Back to School Balance: Homeschooling Tips for Working Parents

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Hey, crystal Obie here.

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So excited to be with you today.

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One of the big questions we get

is how to get everything done

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in this back to school season.

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Today we have a amazing episode for you.

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We're talking about back to

school balance, homeschooling

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tips for working parents.

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We know you all have your work goals,

your school goals, your personal goals,

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and your family goals, and we wanna make

sure that you have a year where you are

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able to put energy into all of those.

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That's what we are talking

about in today's episode.

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A fast growing number of parents are

starting their homeschooling journey while

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others have been homeschooling for years.

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All of these parents are asking one big

question, how can I afford to homeschool?

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We are here to answer that

important question once and for all.

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Hi, I'm Crystal Obby.

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And I'm Anthony Obby.

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We've been homeschooling our five

kids for 13 years and we funded it.

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Through our online consulting business

that we've been running for over 17

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years now, we're combining Crystal's

financial coaching expertise with my

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digital marketing background where I help

entrepreneurs launch and sell online.

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We're here to help fellow homeschooling

parents self-fund their homeschool

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journey and create lifestyle businesses.

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For financial freedom without a nine to

five job, are you ready to start living

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life on your own terms and make your

homeschooling experience a lot more fun?

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Well then sit back, crank up

the volume, and enjoy this

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episode of Homeschool Money.

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Hey, it's Crystal Obby, and I'm Anthony

Obby, and we are so excited to talk

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today about Back to School Balance,

homeschooling Tips for Working Parents.

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One of the big things we find in the Back

to School season is everyone is trying

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to figure out how to get it all done.

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Especially whenever you are trying to

have an amazing school year for your

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kids, and then you're also trying

to do a great job at your work while

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taking care of yourself and making

sure your home is running properly.

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It can be really exciting

as well as overwhelming.

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And so we are here to make sure that

you have the support that you need

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to make sure that all of your goals,

not just your kids' goals and back to

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school, gets handled in this school year.

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Yeah, I think, you know.

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The summertime, you look forward to

it, you anticipate it, and then it's

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here, and then it's like it's gone.

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And it feels like it's so fast.

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As homeschoolers, we get to enjoy

more, I think of the summertime.

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Yeah.

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Because we start school

really around Labor Day.

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That's so that little bit of period

before between when the public school and

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private school kids go back to school.

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Yeah.

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And then till Labor Day, we're like

really enjoying the shorter lines.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the lighter crowds and everything.

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Yeah.

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So it's kind of like a little.

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Fun time that we all celebrate.

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Yeah, so it does feel better as

a homeschooling family, but still

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it's a discipline to teach yourself.

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To think about your year in two years,

like 20, 25, does not have to just

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be one year in terms of your goal

achievement and how much you're able to

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accomplish in your business or in your

career, or in your personal finances.

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That's what we talk about

here at Homeschool Money.

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And so it, it doesn't have to be just

a matter of just now that it's back

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to school, that you throw off all of

you and forget about your priorities

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in terms of your personal finances

and your, your business, your career.

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Because that is essential to being able

to maintain your homeschool and be able

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to create financial abundance so that

you can have more time to actually devote

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to homeschooling and homeschooling well.

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And so at Homeschool Money, we want

to talk about this topic of how to

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balance your, your work career goals,

and being able to achieve and receive

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more, harvest, more income out of your

skillset, while at the same time helping

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your kids get back to homeschooling

and achieve their goals and learn the

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things that they should be learning

and continue to grow and develop in the

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ways that they should grow and develop.

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For this, for this homeschool season.

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But if you do it well, and Crystal, you,

you're really good at this for our family.

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Like you've got the kids doing SOPs

for everything, and you, you, you

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have our whole family on a very strict

not a very strict, but a really good,

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I would say, calendar of events and

that you keep up to date and you're

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teaching them how to manage their time.

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And the kids how to you're teaching

the kids how to set goals and how

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to manage their time really well.

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So I think that you're gonna be a, a

great person to talk about this topic.

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And you raised this as a topic because

you know that it's possible to live two

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years in one if you plan your time well.

