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    Whatever Works for You: A Working Woman's Guide to Surviving a Busy Life While Maintaining Peace
    Whatever Works for You: A Working Woman's Guide to Surviving a Busy Life While Maintaining Peace
    Whatever Works for You: A Working Woman's Guide to Surviving a Busy Life While Maintaining Peace
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    Whatever Works for You: A Working Woman's Guide to Surviving a Busy Life While Maintaining Peace

    By Deborah McVay-McKinney

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    Whatever Works for You: A Working Womans Guide to Surviving a Busy Life While Maintaining Peace is a semi-autobiographical view into author Deborah McVay-McKinneys busy life. She offers guidance for the working woman who seeks balance while accomplishing everything on her to-do list and maintaining a career, home, and family. Filled with organizational tips and advice-and dotted with humor and history-this entertaining how-to reference manual reveals that living a successful, balanced life is simpler than people realize.

    In these busy, stressful times, people want to feel like they have a life beyond work as well as good ideas to help them accomplish this goal. The author cites many different types of women who inspire her thoughts on surviving in todays world. When they are overwhelmed, overcommitted, faced with uncertainties, and just plain stressed-as many of these women are on a daily basis-their strength comes from knowing they are not alone. The common thread in each of their lives is a strong sense of faith.

    Planning a vacation, managing the holiday season, accomplishing weekly chores, and sorting the paper piles are explained in easy to follow steps, along with checklists and planning pages, to gain an organized, stress-free life.

    In Whatever Works for You, McVay-McKinney encourages readers to find personal time, gain a renewed sense of value, and depend more upon faith to achieve a balanced, peaceful life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInspiring Voices
    Release dateSep 24, 2012
    ISBN9781462403066
    Whatever Works for You: A Working Woman's Guide to Surviving a Busy Life While Maintaining Peace
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    Deborah McVay-McKinney

    Deborah McVay-McKinney is the owner of Time To Spare, LLC, an event management service, as well as an inspirational life speaker and author. She resides in Northeast Ohio and is blessed by a life filled with her one true love, two wonderful daughters, family and friends too numerous to count.

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      Whatever Works for You - Deborah McVay-McKinney

      Copyright © 2012 Deborah McVay-McKinney

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Inspiring Voices books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      Inspiring Voices

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      www.inspiringvoices.com

      1-(866) 697-5313

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The content of this book contains actual family members of the author. All other names and characters are purely a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. While the author has made every effort to provide accurate information and advice, neither the author nor the publisher assumes any responsibility for the information and advice included herein.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0305-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0306-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916509

      Inspiring Voices rev. date: 09/20/2012

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Preface

      The Beginning

      Let’s Take a Look

      Rule Your World

      Now What Did I Do With ____ ?

      What Season is It Again?

      Where Did This Year Go?

      How About Those Milestone Events?

      What Vacation?

      Sinking in Paper Quicksand?

      Yes, You Do!

      Afterward ~ The Eulogy

      For my one and only Cowboy, Pookie, and Monkey ~

      your love inspires me every moment.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I cannot begin to thank the many, many people throughout my life who have believed in me and encouraged me to be all that I can be.

      I would especially like to thank my family, each and every one of you. I would never be the person I am without your love.

      My husband Bruce has supported every project I have taken on since the creation of Time To Spare (which he also named seventeen years ago). My daughters, Dana and Megan are the joy of my life. They bring happiness to every aspect of every day.

      Thank you stepmoms everywhere, especially mine, who taught me the best way to be a second mom.

      To all my girlfriends ~ and you know who you are: Amanda and Janet from the very beginning, through The Birthday Girls, the Thursday morning Bible study ladies, and everyone in-between ~I thank you for the laughter, tears, honesty, eye rolling, hugs, prayers, advice, celebrations, empty nests, saying good-bye, welcoming in, and always, always being there.

      This book would not be possible without the editorial skills of Larry Allen, who told me thirty years ago that I was a good writer. He is still making me one today. Thank you for believing in me all those years ago, as you continue to do today.

      I could not end this list without a special thanks to my dad, who has been a part of my life through all my good and bad decisions, who never stopped loving me, and most of all, who taught me the true value of faith.

      I am grateful to you all. With all my heart, I thank you.

      PREFACE

      Haven’t we all been taught that before beginning any project, you should write down your goals? Well, I have found that if I do one other thing first, that project always works out so much better than I had hoped. I pray about it.

      Not that my prayers are always answered the way I asked or thought they should be. But the way they are supposed to be. I learned a long time ago that it is not up to me alone.

      So, my prayer for this project is to share the many lessons I have learned about making life easier with other hard working women. My hope is that this information will be helpful, yet entertaining. That it does not become one more thing to complete, but something of value. To share advice that will provide more time to spend being happy.

      I’ll look forward to hearing how you think my prayer was answered.

      Enjoy!

      The Beginning

      Where to begin and why now? Looking back, I started babysitting when I was twelve years old and have managed my own income ever since. I

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