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Motivational Clean With Me & How To Be Content: 30 Days to a Peaceful Home & Heart | Week 3
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Feb 28, 2025
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hello and welcome to Motherhood and
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homemaking my name is heaven and today
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we are going to be getting into week
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three of our simple and intentional
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living challenge our 30 days to a
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peaceful home and heart week three is
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all about contentment learning to slow
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down and appreciate what we have and let
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go of the things that we don't need and
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honestly that's not always easy I know
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how tempting it can be to think if only
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I just had a little bit more or a little
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bit better or maybe if my house look
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like this person's all of the different
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rabbit holes that we can easily go down
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but God calls us to something much
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deeper to a heart of contentment that
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isn't based on things but that is based
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on him so today as I'm cleaning my home
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we're going to be talking about the
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different things that we can do to find
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more contentment in our lives and in our
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home and in our hearts as we go through
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the seven tasks that we outlined for
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week three of the 30- days to a peaceful
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home in heart challenge if you're new
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and this is your first time on my
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channel welcome I'm so happy to have you
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here and to catch you up we have been
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doing a 30day challenge this 30-day
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challenge is helping us to simplify our
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lives and our hearts as well as
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declutter our homes and our minds for
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week one we did some physical
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decluttering and then for two we
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simplified our schedule for week three
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we are diving into contentment so if you
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want to catch up and join us in this
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challenge link down below you will find
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a link where you can get a printable or
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downloadable version of the full
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Challenge and if you enjoy a motherhood
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Life homeschool content even a little
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family here I take you guys along my
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faith walk as our journey through
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motherhood and homemaking sharing some
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inspiration and helpful information that
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I think will help you in your motherhood
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and homemaking as well and just being a
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friend someone that you can relate to
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sharing just what realistically it looks
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like in my life as a motherhood and a
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homemaker I believe that God created us
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to share in community not to be alone
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and so one way that I create a community
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is here on my little corner of YouTube
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so I want to have and finish taking down
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all of the Valentine's Day Decor inside
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of my home because Valentine's Day is
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gone and soon we're going to be putting
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up some Easter Decor some spring decor
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and I'm so super excited for that so now
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that all of the Valentine's Day Decor is
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done I'm just doing my typical daily
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cleaning I try to do like some cleaning
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every single day and then at the end of
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the week typically on Saturdays is when
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I go through the house and do like a
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full reset get all the laundry and
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things like like that done I'm going to
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be sharing a video like that with you
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guys next Thursday the first week of
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March so that you guys can get a better
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look at what my monthly resets look like
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but while I am cleaning I'm also
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reminding myself that contentment starts
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right here where we are it's not about
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having a perfectly decorated home or
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even having everything in order it's
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about being grateful for what's already
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here but to start us off with a Bible
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verse while we're diving into our
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challenge Philippians 4: 11 says I have
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learned to be content whatever the
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circumstances and really that alone is a
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challenge to make sure that we are just
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content in whatever circumstances we
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Face whatever comes our way so let's
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just take a deep breath and troose to
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appreciate the home the people and the
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blessings that God has already given us
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because that is a great start so maybe
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there are things in your home that don't
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really serve you anymore extra stuff
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that just as clutter both physically and
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mentally so I want to invite you to just
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think about some things in your home
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that you can release and not just
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objects but also expectations comparison
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stress over things that don't truly
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matter and try to make some space for
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peace for Joy for what actually fulfills
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our heart so for day one of week three
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of our challenge we were given the
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opportunity to spend a day without
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social media and I did this and in doing
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so I was a lot more productive in what I
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was able to accomplish I never really
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realized how much time I spend scrolling
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down social media in fact me and my
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husband would talk about this and he
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would be like I see you scrolling and
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I'd be like you know I don't do that N I
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don't I don't do that I don't have time
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for that but the truth is I really do
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and it's so easy to just get lost in it
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you really are focused on what's on the
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screen and not really focused on what's
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going on around you so you don't even
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realize how much time has going on P
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spending a day without social media was