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'cause you want to go into fall

with strategy and expectations.

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That let you thrive and not end up

overwhelmed and burnt out because

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it's so exciting, you know, whenever

all the back to school supplies, you

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know, get back at the store, you know?

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Mm-hmm.

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People like me, I'm

like, oh, I can't wait.

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How many notepads do we need?

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Yeah.

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Pens, do we need all, I love it.

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And all that stuff.

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And so it's super exciting.

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And then you have all these new activities

and events and just, it's just like

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all this really amazing excitement

and you start signing up for stuff and

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it's like, oh yeah, we wanna make it.

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Oh yeah, we wanna make it.

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And what we know from the years of

homeschooling is how you're operating here

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in the, you know, August and September.

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It's really gonna dictate

how your spring ends up.

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Mm-hmm.

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And how you go, how you went through

the holidays, and then how you.

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Feel at the end of the

school year next summer.

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Yeah.

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And so if you wanna set yourself

up for success you know, later,

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then you wanna make sure to manage

your time appropriately right now.

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And so, 'cause you know, after

back to school, we're gonna

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go right into the holidays.

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Right.

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And the holidays are whole, our

whole nother beast in themselves.

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Yeah.

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So this high that we're on right

now for back to school, we're gonna

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have a little low after, you know,

school starts and then it's gonna

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be ramped back up for the holidays.

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And so that makes a huge difference.

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And then after the holidays,

you're gonna go into January and

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that's whenever you need rest.

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But if you have not made a lot of

progress on your personal goals, you

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can feel really like discouraged.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because you're like, well, I got the

kids back to school, went through

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the holidays, but I didn't do what

I wanted to do this past year.

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Right.

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And so you have to, you start feeling

like, well, this is gonna be another year

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that I can put in on my goals, but so at

the same time, you're discouraged 'cause

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you didn't do something you feel like.

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You need to put all this extra energy

in to the new year, but you're tired.

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Yeah, because you just

came off the holidays.

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You just came off of back

to school after the summer.

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And so you see this endless cycle

every year whenever you have kids

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and whenever you're homeschool.

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So that's why it makes a difference

of how you're managing it now.

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And there's this thing called.

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It's like the, the homeschool slump.

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Mm-hmm.

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And it's always in like February.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so whenever you've been

homeschooling for a while, you find

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out that you kind of crash in February,

like nobody's motivated anymore.

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Nobody really wants to do anything

unless you've maintained your energy.

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And it all starts from back here.

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And you know, since my birthday

is in February, I want everybody

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to have lots of energy.

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So I wanna help people right now start

their year off really, really well.

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And so how you start your school

year will really impact your energy

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and opportunities all year long.

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So we have eight tips to help

you be successful in your work,

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your home, and your homeschooled.

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Now, back to the show.

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So the tip number one is you

wanna have a vision, and so

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that's one of my favorite times.

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I love whenever we're able to sit

down and have a vision meeting.

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So having a vision, meeting with

your spouse, a vision, meeting with

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your, you know, your kids, and a

vision meeting just with yourself.

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Just sitting down and making

sure you know, what do you

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want this year to look like?

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And just having some time

to really just consider it.

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Consider what happened last year,

consider what your friends are

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talking about and just consider what's

before you and just have a top, an

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opportunity to really think about

where you wanna be this time next year.

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And so the best thing I like to do is say.

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You know, do the, the process

of the start, stop, and keep.

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And so it's really simple, it's really

clear and it's really effective.

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And so you just say, what

do I wanna start doing?

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That would be super beneficial.

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And just one thing, if I did this one

thing, if I started doing this one thing,

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it would get me to where I'm trying to go.

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And then what do I wanna stop doing?

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This gives you an opportunity

to say, Hey, this didn't work.

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Maybe it served me in this last season,

but it's not gonna serve me in the

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next season, and I need to stop it.

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And there always needs to be

something that you stop because

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you need to make room for the new.

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And so you can't keep adding

on commitments and not ever

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get rid of something because

you'll become overwhelmed.

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And then the next thing is the key.

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So there may be something that you

signed up for last year and it's like,

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you know what, this was really working.

