Just Different

As a Christian small business owner or entrepreneur, it is important to reflect monthly on your goals and progress. This will help you to stay on track and make sure that you are making progress towards your goals. It will also help you to identify any areas where you need to improve. How do you do that as a Christian ? Set aside time Set aside some time each month to reflect. This could be an hour at the end of the month or a longer period of time on the weekend. Have a conversation with God about your past month! Reflect on what happened  First, you should take some time to review your mission. Do you have a business mission verse? Think about your month in light of that.  Pray and ask God to remind you how you spent your time. Ask him to bring to mind the biggest lessons he taught you.  Get personal: Ask God to show you how he is changing you! God cares more about us than about what we accomplish! Ask God what you should focus on next Keep track of monthly, quarte...

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Here's a new thing I decided to do when planning for this year. Since I have students with such a wide range of abilities, I really want to individualize as much as possible. Duh, obviously! That's the goal, right? But I decided to approach thinking about it differently than I have before: I thought out and wrote up an IDEAL day for each student. What would they work on in the areas of self-help skills, vocational skills, academic skills? What gross and fine motor activities would they engage in? What sensory activities would they do? What are their preferred activities that I want to make sure they get to do when they are finished working? I wrote their IEP goals in red because those are the things I for sure need to get to. The black ink is things that would be awesome for them to have exposure to. The IDEAL scenario. So now, as I look at these charts for each of my 9 students, I can decide how I want to schedule our day. Can I incorporate all of the academic skills i...