Hey friends!

Your blog updates are going to start looking a little different from this week going forward. We’re bringing back the weekly newsletter for 2 reasons: (1) I want to make sure I’m not overwhelming your inbox. By doing a weekly newsletter, I can highlight the previous posts on the blog without sending you an email every time I post. (2) I want to highlight some other resources that I’ve been making for the shop and send you a copy of them!

In this newsletter, you’ll get:

• A quick thought from me about a topic
• Links to the latest posts
• Our latest podcast and YouTube videos
• A freebie from A More Beautiful Life Collective Store

I hope that this will become something that you look forward to opening each week. Many of you have been supporting the blog by subscribing and sharing from the beginning, and I am so grateful for you! I wasn’t sure when I first started writing what direction everything was going to take. Over the past 6 months, I have just “Done the next right thing” as Elisabeth Elliot has said. I want to make sure that I’m providing something of value to you and truly encouraging you to create a life you love and cultivate your heart for God.

I would love to hear from you and learn more about you! You can reply to this email anytime to let me know questions you have or topics you would like to learn more about!

We’ve been doing a deep dive into habits and routines for a more productive life. We want to do kingdom work for God, and so we have to first wake up out of the mundanity of life and focus on what we can accomplish for him.

Reading about goals and setting visions for our lives is one way we can wake up. But, if we are thinking about getting things done from a biblical perspective, we are not just concerned with productivity.

We have to align the desires of our hearts with the desires of God. This is a daily alignment, and this alignment is done through reading scripture and prayer. ​

At the beginning of the year, a common resolution or goal is to read through the Bible in a year. But, that is not the only goal that we should add. Prayer is the foundation for our relationship with God. It is a keystone habit in our lives.

Here are some habits that help you make prayer a priority in your life:

• Pray when you wake up and when you go to sleep
• Add physical movement to your prayers, whether that’s kneeling, clasping your hands, or walking.
• Pray through scripture
• Join your church’s prayer team or prayer chain.
• Create a prayer meeting to have times of prayer together.
• Keep a prayer log or journal.

What are some ways that you make prayer a priority?

Here's something just for you!

In case you missed it:

Life Proofing Your Habits: How to Cultivate Good Habits and Make Them Stick By this point in the year, many of our well-meaning goals have been tossed in the trash because life gets messy. How do we stick with our goals in the face of busyness and obstacles? This post goes over a method that will help you to make your habits stick. View Post

Own your Organizing Style We often desire to keep things organized. But, for most of us, it just feels like we will never naturally be organized. Did you know there are four different types of organizing styles? Figure out yours to help you get and stay organized. View Post

4 Key Ideas for Planning Out Your Ideal Schedule S1E23 - Figure out 4 key points for how we should schedule our time and steward it well. ​ Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts While you're there, would you leave a rating and review for the podcast? This helps others find the show! I would be so grateful!

On YouTube

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We're beginning a mini-series on YouTube that tackles getting things done from a godly perspective planning method we've been talking about over the month of January. These are bite-size, 5-minute videos that go over each part of the method step-by-step, one at a time.

You can respond to this email letting me know if you are using this method as well. You can also let me know other miniseries about discipleship, productivity, or homemaking that you would like to watch.

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