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Let's keep doing this.

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So let's keep doing this as a foundation.

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Let's start this new opportunity and

then let's stop doing this other thing.

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And that right there is what's

gonna help you make sure to get

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your vision and not be overwhelmed

at the end of the school year.

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Yeah.

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You have helped us utilize the

start, stop, keep method in our.

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Personal goals and, and not

just personal goals, but in all

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the categories of our lives.

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You know, I think we've broken

down, we've broken it down into

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like 11 or 12 different areas.

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It's like between 11 and

13, depending on a year.

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Because we're not having

kids anymore, right?

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Yeah.

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So no, no more start on that.

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No more start.

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That's stop.

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Stop.

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First stop.

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But yeah.

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So yeah, anywhere between 11 and

12 different aspects of our life.

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This.

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That's a lot, right?

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That 11 to 13 aspects of

your life, my goodness.

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And so the start, stop, keep method

has been a way to sort of simplify

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setting goals and just addressing

each of those areas of our life.

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And you've always utilized

that as something, as a,

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as a framework, as a tool.

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The, to help us to keep on track with

our goals in all of the aspects of

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our life, whether it be our personal

fitness goals, whether it be our,

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you know, our, our, our spiritual you

know, goals and connection with God.

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Whether it be, you know, our time in

nature, our vacations and just fun time

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and activities and that type of thing.

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Date night.

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And all it def most definitely our

financial goals and our career goals.

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And so start, start, keep has

been a great tool to utilize.

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And so seeing yourself breaking your

year, your 20, 25 year up into at

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least two years, we try to do this

quarterly, but this is the perfect time.

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Back to school.

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Back to homeschool is the perfect time

to break that year down into another.

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See this as a whole new year and a whole

new opportunity to, to, to get to where

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you want to before the end of the year.

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And you're going to be so much

more motivated and energized as

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you glide into the holiday season.

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And as you glide into Christmas

time and especially the new year,

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you're gonna feel empowered instead

of like a, you know, like a fraud.

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You're not, you're not

gonna feel like that.

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Going to the, into the new year setting

unrealistic goals that you don't even

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keep past two weeks in 2026, you're

gonna feel motivated, energized, and

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you're gonna have momentum if you take

the time now to, as Crystal said, set

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vision for what you want to achieve.

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Set your intentions, re gain new clarity.

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And get before God and gain new clarity

for what you want to achieve this year

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in every aspect of your life, and write

something down that you want to achieve,

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what you wanna start, what you want

to stop, and what you want to keep.

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Yeah.

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And that takes us right to our

number two tip, which is consider

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the opportunities that come up.

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And so what we've seen is, especially

as homeschooling has become more

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popular, you know, when we started.

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There were a lot less opportunities,

but it was still way more than, you

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know, in other areas of the country.

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But it has really exploded now.

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So there are so many things that

you can do to fill up your schedule,

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and they all sound amazing.

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And so if you don't have really

good clarity about where you're

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trying to go, you could sign up.

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Like for an example, if you sign

up for a co-op and it's, you

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know, we're in, in, you know.

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In DFW, if you sign up on the other side

of DFW for a co-op, you have a lot of

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drive time and a lot of sitting time.

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And so that burns a lot of time.

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You may sometimes want to sign up for a

co-op that's on another part of town, but

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maybe you wanna stack that time stack that

trip with some other things, visiting some

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other friends, doing some other errands.

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And so if you have your goals in order,

you can plan those kind of things.

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But if you mess around and sign up.

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For a co-op that's all

the way across town.

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You can end up spending your

whole day wasted, just trying

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to get to a two hour event.

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And so thinking about the opportunities

that you have available and how they

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align with your goals and how they

align with all the other things that

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you want to do, which you know makes

a huge difference, that will let you

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see what's really an opportunity.

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'cause everything that sounds

fun, or everything that sounds

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interesting or helpful may not be

an opportunity, and that's why it's

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so important to really know what.

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Capacity you have and what opportunities

you really are looking for.

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I absolutely love that framework and I'm,

I'm, I'm so glad that you mentioned it.

