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    Thriving In Motherhood Podcast | Productivity, Planning, Family Systems, Time Management, Survival Mode, Mental Health, Vision

    The GO TO Podcast For Moms With Kids At Home!

    Do you want to love motherhood but find yourself in survival mode or burned out more than you’d like to admit?
    Do you feel tugged between enjoying every moment with your kids because it “goes so fast” and feeling mom guilt because you don’t?
    Are you tired of wandering around the house or scrolling social media but don’t know where to find the time or energy to do something that you would enjoy?

    There’s a way to create a life that you are excited to wake up to each day so you enjoy your time with your family, have a smooth running home, and still move forward on your greatest goals.

    Hi! I’m Jessica Jackson, homeschooling mom of four, productivity and time management expert for moms, and project enthusiast.

    In this podcast, I will teach you how to:
    – Navigate survival seasons with a thriving mindset through practical tips
    – Create a vision for your life and get clear about what really matters to YOU
    – Effective planning, productivity, and time management strategies when you have kids at home – they’re different!
    – Build family systems that support the entire family – including mom
    – Establish habits and rhythms that nurture you
    – Become a Soaring Mother so you can live connected with God, use your gifts and talents to bless those in your circle of influence, adventure with your family, and enjoy meaningful relationships

    I began motherhood with hopes and dreams that I could navigate my days confidently with purpose, live intentionally, find joy and contentment in everyday life, and have God’s help and strength in this lifelong journey.

    Reality:

    I was in complete survival mode
    I felt guilty a lot of the time
    I had no clue what my days should look like
    I was snappy and irritable with my family
    Can you relate?

    The good news – I closed the gap between what I hoped was possible and my reality.

    And you can too.

    I can’t wait to help you live life with purpose and joy and see your growth in the everyday moments of motherhood.

    Next Steps:
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    Setting up a weekly schedule/rhythm | Ideal Week Walkthrough [Episode 297] Dec 27, 2023
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    One of the skills in the structure pillar of the Three Pillars of Thriving is automation - making a decision once and having it happen over and over again. We can apply this principle to our weekly schedule.

    When we sit down and create a template of when we do things every day throughout the week, we can refer back to it with many decisions already made.

    Every quarter, I like to sketch out our current weekly rhythm or schedule. For years, I've done this on a piece of paper, but now we've added a two-page spread every quarter into the Thriving in Motherhood Planner for easy reference!

    In this week's video, I'm going to walk through my process for setting up our weekly schedule. This exercise is called an "Ideal Week" - which I really struggled with as a stay-at-home mom with lots of young children. It seemed like there was nothing ideal in my life, starting with the lack of sleep! I've adapted the concept in an empowering way for me as a mom, and it doesn't require me to have it all figured out yet.

    How To Set Up Your Weekly Schedule

    Step 1: Write down your anchors. For me that's our three meals during the day and quiet time. These happen no matter what.

    Step 2: Write down what's on the schedule. Church activities, music lessons, sports practices, library story time - what are your recurring appointments for the next few months?

    Step 3: Write down your essentials (there can't be a lot of them) for you and your family. Pair these essentials with an anchor. For us, that is scripture study at breakfast and my morning routine before everyone wakes up.

    Step 4: Write down what your days currently look like. Write down things as they are (in pencil). This isn't supposed to be ideal but reality.

    Step 5: What is working well? What isn't working? Use this to make 1-2 tweaks that involve your kids and another 1-2 that involve you.

    Step 6: Write down the essential things in the "puzzle pieces" section you want to have happen every night, but maybe not at the same time. For me, this is a time to record a podcast episode, have a date night, or have someone over for dinner.

    This is something that is going to develop over a period of YEARS, but making a few tweaks every quarter adds up to big things! I started with just figuring out what our mornings look like with young kids. Each day had a different activity: library, grocery shopping, nature walk in the woods, meeting friends at the park, and home projects.

    As we started homeschooling, we built morning routines to get to everyone's schoolwork. We made bedtime routines for the kids to get the next element figured out. Then, I focused on developing a good morning routine for myself and the kids (the 6 am - 9 am window). This included getting the kitchen cleaned up after breakfast as well as getting us ready for the day.

    We then added some structure to our afternoon hours, getting dinner ready ahead of time and resetting the house. Finally, I added some structure to the household management and cleaning and assigned certain tasks to certain days. Now, I'm working on creating a bedtime routine that gets me set up and even ahead for the next day.

