NEW YEAR, NEW PLANNER, NEW YOU

South Riding, VA Today, GO MOM !NC shares the secrets that let Moms to take charge of their family this New Year simplify, organize, and energize! Molly Gold, founder, finds January to be an excellent opportunity for Moms to guide their family in a new direction. Putting your family first is an ongoing challenge in today's overscheduled world. We encourage Moms to take charge of their family life by staying on top of the details and in tune with their group goals. In doing so, they will find personal reward and joy in leading their family in the way they best know how. Check out GO MOM !NCs three keys Moms to take charge in 2003.

New Year: A new day has come! To simplify your life, take inventory of your schedule and scale back on activities. First, make a dream board. Using pictures and words from old magazines, make a collage of all your dreams and wishes for your life as mother, daughter, wife and friend in 2003. This will help you visualize what's in your heart. Encourage family members who are old enough to do the same to identify priorities and suggest choices that allow them to enjoy their time and grow. Next, transfer these dreams and wishes into reality by looking at the year ahead to create a family schedule. When possible, limit family members to one or two activities and always honor family principles first, such as attending a place of worship weekly or enjoying dinner together nightly. By spreading out each family members activity levels over the course of the year, the entire family can have a year of dreams and wishes come true while supporting one another along the way.

New Planner: If you don't already have one, get one! To organize your life, you need to know what its all about. Use a portable, mom-oriented planner that provides tracking in one location for each family members schedule and reference information. From completing school registration forms to new doctor visits, menu planning to car pool rosters, using a planner alleviates confusion and encourages success. Take it with you anywhere and everywhere you go. Most importantly, prior to making any commitments, check group schedules first to qualify the need or the time for a new activity. Measure each inquiry alongside your defined priorities and answer with confidence that you not only have individual but family interests at heart. Remember that you truly are the gatekeeper to your family's well-being and smart scheduling always produces positive results.

New You: Resolve to honor yourself! To energize your life, quite simply you must take good care of your body, both inside and out. For the inside, carve time out for simple pleasures, like a cup of tea or an early morning meditation. Create a peaceful corner in your home with candles and treasured objects as your own personal haven to recharge yourself easily. Your peace of mind and soul will radiate effortlessly having filled your cup with emotional reserve to face what lies ahead. For the outside, resolving to eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep is as basic as they come. You are a role model in everything you do and a healthy parent makes for a healthy home. Make fitness a family activity by taking nature walks at local parks, winter swims indoors, or joining in family sport nights at a local YMCA. When you spend recreation time together, kids benefit from the chance to enjoy their parent in their world of fun and exploration. What a great bonus for both your mind and your body!

In its third year, GO MOM !NC continues to bring its customers the latest in Mom-specific planning products. GO MOM !NC promotes the use of New The GO MOM!® Personal Planner. Released in November 2002, its portable, lightweight design features larger monthly and weekly scheduling features in a new coil-bound book format for less than $25.00! This latest edition enables Moms to balance personal needs and work obligations around family schedules in an affordable and proven product just for them. Through the promotion of the Planner and its website resources, GO MOM !NC strives to make life easier for moms.

GO MOM !NC is based in Northern Virginia. To learn more about how GO MOM !NC is working to make positive mothering a daily reality, visit www.GOMOMINC.com. For interviews with Molly Gold, call 919.387.3848 or via email.

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