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You know, so many times our eyes

are bigger than our actual, you

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know, our actual stomach, you know,

just like with eating, you know?

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But it, it is so true that we

want the best for our kids.

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Mm-hmm.

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So yeah, we want to sign 'em

up for this and for that, but.

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Some things may just completely

be out of the budget and not

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really make sense financially.

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You know, I remember just coming from a

homeschool conference a few months ago

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and you know, talking with some folks

about a particular activity and yeah.

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If FOMO kicks in, you know,

yeah, I don't want, I don't want

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my kids to miss out on that.

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But you already knew about that

particular opportunity and you were like.

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You mentioned the cost of it and

also the time that it would take.

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And you also mentioned the location

of it, and it was just like, oh, wow.

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Shut that door real quick.

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It right on real quick.

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Oh.

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Brought it, brought it all

into perspective real fast.

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I can't wait.

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You said that because number three.

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Is decide what trade offs

you're willing to make.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so, yeah.

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You got a trade off.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Because I remember what you were

talking about because we were

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talking to that person about this

opportunity and it sounds amazing.

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Yeah.

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You know, like, oh, we get to our

kids, get to do this and that.

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But then I was like,

okay, you wanna trade off?

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You know, this time you wanna

trade off this money, you

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wanna trade off this attention.

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Right.

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You know, we got five kids.

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Yeah.

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So that's just one.

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That's one.

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That's just one kid.

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That's one kid.

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Yeah.

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So when you line up, what

are you willing to trade?

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You, you say this year your focus

is gonna be all about rest and

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connecting as a family and you

know, Sabbath thing and all that.

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Well, are you willing to trade that off

and sign up for all these ACT activities?

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Yeah.

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Don't let those squirrels come

along and get the best of you.

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Yep.

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Or you say, this year, kinda like this

year, we have a lot of social, like

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this is kind of like a fun year for us.

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We have, you know, it's like making.

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Making new friends getting out a lot.

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'cause you know, you know,

the baby's are older now.

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I can get out and about more.

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We're gonna meet lots of new people.

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Mm-hmm.

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Excited about that.

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So we have to trade

some of that home time.

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Mm-hmm.

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: 00:16:22

You know, so we're gonna

be out a little bit more.

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We're gonna have to learn how

to get stuff done in the car.

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We're gonna have to be okay

with a little bit more traffic.

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Mm-hmm.

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: 00:16:29

We will not be able to complain that

we maybe have to get up a little

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earlier, or we have to, you know, eat

a little later or something like that.

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We have to get more organized and

to be able to take that opportunity.

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And so.

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Everything comes with a trade off.

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And as long as you know what the trade

off is, you can still do everything,

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you know, still being encouraged,

not complaining, and you can take

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whatever's thrown at you with that.

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That's right.

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Count the cost before you.

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: 00:16:53

Yes.

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: 00:16:53

Count the cost.

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: 00:16:54

That's right.

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: 00:16:54

Absolutely.

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: 00:16:57

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And so number four is you need to update

your operating systems and you need to

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have an operating system for your work.

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For your school, for your

home, and for yourself.

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And that's what you were

talking about earlier.

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So this summer we have updated our

SOPs, standard operating procedures for

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how we do a lot of the things in the

house, like how we get dinner ready,

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how we leave the house, how we get ready

for bed, how we get up in the morning

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the, the time blocking that we do.

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During, out the, the, during the day so

that we can make sure that everything

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gets done, everything ends up where

it needs to be, and everybody is on

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the same page of what the priority

is because that has hap By doing

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that, we eliminate the conversation

of, Hey, is the, is the house clean?

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: 00:18:37

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:18:38

Well, how, how do we know it's clean?

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: 00:18:40

Well, the kids made a list of what it

takes to get it clean to our standards

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and be able to turn in and say it's clean.

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So they listed it out.

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So all I have to do is

say, Hey, is it clean?

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Checked off, and sign your initial.

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That says that it's clean and

you're gonna approve that.

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: 00:18:57

And so if they say, this is the

10 things that need to happen

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for the house to be clean.

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And they know exactly what

to do, clear expectations.

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: 00:19:05

And so that way we are not

fussing with the kids, you know?

