Living a simple life is pretty easy with a little planning. One way you can simplify your life is to cook ahead for your family. If you are someone that is really crunched on time then you may wish to go ahead and prepare whole dishes, or dinners ahead of time to put in the freezer to pull out on the days you just do not have the time to cook.

I know most families these days rarely have time to sit down and eat a meal together at the dinner table as a family. To me this is sad because this is one of the most important things I think a family can do together. But alot of times, more often than not we see this taken away because of sports, work, etc. Its hard to get everyone in the family home at the same time to have a good meal prepared and eaten together.

So cooking ahead truly helps because it cuts down on preparation time and in a lot of cases will allow you the time to actually have dinner as a family! As well as save money from eating out!

Another option is to cook only certain things ahead to help you have only that portion of cooking over with. For example if you brown hamburger ahead and decide to make spaghetti. Then all you will have to do is boil some noodles and heat up the spaghetti sauce with the already cooked hamburger and you are good to go for dinner! It cuts the preparing of dinner time in half!

Another great option that I have found to be a huge help is cutting up things like potatoes, onions, green peppers and so on up ahead of time and putting them in seperate freezer baggies. This way if you want to have something with onions in it you wont have to worry about pulling out an onion to chop up. It will already be chopped up for you! This truly is nice having this already done!

These are just a few tips to help simplify your life and your dinner time!

Good Morning All,

I just got the kids off to school and filled my crockpot with tonight’s dinner. After I sat down to begin my “work at home workday”, I realized that hey my friends at Her Simple Life would probably LOVE this recipe. It’s so quick, easy and you wont believe how delicious it is!

Get our your crockpot and put her to work ladies (I use my crockpot ALL of the time), this makes my life so much simpler! If you dont have a crockpot … whats wrong with you, lol.  Just teasing you but really run out and buy you one! This saves you so much time and energy! It’s such a nice feeling to know what you are having for dinner ahead of time and it sure makes the house smell good all day!

So now lets move on to giving you my TOP SECRET Simple & Deicious Roast recipe!

You will need the following:

• 1 – Good Lean Roast
• 2 – Can’s of Cream of Celery soup
• 1 – Can of Cream of Mushroom Soup
• 1 – Bag on carrots

I put the roast in the crockpot, dump in all of the soup. I do this right around the time the kids leave for school. Then during the day sometime in the early afternoon, late morning hours I put in the bag of carrots. (You could probably add potatoes too. Thats really up to you.)

But you let this cook until dinner time on HIGH. This is the ABSOLUTE BEST roast I have ever had in my life and its sooooo good!

If you try this recipe please leave me comment and let me know what you think!

Helping make your life simpler, one day at a time!

Often time’s we have people tell us they arent sure what they are doing wrong, they don’t see why THEY can’t or haven’t reached success in their lives.

My question to them is you have … in some way shape or form you have had blessings and good things happen in your life. It may not be the exact success that you are talking about or striving for. But in some way you have reached some type of success or blessing in your life.

I ask people all the time … When was the last time you truly gave thanks? When was the last time that you truly counted your blessings?

People often times get caught up in the “I wish I had” or “I want” that they forget to simply say Thanks for what they do have. I point this out because this is one of the simple things that impacted a huge change in my life. As I grew up I often wondered those same thing. I became a young adult and went through so many trials in my life that I remember often asking why? Why me?  When I finally opened my heart and realized what I had in front of me all along was truly worth more than anything I could ever ask for in my life.

The simple things in life are sometimes the greatest gifts that we can ever imagine. I encourage you to stop whatever you are doing right now and simply give thanks. Open your eyes, your heart and your soul to truly recognize those blessings and to truly just give thanks.

Try to take a moment from your busy schedule to think about the things in your life that are going right, the things that your life has been truly blessed with. When things are not going your way just remember that things could always be much worse. There are many, many reasons for us all to be thankful so lets try not to forget to stop once in awhile and just simply be thankful.

