Have you ever left a conference excited about all you have learned, only to jump back into the daily grind and never put any of it into practice? Get together LIVE and workshop your own joy plan! We will take our favorite ideas from the conference and embed them into our regular daily, weekly, and yearly rhythms to create a life full of joy.
To get the most out of this session, make sure to grab a journal or notepad!
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Elizabeth Schmus, MA Educational Leadership, has taught in public and private schools primarily at the middle school level. Currently, she serves with Christian Educators and was one of the developers of the AWAKE experience. She and David have been married 31 years during which they have faced many challenges through which God has refined them, including: parenting their 6 children, the loss of their son Michael, and Elizabeth's battle with stage 3 cancer.
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Joy can be found in the simplest of everyday things. From a child asking to be your ‘buddy’ as you walk down the hall with the class, to the ‘light’ going on, to a snack mix, to sitting with a favorite drink grading papers at a restaurant. I also liked the “remember how it ends”.
My big takeaway was practicing my top 10 Joy moments and taking time to do my dailys, monthlys, yearlys, and seasonal lists. I think that is important, and I really never thought of that. Thank you for this session.
Finding Joy in the moment. Our Joy is knowing Christ has us. Making sure to have that reset moment.
Loved the daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, and yearly “joy” planner life applications. I had never thought of it like that, but it makes sense and I am going to be more intentional. Also, I have looked forward to the Rise Up every Oct for the last three years. It is on my yearly “joy” planner! Thank you so much. I thank God for this wonderful support for teachers in the public schools. It is a lifeline for me! God bless CE>.
This was my first year and I said out loud, “I am going to this conference EVERY year that God calls me to be an educator.” I was so moved, uplifted, and filled with joy to be able to put God first in my educational journey this weekend.
Great practical tips for having more joy throughout your day!
I love all the suggestions for categorizing joy lists! I already do lots of the activities that were mentioned. But the idea of journaling them into daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and yearly lists will help me to be intentional and purposeful. Thank you also for giving me ways to look for the joy in my job during a school year that is often stressful. So encouraging!
The journal was a great way to help us embrace joy in the lord based on our life experiences.
I really enjoyed the practical application of this session… the differentiated lists of Top 10 Joys and the Daily-Yearly outline… I even made sure to use my colorful marker pens!
Thank you for sharing. This was so helpful to make the lists and think through ways to plan to spend time with God and be close to Him.
Making the lists of tens (memory; teaching; parts of job) and scheduling times for daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, and yearly to take time to do things I enjoy; Scriptures on joy and what having true joy means. Thank you!
Thank you so much! The reminder of how to maintain joy in all things is so needed. I love the list of things for each day, week, month, season, and year.
What a great reminder for so much Joy already in me. Thank you Lord for the reminders !! to keep bringing back to my mind.
This session filled my Cup!
Thank you for getting us started on a Joy Journal. I wasn’t quite prepared for making a whole journal, but now I plan on getting a notebook at Ross just for that.
This was the best session! I love the idea of a joy journal and scheduled joy moments. I can’t wait to get started!
Thank you for reminding me of some of the joyful moments (both personally and professionally) that have gotten swept to the corners of my mind. You helped end the summit with joy and happy thoughts. Thank you!
Great session for finding ways to maintain joy.