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: 00:19:07

Yeah.

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: 00:19:08

We're not, we're not saying,

Hey, it's time to go.

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: 00:19:10

Is everybody ready to go?

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: 00:19:12

Yeah.

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: 00:19:12

It, it eliminates all that.

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: 00:19:13

Did everybody put on deodorant?

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: 00:19:15

Did everybody brush their hair?

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: 00:19:16

Did everybody get their shoes?

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: 00:19:18

Do you have everything?

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: 00:19:19

Yeah.

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: 00:19:19

So all these conversations,

we, we had a whole meeting.

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Where we did some pre-thinking and

said, Hey, what can we do to make

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: 00:19:26

this house run better so we can get

seven humans out of here on time?

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: 00:19:31

Because we all want to be on time

and we all wanna do a lot of things.

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: 00:19:35

Guys, I don't know if you noticed

this, but Crystal is running this

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: 00:19:38

household like a Fortune 500.

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: 00:19:40

Okay.

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: 00:19:41

She's talking about SOPs for literally

how, how we get up in the morning.

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: 00:19:46

And just before you get to thinking that,

oh man, that sounds too mechanical for me.

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: 00:19:51

That sounds like she's a drill sergeant.

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: 00:19:53

That sounds extremely boring

or anything like that.

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: 00:19:56

No, that's the absolute opposite.

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: 00:20:00

The, the, let's take the

morning routine, for instance.

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: 00:20:04

That's an opportunity for you to

inject happiness, for you to inject

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: 00:20:09

joy, for you to set everybody off on

the right foot and for you to really.

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: 00:20:15

Cultivate the sort of children shape, the,

the way that children see getting up and

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: 00:20:23

shape the way that they see morning time.

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: 00:20:26

You can really shape that

to be a wonderful time.

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: 00:20:29

And I just, Chris, I just love

what, absolutely love what you have

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done with the morning routine and

then getting up in the morning.

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: 00:20:36

SOP.

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: 00:20:37

Because you have injected, okay,

everybody wake up and then number

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: 00:20:42

two have dance party, right?

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: 00:20:45

Yep.

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: 00:20:45

So she, you got the playlist, she's

got a playlist, a wake up playlist.

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: 00:20:49

Wake up playlist.

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: 00:20:50

She's got Forrest Frank.

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: 00:20:51

I'm gonna have a good day.

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: 00:20:53

Yeah.

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: 00:20:53

In there and some other great

songs that you wanna wake up to.

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: 00:20:57

And that set everybody off in a good mood.

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: 00:20:59

And every time this particular song

comes on, the whole family does a does

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: 00:21:04

dance moves to it that everybody knows.

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: 00:21:07

And that's how you have the

kids waking up in the morning.

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: 00:21:11

And that is wonderful.

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: 00:21:12

That's beautiful.

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: 00:21:13

And that, that, that

shapes their childhood.

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: 00:21:17

It shapes how they're going to see waking

up in the morning as they get older.

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: 00:21:21

It's not gonna be a drag,

it's not gonna be like.

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: 00:21:23

Oh, mom, I can't stand you, mom.

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: 00:21:26

It's not, you know, it's not any of that.

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: 00:21:27

It's gonna be, I'm gonna have a good day.

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: 00:21:29

Yeah.

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: 00:21:29

This is great.

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: 00:21:30

Yeah.

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: 00:21:30

And so I really love what

you've done with that.

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: 00:21:32

And so that's what you could do with SOPs.

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: 00:21:35

Standard operating procedures is you

can inject joy and happiness and the

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: 00:21:40

create shape, the kind of culture

and the kind of childhood that you

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: 00:21:44

want for your homeschool children.

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: 00:21:46

And that's what you get an opportunity

to do as a homeschooling parent.

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: 00:21:50

So seize that moment.

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: 00:21:52

Yeah.

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: 00:21:52

'cause like, like when

we go to bed mm-hmm.

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: 00:21:55

The kids said they like having about 20

minutes to read before they go to bed.

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: 00:21:59

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:21:59

They also like to spend about five

minutes writing quickly in their journal.

