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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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Today’s Make Over Your Morning* lesson builds on the idea of priorities by getting into the issue of what fills YOU up. I don’t know if anybody else ever has this problem, but one thing I’ve noticed about myself is that I can go without rewards/presents/filler-ups for a long, long time, and half the time I couldn’t even tell you what would actually feed my soul. I’m looking forward to starting our facebook group for discussing this stuff starting on July 13. I think hearing about how others manage this will probably give me some fresh ideas that I could really use.
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If you love books and libraries, you will love this and so will your kids!
Warning: If you show this to your children, they will probably start trying to make domino chains with all the books in your house. So…..share at your own risk. lol
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Day 3 of the Make Over Your Mornings course* addresses priorities, which I think is very important, and probably not as easy as we might expect it to be. In my life I have found that sometimes I have ideals that do not exactly align with reality. Are you familiar with this dilemma?
Maybe you think, “Yes, yes, it is a big priority for me to take care of my health by exercising, so I should do that first thing in the morning!” but if the reality is that you have a little baby that needs to be fed and changed and bathed and snuggled or breakfast needs to get made for your family, or you have to go out before sunrise to deliver newspapers, then by crackie, your reality isn’t going to make room for your ideals, even if you do really want to lose weight or run a marathon or whatever. I feel like my entire mothering journey has proven this to me over and over again! We will be talking more about ideals vs. reality, and brainstorming about ways to bring those two things closer together in the free Make Over Your Mornings Facebook group that I’ve created for YOU!
I hope you’ll jump into Crystal’s class and then come join us in the group to talk about these issues. I think homeschool moms have some unique challenges that could probably benefit from some support and fresh ideas! We will start discussing the class together on July 13, and will keep going for about a month.
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Today in the Make Over Your Mornings* class, Crystal taught about something that I know is important, but I have always been pretty bad about: evening routines.
When my six kids were little, evenings and bedtimes were the absolutely worst. Everybody was tired and cranky (including me, sometimes) and there were a ton of needs, and often due to my husband’s work schedule, I was handling it on my own. So, we never did get into any habits of cleaning the kitchen nicely before bed or straightening up the house or anything else, because we were just trying to survive.
Well, it has been more than a few years since my kids were babies, and it has only been just recently that I’ve been realizing that yes indeed, I have enough energy, quiet, ability, whatever to do some things at the end of the day that make it much nicer when we get up in the morning. This lesson gave me some more good ideas about how to make this work and what to include.
My assignments for Day 2:
1. Establish a bedtime routine. There are several helpful printouts included in the class workbook that I’m using to guide me through this. Crystal definitely helps me think about wider aspects to consider than I might have on my own.
2. I’m also supposed to pick 3 of the most stressful things about my mornings. With bigger kids that all like to sleep in, my mornings really aren’t that stressful. However, the things that I would like to have improved that I think would make my mornings better include: a. Having a plan already written down for the day. b. Knowing where all the materials and items needed for those things are. c. A clean and clear desk.
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Welcome to the Enrichment Lifestyle Blog! I'm so glad you're here. :) I'm Erica Johns, and I love to encourage homeschool moms and help them enjoy more of the beauty of the arts in everyday life.
About me: I started my homeschooling journey in 1997 and graduated the last of my six children in 2021. Amidst all the hard work, crazy days, uncertainty, and lost pencils, what I think we really gained was the gift of a lifetime: TIME TOGETHER. So awesome! Click my pic to learn more.
