In this tip of the week Anita turns crayons into, well, crayons. Okay, not really, actually, she is turning all those broken bits and pieces of crayon into crayons that are shaped like letters of the alphabet. This not only maximizes the use of the individual crayons, but it provides a fun and educational new way for kids to color.
As a bonus tip, when it comes time for a birthday party, give all the kids that come a bag of crayons that spell out their name.
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.
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.
On this week's tip of the week, Anita shows you how to make your own diaper wipes. Not only will these cut your costs by 85%, but these wipes are alcohol free so they are gentler on your baby's bottom.
A special thanks to Maki DeLaet, Vice President and CCO of EduCyber, who gave Anita this tip at her baby shower almost three years ago.
In episode 5 we talked about Productive Parenting and a bean bag game that they promote. Of course, in order to play a bean bag game, you need bean bags. Now, you could always buy some, but why, especially when you can follow these quick instructions from Anita and make your own?
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 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.
There are a few toys that every child has that seems to be their mainstays. These are the toys that are played with, week in and week out, while most of the others go untouched with a few specific exceptions. In our episode this week, we suggest that you get rid of toys that aren't mainstays, and in our tip of the week, Anita offers a few examples of how you can create those "occasional toys" out of trash.
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.
A few months back, Joe's good friend and mentor offered him a simple guide to marital health. This three part tip involved keeping a set time each day, each week, and each year for couples to connect and grow their relationship.