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: 00:22:03

Yeah.

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: 00:22:03

So it's like, okay, so y'all

need 25 minutes for that.

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: 00:22:07

You also need to brush

your teeth and all that.

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: 00:22:09

So you just work backwards.

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: 00:22:10

Yeah.

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: 00:22:10

So whenever you say, Hey,

it's time to go to bed.

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: 00:22:13

We start, we say bedtime starts

whenever it's the bedtime routine.

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: 00:22:16

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:22:17

So that way they have

everything that they wanted.

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: 00:22:20

And it's not like, Hey, hurry up

and get to bed, or, Hey, turn off

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: 00:22:23

the lights and things like that.

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: 00:22:24

We talk about what we

want the day to look like.

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: 00:22:26

Yeah.

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: 00:22:27

Like what it, what does it take

to have a nice lunch together?

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: 00:22:29

What does it take to go to bed peacefully

and, and what does it take to have

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: 00:22:34

a, a morning that makes the day fun?

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: 00:22:36

And so we in, you know, install

all those things into our

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: 00:22:39

schedule so they're expected.

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: 00:22:41

And so it's just a lot more fun.

483

: 00:22:43

Yeah.

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: 00:22:43

But it's also very organized so

that everybody feels successful

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: 00:22:48

starting off in the day.

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: 00:22:49

Yeah.

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: 00:22:50

And so I, it is just really fun for me.

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: 00:22:51

And so that's some, that's

some high level parenting.

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: 00:22:53

Yeah.

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: 00:22:54

Alright, that's cool.

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: 00:22:54

Step number five is plan for margin.

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: 00:22:58

And so one thing I noticed with a lot of

parents is we get back to, into the back

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: 00:23:03

to school and it's like, okay, we have

this new curriculum, we have this new.

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: 00:23:07

Schedule.

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: 00:23:08

We have all these new activities,

but we forget that Christmas is

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: 00:23:12

coming and Thanksgiving is coming,

or you know, the flu is coming.

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: 00:23:16

All these different things,

and you have to remember there.

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: 00:23:19

You're not gonna be able to achieve

all the same amount of things

499

: 00:23:23

when it comes to Christmas time.

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: 00:23:24

You're, you're gonna have to

take some time off and everybody

501

: 00:23:26

else that you're working with,

everything's gonna slow down.

502

: 00:23:29

And so you need to plan for that.

503

: 00:23:30

And you need to have the expectation set

to where you know, when you can run hard

504

: 00:23:34

and, and whenever you're gonna have to be

like at half speed on achieving things,

505

: 00:23:39

especially like if you have multiple kids.

506

: 00:23:41

And then what happens

if there's a sick day?

507

: 00:23:43

What happens if you need to take

some time off and be able to.

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: 00:23:47

Just have a little bit of margin.

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: 00:23:48

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:23:48

So you just need to plan for that.

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: 00:23:50

Okay.

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: 00:23:50

And not be over ambitious.

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: 00:23:52

Yeah.

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: 00:23:52

In in the goal setting Yeah.

515

: 00:23:54

And everything.

516

: 00:23:55

Yeah.

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: 00:23:55

And so number six is remember that

balance is not about equal attention,

518

: 00:24:01

it's about appropriate attention.

519

: 00:24:03

Mm-hmm.

520

: 00:24:04

And so, yeah.

521

: 00:24:04

Big thing is like, especially

when you, when you work Yeah.

522

: 00:24:08

You have that guilt.

523

: 00:24:09

So you have the mom guilt

or the, the, the dad guilt.

524

: 00:24:11

So whenever, what that means is

whenever you're working, you feel like

525

: 00:24:14

you really should be with the kids.

526

: 00:24:16

And then whenever you're with the kids,

you feel like you should be working.

527

: 00:24:19

'cause you're like, well I need this

money to be able to take care of the kids.

528

: 00:24:22

And you're like, I should.

529

: 00:24:23

And you know how the kids are

when you're trying to work.

530

: 00:24:25

They come in, they wanna show

you everything, especially

531

: 00:24:27

whenever you work from home.

