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Take Back Your Time Review & Giveaway

Jaime Wiebel — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:56:27 +0000

Take Back Your Time Review

This week I am excited to share with you the new book Take Back Your Time by Morgan Tyree. In her newest book, she is teaching strategies on how to identify priorities, decrease stress, and increase productivity. Who’s in?

I was so excited to get this book, which I was given as a free copy to review and one to giveaway (Yay, Us!) from Blog About Blogger Network for my honest review.

I was excited for probably the same reasons you would be when you look at the content focus of this book. Take Back Your Time feels so freeing to me. Even before I opened up a single page, I was in.

If you are anything like me and I would even say a majority of people — time never feels on our side. There is one thing we can’t control and that is how many hours in a day. We all have the same 24 hours 7 days a week.

We have, however, become a society that thrives on “busy” as a badge of honor to emphasize the fact that we are spending those same 24 hours well. But is that really the case?

What to do Instead of Complete “Busyness?”

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens Ecclesiates 3:1

I have to be honest, I don’t like being “busy”. It feels unproductive, chaotic, and disorderly to me and to say that “I am busy,” doesn’t feel honoring to my time. Is there a better solution? I am so glad that you asked. With the guidance of Morgan from morganizewithme.com, she challenges us to look at the “busy badge” in a new way.

Let’s look at some of the synonmyns for busy: unavailable, buried, hustling, overloaded, swamped, occupied. These are not the kind of words I want to use when describing how I feel or how I am spending my time. I want to be able to say that my life is full — full of value, purpose, and meaning. – Morrgan Tyree page 56, Take Back Your Time

If that is the case, keep your busy, right?

I want to know that God is giving me 24 hours every day to make a difference, to tell people about Him, to be of good witness to my friends and my family, and to use to treasure that time and use it well. I want to know that my time was not just filled with busy but was filled with purpose.

We are not left without guidance in that area as well. Morgan has a system that is easily consumable and doable. Both things I like so that I don’t feel like even organizing my time is taking too much time.

I Need a Plan to Take Back My Time!

Morgan’s book is not just another self-help book, what I really loved about it was that her faith-based mindset could line up with my view on time.

So what about a plan? I need a plan. I am not going to divulge her complete plan or the details to set it up, I’ll leave that to her book, but here is where I am starting. Like I said it lines up with my faith-based views on life and it is going to help me get off that hamster wheel of overwhelm.

Morgan suggests listing your purposes in life and then listing your priorities under each purpose.

I am going to start with three major purposes to Take Back My Time.

Now, I have a few more but I am just going to start there to get the ideas flowing.

Home – (management and maintenance) I want my home to be filled with peace and centered on Christ. I want it to be a safe place for my kids to grow and learn to navigate life

Work – (writing, blogging, client work) I want Christ to be a the heart of everything I do so that my work can point others to Him.

Relationships (family and friends) I want my relationships to be genuine and encouraging.

Under each of those, I have priorities to Take Back My Time.

Home – Maintaining a home that my kids want to come home to, where they are loved no matter the circumstance. Occasional housework (I am the worst – but putting this on the priority list)

Work – Finish work before kids arrive home so that I can spend quality and quantity time with them.

-Work on blogging work in a timely manner, create a block schedule for my time that I am most productive and stick to it.

-Glorify God by sharing the hope that He has given me through groups, social media, and my website.

-Work for clients in a way that is encouraging to them being productive with their time and resources.

Relationships – Find ways to cultivate authentic relationships in real life.

– Be respectful of my husband and love Him the way that Christ has taught me to love others.

– Be supportive to/with my husband in raising our children and helping them make life choices that glorify God.

Take Back My Time

As I am examining my time, I need to check and see that the things I think, do, and say, line up with my purposes and my priorities so that I am spending my time in a way that makes my time not busy, but full – full of meaning, purpose, and value.

Taking back your time can be a major life shift if your someone that bends to busyness. If you are someone that thrives and builds their time having every last minute spent, then this may not be for you. I can imagine that if you are reading this, you wanted to know How to Take Back Your Time. I would imagine your feel captured by not finding enough time to serve yourself and others well. You probably feel very stretched even beyond what it feels like you can bear.

Say, NO MORE!

Let, Take Back Your Time, help you reclaim your precious time, declutter your life, mind, and soul by getting your whole life organized.

Be ready to reclaim control over your time today. I recommend that you check out this book today.

