JENNIFER LOUDEN / LIFE ORGANIZER: GUIDE TO A MINDFUL YEAR 1/29/14

Most women today juggle multiple schedules: full-time jobs, meal planning, fitness, spirituality, shopping, dinner parties, soccer for Jenny, and t-ball for Johnny. Their lives are so full of commitments that many don’t ever find time to focus on their own dreams and desires. We all yearn to have time for personal needs and creative dreams — after all, this is our life to make the most of. And we all know how hard it is to remember what really matters. With distractions from jobs, aging parents, and children — not to mention women's perennial fear of being labeled “selfish” — following our own desires and dreams can become ever more elusive. When Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, bestselling author Jennifer Louden, created an intuitive planner for herself and later shared it with others through her workshops, the results and achievements were amazing - and she decided to write her latest book, The Life Organizer: A Woman’s Guide to a Mindful Year.Join Julie Ann and Jen to discover how you may shift your focus, augmenting traditional goal setting with the ease that comes from steady inner listening and mindfulness. Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the self-care movement with her first book The Woman’s Comfort Book - and she's written 4 additional books on well-being and whole living that have inspired women all over the world, including her latest - The Life Organizer. She's also written a national magazine column, and even sat on Oprah's couch. Jen believes self-love + world-love = wholeness for all.