    #1 Thing Moms Need to Do For 2024 [Episode 296] Dec 20, 2023
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    In this week's episode, I'm sharing the #1 thing moms need to do for 2024 - and I can't think of any exceptions. In my 10.5 years of motherhood, this is the thing that has helped me in EVERY season, from hard pregnancies where days creep by to full schedules with lots going on in life and business.

    Every mom needs to create a vision for the year.

    There are an almost endless number of paths each day, but with your vision as a guide, you can walk in one direction and get to a destination you want to end up at. You can go to bed confident with how you spent your time and energy and wake up excited for the day ahead.

    Here are three steps to start creating your vision for 2024:

    1. Start a technology fast. Determine what you will and won't do for the next 14-30 days. The goal is not to have outside influences present - even good ones! This will help you get mental clarity about what matters to you in this season of life. Make it so the only factors in your life are your own thoughts, your spouse and children, and inspiration from God.

    2. Reflect on 2023. What went well? What didn't go well? What did you learn? What are you most proud of? What do you regret?

    3. Create your Vision for 2024. What do you want to do or experience? What projects do you want to work on? What habits do you want to develop? Who do you want to become? What household routines do you want to put in place? What matters for your family this year?

    As you begin to create your vision, remember this important principle: you have to go slow to go fast.

    This was a principle I learned as I recovered in the post-partum periods that if I wanted to get back to normal life as quickly as possible, I needed to do as little as possible to let myself heal.

    When it comes to productivity, we need to slow way down and create space in our lives to think, dream, prioritize, and plan so that we are ready to hit the ground running in the RIGHT direction. The direction that matters to YOU.

    If you want to learn more about creating a vision for your year, check out my Create Your Vision Mini Course.

    Inside, you'll discover:

    • The steps to create your vision for the year

    • The secret to making goals you are excited to accomplish

    • How to eliminate stressing about time management and productivity - permanently!

    • How to see the good you are already doing in your life to build momentum towards creating what's next for you

    You get IMMEDIATE access to the Create Your Vision Course when you purchase a Thriving in Motherhood Planner, or you can get the course on its own for just $15.

    If you're feeling overwhelmed, bored, lost, or crazed by motherhood's demands, creating your vision will make all the difference. It has a compounding effect that will allow you to create a unique life that is better than you could have imagined.

    Energy Busting Indoor Winter Activities For Kids | Screen Free [Episode 295] Dec 13, 2023
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    I have spent a lot of time inside with young kids who have loads of energy (even though we get out as much as we can). We've been in tiny grad student apartments and smaller houses without clear places to physically move their bodies for all 10.5 years of motherhood.

    As we get into winter, I start to feel a sense of panic about what we will do for months with shorter daylight hours, colder temperatures, and lots of need to move our bodies.

    In this week's episode, I'm sharing how we've set up our home (even when we lived in tiny apartments) so the kids have places to play hard inside, as well as activities I have to direct the energy when needed.

    Setting Up Inside So Kids Can Play In The Winter:

    1. Create a few intentional places for big movement. Even in our small apartment, we had a picker triangle and a small trampoline. We've added a pull-up bar in a doorway.

    2. Have self-directed activities like yoga or calisthenics cards and teach your kids how to use them.

    3. Have a list of activities you can refer to when things are going crazy (usually afternoons in our house).

    Here are a few of our favorite activities from my list:

    • Tape pennies on shoes for tap shoes

    • Skate on the floor with socks - bonus with wash clothes and Force of Nature for a mopping party.

    • Have an indoor snowball fight with rolled-up socks or indoor snowballs.

    • Wheelbarrow walk - hold your child's legs and have them walk around on their hands.

    Get my personal likes of 25 activities HERE.

    I don't want to entertain my kids - I want to set up an environment where there are a lot of options for movement. Having these things in place allows us to stay active in the winter months and keep my kids happy and busy.

    I'd love to hear your best inside activities with kids!

    The PEACE Method For Planning Your Week [Episode 294] Dec 06, 2023
    Show notes

    If you had told me ten years ago that I could be a full-time stay-at-home mom, living 30 hours away from our family, homeschooling my four children, and running a business in small pockets of time, I wouldn't have believed you.

    In those early years, the days ran together in one big blur, our cinder block student housing had stuff strewn around the floor, and I felt horribly guilty if I put my baby down, let alone did something I was interested in.