There is so much great stuff in this book. Tips on How to Manage Your Schedule, How to Prioritize Your Schedule, How to Become Productive with Your Time, and How to Make Sure Your Time is not just spent being busy but that your days are left with you feeling full – full of value, purpose, and meaning.

I am ready to Take Back My Time, Are You In? Yes, AND I am ready to grab my chance to win a copy by heading over to your Facebook Page.
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Take Back Your Time GIVEAWAY!

We could do this together because this week we are giving one reader a chance to win a copy of Morgan’s Tyree’s Book Take Back Your Time, courtesy of the Blog About Blogger Network. To enter, follow this link to my Facebook Page AND leave a comment on the facebook post on “the one area in your life you are ready to take back”.

You In? Yes, Take Me To Your Facebook Page and while you’re there, I would love for you to like and follow my page (not required, just appreciated)

Giveaway will run 11/12/2019-11/19/2019. Winner will be announced on my Facebook page and notified via PM. This giveaway is in no way associated with Facebook or it’s affiliates. Open to those living in the US and that are 18 years and older.

Here is a bit about the Author – Morgan Tyree

Morgan Tyree is a professional organizer (chaos calmer), writer (list lover), and fitness instructor (exercise enthusiast). She is generally energetic and motivated, but also (very) realistic. Her life tends to be full and fun, and somewhat messy too. She believes in prioritizing and measuring progress one day at a time, while also “keeping it simple.”

Morgan has a BS degree in business administration with an emphasis in small business and entrepreneurship from the University of Oregon. She has worked in the fields of marketing, management, and human resources. You can find Morgan blogging weekly on her site Morganize with Me and contributes monthly to the popular blog I’m an Organizing Junkie . She and her husband, David, have three children and live in Colorado.

To find out more about or to connect with Morgan, you can visit her website!

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The Purpose Driven Life Devotional For Kids by Rick Warren

Jaime Wiebel — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:23:00 +0000

Review for The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids by
Rick Warren.

Picture Used From Amazon.com

The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids is a 365 Day
Devotional aiming to teach kids about God. The purpose is to have kids and families have
the Word of God in hand every single day.

While kids are digging into God’s Word they can realize His
purpose for them, how they fit into God’s family, how to have faith and
friendship with God and many more topics.

I really enjoyed the layout of this book. Each devotional
has one or two verses to read and study followed by the teachings of Pastor
Rick Warren and prayer to finish out the devotion.

What I loved about this book is that each lesson is short
enough for a child that is able to read to accomplish daily devotions on their
own and learn something real and deep from the Bible. The devotions are
impactful for the current stage in their young lives and can travel with them
through each new stage in life.

The practice of following the devotion with a guided prayer
gives the children the opportunity to learn that prayer doesn’t have to be long
and fancy, it just has to come from the heart of the matter.

I would recommend this devotional and think it would be
great for individual study and for a great family time to discuss each topic.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers <http://booklookbloggers.com> book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 <http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html> : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Night Night, Farm Review and Giveaway

Jaime Wiebel — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 03:52:00 +0000

night night, Farm

Night Night, Farm is the new children’s book by author Amy Parker. The adorable illustrations are done by Virginia Allyn.

Night Night, Farm is a delightful bedtime story for all those littles in your life.

Being a Midwestern girl, I am immediately drawn into the familiar farm scene.

These fun lovable animals draw us right into cuddle up mode and into the bedtime routine.

Each of these brightly colored pages features an array of farm animals. They are all taking part in getting ready for bed as they cuddle into mama. Each page also has the sound of the animal to make it a bit more playful and adding another element of learning to every page.

All the animals are ready for bed and waiting for you to join them! Don’t forget to say Night Night to God before you slip off to dreamland.

Before You Go, Don’t Miss The Giveaway at the Bottom of the Page!
Giveaway is open to residents of US and Canada ages 18 and over!

About the author:

Amy Parker’s children’s books have sold more than 800,000 copies including two Christian Retailing’s Best award-winning books and the bestselling A Night Night Prayer. She lives outside Nashville with her husband and two children.

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I received a copy of this book from #FlyBy Promotions in exchange for my honest review. Thanks!