532

: 00:24:28

And so you don't want, you wanna

have an open door, but it kind

533

: 00:24:31

of needs to be closed sometime.

534

: 00:24:32

Mm-hmm.

535

: 00:24:33

And so it's like balancing that.

536

: 00:24:34

And so whenever you know, Hey, I

need this much time to get this work

537

: 00:24:38

done so this family can be supported.

538

: 00:24:40

Then everybody can be on the same page

about that and they can, the kids can

539

: 00:24:44

work with you to protect that time because

they know, hey, this is part of what

540

: 00:24:49

this family needs in order to make it.

541

: 00:24:51

Yeah.

542

: 00:24:51

And so, but whenever you're with the

kids, if you're fully present with them,

543

: 00:24:56

then they know that you, they have your

full heart and their attention, and so

544

: 00:25:00

they can go on ahead and everybody can

be, you know, doing what they need to do.

545

: 00:25:04

And it doesn't have to be.

546

: 00:25:06

Well, I need to spend five hours

with the kids and five hours working.

547

: 00:25:09

Mm-hmm.

548

: 00:25:09

It's not about that.

549

: 00:25:10

It's just about what is appropriate

that your 3-year-old needs.

550

: 00:25:13

Mm-hmm.

551

: 00:25:14

What does your 13-year-old need

and what does your work need?

552

: 00:25:17

And so you need to just make sure

that you know what is necessary

553

: 00:25:20

for each priority in your life.

554

: 00:25:22

Taking time for yourself, making sure your

home is running properly, making sure your

555

: 00:25:26

work is being taken care of, and making

sure the kids have what they need as far

556

: 00:25:30

as parenting, as well as their education.

557

: 00:25:33

If you know what's necessary and you

plan for it, and you schedule it in,

558

: 00:25:37

you'll get everything that you need done.

559

: 00:25:39

And then number seven is you need

to decide that this is the season

560

: 00:25:43

that will be great, and you'll give

a hundred percent to the task that's

561

: 00:25:47

in front of you and all of your

ever efforts work together to create

562

: 00:25:51

the beautiful life that you want.

563

: 00:25:52

So it's not like, well, whenever

I'm educating the kids, that's

564

: 00:25:56

whenever I'm doing a great thing.

565

: 00:25:58

Well, you know, whenever

you're washing the dishes or.

566

: 00:26:00

Cleaning the house, doing the

laundry, that's also part of it.

567

: 00:26:04

Mm.

568

: 00:26:04

Or whenever you're working,

you're not just trying to just

569

: 00:26:07

homeschool or just manage your

home or just take care of yourself.

570

: 00:26:10

You're, you also do need to work

and you have to work in order to be

571

: 00:26:14

able to have all those other things.

572

: 00:26:15

And so you have to be

intentional in every area.

573

: 00:26:18

And by being intentional in every

area, you end up with a beautiful life.

574

: 00:26:26

Hey, I hope you're enjoying the show.

575

: 00:26:27

We'll get right back to the

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You know, you talked about

mom guilt, dad guilt.

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And the, the, whenever you set your

goals for all these aspects of your

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: 00:30:28

life, the 11, 12, 13, or whatever it

is for you, different aspects of your

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: 00:30:33

life that really does address, that's

you giving yourself an opportunity to

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: 00:30:40

have permission to give attention to

these different aspects of your life.

648

: 00:30:47

Whenever you only prioritize homeschooling

or, which is very important, right?

649

: 00:30:52

That's a, an extension of your

parenting is, and it's important for

650

: 00:30:55

your children to have an education when

you only prioritize work or, or just

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: 00:31:01

only address two aspects of your life.

652

: 00:31:03

Well, there's all these other things that

you feel guilty about, these other things

653

: 00:31:07

that you feel neglectful about that relate

to you, but you don't, you don't feel like

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: 00:31:12

a complete or like a whole human being.

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: 00:31:15

And so.

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: 00:31:16

By by, by addressing all of the aspects

of your life that are important to you

657

: 00:31:21

at this particular season of your life,

that is giving you the permission to

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: 00:31:29

feel good and to feel present and in

the moment with whatever you're doing,

659

: 00:31:34

whether it be something as menial as

washing dishes or folding clothes.

