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When Your Hands Are Full BY COACH CHRIS Christy Jones, also know as Coach Chris, is an improvement coach for leaders and helps them break free from feeling overwhelmed and prepares them to take their teams to high levels of performance. Contact her at www.beginmonday.com.
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an you actually believe it is April? Already? Me neither! Well, time is ticking and it consistently reminds me that whatever you and I are planning to do or even go after, we do not need to play around and wait; we need to do it now! In 2015, I wrote and published a book titled “How to D.E.S.I.G.N. Your Life When Your Hands Are Full.” This was a major accomplishment for me because I had always dreamed of writing a book and getting it published and so I did! (My husband is encouraging me to “re-release it” because he says that there is so much wisdom in those pages that I need to dust it off and put it back out there in the market in a fresh way. Maybe I will soon.) You know, I am not much of a designer or decorator at all; that is not my strength. In fact, when I had a redesign project
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for my home office, I had to call in one of my good friends who is fabulous at designing any kind of space in a home. Kimberly Lucas was truly a life saver during those moments when I was about to pull my hair out behind trying to arrange a bookshelf to make it look like I am sitting in a senior executive’s office. She came to my rescue! Now, although I may not be good at designing or decorating a house, I have come to gather some secrets that I want to share with you to help you D.E.S.I.G.N. your life particularly when your hands are full. As women, our jobs are never done. Although we are senior executives, writers, speakers, waitresses, CEOs, doctors, lawyers, nurses, physical therapists, counselors and so much more in our careers, many of us are also wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, teachers, guidance counselors for our family, ministers, caregivers, and so many other roles. We have our
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