    In this week's video, I'm sharing my brand new 5-step PEACE Method Planning system for your week that has transformed my life from surviving the days to waking up excited.

    Many other productivity strategies work when you have uninterrupted blocks of time, but that is rarely the reality as a stay-at-home mom. This method is different because it takes thos interruptions into account and allows you to create a schedule that works.

    5-Step PEACE Method Planning System:

    P: Purpose - what matters most to you?

    E: Energy - review the previous week for wins to build momentum and energy.

    A: Appointments - Write scheduled items on the calendar.

    C: Choose 3 - write down your big 3 for the week.

    E: Everything else - Write other "have to-dos" in context-based to-do lists for the week.

    This method is easy to start doing and doesn't need to be implemented all at once. Even doing one thing will increase your peace and confidence in how you use your time.

    You are building a foundation here that will be an upward cycle, and who knows what you will create!

    Let me know which one of these five steps you're already doing well and which ONE you are going to try this week.

    One Tool That Simplified our Family Cleaning Routine | Chore Chart Alternative [Episode 293] Nov 29, 2023
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    How do you feel about chore charts? I like the idea of them, and I don't mind creating them, but when it comes to having a marker or stickers handy to actually fill them out, we drop the ball pretty much every time.

    This week, I'm sharing a new discovery I made that is simplifying our family cleaning routine: chore boards. This completely self-contained system allows me to clearly communicate each and every step that needs to be completed in a job, like cleaning the bathroom.

    In business, there is a crucial principle of writing standard operating procedures so that someone besides you can do a task and you can scale over time as you systemize.

    It's the same in our families.

    As my kids are getting a little bit older, I'm ready to delegate a bit more to them in things that it takes to run our household smoothly. We have lots of great habits in place (they all have jobs to keep the kitchen clean, they know their personal habits, and they each have a zone they know they have to pick up), but I need to have a better system to offload regular dusting, vacuuming, and bathroom cleaning.

    I was thinking of making chore lanyards for them, and while doing some online research, I stumbled across something even better: chore boards.

    I got so excited I purchased 10 of them so I could write the process for cleaning a bathroom, deep cleaning the family living space, as well as personal daily habits and weekly chores.

    Now I can give a child a job and a board with a clear step-by-step plan to execute it and then have a clear checklist to inspect it with. Expectations communicated!

    My 10 Favorite Books I Read in 2023 [Episode 292] Nov 22, 2023
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    Every month, I write down the books I read or listened to. Today, I'm sharing my 12 favorites that I read this year from a wide variety of topics and subjects.

    Reading lots of books has allowed me to actively learn while being a stay-at-home mom. When designing a planner for my needs, keeping track of the books I read or listened to each month was an essential piece.

    Why? Two reasons: it helped me to read more because I wanted to be able to write things down AND to remember all that I've read, learned, and enjoyed. A Books Read section is still in the official Thriving in Motherhood Planner in the monthly review.

    You can get your 2024 planner today and have it arrive by Christmas!

    Here are my 12 favorite books of 2023:

    1. How to Break up with your phone: https://amzn.to/3sDNw8J

    2. The Coddling of the American Mind: https://amzn.to/49L62g8

    3. What Happened to You?: https://amzn.to/3unnc3b

    4. Habits of a Household: https://amzn.to/3GchGmo

    5. Love Life and See Good Days: https://amzn.to/3sy10Tv

    6. Grace Where you Are: https://amzn.to/47Dwcj1

    7. Good Inside: https://amzn.to/3uo8bOu

    8. The Richest Man in Babylon: https://amzn.to/49BzWDk

    9. My Side of the Mountain: https://amzn.to/3SPyXJR

    10. On the Far Side of the Mountain: https://amzn.to/47m0zKX

    11. The Anatomy of Peace: https://amzn.to/49InIZA

    12. The Outward Mindset: https://amzn.to/3MRUxK5

    I'd love to know your best book recommendations from this year to add to my 2024 reading list!

    Our Favorite Homeschooling Curriculum Fall 2023: Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, 4th Grade [Episode 291] Nov 15, 2023
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    In this week's video, I'll take you on a virtual tour of our homeschooling setup for this year. As a homeschooling mom of Kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 4th grade kids, I've tested a variety of resources and materials over the years.

    So, if you're a fellow homeschooling parent looking for inspiration, you're in the right place! We've made a few tweaks to how we are doing school this year. Now that I have three school-aged kids, we are shifting to more of a family school focus with a few individual subjects, instead of primarily individual studies.

