{"id":2994,"date":"2015-06-16T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2015-07-27T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:14:50","slug":"new-series-ten-ways-to-get-things-done-fast-for-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/new-series-ten-ways-to-get-things-done-fast-for-families\/","title":{"rendered":"New Series: Ten Ways to Get Things Done FAST for Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am doing a new series on \u201cback to school\u201d (see the first post here<\/strong><\/a>), and as part of that, I am encouraging moms to learn some efficiency and organizational strategies to make the school year better. I look back on my thirty-one years of homeschooling so far and realize that each year, each season, each month was really another opportunity to add another skill, another layer to my organization, efficiency, and home management strategies.<\/p>\n

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Some of my ideas flopped terribly (the \u201cno breakfast, just fruit followed by brunch\u201d idea or the \u201clunches made up on divided plates using leftovers\u201d idea\u2014yeah, they didn\u2019t work), but I was not disheartened. I guess I\u2019m a little bit like Thomas Edison in that: “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”<\/em>
\n\u201cI have not failed fifty-four times in a way to make breakfasts and lunches more efficient. I have successfully found fifty-four times that didn\u2019t work!\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

However, many of my outrageous ideas were successes\u2014and have given me tools to manage my home and homeschool that I have just loved!<\/p>\n

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So without further ado, I whet your appetite for the coming posts with this list of Ten Ways to Get Things Done FAST for Families…join us! And tell your friends about us. Coz school year 2015-2016 could just be the best, most organized, most heart-affecting year ever!<\/p>\n

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Ten Ways to Get Things Done FAST for Families<\/h3>\n

\u00a0(1)<\/strong> Have a timer burst
\n\u00a0(2)<\/strong> Institute a horizontal surface cleaning approach
\n\u00a0(3)<\/strong> Have a \u201cdad in the driveway\u201d blitz
\n\u00a0(4)<\/strong> Have at least two consistent chore sessions so that daily things are not always looming
\n\u00a0(5)<\/strong> Announce a \u201croom to room\u201d time
\n\u00a0(6)<\/strong> Make four of one entr\u00e9e every week\u2014makes dinner super fast
\n\u00a0(7)<\/strong> Have a \u201cdo your favorite task\u201d time
\n(8)<\/strong> Have a \u201csuccessful next day\u201d routine at night
\n\u00a0(9)<\/strong> Call for two times your age sessions
\n(10)<\/strong> Instill an \u201cI can do anything for five minutes\u201d approach<\/p>\n

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