Applying GTD at Home
Getting Things Done by David Allen has been a key source in my own attempts to get and stay organized at home. GTD is very applicable to homemakers. I have
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Mystie Winckler
Mystie, homeschooling mom of 5, shares the life lessons she's learned and the grace she's received from Christ. She is author of Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
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Repetition, The Best Teacher
Learning anything requires the practice of repetition; repeating good things are a feature, not a bug, of the way the world and people work.
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GTD isn't GIAD (Getting It All Done)
I recently received a question (and I’ve several similar ones before), asking what we all want to know. It seems like a question that should have an answer, if
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All of Life Is Repentance
Education and homemaking alike require continually turning away from sin and back toward faithful obedience, trusting God with the results.
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A 10-year-old Boy's Top 5 Books of 2013
In the recent survey, one reader commented that she’d enjoy seeing more book recommendations for elementary boys. I know first-hand how difficult it is to keep voracious younger readers
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Top 10 Books of 2013
I was hoping to read 52 books this year, but I didn’t quite make it. I read 48 books, which is still better than I’ve done in the
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Life Is Exercise: Start slowly and under advisement.
Some mornings I do an exercise video first thing in the morning, when I both want to feel on top of it and feel fat. I was tapping my foot
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Living from a state of rest
Cum dignitate otium, or Rest The Education is for Life Series This principle was another where I had to do my own searching for an applicable Latin motto. I could
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Life Is Exercise: Running requires endurance
You are a runner, running the race of life. It is not a competitive race, but it is a race. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud
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Daily Faithfulness
The Latin motto festina lente, make haste slowly, is solid wisdom we need not only in our homeschools, but also in all of life.
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Life Is Exercise: Running requires training
Life is like a race, which means it is something we must train for. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives
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Good Days & Bad
This summer I read John Owen’s Mortification of Sin. I enjoyed the delve into older, denser English. There were several places where at first I was a little taken
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