Feeling the pressure to ‘do it all’ has become such a cliche. Unfortunately, it’s also the hard reality for momtrepreneurs.  Not only do we have to keep the kids fed, the pets clean, and the house kept, but we also have to keep the phones answered, the  socials networked and the emails checked.

However…if you dare to take a stab at ‘doing it all’ successfully, I’ve collected 3 useful tools to help you accomplish this Herculean feat:

1. Revisit the definition of “all.”

Merriam-Webster defines “all” to be “any whatever.” What does that mean?  I have no idea.  You don’t have to, either.  Go ahead and define “all” however you please.  And really try to abide by your new definition.For example, if you can draft two emails and manage to cook even half a meal for your family in the same day, you have most definitely accomplished “any whatever.”

Recommended use:  Define “any whatever” in any whatever way that you want.  Rinse, repeat.

2. Make a to-do list consisting of 7 items.

Why seven?  Google it.  (Here).  If 48 million results don’t enlighten you, then just accept that seven is a universally acceptable number and a cosmic numerical limit for tasks to fulfill in one day, one week or even one year.  If you can get through grief in only 7 steps, why burden yourself with more things to do in one day?

Recommended use:   1. Write out seven things to do today.  2. Do first thing.  3. Prepare dinner.  4.  Tell children how much you love them.  5. Pick up and put away that thing you keep stepping on.  6.  Go back over list to see what you’ve missed.  7. Pat self on back for doing all other things on list.

3. Launder.

You can skip the figurative and head straight for literally doing it All®.  It takes only a few loads to really feel accomplished.

Recommended use: Kick basket of laundry in direction of washing machine.  Throw clothes into said machine.  Pour the detergent All® over it.

Stop denying it.  You really do need to get work done.  You refuse to succumb to the working woman’s guilt about time spent away from the kids.

To help you stay true to your momtrepreneuriality and stop feeling so badly about “ignoring” your children, here are 3 useful tools:

1. The Boob Tube.

Rana Foroohar and Susan H. Greenberg, two spectacular women, reported in Newsweek that “A 2007 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research on rural India found that within six to seven months of getting cable TV, men and women alike had become more open to the idea of women’s autonomy, and more accepting of female participation in household decision making.”

If this is not proof enough that you should feel great about parking your kids in front of the TV, I don’t how else to convince you of its goodness.  Seriously.  Have them watch more TV.

Recommended Use: When you have to make a phone call-email-cook-clean-type-wash-order-websurf-dial-read-eat, just set your kids up via Netflix-On Demand-Library Rentals-Garage Sale Finds-SwapADVD-SwapTree and turn Sesame Street-Caillou-Doodlebops-The Muppets-Hannah Montana-The Jonas Brothers-The Goonies on.

2. YouTube for Mobile.

This tool is best used on the go.  You can download it onto your cell or just search for YouTube in your mobile’s web browser.  You can be anywhere, at any time, and with enough battery life your kids can continue to be glued to a tiny version of the Boob Tube…making optometrists everywhere very, very grateful.

Recommended use:  At the pediatrician’s office, while trying to hear what medication is being administered to your child, you can’t make out what the doctor is saying because of all the screaming.  What to do?  Whip out your Blackberry/iPhone/Android.  Click on your YouTube app, locate that Justin Bieber video real fast, and press play.   Then look up and ask:  “What?  Only Tylenol?  Not the stuff that knocks her out for 8 hours?”

3. Books.

Remember these?  They fell off the face of the planet somewhere between tablets and magazines.  At least, for a lot of momtrepreneurs who just have no time, they did.  Instead of bringing them back into your crazed lifestyle, introduce them to your children.  Pop-up books, colorful illustrations and even possibly words might entice the kids to focus their energies away from smashing your keyboard and instead to tearing apart a great hardback.

Recommended use:  After the Blackberry’s been destroyed and your phone conversations are distracting your children from staring at Joe Jonas, grab a good book and, boomerang-style, aim for their heads.  (Knocking them out will add a much-needed 5-10 minutes to your workday).

