Microsoft Surface Pro Giveaway
I'm excited to host this giveaway for a Microsoft Surface Pro, sponsored by Bing rewards. To enter, just use the form below!
It’s Here! Get the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle Now!
You'll find the iPad mini giveaway at the bottom of this post. Keep scrolling!
I am so excited that this bundle is back!!! I have purchased every single bundle in the past and have loved them all — and this one is the best one they've put together yet!
By popular demand, 100+ homemaking bloggers are bringing back The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle, and it's better than ever!
The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle is a complete library of great eBooks on homemaking—a truly valuable knowledge base you’ll use for many years to come.
Unlike a library, though, you don’t have to spend years building it up. The Ultimate Bundles team has done the hard work for you, searching the web to find the very best eBooks from top homemaking authors and combining them into one essential collection that you can buy in one simple purchase.
Act now to get the ultimate eBook collection on homemaking at a once-in-a-lifetime price.
I'm confident you won’t find a more comprehensive set of homemaking resources anywhere — and certainly not at this price. Bought separately, they’d cost a total of $698 (not including $200+ in bonuses!). But you can have all of them for just $29.97!
Or, for just an extra $10, you not only get the full set of PDF files, but also a bonus set of Kindle editions, perfectly formatted for easy Kindle reading. This has been a popular request over the years and I'm excited to say it's now available!
I believe it’s the best deal on homemaking eBooks anywhere on the web. But it will only be available for six days. So grab yours before it's gone!
What's in the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle?
86 eBooks on the topics of Homemaking, Food, Motherhood, Marriage, Faith, Finances, Health, Holidays, Homeschooling, Pregnancy and Baby, Self-Care, and Working From Home and Blogging. See the full list of books.
In addition to all the amazing eResources, this bundle includes the best bonus offers it's ever had, including:
- A free 10-pack of greeting cards from Dayspring
- 3 free eye shadows from Redeeming Beauty Minerals
- Free art print plus $15 store credit to Hope Ink
- $15 store credit for fabric & patterns from Marie-Madeline Studio
- Sixty-four loads of eco-friendly laundry detergent from Dizolve
As well as five more incredible offers from:
The bonuses alone are worth over six times the price of the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle. Learn more about the bonus offers.
This huge wealth of information and guidance will be right there on your laptop, tablet, smartphone, or Kindle, whenever you need it.
Here's what you need to know about the sale:
When? 8 a.m. EST Wednesday, April 23 until 11:59 p.m. EST Monday, April 28
What? 78 eBooks, 2 eCourses, 2 audio files, and 2 printable packs PLUS over $200 worth of bonus products you'll really use!
Where? Purchase the bundle here.
How much? Well now, that's the best part. The entire package is worth nearly $900, and it's selling for less than $30. Sweet deal, right?
Want to learn more? Read about what this amazing bundle offers—or just buy it now!
Can't afford the bundle right now? Â
The organizers have really sympathized with those who would love it, but need to get paid first. You can still get your order in before the deadline, but your card will not be charged until May 1. Order through the links below, and they will automatically charge your card on May 1, and your bundle will be emailed to you as soon as payment has gone through.
Order now and Pay in May for Kindle.
Order now andPay in May for PDF version.
Remember, this bundle is available for 6 days only, from 8 a.m. (EST) on Wednesday, April 23 to 11:59 p.m. (EST) on Monday, April 28th.
Disclosure: I have included affiliate links in this post. Read the fine print about this bundle and read the answers to frequently asked questions about the bundle.
Giveaway!
To celebrate this sale, I have gotten together with some of the other authors to giveaway an iPad mini
Help for Disorganized People: Getting Started
For the previous posts in this series, check out
{Help for Disorganized People: Part 1}
{Overcoming Roadblocks to Organization}
{Overcoming Roadblocks to Organization: Part 2}
{What to Do When You Get Off Track}
 Now that you know what you need to do to get organized, you have to actually get started!
If you're having trouble getting started, it's very possible that you're making it harder than it has to be. A lot of us disorganized procrastinators tend to look at everything at once, which can be very overwhelming. Learning how to break things down into smaller chunks will help you get started a lot more easily. In fact, it's as easy as learning your ABC's.
A — Take Action
You've spent enough time learning; you know what to do. You're going to learn even more from doing than you are from reading about and thinking about doing something. So, take action today! Pick one small thing and go for it!
B — Break it Down
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The way to truly “go for it” is to break everything down into smaller, doable chunks. Need to organize a room. Start by looking for all the trash in the room and throwing it away. You can do that. When that job is finished, choose one shelf to declutter. Don't start on another job until each thing is finished. Focus on one small task at a time. Before you know it, all those small tasks will add up to big success.
C — Create Momentum
Momentum simply means forward progress. In order to create forward progress you got started, you broke it down to small, workable chunks, and now you have to keep going! As you keep moving forward, everything you've done adds up to create bigger and larger success.
In Conclusion
Letting go of procrastination and getting organized is a critical skill to learn. It's far too easy to just let things pile up until you start facing overwhelm. But if you keep your aim high, and focus on the small picture, you can beat overwhelm and finally get organized. Getting organized will allow you to keep track of even more amazing ideas, enable you to get more from your ideas, drastically lower your stress, and help you waste less time!
What is the first small task you will do?
