There’s no doubt about it, our days are much busier than our mother’s ever were. Although there is time in the schedule for all of the other priorities in your life, it seems that there’s just no time left for yourself...

I have a new tradition, one that started a few years ago. Each morning as I dress for the day, just like so many women, I survey my jewelry.

n 1: a state of extreme confusion and disorder [syn: pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness] 2: the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos 3: (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe [syn: Chaos] 4: (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions