RAR #249: How a “Best Moments” List can Help You Love Your Homeschool featuring Jon Acuff
Read-Aloud Revival ®
Sarah Mackenzie
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Which of these two activities would be easier for you?
- Describe the best life you could achieve over the next twenty years.
- Describe the best things that have happened to you over the past twenty years.
I know that as a busy wife and mama, dreaming for the future can feel daunting. As I was reading Jon Acuff’s book, All It Takes Is a Goal this summer, I was struck by how this exercise can shift our perspectives as homeschool mamas and mentors of our children.
In today’s episode, New York Times bestselling author and speaker Jon Acuff is joining me to discuss how to actually achieve those goals amidst the busyness of daily life (hint: you’re probably already doing more than you think!).
We’ll also chat about the book he wrote with his teenage daughters, How Teens Win: The Student’s Guide to Accomplishing Big Goals, which comes out September 10, 2024.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How looking back at our best moments, big and small, can help us create a vision for the future
- Why it’s okay that your imagination for your kids is bigger than your calendar
- How auditioning small goals helps you successfully transition from optimism and realism for yourself and your kids
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| 0:00.0 | Which activity would be easier for you? |
| 0:09.2 | Describe the best life you could achieve over the next 20 years? |
| 0:14.0 | Or, describe the best things that have happened to you |
| 0:18.0 | over the last 20 years. |
| 0:20.0 | I already know your answer to that question and so does today's guest and listen the |
| 0:25.6 | implications for how this simple question can impact how much you love your homeschool |
| 0:31.0 | are big so let's get into it. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the Read-Alaud Revival. |
| 0:39.0 | This is the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm your host Sarah McKinsey. I'm a homeschooling mother of six, the author of Teaching |
| 0:49.2 | from Rest, the read-aloud family, several award-winning picture books for kids kids and I'm so excited about today's episode. |
| 0:55.8 | This summer I read all it takes is a goal the three-step plan to ditch regret and |
| 1:01.4 | tap into your massive potential by John Aikoff. I loved it. |
| 1:06.2 | There was one thing in particular that I read in this book and thought, oh my goodness, this is |
| 1:10.8 | so relevant to us at Read a Loud Revival. |
| 1:13.0 | I wonder if I could get John Aikoff, the author, to come talk on the show with us about it, |
| 1:18.0 | and it turns out I could. He's here today. |
| 1:20.0 | John is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books. |
| 1:23.4 | He's an Inc magazine top 100 leadership speaker. |
| 1:27.1 | He's also a husband and a father of two teenage girls |
| 1:30.0 | whom he just wrote a book with. |
| 1:32.2 | We're going to talk about it. How Teens Win wrote a book with, we're going to talk about it, |
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