“Disclosure (in accordance with the FTC’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the
Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”): Many thanks to Propeller Consulting, LLC for providing this prize for the giveaway. Choice of winners and opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation. I did receive a sample of the product in exchange for this review and post. Only one entrant per mailing address, per giveaway. If you have won a prize from our sponsor Propeller / FlyBy Promotions in the last 30 days, you are not eligible to win. Or if you have won the same prize on another blog, you are not eligible to win it again. Winner is subject to eligibility verification.”

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None Like Him Book Review and Giveaway

Jaime Wiebel — Wed, 11 May 2016 01:42:00 +0000

Book Cover From Amazon.com

Jen Wilkin’s new book None Like Him will inspire you to think or rethink your views of God page after page. Ten ways God is different from us and why that’s a good thing is the premise of this page turner. Anytime I pick up a book and learn about God more in depth, I don’t want to put it down.

Jen Wilkin uses a list, used by many theologians, listing ten attributes of God, that only He has. This list is paired with a list of attributes of God that we, too, can attain. Even if you are aware of these attributes, for visual people like myself, it is great to see them in list form.

Each chapter of None Like Him goes into detail about these ten attributes that only God can have. Only God is Infinite, Incomprehensible, Self-Existent, Self-Sufficient, Eternal, Immutable, Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent.

I love how Jen Wilkin goes through each one of these attributes and combines Biblical truths with real-life situations.

Since the beginning of time, starting with Adam and Eve, man has tried to become like God and in many ways become their own gods. We set our sights on things that only God is and we get frustrated that life is not what we want it to be or thought it would be.

In realizing that only God can be God, we can move from worshipping creation and the things we make to worshipping the Creator. We are then free to be in awe of the Almighty Himself.

This book would be great for the individual, small group, or large group study. There are several features that I really enjoyed in this book that make it great for study.

Each chapter begins with the attribute of God that pertains only to Him, from the list above, and then discusses the Biblical truth along with real-life scenarios. We see these attributes made visible in our lives and read examples of how we try to become like God in those ways. Then each chapter ends with Toppling the myth of human… (i.e. self-sufficiency) followed by verses to meditate on pertaining to that chapter, four questions to dig deeper, and an idea to write out a prayer reflecting on that attribute.

In the very back of the book, there are several pages to write personal reflections which you may feel is adequate space to answer the questions throughout the book or you may want a journal to accompany your time spent in this book.

This is certainly a book you will want to read. I would recommend this book to both women and men because the focus of this book was God and did not necessarily focus on issues faced only by women or men. As believers, I believe it is essential to understand God more to understand ourselves more. This book does a great job of relating today’s social issues with Biblical truths.

Jen Wilkin is a speaker, writer, and teacher of Women’s Bible studies. She is the author of Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both our Hearts and Our Minds.

Disclosure (in accordance with the FTC’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”): Many thanks to Propeller Consulting, LLC for providing this prize for the giveaway. Choice of winners and opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation. I did receive a sample of the product in exchange for this review and post.

Only one entrant per mailing address, per giveaway. If you have won a prize from our sponsor Propeller / FlyBy Promotions in the last 30 days, you are not eligible to win. Or if you have won the same prize on another blog, you are not eligible to win it again. The winner is subject to eligibility verification.”

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God’s Good News Bible Storybook Devotions By Billy Graham – Book Review

Jaime Wiebel — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 05:25:00 +0000

I love books for so many reasons and am so excited to bring you my first book review.

The book I reviewed is God’s Good News Bible Storybook with Devotions from Billy Graham.

Illustrated by Scott Wakefield.

This is a Children’s Storybook Bible sprinkled with devotions from Billy Graham. It is appropriate for children ages 4-10 and contains scripture quotes from the New King James Version.

When I first opened this book I felt like was receiving a precious gift. Not only was I getting the Good News of Jesus Christ but I was receiving quotations on every story from Billy Graham. Quotations were adapted from his previous works and from sermons of years past. What an amazing opportunity to be able to pass on these teachings for generations to come.

God’s Good News Bible Storybook is a treasure from cover to cover. The illustrations are amazing and although the people are drawings they have such a gentle warmth and tenderness about them it makes me feel as if they are family.

I have loved watching my children’s faces as they have turned through the pages of this book and asked me to read their favorite Bible stories. This Storybook Bible is going to get a lot of use for many years to come.

What an amazing gift this would be for any child. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a Children’s Bible full of rich text and stunning illustrations.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers <http://booklookbloggers.com> book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 <http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html> : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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