This week is all about time on the Glocal Family Podcast. The truth is, unless we decide what matters and allow those things to shape our day, somebody or something else will control our agenda. Therefore, it's important for us to be intentional, not only in figuring out what matters most, but when we're at our best, and how to build our lives around those two things. Of course, we're going to need some help to get there, so we called on Julie Morgenstern, the “queen of putting people’s lives in order”, to help us get the job done.
Have you ever noticed how a little bit of clutter can turn into something seemingly unmanageable? Things get lost, stress builds, and life just generally gets frustrating. Of course, at the other end of the spectrum you have that hyper-neat environment that's almost sterile ... talk about a creativity killer. So, how do we find balance, keeping things organized, but not killing ourselves in the process. This week we talk with Brandi Kajino, discuss and article from Zen Habits, and hear from Anita on organizing her office at work.
Oh yeah, we also talk about why this podcast came out five days after the usual release date. All that and Milkshake music is on this weeks Glocal Family Podcast.
As we've said before, at the Glocal Family, we're talking from a place of learning and seeking to discover how we can live a life that serves the greater good. In part this means dealing with our own clutter, managing our lives better, and figuring out how we can be green.
One of the ways we've decided to accomplish all of these things at once, is setting up a resource recovery station in our home. It's going to be a single location that we use for our trash, recycling, and a new edition, in-home composting. The journey is just beginning, but here's part 1.
As I mentioned in the previous Glocal Cam, Anita and I are reorganizing part of our dining room so we can add a "resource recovery station". Here's glimpses into the process as we rework our storage setup, unclutter our lives, and make feel important all at once.
Here's a couple more pictures of Robbie as helps out:
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In this quick video Joe shares one of his struggles with being a glocal parent, specifically, how to be a parent who serves the greater good when it's less convenient for him. Robbie also shows up on the cam and lets his dad know what he things of his ramblings with a lovely yawn.
This episode, I talk about implementing a recycling program at my office.
This week on the podcast, we talked about fresh food and how, through Door to Door Organics, you can have fresh fruits and veggies delivered to your door. But what do you do with that bulk order when it arrives? How do you not lose that great produce in the back of the crisper? This week, Anita shares her tip to not only keep food from being forgotten, but also to make prep easier the rest of the week.
In our first tip of the week on managing email, we talked about how managing your email frees up time for you to serve the common good. In a similar vein, this week's tip on task management, aims to help you get the things you need to get done, done.
A few days ago Joe was standing in the shower shaving when he realize how much water was being wasted in the process ... a moment that prompted him to wonder about other patterns in his life.
This week, Joe tries to take all of the different things we talked about on the podcast and put them together concerning his own life and schedule.
For other sample time sheets, check out these examples from Julie Morgenstern.
Let's face it, there are few things worse, at least at the moment it happens, than walking through a dimly lit house and stepping on some toy that's been left out. So what do you do about all those toys that kids collect? This week, Joe and Anita handout some helpful ideas when it comes to your kid's toys.
Along the way they get a bit nostalgic about last week's episode on food, share an article from Unclutterer, have a conversation with Beth Engelman from Mommy on a Shoestring, and of course offer a tip of our own.
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In this opening video, Joe introduces the idea behind the glocal cam, and shows you how his managed life isn't always all that managed.
Welcome to the first episode of the Glocal Family Podcast! In our initial episode we give you an introduction to the format of the show, link you to a site to scrap phone book delivery, let you know why we have a song, tip, and recipe of the week, and flesh out two of our convictions ("Others Over Self" and "Think Globally, Act Locally") through an interview with Earth Day Founder John McConnell and a discussion on scrapping old cars for fuel efficient ones.
Welcome to the first episode of the Glocal Family Podcast! In our initial episode we give you an introduction to the format of the show, link you to a site to scrap phone book delivery, let you know why we have a song, tip, and recipe of the week, and flesh out two of our convictions ("Others Over Self" and "Think Globally, Act Locally") through an interview with Earth Day Founder John McConnell and a discussion on scrapping old cars for fuel efficient ones.
Over the past couple days, Joe's had to confront a frightening reality that the last month had been essentially lost when it comes to productivity. Thankfully, he just interviewed Julie Morgenstern for an upcoming episode, so he's going to take her advice over the next few weeks, and figure out how to make the best use of his time ... hopefully his quest will benefit you as well.
This week on the Glocal Family Podcast we offer some of the reasons people should live glocally, that is, live lives that serve the greater good. Along the way we have conversation with Vicky and Jen from vickyandjen.com, we talk about a contest on Twitter Moms, and we pass on info about a great homemade bread mix and how to make homemade diaper wipes.
So, did we miss any reasons to be glocal? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
Zwaggle is a national network (sorry non-US folk) of parents who have come together to share ... well, at least that's how it started out, because if you visit the site now, you'll find that there are plenty of non-parenting items exchanging hands through zoints, the sites official currency.
In this interview, Joe sits down with Zwaggle founder Adam Levy and talks about the site, how it came about, and how you can maximize resources through Zwaggle.
If you want to join Zwaggle, please send an email to the Glocal Family and we'll send you an invite, in the process we'll receive referral zoints that will get sent on to charity here in Denver.
