Category: Education Week
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True Balance: Balancing Work, Family, Church and Personal Needs
71toes.blogspot.com Powerofmoms.com Valuesparenting.com Eyresfreebooks.com “If a thing is just barely worth doing, just barely do it.” Juggling 4 is 1000 times harder than juggling 3. Instead of becoming a better juggler it’s better to reduce the number of things being juggled. Family Work Self “Always put off a put-offable in favor of a now-or-never.” Stewardship…
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Accelerating Financial Prosperity—Innovative Information Sources and Compelling “Open-Source” Opportunities
Why are so many people willing to provide so much time, resources, money, and imagination without any promise of compensation, recognition, reward, or advancement? Information that empowers. Sources that are insightful, objective, and user friendly. Scottmarsh.com->Education Week Pricegrabber.com Consumersearch.com Zillow.com Powerpay.org (debt reduction plans) Glassdoor.com 21 days of innovations that will change your life. Watch…
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America’s Financial Future—Empowering Personal Resourcefulness
14 concerns for our financial future Great recession Real estate values Health care costs Public education Energy dependence Great retirement options Entitlement programs Federal budget deficits Aging parents Workers will not retire Debt levels too high Taxes will increase Obligations to adult children Away from home missions #1 reason that people don’t serve senior missions—pets…
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Maintaining a Christ-Centered Focus in Our Family: Applying the Healing Power of the Atonement to Our Marriage and Family Challenges
My current wilderness is comparable to the wilderness faced by the families of Lehi and Ishmael. Gods will for us can be determined from: the scriptures, the inspired words of the Lord’s annointed, and the Spirit of the Lord. Sometimes we fail to check the compass be abuse we think we know the plan already.…
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Physical and Emotional Wellness: Keeping Ourselves and Our Loved Ones Well and Happy Even in a World of Desolating Scourges
I just realized that in scripture study this morning I read the scripture that is the theme of Education Week this year. “Inasmuch” means “to the extent that”—it is not an all or nothing proposition. Read “In His Steps” by Ezra Taft Benson (talk from 1979 at a BYU devotional – later published in the…
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If Christ is the Answer, What is the Question
As I come to know God, then what? What does that mean in relation to meeting the temporal needs of this world? What are the questions in life to which “Jesus Christ” is the only answer? I notice that “Jesus Christ” is not the answer to the question “what shall I do to Oct 95…
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You Have a Mission to Perform on Earth: Achieve It!
What is holding you back the most? What is your talent? list your talents list your weaknesses Specifically ask the Lord how you can make your weaknesses into strengths. Self discipline is the key to happiness and success. I think for me that means no more games. Go to bed early and get up early…
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Provident Gardening—Becoming More Self-Sufficient through Growing Your Own Food
Heirloom plants (open pollinated) produce seeds that will be the same (except sometimes zucchini) Hybrid seeds may grow into one of the parent varieties, or they may become themselves again. Dry the seeds thoroughly and store them in a cool location for use the next year. Anything that does not say hybrid is an open…
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Becoming an Elect Man
In the celestial kingdom there are three heavens or degrees – we do not know that they are in order 1, 2, 3 – it may be 1, a, b. (I have heard the speculation of married, male, and female) When we talk about the third part of the hosts of heaven following Satan and…
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Building Zion and a Zion People
Willard and Rebecca Beam were called to serve in Palmyra in 1915 – at that time the people of that area really hated everything to do with Mormonism. The church had owned the Joseph Smith farm since 1907 (Purchased by [someone famous] for $16000 and deeded to the church for $1) and was able to…