(And if you haven't already joined our Homemaking Challenges group, focusing on one small task at a time is exactly what we're doing! It's a lot more fun to work together with other homemakers who have similar struggles. Come join us!)
You Can Earn a Full-Time Income From Your Blog
What if, a year from now, you were able to earn a full time income from your blog?
How would your life be different?
The doors for Elite Blog Academy will be closing soon and won’t open again until next year. Do you really want to wait until 2016 to start building your business?
You might think you are already doing okay.
But is your blog really as profitable or successful as it could be?
Is your message clear and presented in a way that is visually appealing?
Is your traffic growing?
Is your business taking off?
We all know how overwhelming it can feel to juggle the day-to-day demands of writing a blog with the big-picture strategy of creating a profitable business. Last year I decided to take a chance and enroll in the first-ever Elite Blog Academy course. I wasn’t sure I would learn anything new, but I was willing to take the chance.
I am so glad I did! In the time since I started Elite Blog Academy, I have more than quadrupled my yearly income from my blog. (Read more about my experience with that here.)
It is possible to create a successful business from a blog, and Elite Blog Academy shows you exactly how it’s done, step-by-step.
It even comes with a 100% money-back guarantee!
If you complete the course and have not seen measurable results in both traffic and income growth you will get your money back, no questions asked. You literally have NOTHING to lose.
Tuition is just $399-believe me it’s worth every penny.
Enrollment is limited, so don’t delay. Doors will close April 21st! Otherwise you will have to wait until 2016!
*Bonus!
If you purchase through my affiliate link, I am offering an exclusive bonus only to you.
In Unit 3, you will be assigned to have an evaluation done on your blog through a user testing site. Although this is helpful, it is usually done by people off the street who have no knowledge of blogging and who are simply telling whether or not they like the look of your blog.
I want to help you get the most possible out of this course, so I am offering a professional blog evaluation (reg. $99) completely free to you. Simply forward me a copy of the receipt once you enroll and I will make a note of it. Once you reach unit 3 you can contact me for your free professional evaluation.
(To make sure you actually go through my link, you should clear your cookies first, then purchase through this link.)
P.S. Don't forget this is the only course Ruth is doing this year! If you're ready to earn a full time income from your blog, don't wait! Otherwise you'll be sitting around until 2016.
Course enrollment ends in:
Enroll now to begin your journey to making a full-time income from your blog. (Remember to clear cookies first if you want the free professional evaluation.)
Apparoo App of the Week – Tic Toc Time
This post is sponsored by Apparoo.
I’ve partnered with Apparoo to highlight a new app each week. These apps will be free or highly discounted during the weeks I post them, so grab them while you can!
From a kid’s perspective, time is a bizarre concept: there are 60 seconds and 60 minutes, but 12 hours… unless there are 24! And phrases like ‘a quarter til’ and ‘half past’ that we take for granted just seem to make their brains melt. Tic Toc Time takes a holistic approach to teaching time; a family of beavers leads a progression of fun games that first explain using a compass and the movement of the sun and shadows before logically arriving at both digital and analog time-telling. A good time is guaranteed for all! Download it here now.
Download Tic Toc Time here!
Keep Good Going
This post was sponsored by New York Life. Find out how New York Life can help you and your family Keep Good Going by visiting newyorklife.com/keepgoodgoing
How can you keep good going in your life? In the video below, you'll see how a young man was encouraged through the example of his uncle. Then keep reading and I'll tell you a little about myself and how I hope to keep good going.
(If you could not view the video above, be sure to watch My Uncle’s Gift on Youtube.)
I know firsthand how important it is for families to use the gifts they have to encourage the next generation to be all that they can be.
From the time I was a little girl, I was encouraged to work hard and develop the talents that God has given me. My most noted ability was in the area of music, and my parents recognized it as a special gift from God. They ensured that I had piano lessons at the earliest age possible, and did everything they could to give me every opportunity to use my gift. My mother was musically gifted and I she taught me by her own example to use my gift to be a blessing to others. Our family often sang together in church, and performing music for the others was almost always a part of family get-togethers.
As I grew, my musical gifts grew too. My parents did not force me to practice and take lessons, but they made sure my circumstances were conducive to making my love of music flourish. Lessons were always provided with no hesitation even though there were times when it was probably a financial sacrifice. Music books were given to me as gifts and good music was constantly being played on the tape player or radio in our house. My family endured countless hours of hearing me practice boring, repititious scales, repeating difficult sections of songs over and over, and often had to listen to my mindless doodling on the piano as well.
If they would have complained about having to listen to my constant piano pounding or made a scene about having to pay for lessons, they could have easily squelched my love for music. Instead, they did everything they could to help it flourish, and today I love playing, composing, arranging, and teaching music just as much as I ever did.
I hope that I can pass that love of music on to my children and to the students I have taught in the past and hope to teach again in the future. I hope that the music I play and sing will be a blessing to others when they hear it live or on a recording. I hope that the music I compose and arrange will be used by other music lovers for years to come to touch the lives of others as they play and sing it.
Music is a gift that can be passed from generation to generation, and I would be thrilled to know that my music has touched the life of someone else who in turn can touch the life of someone else.
How can you keep good going? Do you have a special ability that you can use to bless others? Maybe you don't feel that you have any incredible talent. But by being a loving parent, faithful friend, or caring spouse, you can have a greater impact on people than you could ever imagine.
Learn more about how New York Life can help you and your family Keep Good Going.