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: 00:31:38

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:31:39

I think that's exactly the

word I was thinking about is.

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: 00:31:42

The permission.

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: 00:31:43

Mm.

664

: 00:31:43

Yeah.

665

: 00:31:43

Because people want, you know, you need

permission to say, whenever I'm working,

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: 00:31:48

I am doing what's best for my family.

667

: 00:31:50

Whenever I'm homeschooling, I'm

doing what's best for my family.

668

: 00:31:53

Yeah.

669

: 00:31:53

And there's not anything

that's better than the other.

670

: 00:31:56

Right.

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: 00:31:56

But they, but they all need to

be tended to, and that's why the

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: 00:32:00

step number eight is we want you

to remember that you're not alone.

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: 00:32:04

We want you to get your kids

involved in coming up with.

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: 00:32:07

The priorities and the vision

we want you to reach out to us.

675

: 00:32:12

We want you to you know, remember that

we're all working on the same things.

676

: 00:32:16

We're all trying to figure out

how to make it all work, and

677

: 00:32:19

we're all in this together.

678

: 00:32:21

We're all trying to make sure that we

don't procrastinate on important things in

679

: 00:32:26

our life that would be, that we regret in

five years because we didn't tend to it.

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: 00:32:31

We're trying to make sure to put

attention in every area that's important.

681

: 00:32:34

And that's why in our program, step

five in the Homeschool Money makeover

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: 00:32:39

is all about how to get it done.

683

: 00:32:41

Yeah.

684

: 00:32:41

I mean, how do you get everything done?

685

: 00:32:44

Especially because whenever you have

different seasons, 'cause you, it's

686

: 00:32:47

different when you have a newborn,

it is different than when you just

687

: 00:32:50

have a, a teenager or whenever

you have a tween or whenever you

688

: 00:32:53

have a 20-year-old or something.

689

: 00:32:55

You know, college students

that you've homeschooled.

690

: 00:32:57

And so you wanna know

how to get it all done.

691

: 00:32:59

And so that's why we have step five.

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: 00:33:01

Where we talk about how

to scale your business.

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: 00:33:03

Mm-hmm.

694

: 00:33:04

So you can increase your money but

not have to increase your time.

695

: 00:33:07

How to, you know, you know,

scale your money and you do it by

696

: 00:33:10

investing and things like that.

697

: 00:33:12

Yeah.

698

: 00:33:12

And then also how to just scale your

life using systems and getting organized,

699

: 00:33:17

creating processes, creating rhythms, how

to outsource and even how to utilize ai.

700

: 00:33:22

Mm-hmm.

701

: 00:33:23

Because all of those things is

what's gonna make the difference.

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: 00:33:26

We wanna make sure that

everyone is equipped.

703

: 00:33:29

To be able to have what they need,

to be able to have the success

704

: 00:33:32

they want in their home, in their

family, in their business, in their

705

: 00:33:36

money, and in their homeschooling.

706

: 00:33:38

Listen guys, this is the Homeschool Money

podcast and the the parents out there.

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: 00:33:45

We, our focus, our, our mission is to help

change the narrative in homeschooling.

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: 00:33:53

Homeschooling parents can

enjoy financial abundance while

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: 00:33:57

homeschooling their children.

710

: 00:33:59

This is a day and time where we have

all these tools and resources available

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: 00:34:05

to us to create additional income

and to create all of the income that

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: 00:34:11

we need in order to live financially

abundant lives while homeschooling

713

: 00:34:16

our children and so that we can.

714

: 00:34:20

Optimize our, our children's homeschooling

experience and childhood experience.

715

: 00:34:25

And so and so, that's why step five of

the homeschool money program is here.

716

: 00:34:31

And so if you don't have the course,

you need to learn more about it and you

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: 00:34:37

can definitely start and take the very

next step by taking our free class.

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Go to homeschool money.com.

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And take our 90 minute free introductory

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We hope that you have enjoyed

this episode, and we cannot

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: 00:34:59

wait to join you for the next.

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: 00:35:02

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: 00:35:03

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