by Erica Johns | Jul 11, 2015 | Connection Points, Great Stuff for Homeschool Moms, Make Over Your Mornings
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I am a person that has about 65 things that I would like to get done before the kids wake up. Now, I will admit that with teenagers, this is much easier than it was with little ones, because they teens will gladly keep sleeping for a long, long time. 😉 Sadly, I do have to wake them up so they can start the day and we can get our schoolwork done, so it is inevitable that I can’t get my entire wish list done during my morning hours.
I also find it challenging to figure out how to prioritize what to do during the morning hours. Do I base it on energy levels? mental clarity? being organized? Eating the Frog*? Do a bunch of short tasks first so I can cross a lot of stuff off the list? This sort of thing makes me really look forward to our little facebook group to support each other as we work through the Make Over Your Mornings course*. I readily admit that I do NOT have this figured out, and I am hoping that some of you do. lol (and if you don’t, well, come on and join us so we can figure it out together!)
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by Erica Johns | Jul 10, 2015 | Connection Points, Great Stuff for Homeschool Moms, Make Over Your Mornings
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Can I just say that I love Crystal Paine? This gal rocks. Although she is incredibly productive, organized, and successful in her life, she is also very gracious and balanced in presenting this course to us. She is always so kind and careful to point out that we all are at different seasons of life, and that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to applying these principles. If you have little ones or extenuating circumstances that have held you back from taking this course because you thought that you would just feel discouraged, I want to encourage you to reconsider. I think that the advice in Make Over Your Mornings can work for just about anybody, even if you can’t do every bit of it now.
There are several great recommended resources, tips for making a manageable To Do list (mine are always gigantic and unrealistic!), and I love what the class workbook includes for this class day.
Would you like to Make Over Your Mornings*, too? Now is a perfect time to invest some effort and get this area of your life moving smoothly before the new school year begins! You can enroll in the course here, and then come join my private facebook group for class members here. We will start discussing the class and helping each other along on Monday, July 13!
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by Erica Johns | Jul 9, 2015 | Connection Points, Great Stuff for Homeschool Moms, Make Over Your Mornings
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I’m SO excited about today’s topic, because it goes along perfectly with our small support group that I’ve set up on facebook: accountability!
When do I walk the longest? When I’m with my friend Kim.
When do I do best at not eating sugar? When I ask my family to remind me not to, and not to tempt me.
When do I tend to follow through on goals completely? When I know that it HAS to get done because somebody else is depending on me.
Yup. I think accountability is a strong asset for all of us, and I think our little group may provide that for some of you that might not feel like you have that sort of support available in other ways. Why not enroll in the Make Over Your Mornings course*, and then come join us in the private Facebook group for other women that are working through the course?
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by Erica Johns | Jul 8, 2015 | Connection Points, Great Stuff for Homeschool Moms, Make Over Your Mornings
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Today’s Make Over Your Mornings* course video talked about breaking down goals into bite-sized pieces. I know from experience that this is the thing I most need to do, and for some reason I tend to resist it. It sounds great to say, “I am going to tackle this project!” but once I start scheduling it out and see how it is going to need to get done bit by bit…..that’s actually where I start to feel overwhelmed. “How will I get all of this done?!” “I don’t have time to deal with that today!” And…yeah….that’s why I don’t meet a lot of my goals. (in fact, don’t even set a lot of concrete goals…..which also needs to change!)
All in all, I feel like the goal setting aspect of this course is going to be big for me, because, I’m sorry to say, I have been too comfy being mediocre about too many things for too long…..and it ain’t pretty neither!
Crystal’s workbook with step-by-step instructions, additional recommended resources, and helpful reminders is really great. I’m enjoying it.
Would you like to join me and other women as we work through the Make Over Your Mornings* course together? The course is super affordable and you can enroll in it here*. I have set up a Facebook group which is, of course, totally free and is meant to be an opportunity to get and share support and encouragement with other women! Maybe some of the steps in this course will be obvious for you, but I think many of them actually start to uncover nitty gritty areas of weakness or where we lack clarity, and sometimes brainstorming with others can be really helpful for finding a breakthrough!
We will start actively discussing the Make Over Your Mornings* course in the Facebook group on Monday, July 13, and will keep at it for about a month. You can join the group now, enroll in the class now, and even take a quick go-through of it before we start to discuss it. And if you are finding out about this after July 13, that’s ok. Just jump in and benefit from the experience others have had! If there is enough interest, maybe we can run another group later on.
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by Erica Johns | Jul 4, 2015 | Connection Points, Facebook Party, Freebies, Great Stuff for Homeschool Moms
Woo hoo! July is our birthday month! It has been four years since we started Classical Composers Monthly with one little ole composer collection, and silly me, I thought that was all we would do. Ha. Ha ha. hahahahahahahahahaahaha! And so just like any baby, we grew and we grew and got bigger and more complex. 🙂 This year we launched this beautiful new site and changed our name to Enrichment Studies, to better communicate what we have to offer. And in July, we are celebrating!
1. Pop-Up Giveaways every day in July! That’s right. Every day this month I am randomly picking one of our social media channels/connection points to publicize a giveaway that four people will win. You will want to be following us on all of these so you have the best chance of winning:
As a newsletter subscriber
Enrichment Studies Facebook Page
Enrichment Lifestyle Facebook Group
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest
On Periscope as EnrichmentStudies
And don’t forget to check this blog daily because you never know if I might slip a giveaway code into a blog post!
2. Back to Homeschool Facebook Party on July 21! Our last party was a blast, and this one is going to be even better! We will have fun, prizes, good stuff from some of my favorite homeschool businesses, and….an after-party DANCE PARTY!!! So, sign up for reminders so you don’t miss a thing, and invite your friends, too, because it’s gonna be fast and fun. 🙂
I’m ready to have some FUN! Aren’t you?
by Erica Johns | Jul 3, 2015 | Connection Points, Great Stuff for Homeschool Moms, Make Over Your Mornings, Mom to Mom
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As I mentioned in my Day 1 post, I’ve known Crystal Paine online for many years now, and have gotten the pleasure of watching her success skyrocket! One thing I know she is really great at is setting and achieving her goals, and that’s what today’s lesson in Make Over Your Mornings* is about. Crystal has some excellent, practical advice on this topic.
I tend to be a very flexible and organic person, and indeed that is how my life is. I have some goals, but I’m not hard-core about them. I’ve never been able to set a goal that was going to be more important to me than being able to zig or zag off script if someone in my family needed me, for example. So, I don’t even know if goal is the right word for what I have. Mine are more like, “Some cool ideas that I will work on if it fits into my day, but I’m not going to freak out if it doesn’t happen like I thought it would.” 😉
I actually don’t think that’s a bad way to be, and I think my family has definitely benefitted from my priorities being this way (because I guess ultimately, my goal is to do the best I can for my family, and everything else comes after that), but I do think that I am getting into a season of life where I could be a little more determined about some goals. So, I need to work on this.
How about you? Do you struggle to set or achieve goals? Do you make a huge, unrealistic list of goals that is too big to tackle? (I do that, too) I think the Make Over Your Mornings course* could really help you, and the ladies in our free Facebook group are ready to encourage you and share ideas with you! Get set up with the course* and then come join us.
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