First off, if you need to ask yourself how you can possibly handle multiple clients, congratulations! You’re on your way to a successful business. That business will not be a success, however, if you can't juggle those multiple clients. Thankfully, there is a somewhat simple solution: time management. Let's check out how you can manage your time (and those multiple clients!).

Prioritize

Bad years happen, and I'm sure everyone out there has had at least one or two. You know the years I'm talking about: the blows start and keep on coming, and you really start to understand that old "when it rains, it pours" cliché.

Has life dealt you a really bad hand? Or several really bad hands? What can you do to come back after that? While I'm not an expert, I have personally been dealt a couple of rough years, and here is my story about how I've been replenishing my life after some pretty grief-stricken times.

I Only Wish It Were Fiction

Have you ever had one of those weeks that seemed to have just slipped by without you noticing? Well, now that I realize it’s already the end of May, it occurs to me that I must have had one of those months.

I’ve been so wrapped up with my projects that I didn’t even notice that my husband changed my desktop background. It now reads, “Drink Coffee. Do stupid things faster and with more energy.” I’m not sure where he found that image, but I think I’d like to plaster it all over my office.

How about you? Let’s take a look at what you’ve been up to this week:

This week, I had the pleasure of attending an appreciation party for all of the savvy investors (who invested at least one million dollars in deposits, CDs, stocks and bonds) at my town’s high-end local bank. We sat atop the 12th floor of the swanky executive party room, enjoyed a resplendent array of fresh fruits and delicious appetizers, sipped wines and mixed drinks, watched the activity on the Mississippi River and chatted about local news.

Today, indulge me a little. I want you to take a minute, close your eyes, and think back to that BC time – you know, Before Children. Remember those days? Now, eyes still closed, allow yourself to drift back a bit further to your single days, before your spouse entered the picture. Meditate for a moment on the person you were then.

I read a post recently on a discussion board, Momster.com. This post details the feelings of entrapment, financial inequality and neglect stay-at-home-mother (SAHM) Wyjo feels because her fiancé hoards all of the money that “he brings in.” This situation can actually occur more often than one would think, so I thought we could all brainstorm some solutions to Wyjo’s situation.

The Situation

Going entirely paperless may be great for Mother Nature, but it may create a nightmare for your loved ones later. Those online payments mean user ID’s and passwords, and if they are not written down, your loved ones may have trouble putting your finances in order.

If something were to happen to you right this instant — say you keel over in excitement from all the great information on MomVesting — who would know what you owe and to whom? Would they know your login information? Probably not. That’s the problem with going paperless.

As we continue to define finance terms, we come to a term that is tossed around a lot lately: volatility. Generally, when something is volatile, it means that it is unstable and could at any moment take off in one direction or another.

The measure of volatility in finance is similar: it measures how much a stock is expected to vary over a period of time. But it is also a little more complex than that, so let’s look at everything that is involved.

This weekend, I will be out on the lake, fishing and playing in the sand. How about you? How did you spend this weekend? I know a lot of people’s minds were on something else that the media was covering this weekend, but it looks like we’re all still here blogging.

So, without further adieu, let me share with you my favorite recent posts:

Investing

Balance Junkie “Opportunity Cost and Opportunity Lost”

Investing in your health takes time. It’s necessary, but sometimes fitting in that daily hour (or even thirty minutes) can seem taxing on your busy schedule. So how can you find time to put some of the work back in your work out?

Audiobooks

I run twice a day. Once in the morning to jump start my brain, and again in the evening to unwind and spend time with my puppies. Although I love the sound of nature, sometimes I can’t enjoy my runs because I have so much else going on: I want to learn about this; I’d love to read that.