    Here is what we are focusing on this year:

    Family Subject Resources

    • Science: Science in the Beginning

    • Picture Study

    • Addition Facts That Stick

    • Subtraction Facts that Stick

    • Language Study

    • History - Story of the World

    • Picture books from the library on a variety of subjects

    Individual Study

    • Busy town Eye Found It Game

    • Spot It

    • All About Reading

    • Rightstart Math

    • Minimalist Math Curriculum Research Parent/ Right start

    • Hoffman Academy (Get 10% off with code LEARN)

    • Good and the Beautiful books/reading for 4th grade

    • The Great Illustrated Classics

    Organizational Resources

    • Backpacks with pencil and planner

    • Hooks for backpacks

    • Notebooking pencils

    • Pencil sharpener

    • Kids watches

    • How to stitch a notebook

    I'm often asked what the secret is to being consistent with homeschooling. I've found that consistency in homeschooling is easier to achieve when you have a reset space that makes it easy to do the thing you want to do.

    I want to do all the things in our homeschooling day - math, science, history, music practice, nature study, language study, etc. - so I often would pick just doing one more thing instead of cleaning up.

    What I've discovered this semester is that if we just do a little less each day and leave time and energy to reset the space, it is SO MUCH EASIER to get into schoolwork the next day. So instead of doing lots of school a few days a week and getting frustrated and burned out by the amount of effort it took to keep going, we do a more measured amount each day and leave time to reset for tomorrow. It has made all the difference in our consistency.

    It's Never Too Late to Be The Mom You Hoped You Be with Stephanie Stutznegger [Episode 290] Nov 08, 2023
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    Have you ever felt like it's too late to be the mom you hope to be and you'll be a good grandma instead? In this week's video, Stephanie Stutznegger shares how she has radically changed her life in the last year as she got clear with her vision, took lots of baby steps, and celebrated each month in the Thriving in Motherhood Planner and Soaring Mothers Society.

    Stephanie lives in Northern California with her husband, Jeff, and their four kids. They love being outside together and doing woodworking projects. They have a backyard full of chickens, ducks, a beehive, a newly finished treehouse, and a suspension bridge over their creek, connecting them to her brother and sister-in-law's house.

    Stephanie loves being a wife and mother, and she's grateful to be part of the Thriving in Motherhood community. Stephanie's favorite type of day is dishes piled high from cooking three meals, children laughing in the backyard, the doors and windows open, and fresh cookies in the oven.

    Last fall, Stephanie shared that she was feeling discouraged and like she had missed her opportunity to be the mom she wanted to be. As she watched two of her children play in the backyard, absolutely overwhelmed by the spaces inside and outside her home, she decided if she couldn't be the mom she wanted, she would be a good grandma.

    Stephanie began thinking about what makes a good grandma's house: curated rooms of meaningful, special things, favorite blankets, and books to read to make it cozy, and good smells from food baking.

    She realized that she didn't have to wait to be a grandma to give her family this life now, and a fire lit that carried her through a year of massive decluttering and baby steps, including building family systems to support their goals.

    It's easy to get caught up comparing our houses to the best of what we see online or the "right way" to declutter, organize, or decorate our homes. But as Stephanie worked through the spaces in her home, she carried the mantra, "Think like a grandma," and let her home become its own unique space with the goal to make space for relationships.

    She changed her thinking from what her space should be to what it could be.

    Stephanie shows up at our monthly Soaring Mother Society meetings with progress and renewed momentum to keep going as she continues to take action in making her vision for her life a reality.

    This week's conversation includes so many amazing stories and learning moments in Stephanie's life - from her oldest child speaking late and going on a 10-year learning journey of working on speech to lessons learned in raising chickens to her specialties of budgeting and making chocolate chip cookies.

    It's a refreshing chat with a mom going through the realities of everyday mom life, too!

    How Manners Can Lead Kids to A Successful Life with Brooke Romney [Episode 289] Nov 01, 2023
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    Do you struggle with manners in your family? Do you wonder if they are outdated and even worth teaching? In this week's episode, Brooke Romney shares her simple system to effectively make manners part of our everyday lives with kids.

    Brooke Romney is a writer, speaker and leader of an online community who helps moms of teens and tweens to create meaningful, healthy, and enjoyable relationships with their children through practical application, education, and community. Her goal is for every family to feel confident and connected.