Below I am leaving the comments open so that you can simply take a moment to write down a few things that you are thankful for. Truly embracing your blessings is powerful. It creates a huge change from the inside out. I truly believe that you can totally change your life, by changing your mind!

Please tell us what you are thankful for below and the blessings in your life …

It’s a new year and you’ve got your goals all planned out for 2010.  Have you considered creating a theme that will remind you of your goals?

Designing your ultimate theme is a personal slogan or tagline that will be a reminder of where you are right now and where you want to be by the end of 2010.

What is your personal theme for 2010?  What personal statement can you make that will sum up your goals? What personal tagline can you create that will “ignite” you to bring your goals to reality?

Perhaps you want to spend more time with your family. You want to go to the movies more with your kids or spouse. You want to learn to play the guitar with your son or take your daughter to ballet more often. You want to take several mini family vacations or weekend trips. You want to spend less time working and more time enjoying your family. So, your theme could be The Year of Family!

You see, when you have a personal theme, you’re setting yourself up for success.  Your theme is designed to keep you focused and on track to achieving your goals. Regardless if your theme is for your personal or business goals, it’s time for you to create the life you want right now!

I personally invite you to join me in the Designing Your Ultimate Theme Year webinar.  This fully interactive hour will get you thinking, planning, and designing your year for optimal success. Whether for personal or for business, you don’t want to miss this event.

During the webinar we will discuss:

1.  How to choose your own theme.

2.  How to implement goals into your theme.

3.  How to create your ultimate year of success.

This is guaranteed to be a fun and informative webinar that you will put into action during the call. You don’t want to miss this.  If you are serious about making 2010 your best year ever, you need to attend this event.

Let’s have a little fun, shall we?

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How cluttered is your computer? Sure you’ve got computer files saved on your desktop and you know its a mess but do you truly know how big of a mess it is? Well, let me tell you girls …

I got the brite idea to clean out my computer files off of my computer, my desktop was a mess and my computer just kept running slower and slower. So I sat down on a mission last night and began deleting and re-organizing files! By the end of the night I had over 80,000 items in my virtual trash can! Yes, you read that right over 80,000 items!

I had no idea I had saved so much stuff over the years. While going through it I realized that I didn’t even need alot of it. So I just kept deleting! The good thing is that I do own an external hard drive so I began taking the things I wanted to keep or still go through and place them on there. Then trashed the rest!

What is an external hard drive? It is something I plug into my computer and I can take the files I want to keep safe off of my computer and put them onto this drive.

If you do not have an external hard drive you may want to look at investing in one. You can either keep all of your files just on the external hard drive or you can keep them on both your computer and your external hard drive. This way if your computer decides to crash, you have all of your files backed up! Which is definately a smart move!

By the end of the night my virtual trash was full and I was beat! So I went ahead and emptied my recycling bin and headed to bed. When I logged on my computer this morning it felt so fresh, so clean & so organized! I had no idea that all that clutter was bothering me. But apparently it was in the back of my mind.

Don’t get me wrong, Im not completely done. I still have more to go. But I do have my computer cleaned off. I now am going to go through the files that I put on my external hard drive and begin deleting and organizing those things! Then once thats all done my computer will be in tip top shape! I will be able to focus so much easier once this project is complete!

So, let me ask you again … how cluttered is your computer or maybe you dont even realize it. Set a time when you can spend a couple of hours (maybe watch a movie while you do it) where you can sit down and wade through all of the files on your computer! You will be glad you did!

This will help get you on the right track to being more focused for your business!

Helping you in making things simpler for your business & life …

Welcome to Her Simple Life we are so excited about this website! We are currently preparing content, graphics and all that good stuff for launch. So bare with us and dont mind the mess until we get fully up and running!

We look forward to providing you tips, tools, resources, tasks and more in the upcoming months! Our website will be focusing on many area’s of YOUR life! We will be helping you in the home, in your business and in your life!

We will be here to help you when you feel stressed, overwhelmed and unsure. We are here to help you reach success, happiness and abundance in your life. Looking forward to walking along side you through this journey!

Until next time …

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