We’d Love You to Join Us in "The PURSE-onality Challenge"
Maybe November and December are your two favorite months of the year.
Perhaps preparing for, living through, and cleaning up after the holidays doesn’t phase you in the least.
You may have your Christmas shopping all done, your cards ready to mail, and your thanksgiving menu completely planned.
If these are true for you, then The PURSE-onality Challenge holiday edition is not designed for you. (But please join us anyhow and give us your best advice!)
However, if you…
- dread dragging out the holiday decorations…
- wonder how what should be “the best of times” all too often often ends up being “the worst of times”…
- wish you could hibernate from October 30 ’til January 1…
- become overwhelmed by the commercialized chaos that tries to overtake your life in December…
- cringe just thinking about spending yet another holiday with certain people…
- feel like a failure because you never seem able to do everything “just right” for the holidays…
- have an over-full calendar already (and the invitations haven’t even started coming!)
- wonder how on earth you’re going to afford everything this season…
- miss loved ones more than ever during the holidays…
- want to focus on the real reason for the season…
…then I hope you’ll join us in October for “A Holiday-Ready Heart“!
Each day during October, we’ll examine an issue that often triggers holiday “baditude.” And we’ll plan ahead to focus, instead, on God’s word and gratitude when Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around this year.
For some, this may take just a slight tweak. For many though, this will require a serious overhaul of how we approach the holidays with our hearts.
Join us for 31 days of intentionally pray-paring for the most peace-full, joyous, family-focused, meaning-filled holy-days we can possibly have!
Here’s how:
__ “Like” Our Facebook Page
When you “Like” our Facebook page, you’ll receive a free 30+ page eBook: Top 10 Priceless Gifts that Don’t Cost a Dime for Each PURSE-onality (Part 1)
__ Receive Our Blog via e-mail
When you sign up to receive our blog via e-mail, you’ll receive the free companion 30+ page eBook: Top 10 Priceless Gifts that Don’t Cost a Dime for Each PURSE-onality (Part 2)
__ The Audio
If you’ve not yet listened to my message “Let’s Get PURSE-onal!” it’s free for you right here. (All the “PURSE” stuff will make a lot more sense!)
And my Christmas-specific message “De-LIGHT-full Giving in a Weighty World” is free for you right here.
(Two other free audios you’re welcome to check out are “Personality Puzzle for Parents of Preschoolers” and “Healthy Marriages Major in History (NOT Math!)“)
__ The Journal
If you don’t yet have your copy of The PURSE-onality Challenge journal, check out the options (which include FREE!) here.
__ The Bible Verse Cards
We’ll be focusing on 31 specific Bible verses during The PURSE-onality Challenge. Check out the options (which also include FREE!) here.
__ The Bracelet
One key component of The PURSE-onality Challenge is a stretchy bracelet that you can easily switch from wrist to wrist each day during The PURSE-onality Challenge; more details here.
__ PURSE-onality “Gift Cards”
Great to carry in your wallet, stick to your refrigerator, and post above your computer, our laminated PURSE-onality “gift cards” feature a short list of each PURSE-onality’s strengths to help you remember the gifts that each PURSE-on brings to your life; more details here.
__ Read the “Warm-Up Week” blog posts from May’s Challenge
Hi, Really like the Bible verse cards and think they will make good stocking stuffers….me a planner? It will not let me select more than one set. Any clues?
I desire more hope, joy, and peace in your life. I am in my early 60’s and it is time for a change…I accept the challenge and would love to win. Blessings. [email protected]
My friend just sent me your link and asked me to do this with her. It sounds great! I can’t wait to do this with her and all of you! Would love to win the book.
This is such a great idea and you are providing so many tools to edify, encourage, equip (and even convict). Thank you for the opportunity.
I’ve been trying to make changes but a little accountability can never hurt. The PURSE-onality challenge sounds like just the tool. Please enter me in the drawing and thanks!
Cheri,
As I told you in an email, my friend and colleague are taking this challenge together. I am so guilty of running to her classroom which is barely 25 feet down the hall, and saying things like,” What is up with this new …( lesson plan, student, parent, etc..)? YIKES ! I preach Philippians 2:14 to my students all the time. It is amazing how it often escapes MY radar. LOL!
Thanks for the warm-ups. They are greatly appreciated and extremely motivating.
God Bless,
Thea
Would love to be entered in the giveaway! I’d like to think I’m pretty positive and then I start writing down every time I complain…let’s just say it adds up!!
