In this episode Nic chats with Matt, who is a dad to three gorgeous girls. Matt and his wife live in Melbourne and I have the pleasure of knowing them both!

Matt and Nic both attend the same gym and have had many great discussions about kids and parenting, so she was very keen to have him on the podcast so you could hear his excellent tips and thoughts too.

They have a great chat on how they organise the chaos of family life in his house and Matt has great points to share on:

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While we may be half way through the year, it is never too late to set a goal. In this episode I share:

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About five years ago I couldn't understand why I was always feeling under the pump. I managed my time really well, had great plans that I followed, but there still never seemed like enough time in the day.

Then I realised that time management and productivity weren't the same thing. In this episode of the podcast I share why productivity is more than time management and what you need to do to increase productivity at home.

{source: Oakland University}

The key to productivity at home
Setting one personal goal
8 Ways To Sneak Exercise Into Your Day

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It happens to all of us at some point. Even with the best of planning we find ourselves in a situation when circumstances have changed, worlds have collided and we are feeling overwhelmed by our workload. Sometimes it happens because just haven't said no where we should have too.

But regardless of how it happened we are now in a situation where we have taken on too much. What are we to do? In this podcast I share my approach when this happens.

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this family life is back for another season! This season it is a slightly different format. I am hosting 10 short solo episodes on some key areas of family life to help you get organised at home.

When I chat with other parents, managing technology is a very common issue that is discussed. It is a tricky area of parenting to navigate and one that I have made plenty of mistakes on. In this episode I share the two tier system we have in our house for managing technology and how I changed my own tech use behaviour so I could role model the behaviour I wanted to see in my kids.

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this family life is back for another season! This season it is a slightly different format. I am hosting 10 short solo episodes on some key areas of family life to help you get organised at home.

After school activities are part of everyday life for most parents and most parents will admit to find the challenge of fitting everything in a little hard. In this episode of the podcast I share how my best tips on how to manage this time of the day with the whole family.

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas
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Hopefully you will have cleared some space in your home after taking on the challenge to declutter last week and this week you focus on making sure there is a home for all the items in your house.

I have found that if everything has a home, it is so much easier to keep the house tidy. Everyone in the house becomes familiar with what goes where and everyone is responsible for returning items to there homes when they have been used. It would be lovely to be able to say this always happens in my house but it doesn't! It does however happen much more often because at least the kids know where to put things!

In this episode I share how we store certain items and how we get creative with space.

5 simple ways to get organised with hooks
Setting up a kids’ snack fridge

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Staying on top of clutter can be challenging if we aren't mindful about what we bring into the family home, so that is where I start with my decluttering tips in this episode. I share strategies that I use to make me think twice before bringing items into the house and then move on to some practical ways you can make decluttering happen in the home on a regular basis.

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this family life is back for another season! This season it is a slightly different format. I am hosting 10 short solo episodes on some key areas of family life to help you get organised at home.

In today's episode I discuss how a quote from Charles Duhigg's book Smarter Faster Better : The Secrets of Being Productive can help us in family life.

The quote was in an interview with Duhigg for 800-CEO-READ:

The key to self-motivation is realizing two things: First, to trigger the parts of our brain associated with motivation, we need to feel like we’re in charge. We need to feel like we have some agency and control over our lives. That’s why making a chore into a choice is so powerful: Because it gives us a chance to assert our control. But control, on its own, often isn’t enough. It needs to be accompanied by a sense that we’re pursuing our deepest aspirations, our most important goals.

The way we achieve this is, oftentimes, by taking a moment to ask ourselves why we’re doing something—and how we can assert our sense of choice.

Smarter Faster Better : The Secrets of Being Productive
The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Pocket money and kids
From chore to a choice - my written post on this topic

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this family life is back for another season! This season it is a slightly different format. I am hosting 10 short solo episodes on some key areas of family life to help you get organised at home.

The first two episodes have looked at setting up some organisational foundations for you and your family. This requires work on the part of all family members. It is important to use positive feedback to encourage the family to stick to the path and really establish the routines that will make family life easier.

In this episode I talk about:
the power of feedback and how it can be a useful tool for family harmony
the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
pocket money and household tasks

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Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation: What's the Difference?
Family contribution schedule - how we work out who does what jobs in our house
Pocket money and kids

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