Hi, this is Karen Grunberg with Big Picture Scrapbooking. I wanted to tell you a little bit about my new workshop Reclaiming My Time.

If you do the math, you can see that each one of us gets 1,440 minutes each and every single day. The amazing thing about these minutes is that whether you used them well, or used them badly, they are gone by the end of the day. When you're going to sleep and you wake up and it's tomorrow, every single minute that you had for yesterday is completely gone. You cannot take back that time and cannot do something else with it, it is gone…it is forever and completely gone.

While this thought is sort of scary, it's also the reason I started doing the work for my new workshop. I decided that instead of setting up resolutions of what I would stop doing, or what I would start doing in 2010, I wanted to take a good long look at my 1,444 minutes every single day and see if I was using them to the best of my ability. This is not about creating more time, of course, we can't do that, but it's about using your time wisely, taking a look at the priorities that you have in your life, at the obligations you have in your life as well, and trying to figure out exactly how you can use those minutes so that you feel perfectly happy when you lie down in bed at night and you close your eyes.

The idea in this class is to take a good look at how we're actually spending our time and how we wish we were spending out time, and then find a way to bridge the two so that when we look at 2010, and when we're thinking about our minutes, our days, our weeks, we are actually spending them doing the things we want to do in the way we want to do them. It seems kind of cheesy, but really, this is actually a powerful and very specific exercise that allows you to start setting up resolutions around the way you spend your time, the people you spend your time with, and the things you are doing in the time that you have allotted to yourself every single day. And this is not hokey-pokey, it's not so that you suddenly quit your job and don't have that time to do any more, or completely give up an obligation that you know you have to do, it's basically working with what we have, but trying to make sure that the time we do have free every day, or every week, is actually used in a way where we feel satisfied and fulfilled.

I hope you join me in this powerful exercise and set your goals for 2010 in this way. The amazing thing about this class is also that it will be open for the entire year. So while we spend the last three weeks of December and the first two weeks of January setting up our goals, creating our book, and thinking about how we spend our time, we will make sure that we stay on top of this new resolution that we created for ourselves, this new way of living our life, of spending our time, with monthly check-ins for me and each one of you. This way you can make sure that when the class is over, the new lifestyle and the new way of spending your time that you've created for yourself is actually permanent, and you can adjust yourself throughout the year and make sure that you are creating that path for yourself and finding the best way to use your 1,444 minutes.

The other unusual thing about this workshop is that we will begin the workshop in the first week of December, but we will not end it until the end of January. Because December happens to be a busy time for most of us and it's also the time when we set resolutions, I wanted to make sure that we started our project and started thinking in this mind frame early in December before it gets a little bit more crazy. In this way, as your holiday season starts, you don't have to worry about the week-to-week of this project, but you can still have it brewing at the back of your mind, and then when the new year starts and you get back on your schedule, you can then come back and complete your project and set your resolutions. I hope you join me in my workshop. I'm so very much looking forward to having you there.