What I Need for the New School Year

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments, and that bridge must be crossed every day. ~John Maxwell in The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

It’s another new beginning.

As we start our school year this week, I have goals for myself and our children for the coming months.  What will it take to reach those goals?

Discipline.

As I seek to implement discipline in order to accomplish my goals, here are three things that I need to do.

• Define my goals.  I do this by asking myself questions, such as the following:  What do I want a typical school day to look like?  Which skills do I want my children to master?  What can I do to add a bit of fun to our learning?  I must keep my goals simple and measurable.

• Establish routines.  This is nothing more than putting procedures into place that will lead me to meet my goals.  We’ve had a good schedule in the past, so I just need to take a few minutes to review it and see if we need to make any adjustments.  I’ll do the same about a week into the school year.  I also want to continue meeting my yearly goal of having one fun homeschool day each month.

• Realize the “dailiness” of discipline.  While we may occasionally throw our schedule out the window, the reality is that most days we need to exercise discipline and follow our routine in order to succeed.

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