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not only beneficial for me and helping
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my productivity level but it also was an
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eye opener for me as well day two was to
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practice gratitude and to list out five
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things that we are thankful for so I
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keep this little journal and it's called
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rise and Thrive and every day it promps
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me to write down what I'm thankful for
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so easily the first thing that I am
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thankful for is God his grace his Mercy
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his forgiveness his love and Jesus and
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his sacrifice so that's all in one plus
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more there is like no way that I can
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really truly Express how thankful I am
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for his daily guidance and his daily
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grace but number two the thing that I am
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thankful for is my family because that
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love the love that you know family
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embodies is a love that I wouldn't trade
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for anything in the world so to have my
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husband and my children here with me
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doing life with me every single day I'm
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truly truly thankful for that the third
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thing that I felt was really important
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for me to be thankful for was my role as
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a mother and Homemaker and that's
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because often sometimes we might forget
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in the midst of talking about how
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difficult it is and how exhausting it is
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we can sometimes forget to just pause
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and realize just how much we have to be
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grateful for to be thankful for I'm just
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blessed and thankful that I even get to
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stay home and watch my kids grow up I
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don't have to you know send them away
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from the home because we're blessed that
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my husband is able to provide for us so
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that I can stay home with my children
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and that is a blessing in itself but you
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know to just have people depending on me
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to know that they trust me and that the
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Lord trusts me as well to take care of
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them which are his children first that
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is something I'll to be thankful for so
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number five on the list of things that
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I'm thankful for I'm just thankful for
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his creation all the things that he has
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created for us because in letting go of
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things you make room for just like the
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the beauty of what God has created for
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us one thing that always gets to me is
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winter Blues um I'm just not a huge fan
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of the winter but as I've been you know
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trying to slow down a little bit in my
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days in my life it has forced me to kind
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of just take in everything surrounding
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me and that includes like going outside
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and enjoying the winter and I have to be
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honest and say I'm still not a huge fan
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of it but I'm definitely very grateful
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for the beauty of it like I never really
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sold on and just looked at just how
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beautiful and gorgeous it is like the
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flocked trees and everything in the
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backyard once the snow falls on the pine
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trees all of that so just God's creation
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he has created everything that we need
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in order to thrive in life to where
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honestly we don't need anything else we
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can be content and just being grateful
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for what God has given us which is
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everything that we need for number five
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of the things that I am thankful and
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grateful for is just good health and
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life and our extended friends and family
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it's just H justly the point here is
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that I'm pretty sure I've named so much
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more than just five things and so when
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you are tasked with thinking of some of
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the things that you are thankful for you
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will realize like okay there's a lot of
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things I have to be grateful for so what
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is there that I have to you know
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complain about so I love that so day
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three was to avoid impul shopping for 24
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hours guys I knew this would be hard for
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me but I did not realize just how hard
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the reason this was so hard for me in
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this day is because we have an upcoming
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trip coming up and whenever we are
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getting ready to go on the trip I always
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do like a little pre-shopping making
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sure that we have everything that we
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need to make our trip a lot smoother to
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make make sure the kids have what they
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need so that once we get there
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everything will just you know be
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comfortable for everything and so in the
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midst of me trying to make sure we have
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everything I had to stop myself from
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getting anything and on day three the
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day that just fell on I had a whole list
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of things that I really needed to get
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but I was like you know what the fact
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that I feel like I need it is a problem
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in itself because to be quite honest we
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probably have the things that we need
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but I'm just wanting it for a little bit
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more convenience or because I like it a
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little bit more so that was also a
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really great wakeup call for me because
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in that moment I'm like this is hard I
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really need to get this done for a trip
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but the truth is that I didn't need it
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and the fact that I I thought that I did
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that that was a problem so that day
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wasn't necessarily just about not buying
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anything for a day it was more so about
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the realization for me number four enjoy
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a free or simple activity with your
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family so one thing that my husband
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randomly does when he's out at the store
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it's just like find little fun like
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board games because back when I was a
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child we played board games so much more
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than what we do nowadays and so we have
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like a closet full of board games but
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the truth is that we just don't play
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them a lot so we pulled out one of our
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board games I just decided to go ahead
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and just play that is just something
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that you can do with your family is just
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play a board game you don't have to have
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something to do outside of the home you
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can just stay at home and you don't have
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to spend any money just find like a game
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that you can play with your kid and with
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your husband your spouse find something
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that is completely free that you can do
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with your family so Bard games that is a
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great one number five is to let go of
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comparison and just focus on your
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blessings so this this was important for
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me so as a Disney loving family that
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travels to Disney World quite very often
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and then with trips coming up sometimes
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I will watch videos saying okay let me
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make sure I have everything that I need
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and let me just go see what other people
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are buying because maybe they have
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something that I could probably use too
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I feel like when we are using what
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someone else is doing as like our
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typical guideline of comparison we're
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not really using the room or the space
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to create our own tradition for instance
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for us everybody goes to Disney World
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and they always get the pink sprinkle
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donut so I have to get the pink sprinkle
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donut too that's just it's just a thing
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this time around I'm going to just rear
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off the typical what every Disney lover
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do and create our own family tradition
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so I'm letting go of all of the past
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things and we're starting completely New
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Traditions and completely new must do
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things something just completely
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different not your typical Disney
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vlogger things in homemaking I see the
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same thing everyone is like okay this is
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the musthave cleaning sponge just the
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best cleaning products and sometimes you
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will find out that what's best for one
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person is not the best thing for you so
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so yes I love sharing my favorite
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cleaning products with you guys but you
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will notice that I kind of just don't do
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that all the time for instance my
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favorite broom is this hair broom you
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see me using and it's called the swapped
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broom and that's because you can swap
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out the heads in like a quick second it
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takes no effort at all to swap out the
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head you can swap it with a microfiber
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mop head different broom angles you can
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swap it out for so many different things
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and it's my favorite broom it's solid
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wood very durable I don't want to use
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any other broom ever ever in life this
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is my favorite broom but I don't often
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share stuff like that here on this
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channel with you guys not as much as I
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kind of want to and it's just because I
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truly believe that every family they
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have their own unique things that they
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love and I don't want to be like the
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person that's like okay this is what you
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need this is the best thing go ahead and
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get it you know because there's a lot of
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that out there and really whatever you
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find whatever you have what you have is
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good what you have it's more than enough
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and that's what contentment is about so
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just be thankful and grateful and happy
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for the thing that you kind of already
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just have you don't need the next best
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thing because you know we just don't
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number six is to simplify your to-do
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list and remove three nonurgent
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tasks so last week for week two we also
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was giving the opportunity to let go of
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one unnecessary commitment tasks are a
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little bit less tedious than commitment
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I had wanted to go and take Noah to
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experience more things outside of our
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home and trying to get him out more in
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the winter time so one of them was to
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take him to Home Depot they do like a
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wood workshop class there where they
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just build like a quick little wooden
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project fun little thing for kids to do
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just to get out of the house and the
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truth is that we often do things like
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that here in our home we don't even have
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to leave the house to do it and I don't
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think that it was something that either
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of us really wanted to do so much like
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he enjoys the building aspect and that's
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something he can do home and probably
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enjoy it more with his father but I was
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doing it just because I felt like I had
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to just because I was guilty feeling
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like okay I don't get him out I don't
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take him to experience as much in the
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winter time as I do in the summer time
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and I felt like in that moment I might
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have been falling into comparison thing
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all over again so I went ahead and just
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let go of that and then the other two is
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that I try to often do laundry every
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single day okay it's just it makes it a
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little bit easier for me later in the
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week but on this day I decided like okay
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it's not an urgent task it's just a
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thing on my to-do list I don't know I
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guess I just didn't feel like going
