3, 2, 1 Synchronize!

I love those action packed movies where the crack team of operatives put their hands in together and synchronize their watches before they infiltrate some nefarious structure, assuring that they all make it to the rendezvous point at the same time... Sigh... If only life were that easy. But wait! Internet based calendars CAN make synchronizing your and your family's calendars even easier than that for a Queen Bee.

I first came upon Yahoo Calendar after I bought my new phone and found out that I could not sync (transfer data) my phone and my desktop PC at work. Like most Queen Bees I have a TON of work, social and family obligations that I NEED to be able to manage in one place AND I need to have the information available to me wherever I am. I also need other people to be able to access my calendar, BUT I only want them to know whether or not I am available at any particular time. Enter Yahoo Calendar. With Yahoo Calendar, I am able to sync my calendar and contact data from my phone, to my home desktop to the internet. Now, I can always keep up to date, my staff and the people that I work with can see when I am available, and the people who I choose, specifically my husband, can see exactly what I'm doing (except for those appointments that I deem to be private, even to him).

As a family tool, my husband can sync his calendar with Yahoo as well and I can view his calendar side by side with mine, without officially merging our information. This way, I can see which evenings hubby is more inclined to "baby-sit" our brood while I have drinks with the girls.
Cheers ladies!

Make a List and Check it Twice

Without some efficient and useful tools to make your day successful and productive, there are simply not enough hours in the day to do it all. You can multi-task until your arms fall off, but unless you are organized and prepared, you will alway fall short.
While I am in favor of any gadget that will help me downsize my to do list, my to do is the the single most essential tool, and I refuse to lose it in cyberspace or delete it by accident. Some things are priceless enough to spend the extra time on, making sure you have a hard-copy and a paperless version. And lists are that one necessity for me. Not just any list will do, however, so I invest in these ultra chic versions from Knock Knock that give me in hand access to everything I need to do in a day and for an event, before I send them off to cyber heaven. Besides, some things, like your grocery list don't need to be saved, just trashed after use!


To Do List:


Shopping List:


Event Planning List:



*New Item* Random:


You can jot down things you see online or thoughts you have while working, and incorporate them, at the end of the day, to your PDA if they are worthy!

Prioritize Your Life!

Queen Bees, we do A LOT. We work, we raise our busy bees, we take care of ourselves physically and spiritually AND we look damned good doing it! What we DON'T do enough of, is take care of our emotional selves. We feel like we need to take care of everybody else and let other people weigh us down with THEIR emotional baggage. We have enough of our own! No matter how organized you are at work, or how many routines you have down at home, if you don't get rid of the un-necessary clutter in your head, you will not be able to soar to your full potential. Let 2008 be the year that you prioritize EVERYTHING, including your personal time. How much time are you spending arguing with people over irrelevant things? How much time do you spend nurturing one-sided relationships? How much time do you spend around negative people who only want to infect you with their misery? Or people who try to make you feel guilty because of the good choices you have made in your life? Your goal for this year is to make sure your answer is ZERO. Queen Bees, our time is very precious, and it is not to be wasted, so the time is NOW to tell all the Wanna Bees in your life to BUZZ OFF!