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Planning for the Year Ahead and Reflecting on 2013
December 31 – the last day of 2013. I know for me it seemed to f–l–y and oftentimes when things go by too fast it causes me to forget things that I really should remember. Then there’s the side of me that likes fresh beginnings and January 1 just kind of fits in there good like that. 🙂 So that is why I made an “End of Year Thoughts and Plans” mini journal. The second page is mainly for you to reflect on the past year and the first page is to help you plan for 2014. This year was the first time that I’ve incorporated my family into something…
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The Condition for a Miracle is Difficulty…
What if you were in the middle of a severe drought and your whole livelihood depended upon the weather? You are a farmer. Just what crop would you grow? This scenario that I’m relating to you really happened. Our family just watched the video “Faith Like Potatoes” about an actual white farmer in South Africa who chose to plant potatoes during one of the worst droughts South Africa had had in years. Farmers thought he was crazy but he placed his faith in God and rested in that. When harvest time came, Angus Buchan goes to dig up his potatoes. Would there be any? Would they be little puny things?…
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Reduce
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. Taken from the book The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda