Ok, the fun is over, the decorations are put away, you have returned all the lame presents and got something you really wanted, the year-end sales have ended and it is time to get back to work and step into the new year.

Are you excited about the New Year or dreading it? Will 2009 be a great year for you or just more of the same?

I say make 2009 a great year by learning something new– will-power!

Yes, will is a skill and can be learned.

You can actually learn will-power and master the art of accomplishing goals. One way to do that is to harness the power of distractions. I call it the Law of Distraction! We have all had the experience of driving somewhere and arriving at our destination without remembering how we got there. We were mentally distracted.

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I’m in the preliminary stages of toilet training my son. Twice a day we put him on his potty and twice a day we do our best to keep my son’s penis inside the potty.

You see, my son is absolutely fascinated and wants to look at his penis. He wants to touch his penis. He wants to do everything but put his penis inside the potty. And because there’s so much back and forth with the penis, he usually ends up with an erection making it harder (pun intended) to put his penis in the potty.

All this penis play started when he was six months old. One day during a routine diaper change, my son’s hands were whipping around and he accidently felt his penis. I could see on his little face that this indeed was a very happy discovery.

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It’s not like I set out to be June Cleaver, much less Mother of the Year.

Far from it, actually.

Motherhood to me feels more like Survivor meets June Cleaver. But after growing up in a not-so-nurturing situation, I immersed myself in so much self-help in my 20s that I started calling myself the “self-help connoisseur.”

If we were going to have children, there was no way I was going to continue the devastating pattern of abuse passed down two generations of my family. The way I saw it, the pattern ended with me.

Despite the fact that I rarely think about my mother, much less talk about her to my children, my six-year-old son is naturally curious.

Was she mean? he wants to know.

Did she let you eat chocolate?  He leans closer, wide-eyed.

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WorkingMomLifeline.com co-founders Allison Nazarian & Debbe Taylor will be keynote speakers at the ABWA (American Business Women’s Association) January meeting on the brand-new Celebrity Soltice ship based in Miami.

What We’re Speaking About: “Ready, Set, Launch:  What We Did (and Didn’t Do) to Bring a New Business to Life.” 

Learn how to take an idea and develop it into a viable business or product. You’ll also pick up valuable new strategies for marketing your own business or career. (We’ll also give you a lot of insight into what mistakes we made, where we went wrong and what we learned!)

Date: Sunday January 11, 2009

Register: There is still time to register (and you do not need to be an ABWA member) but you must do so ASAP. The registration form can be found on the ABWA’s Coral Spring chapter site. Click on “Events” and then “Cruise Ship Lunch.”

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re busily whipping up homemade cookies for the jolly guy in the bright red suit, or whether you’re already in the throes of a carb-fest latke overload, in my opinion, school vacation is the best gift any of us could receive.

Shhhh…did you hear that?  Moms everywhere just breathed a collective sigh of relief!  School vacation translates into freedom…for more than just the kids.  We all get a break from waking up at the crack of dawn, rushing around the house like a crazy (ok, we’re still a bit crazy no matter what) person, getting breakfast on the table without dumping cereal all over the floor, a respite from our position of sandwich maker extraordinaire, and backpack organizer…and most  importantly of all, a break from the gritted teeth and nagging that we all do to our kids, while trying to ensure that they’re doing their homework. 

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Tis’ the season for house guests.

Family and friends traveling from all parts to spend time with one another over the holidays. Besides having the usual anxieties around getting the house guest-clean, making big portions of food, there’s the “Are we going to have sex?” dilemma.

My unscientific observation is that half the population are exhibitionists and don’t mind if the people in the next room know what’s going on; the other half of the population feels extremely self conscious and just can’t get up the nerve to do the horizontal mambo.

I’ve had both types as house guests. To be fair, given the spare bedroom is directly below my master bedroom, most of my guests have been discreet. But, of course, the few who were not stick out like a sore thumb.

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