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Pioneering Today

Yearly Planning WITHOUT the Overwhelm

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When we sit down and start to plan out our year, it can be very easy to quickly get overwhelmed and feel like there's no way we'll be able to get everything done. But that's usually because we haven't made a plan! Sure it would be great if there were an “easy button,” but too often we confuse “simple” for “easy”. And though this homesteading lifestyle allows for more simplicity, it’s anything but easy. For the show notes and any links mentioned in today’s podcast: https://melissaknorris.com/375.

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0:00.0

If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

0:06.4

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

0:16.2

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because

0:27.6

it is packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

0:40.0

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

0:47.8

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

0:56.9

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

1:02.1

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

1:06.2

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

1:18.2

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.

1:31.1

Hey pioneers welcome to episode number 375. On today's episode of the

1:38.6

podcast we are going to be talking about annual priorities goals and steps to take to tackle those projects that seem

1:48.0

daunting at the moment. Now this actually came in from a reader who answered one of the surveys that we

2:00.0

send out but what I found very interesting is I actually have been working through this very same, I hate to use the word problem, but in a way, the very same issue and multiple facets of our

2:16.6

life.

2:17.6

So first, I want to say that I almost think that as a society we have been inundated with the notion that things should be easy and that that is always the goal.

2:37.0

Oh gosh what is that the there's a TV commercial or there was anyhow back and it was something for the easy button.

2:46.2

Where's the easy button?

2:48.2

I think it was like a office supplies place.

2:51.6

I sound so bad. I actually I don't know the exact commercial. It was

2:56.5

from a while back. But the premise of it was the easy button. And I think that as humans, myself included, oftentimes that is what we are looking for.

3:08.9

We're wanting the easy button.

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