Best of RAR: How a “Best Moments” List Can Help You Love Your Homeschool featuring Jon Acuff
Read-Aloud Revival ®
Sarah Mackenzie
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure.
Today, we’re revisiting a listener-favorite episode that has some advice and an activity that I think are perfect for this time of year in our homeschools.
Jon Acuff, author of All It Takes Is a Goal, joined me a while back for a perspective-shifting conversation about setting and achieving goals for our homeschools, and how looking back at our best moments, from major milestones to pockets of joy, helps us envision the kind of future we really want.
Jon also shares some practical tips for reframing the urge to compare ourselves to others, especially on social media, giving ourselves credit for what we’re already doing–because it’s definitely more than you think–and approaching goals with a “some is better than none” mindset.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How taking stock of your past best moments helps you be more grateful and present for the moments happening right now
- Why having dreams and goals bigger than your calendar is actually a gift
- A simple key to finding goals that work for you and your family
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| 0:00.0 | I just think we've gotten dreaming backwards forever. So like Stephen Covey wrote, |
| 0:05.1 | begin with the end in mind. And people have interpreted that into until I know the end, I can't |
| 0:10.1 | begin. And we say to people, what's your big, hairy, audacious goal? Where do you see yourself |
| 0:14.3 | in 20 years? And you go, what? And for me, I've written, you know, a bunch of books, |
| 0:20.2 | self-help, motivational, business books. |
| 0:22.5 | That question paralyzes me. |
| 0:24.1 | The idea that I have to guess the next 20 years, I didn't see what I'm doing right now 10 years ago. |
| 0:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.5 | I couldn't have majored in this in college because it didn't exist. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah. Hello, hello, welcome to the Read Aloud Revival podcast. This is the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books. I'm your host, Sarah McKenzie. I'm the author of The Read Aloud Family and Teaching from Rest and a collection of picture books. And today, |
| 1:01.3 | I want to share an oldie but a goodie. This one was recorded a while back with John Acuff. |
| 1:06.6 | And in this episode, he helps us set some hopes for our homeschool year, like how to achieve |
| 1:11.8 | what we really hope for our homeschool, which is a really good thing to revisit at this time |
| 1:16.6 | of year in particular. |
| 1:18.2 | He's got us creating a best moments list. |
| 1:21.6 | This is the listener favorite. |
| 1:22.8 | I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 1:24.3 | I'll see you after the show. |
| 1:27.5 | Which activity would be easier for you? Describe the best life you could achieve over the next |
| 1:34.1 | 20 years or describe the best things that have happened to you over the last 20 years. |
| 1:40.3 | I already know your answer to that question. And so does today's guest. And listen, the implications |
| 1:46.0 | for how this simple question can impact how much you love your homeschool are big. So let's get |
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