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through the motion so I let go of that
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one and then the very last thing on my
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to-do list for this day I really wanted
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to go to the store and pick up some
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things for our upcoming trip I didn't
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really feel like bundling up the kids
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loading them into the car going out in
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the cold winter weather the reason I
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that goal of that non urgent task is
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because one it's not urgent two I can
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probably just find it from Walmart and
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have it delivered and three if I go
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inside of that store I'm probably going
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to buy way more than what I actually
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needed so instead I actually ended up
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shopping on the sheen website where you
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can normally find cheaper I just went
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ahead and shopped a few things in the
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sheen website and you guys I'm telling
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you like you can find things for a
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dollar sometimes for like 90 Cent 50 and
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then for like things that you might
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normally get on Amazon for like $20 is
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probably like $8 on Sheen and the
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quality is still probably the exact same
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so I didn't go to the store that day and
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go shopping to run a I didn't do a load
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of laundry and we didn't go to the wood
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workshop class at Home Depot already my
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day was a little bit more simple and
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number seven for week three was to read
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scripture about contentment and trusting
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God and so basically I have a few of
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them that I read that I will share with
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you so Philippians
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4:1 through 12 says I have learned to be
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content with whatever the circumstances
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I know what it is to be in need and I
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know what it is to have plenty I have
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learned the secret of being content in
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any and every situation whether wellfed
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or hungry whether you're living in
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plenty or in want and so this is
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definitely a goal I would love to be so
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content in any situation and in every
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situation that is something that I'm
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truly striving for 1 Timothy 6: 6-7 says
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but godliness with contentment is great
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gain for we brought nothing into the
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world and we can take nothing out of it
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and that just tells us just how little
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value our possessions actually hold and
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just makes us want to hold more true to
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things that are less tangible things you
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cannot buy more so experience and our
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family and spending time with them our
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time is much more valuable in any of our
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possessions but do not worry saying what
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shall we eat or what shall we drink or
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what should we wear for the pagans run
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after all these things and your heavenly
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father knows that you need them but seek
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first his kingdom and his righteousness
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and all these things will be giving to
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you as well Hebrews chap 13 and 5 says
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keep your lives free from the love of
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money and be content with what you have
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because God has said never will I leave
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you never will I forsake you proverbs 3:
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5-6 says trust in the Lord with all your
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hearts and lean not on your own
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understanding in all your way submit to
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him and he will make your path straight
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Psalms 23:1 says the Lord is my shepherd
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I lack nothing and Jeremiah 17: 7-8 says
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but blessed is the one who trusts in the
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Lord whose confidence is in him they
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will be like a tree planted by the water
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that sends out its fruits by the stream
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it do not fear when he comes
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it leaves are always green it has no
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worries in a year of drought and never
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fails to bear
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fruit and all of these are just ways
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that we can be reminded that true peace
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and true contentment comes from not our
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circumstances not our physical items but
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from trusting in God's provision and
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plan so I just want to remind you that
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this all seems like a lot the challenge
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is supposed to be a challenge you know
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it's supposed to be something that is
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hard for us and so it's not something
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for us to look at and be like oh my
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goodness like I'm I'm an awful
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person so don't beat yourself up about
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it if you know you find yourselves not
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being very content in you know what you
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have because you are doing an amazing
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job in the way that you show up for your
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home and for your family every single
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day even the smallest tasks have purpose
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when we do them with love and so so
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today let's just choose gratitude over
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comparison peace over Perfection and
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contentment in the goodness of God and
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let's do so without beating ourselves up
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about it if ever we've had any
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shortcomings because God doesn't do that
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that's not the type of love that God
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teaches us to
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have again if youve been following along
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in this challenge with me let me know
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how you've been doing comment below say
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hi I love to hear from you guys all the
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time but I really hope that this video
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have given you some friendly and
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uplifting motivation hope that you guys
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enjoyed this video and thank you so much
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for watching I will see you guys in the
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next one for the fourth and last week of
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our 30 days to a peaceful home and heart
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challenge
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