Tabula Rasa
Do you ever remember your teachers or your parents using that term “tabula rasa”? A clean slate. The beginning of a new year seems so much like a tabula rasa to so many people. Today, January 2nd 2008. What did you do today? For many of you it may have been simple “new” things..like organizing your new day timer, or hanging that new calendar on the wall (Remember the “family calendar” from the organizational post a few weeks back?).
Homeschooling families are gearing up for their next semester, so to speak. What exciting projects are you going to work on? What about field trips? Winter is such a great a time to really buckle down and concentrate. There is something about the cold and the blustery that makes us want to hunker down inside and concentrate. If your kids are of reading age this is the perfect time for a really loooooong book. And then maybe a play about the book, or a newsletter written during the time the story took place. For younger kids, a multi-day project is perfect. It’s great if each day the project is whole..but then all the wholes go together to make a bigger whole. Young kids have an easier time with this than things that are left hanging unfinished until the next day.
You probably have ideas to make 2008 the best year yet for your home business. Congratulations!! I plan on doing that as well. I’m also not going to save all my tax organization until the end of March. This is my week to get it done. How free it will feel to sit down at my computer on Monday and know that I can be totally focused on moving forward, rather than on the paperwork from 2007.
If you haven’t set your business goals for 2008, now would be the time to that. You can be creative and make it fun. Not only focus on your financial goals, but on what you want to learn, what you want to teach and what directions you’d like to grown in. You can even tie your kids into this process. What are their goals for 2008? If it were January 2nd, 2009 what would they like to look back and see in the past year? This type of thinking and planning is a great homeschool activity.
Finally…what would you like to give back in 2008…to your family, your friends, your community and to the world and the earth? Whatever it is, it deserves a premier spot on you list of goals and plans.
Happy New Year!!
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