I’m taking the challenge, Cheri!! =)
I am sooo excited about this!!! Just saw it for the first time today!!! I have prayed about my “inner self” and negativity (just today)!!!! Ahhhh….I feel refreshed just thinking about the month ahead!!! Thanks for this!!!
I am taking the challenge and would loe to be enteed into the drawing. realizing I hve so many challenges in my life at this time and need the Lords help more than ever.
As some of the others my challenge right now is husband dealing with financial worries AND teenagers – 1 graduating high school in a few weeks and the other in college who just broke up with his girlfriend. Also my parents health is beginning to fail and I feel pulled in so many different directions that I feel like a rubber band that is about to pop. With challenges at work (outside home), and home – my life gets so stressful that often times I just want to run away and hide but I know it will all be there when I return. I’ve started having trouble with my blood pressure and mine has always been low. I’m trying to do better at turning it all over to the LORD but I am guilty of still hanging on and not fully trusting him to work it all out. You know mamas are supposed to have all the answers:) Looking forward to this study!!!!
Baba —
It is a great book! Of course, I’m a bit biased, as I had the opportunity to submit a number of stories that were included in the book…including some about my own children.
You’re in the drawing….and welcome aboard the Challenge!
C
You’re entered! Welcome aboard! 🙂
Donna —
I’m right there with you…only in my case, it’s not my dog but our cats. They track in more dirt than is physically possible! But they’re our “furry family” and we love all the blessings they bring.
Sounds like a blog post devoted to pets needs to start brewing…!
C
Angela —
Bless your heart! You’re reminding me of a blog post I wrote a few years ago…I need to go dig it up…where I realized that my level of complaining/sarcasm was an indicator that my pain was unmanaged.
Would love your input re: specific encouragement for those who deal with chronic illness/pain!
C
Jennifer —
Sounds like you’ve got a lot on your hands! Prayers for you and blessings to you as you go through this transition time. Our last move was 2 years ago and only 1/4 mile away, but I well remember the baditude battles!
C
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I just heard about this. It sounds Awesome!
Glad you’re joining us!
Welcome!
C
May I please be entered? My biggest baditude challenge is my husband’s discouragement with his job. When he is unhappy and scared, I take on all of his fears.
Kimberly —
Oh, this is a tough one…absorbing others’ emotions, especially the man who is “supposed” to be supporting us.
How to allow him his fears without taking them on…a very worthy topic for us to wrestle with together!
So glad you’ve joined us!
C
I am so glad I found you through the time warp wife! 🙂
[email protected]
Glad you found us, too!
Welcome aboard the Challenge!
C
I just ordered the journal, can’t wait for it to arrive. The biggest trigger for my bafitude is guilt over not spending more time in God’s Word!
Heya Michelle —
What is it with women and guilt? For me, at least, once it takes hold, it starts multiplying and taking over, paralyzing me…and then I feel more guilt for not taking action. Food for yet another blog post…
You’re entered in the drawing — welcome aboard the Challenge!
C
Hi, just ordered the PDF. I think a couple of my biggest triggers for baditude are 1) not nearly enough quiet time with the Lord 2)trying to do too much or expect too much
Mandy —
Sounds like we’ve got a theme developing: quiet time with the Lord is the foundation.
And WOW on your #2! I so identify. I try to do too much and expect too much of myself and others and then none of it happens the way I need/want/expected and…ba…ba…baditude!
You’ve given me a couple of great blog topics for the Challenge: What to do with the womanly urge to “do it all”? and How to let go of expectations and reach for hope, instead?
You’re in the drawing — welcome aboard the Challenge!
C
My baditude is my attitude toward everything, unfortunately!!! Mainly self-pity, but trying to overcome with regular quiet time and being patient. I picked the free ebook, thank you for the option! Would love to be entered into the drawing!!
Ah, self-pity. The problem with pity parties is that nobody brings gifts and the entertainment is terrible! (I know this from plenty of experience!)
Regular quiet time is such a vital discipline that trickles into all other areas of life. It took me so long to realize that when I told myself I was “too busy” for quiet time, I basically gave myself permission to be “too busy” to be civil!
“being patient”…now there’s a topic worth pondering…especially for those of us (like me!) who aren’t naturally patient…you’ve got my blogging brain going, here…!
You’re in the drawing — welcome aboard the Challenge!
C