    The mother of four boys ages tween to adult, Brooke knows parenting perfection isn't real and takes an honest and hopeful approach with her audience. Her best-selling book 52 Modern Manners for Today's Teens (Volumes 1 and 2) provides weekly tips to help parents and teens navigate the complexities of today's world. The follow-up 52 Modern Manners for Kids features tips for kids and tweens aged four through 12.

    Brooke and her family live in Utah. You can find her on Instagram HERE.

    You'll love Brooke's emphasis on manners that will allow our kids to be aware, kind, and connected. She also shares a glimpse into her own motherhood journey and how she went from being stuck in perfectionism and overwhelm to truly enjoying motherhood and being present and engaged in her own family.

    In our conversation, Brooke outlines five ways to teach manners to kids:

    1. Focus on one manner a week. You can talk about it directly or leave it out for kids to read so they have some autonomy in learning. Bonus tip - add your manner time to something you are already doing well, like Friday movie night or a weekly family night.

    2. Teach the why. Kids are smart and understand.

    3. Role Play! It is a way to practice at home and a fun way to prepare.

    4. When you are reading books or watching movies together, talk about when the characters are using the manners you've learned about or when they don't. What are the consequences? What's the impact on those around them?

    5. As a parent, look for when you are seeing the manners you've been talking about and reinforce them with a thank you or share around the dinner table when everyone used their manners.

    Expect that kids won't get it right away. That's okay! Think of it as planting seeds that will start to grow when they are ready. This is a proactive approach in parenting to give our children the best chance of success in navigating relationships. When our children know what to do or how to act appropriately, it empowers them and builds their confidence over time.

    A great resource to make this simple is Brooke Romney's 52 Modern Manners for Kids book (and her two books for teens). She designed it to stand upright to easily sit on a counter so everyone can read it easily throughout the week. The manner and the why are on the front page, and role plays are included on the back. Talk about setting up the environment to make it easy to do the thing you want to do!

    You can find Brooke's books here:

    52 Modern Manners for Kids

    52 Modern Manners for Today's Teens Volume 1

    52 Modern Manners for Today's Teens Volume 2

    Maximizing Your Productivity During Nap time: Top Strategies and Tips [Episode 288] Oct 25, 2023
    Show notes

    This week on the podcast, I'm answering a fabulous question about how to use nap time well. Maybe you can relate to hitting the quiet moment of the day and feeling exhausted and wanting to take a nap yourself, but also wanting to be consistent in what you want to do.

    It can be hard to figure out what to do when it feels like everything needs to be done while also lacking motivation because you are exhausted. In this week's episode, I'll be sharing strategies and tips so you can feel confident about using nap time in a way that is intentional and productive for you.

    How to overcome lack of motivation:

    • Keep the time frame short: I just need to make choices for TODAY. I can do anything for a short period of time.

    • Write down what you want to be doing: A weekly or daily rhythm or an ideal week plan is a great way to ensure you know what you want to do and when. If you already know what you want to be doing, then it is easier to take the steps to do it than if you have to figure it out every day.

    • Every night, write down your big wins for the day: Celebrating yourself builds motivation and makes it easier to keep going.

    • Weed out "should" statements: Make it your mission only to do things that really matter to you, not just things you think you "should" be doing.

    • Ask God for help: Pray for an increased capacity and for God to help you carry the load. I'm amazed and astounded by how much can happen in a day, even when I don't feel like it, when I pray specifically for this and then act, expecting help to come.

    Made to Soar: The Next 90 Days is a program I've created to help you build family systems and automate the essentials so you can enjoy what matters most to you. You need a strategy, and not typical time management and productivity tips either.

    A strategy tailored specifically for the life of a mom with kids at home - full of interruptions, needs, bedtime stories, messes, traditions, silliness, and toddlers.

    A strategy that is 100% customizable with inspiration from God for your unique family, circumstances, and dreams.

    A strategy that is easily repeated because the reality of motherhood is that things are always changing.

    A strategy that enables YOU to become a Soaring Mother

    It's these very systems and skills that have enabled me to homeschool my four kids, run a podcast and business, establish traditions for our family and adventure with them, nurture my marriage, have soul-filling friendships, enjoy many hobbies, and feel the joy of this wonderful life.

    Made to Soar: Your Next 90 Days is the antidote to overwhelm. It is designed to help you get clarity on your vision and align your actions, current to-do list, and family systems so you can create a life you love to live.

    Learn more and sign up for the waitlist HERE.

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