Five Tips To Stay Organized:

It's 7am, the dog is barking, you're buttoning the top button on junior's dress shirt for that expensive private school you have him in.

Your husband is twittering on Cnn.com, and you're trying to pull up your pantyhose all the while the burning bacon in the oven you forgot about is now starting to smoke like your grandpas ole cigar.

You have missed your morning meeting, as you rush out the door you realize you've left your dry cleaning on the table.

The neighbor man stares at you in disbelief as you race down the driveway like its Indy pit row!

You struggle to put on makeup that the dog half ate and finish your now cold mocha latte that you're two year old filled with crayons before you dropped her off at day care.

Now a half hour late for work, you realize you broke more traffic laws than Brittany Spears on your mad dash the office as you wonder empirically how you ever made it through grad school...with your sanity!

If this describes your life, fret no more! Here are Five tips to keep you organized through the holidays all in one piece!

Five Tips to Keep You Organized:

• 1) Manage your time: Decide which tasks are most important and make a plan of organization. My favorite trick is tear up a bunch of small pieces of paper and write down one thing on each piece of paper I want to get done i.e.; laundry ,supper, and dishes. Then make tow piles immediate and what is not necessary to do now.

For example, you need to make dinner now, but the laundry may be put off till later when the kids are home to help. One of the biggest problems people have organizing is deciding what is important and what to let go.

If the house doesn't need cleaned right now, then put off the vacuuming till hubby gets home to help while you get dinner started and the laundry going. Then when help arrives you can tackle the other chores and get them done in a lot less time than stressing over things that can wait!

• 2) Make a list of goals: The most important task it to keep a short term (Immediate list for the week or Month), and long term list (five years or more down the road such as graduate college, pay off the mortgage etc.)To manage your tasks. Ask yourself, "What do I have to do right now, tomorrow or five years from now?"

• 3) Get yourself organized: Grab a giant white board and make a to-do list for you and your honey, even get the kids involved they'll love it! Make a new list at the end of every week! Then reward everyone on the list for trying hard! What a better way to end the week than dinner and a movie?

• 4) Deal with increasing demands from others: Mom does have a way of showing up at the most unsuspecting times! But what would we do without her right? So ask for help when that to-do list is growing! Ask mom for her awesome beef stew she made while you were growing up? (She'll be flattered you remembered).

Suggest to the kids, that you might feel motivationally moved to make milkshakes if the laundry mysteriously got folded! Then make a point joke about how a ghost came in, did all the laundry, and folded the towels so neatly! (The kids will be so proud they participated).

• 5) Use Unexpected Gifts of time: Learn to multi task! Try doing more than one thing throughout the whole day. When making dinner, also check email, and look over your shoulder at the kids while they do their homework. Wash the laundry and return phone calls via headset. This way you can sit down to a movie with the kids and not feel guilty about it.

~Don't forget the most important things you can do is to keep a list and look at it often. Whether it is on your PDA or a yellow sticky post it on your bathroom mirror, look at it often and keep it updated.~

~The second most important is to believe in yourself that you can accomplish this goal and reward yourself every week for the work you have done, it will solidify the results and in a month you'll be an ole pro at it!~

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