To help you stay much better organized than even me (whose personal slogan could be “Organized Beyond Organization”), here are 3 useful tools:

1. Goolendars.

Why don’t more people know about Google Calendar (or Goolendar)?  It saves lives.  Not only does it sync to every device out there, you can create multiple calendars within one view and have others edit it along with you.  Create one Goolendar for each client, one for each family member…and no matter where you are, you will always be able to access what you’re doing next.

Recommended use:  When your husband forgets yet again about the meeting you scheduled for Wednesday evening and he went ahead and scheduled his own “meeting” (making beer with neighbor friends), create a Goolendar so that he has no excuse to forget again.  Goolendars afford you the opportunity, once you’re both agile users, to stop speaking to each other ever again and just communicate via Google.

2. Tweetfunnel.

You signed up to use Twitter, you regularly post to it either from your computer or on-the-go by texting to “40404,” and you’ve even interacted a few times by directing a comment to @momtrepreneur and other followers.  But you still question why Twitter is essential to your business and feel very disorganized on there.  Enter Tweetfunnel.  Once you sign up and enter search terms like “working moms,” Tweetfunnel will send you an update (frequency of update is up to your choosing) including all tweets that use your search term.

Recommended use:  Upon receipt of a Tweetfunnel alert, you see a tweet by @somemoron that says “working moms should stop ignoring their kids and get back into the kitchen, barefoot.”  You can then retweet that post with your thoughts on the matter, direct a message to that user, or shout from the Twittertops to UNFOLLOW said moron.  Not that I’ve had any experience with such an example.

3. Pens.

Need I remind you about pens?  With all this technology being foisted onto our already full-to-the-brim brains, it’s easy enough to forget about the pen.  Those poor manufacturers came up with such a huge selection (ballpoint, felt-tip, rollerball, fountain) that you might as well just use them.  Grab that good ol’ paper, whip out a nice Pilot or a sweet Paper Mate, and make an old-fashioned list that you can tape to your door, thanks to the good folks at Scotch.

Recommended use:  Jot down all your to-do’s that Doomi, Teux Deux and Sticky Notes just can’t help with…because you’ll only remember to do those things when not at your computer or near your blackberry/iPhone.  Avoid another week of starvation because you forgot to buy groceries again.  I mean, the Bible wasn’t written with a personal computer, was it?

(Note: if I have met you twice before at a conference or a Meetup and my eyes give away the fact that I can’t remember you, please know that it’s not me.  It’s my memory.  I loved meeting you the first and second time.  Honestly.)

To help feeble minds cobble together the thousand things that momtrepreneurs must do every day, here are 3 useful tools:

1. Voice notes.

If you’re a momtrepreneur using a blackberry (like most I know), you have access to Blackberry Messenger (or BBM).  Once you’re in BBM, press the MENU key.  An option called “send voice note” comes up.  Click that option and you will be offered the opportunity to start recording.

Recommended use:  When you’re pushing your toddler in the swing, or walking down the freezer aisle of the grocery store, and you just remembered that thing you have to do, send yourself a voice note!  Long gone are the days where you had to put that ice cream down, call up an email and type yourself a long note with those thick-fingers-on-tiny-keyboard absurdities.

2. iCal reminders

This morning a man from a national speakers’ bureau called me and told me that after our discussion six months ago, I had suggested that he check in with me in half a year’s time.  Does he have a better memory than me?  Very likely.  Did he spontaneously wake up today and remember our discussion from six months ago?  Likely not.

Recommended use:  click here to learn how to set up an iCal reminder–you can set an alarm to email you, make a sound, message you, or other ways to urge yourself back into action.  You can also have a reminder set up to email you weekly, monthly, or annually.  You’ll never forget your children’s birthdays again.

3. Stickies

Old-fashioned sticky notes, the new way.  Download the program and start putting sticky notes everywhere.  You can set different colors for the different notes, change fonts, and move them all over your desktop whenever you want.  Nevermind that the background of my desktop is entirely yellow from the hundreds of sticky notes I’ve created…

Recommended use:  if you need to make that list of household goods to buy at Target while on a really boring conference call, you can do it in just 2 clicks.  (Note:  beware that lists beget lists, and once you start posting sticky notes that remind you to look at other sticky notes, DELETE THE PROGRAM).