“By the time you’re forty, you have the face that you deserve.” I think I first heard this quote in my late 20’s, when the idea of turning 40 was a train so far in the distance that there was no need to walk off the track. Now? If God gives me the blessing of …
Now more than ever is a time to get organized and plan for the future. But it’s not always clear how to go about doing so. Many people are overwhelmed by their schedule, their appointments or commitments, and the number of tasks they have to complete in a day or week. Emily Ley’s Simplified Planner …
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We know the first step to finding daily peace of mind is an organized schedule. With so many different types of planners and ways of scheduling out there, however, it can be difficult to know the most effective way to keep track of all the events and tasks in your life. Focus on a month …
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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.”
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …