How to Say No: A Five-Step Formula
Every time you receive a new request for your time it gives you another opportunity to re-assert to yourself what’s most important to you. Sometimes, it means having the courage to say, “No.”
Grids vs. Lines vs. Dots: The Top Weekly Planner Styles
Think about the last time you sat down to plan out your day. What did you write down on the page? Did you make a list of all your tasks? Did you plot out your events for the week on a calendar? Where did you jot down your random ideas or other notes you needed …
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Monthly Planner vs. Weekly Planner: How to Organize Them
Organizing your time isn’t easy. Managing how much time you spend on one activity as opposed to another can be difficult. It can also be tough to remember important meetings or events you’ve committed to or scheduled. That’s why it’s critical to plan your time beforehand. But that begs the question: what unit of time …
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Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Began Blogging
In 2015, I joined the 28 million Americans blogging on the internet. This was just 21 years after the first blog appeared in 1994. In 1999, there were 23 blogs on the internet. In 2020, there are 512 million, according to TechJury, which documents its statistics with sources. We are past the golden era where …
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Four Ways to Support Struggling Friends
Several weeks ago, we had a party to celebrate our friend Carmen, who you know from the Ultimate Weekly Planner. Carmen (who also happens to be my husband’s brother’s wife’s sister!) just graduated from nursing school. Carmen’s husband Reuben asked me to give a short talk at her party about how a community of family …
7 Things I Love About Living in Elkhart
When I was in nursing school, each student had to share with the class where he or she lived. “I live in Elkhart,” one lady said. Then, before anyone could assume that this made her a broken human being, she quickly added, “For now.” Elkhart has its reputation, well-established, as a place to drive through …
7 Favorite Things About a Small Church
Church is community, and community can be tricky. We bite and devour the people closest to us when things get tough. But that’s just why church community is so important, and I can’t help feeling that small ones are the best kind. We do have a great relationship with our parent church – a much …
Psychologist Dr. Henry Cloud on Being a Relational Being During Quarantine
Dr. Henry Cloud describes five reasons why being quarantined has been so difficult for many Americans and some steps we can take to remain focused.
How Writing Things Down Helps Me Survive and Thrive
Did I once have the ability to keep track of everything in my head? How would I know? I didn’t write it down! Here are a few of the many things I write down in an average week, ranging from trivial to enduring. 1. Things to Buy I live in a neighborhood with people who …
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7 Splendid Surprises About Being a Christian
As a child, I failed to fully appreciate the blessing of growing up in a Christian home. As an adult in nursing school at a secular college, I learned just how outdated Christianity appears to many people. Unfortunately, everyone knows someone who carries the banner “Christian” but doesn’t follow Christ. This is sad. Yet, these …