The Time-Saving Mom: How to Juggle a Lot, Enjoy Your Life, and Accomplish What Matters Most by Crystal Paine Book Review

 

In The Time-Saving Mom, Crystal Paine explored the topic of creating a four-step system to organize and simplify our hectic lives and schedules. These included pray, prioritize, plan, and prep. She is a mom of six children and she know the importance of managing her time. In the book, she shared how she is also fostering a two-year-old boy with medical complexities: down syndrome, cleft lip/palate, and a feeding tube. She explained how she realized how critical it is to take the extra time to focus on what matters most. She chose to live her life by asking herself two questions: what will matter in 25 years and what will matter at the end of our lives. One of the strong points of the book was in her sharing how we need to begin each day with God. We need to incorporate time to study the scriptures, begin the mornings by reading His word, posting scriptures where we can see them every day, have accountability, reading while you exercise, and listening to worship music. The book also looked at the 6x2 priority system and these enclosed: marriage, kids, health, friendships, business, just to name a few. This will help readers in investing in our priorities and to focus on just two areas each day. The book contained a special appendix session at the end of the book. These comprised of: a seven-week plan to transform your life, how to find time to read/listen to books, daily prayer journal page, flare prayers, determining your priorities worksheet, priority areas worksheet, time-blocked to do list, to do list habit tracker example, daily habit tracker, and much more. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book to any mom who is ready to gain assistance in organizing their life and priorities what matters most in their life. I really think this book will assist women in finding peace, simplifying, and creating new habits to maximize their time. One of the helpful ways, she does is walking on her treadmill daily and exercising while she reads the Bible or a faith based related book. You could also listen to it on audio tape if you wanted to do a more intense workout. I also liked how she discussed how we need to stop saying we don’t have time to read, exercise, pursue a hobby, get more sleep, and much more. The amazing thing is that we all get to make a choice on how we spend our time and what we focus on. This book will guide us in taking proper ownership on our time and priorities. I really enjoyed the idea of the 6x2 priority systems and how we can use that to focus on what’s important each day. I also loved how she included her own sample to showcase what she does weekly. I liked the idea of writing things down and using a Google calendar to organize our life. I liked how she included tips on creating new morning and evening routines to simplify our life.  

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Saving-Mom-Juggle-Accomplish-Matters/dp/0764237241/