Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. You probably have your year

all planned out, all of the activities in place, and you're going to make this happen. Let's talk

about how you can balance that idea of powering through with trying to reduce the friction in your home.

Joining me for this discussion is Laura Pitney.

Laura, good to have you back.

Thanks for having me.

As we're thinking about the year ahead, we make a lot of plans and we get geared up

and enthusiastic for the year, but I read a recent, recently I read a

quote that was about instead of trying to increase your willpower and force things to happen,

try decreasing the friction. I think that might be a good idea as we look to the year ahead.

What are your thoughts? I definitely like the idea of that. I think there's be a good idea as we look to the year ahead. What are your thoughts?

I definitely like the idea of that.

I think there's a lot of wisdom in that statement of trying to reduce our friction in our home.

I think friction naturally happens whether we plan for it or not.

I just think situations and circumstances arise in our home that maybe we didn't plan

for. So when I think about that statement of trying to reduce friction, I think one of the first things

that comes to mind is I've got to be aware and be observant of my home atmosphere so that I can

take notice of those friction points.

If you're doing that, then you can take the opportunity to try to fix them.

Yes, yes.

So a lot of times I know we want to, you know, like you're saying, push through and have

that willpower just to make the day go good, get the things done.

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