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Decluttering Your Mind: Mental Habits for Overwhelmed Women – TPW502

April 23, 2025 by Laura 2 Comments

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  • Decluttering Your Mind: Mental Habits for Overwhelmed Women – TPW502
This week we’re exploring why mental clutter builds up, how it affects us, and three simple habits to help reduce overwhelm, regain clarity, and focus on what matters.
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Getting Stuff Done – TPW279

January 29, 2020 by Laura Leave a Comment

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  • Getting Stuff Done – TPW279
What gets in the way of getting stuff done, and how can we overcome those obstacles and accomplish what matters to us?
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Filed Under: podcast Tagged With: getting stuff done, GTD, overwhelm, productivity

Heart to Heart – TPW267

November 6, 2019 by Laura 12 Comments

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  • Heart to Heart – TPW267
Do you ever feel disappointed in your own productivity? Me too. This week I’m sharing a few thoughts from my heart about productivity, disappointed expectations, and feeling better.
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Filed Under: podcast Tagged With: disappointment, feeling inadequate, impostor syndrome, overwhelm, stress

Get Organized Head First, with Claire Kellems – TPW263

October 9, 2019 by Laura 3 Comments

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  • Get Organized Head First, with Claire Kellems – TPW263
Working mom Claire Kellems’ search for order in her chaotic life has led to a blog, a business, and more peace of mind. How she got organized (and how you can too) is the subject of our conversation in this week’s episode.
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Beating Overwhelm, with Mridu Parikh – TPW254

August 7, 2019 by Laura 1 Comment

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This week I’m chatting with speaker, author, wife, and mom Mridu Parikh about how she minimizes overwhelm by simplifying where she can and by ordering her days intentionally.
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Filed Under: podcast Tagged With: intentionality, Mridu Parikh, organizing, overwhelm, simplicity

Sometimes It’s All Too Much – TPW135

April 12, 2017 by Laura 2 Comments

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Many women (and men) are struggling to manage a job, children, a spouse, or life as a single parent. On top of that we’re trying to find time for personal interests (or just to get some sleep). What do you do when it’s all too much?
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Coping with Stress – TPW075

February 3, 2016 by Laura 1 Comment

Stress - how do we cope with it
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Stress seems to be an unavoidable part of 21st-century life, and it has consequences–negative effects on our body, mind, emotions, and relationships. In this episode we look at some steps we can take to cope with, and even minimize, stress.
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Choose What’s Essential, Eliminate the Rest – TPW032

March 4, 2015 by Laura 3 Comments

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In an increasingly noisy world, one key to true productivity and to building a life of lasting significance and satisfaction is learning to identify and pursue only what’s essential, purposely eliminating the nonessential from our lives to make room for what really matters. We can learn how by studying Greg McKeown’s wise and profound book,…
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15 Minutes to Sanity: 9 Steps to Handling Overwhelm – TPW011

September 17, 2014 by Laura 4 Comments

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Sometimes, no matter how organized we are or how carefully we plan, life just takes over and throws way too much at us. When there’s too much to do and not enough time to get it done, we can feel panicky, stressed, and overwhelmed. I’ve developed a simple 15-minute process that can help bring me…
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Filed Under: podcast Tagged With: brain dump, life, overwhelm, Pomodoro, Pomodoro Technique, productivity, schedule, stress, time

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Laura McClellan is a lawyer, a writer, a productivity enthusiast, and a tech geek. Married for 47 years to her high school sweetheart, with whom she's raised five amazing kids, she's passionate about encouraging women in their individual journeys as people, wives, mothers, citizens. Laura blogs occasionally at I Was Just Thinking . . . and is working on her first novel. Connect with Laura on X (fka Twitter) as @LauraMcMom.

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