A Doctor’s Prescription for Overloaded Lives

Leave yourself some time and space to be able to deal with the unexpected.
A Doctor’s Prescription for Overloaded Lives
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Bill Smith sits down to his most dreaded chore—paying bills. Every month, it’s the same story: Pay the most urgent, and leave the rest. There’s never enough money, no matter how hard he works.

Jane Miller flies into the school office frazzled and 30 minutes late because she was 20 minutes late getting out of the dentist’s office, because she was 15 minutes late to her appointment. How will she ever get the kids home, homework started, and dinner on the table, and be back out the door in time to chair the PTA meeting that evening?

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