Finding Joy in the Journey

3 Steps to Absolutely Lessen the Drama of Making Choices

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Somehow the beginning of the school year seems to create choice drama in our family.  

Since my boys were little, I have almost always had drama around the start of the school year. 

I had my boys in a variety of different schools –

  • Private kindergarten for Devon
  • Public School for a few years for the first 2
  • Homeschooling for half a year for one
  • Charter school for Carson and Bryson for years.
  • Devon took the CHSPE and left high school early
  • Then we moved and we chose a charter school for Bryson again
  • Then this summer Bryson struggled with deciding if he should switch to the local public high school.


    • Sometimes the answers were SO clear in our schooling choices.

    Sometimes you don't feel like you get an answer. 

    Sometimes you get the answer – it is up to you.

    Tool for today – when you have to make a choice –


    1. pray about it, if the answer is clear, move forward.
    2. If the answer is unclear, then sometimes you need to gather some more information.
    3. pray about where to go for that information!  Gather and pray again.  Remember it is easy to get stuck in indecision and often when the answer stays unclear, we really just need to move forward and if it is wrong, we will quickly know.
    4. If the answer is it is up to you, choose what you want, and move forward…


      5. Listen to learn a great trick to help you figure out what you really want

      Link to the grounding meditation!


      It is really helpful to get really grounded before you make a decision – here is a quick visualization to help you with this.


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