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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Adjusting, Not Overcommitting

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What if a small adjustment in your schedule could change your life completely? Jim Daly talks with Kristi Clover about a principle she calls, glean and tweak. Also, John asks Danny about how he's learning to not overcommit, even when he has a busy schedule.

 

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0:00.0

Well, in so many ways across life in business and school in the home, it's been observed that

0:08.7

small adjustments can lead to big results. But if you're really busy as a parent, if you don't

0:14.9

have any margin, if you don't have room to make even small changes, what do you do? I'm John Fuller,

0:20.6

joined by Dr. Danny Werta,

0:21.9

who leads the Focus Parenting Team. And we're going to hear now from Christy Clover. She was on

0:27.0

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and she told Jim how she's learned to make little micro

0:32.0

adjustments as a mom and how it's been impactful. And here she is now talking with Jim.

0:38.2

In your book, MOM, Master Organizer of Mayhem,

0:42.1

you laid out 10 simple rules for home organization.

0:45.3

And we're going to cover a few of them,

0:46.6

but people need to get the book.

0:48.0

I mean, we don't have time enough to cover them all.

0:50.4

But one in there is glean and tweak technique.

0:53.7

What is that?

0:54.9

Well, that's what I kind of learned.

0:56.4

Because when I started approaching home organization, I was trying to follow all the rules.

1:00.3

I was trying to do what the Martha Stewart's of the world were doing and what my friends who grew up in organized homes were doing.

1:06.1

And what I found.

1:07.1

Oh, yeah.

1:07.9

No, it did not work.

1:09.5

Well. Oh, yeah. No, it did not work. Well, and what I found is that there's techniques that work,

1:12.9

but you also have to tweak a technique because, you know, God created all of us to be unique.

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