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    Book Club: Chapter One

    I’m so glad we’re doing this together! A little community of accountability. I started to read this book six years ago, and the chapters that I read truly revolutionized my life. But, for some reason, I never got around to finishing it (which is the opposite of being a highly effective person!).

    Perhaps I should pose some questions to make this a bona fide book club?

    Let me see:

    1. Which ideas from the chapter resonated with you?
    2. Did you disagree with anything?
    3. How will your life be different now that you’ve read this chapter? In other words, what are you specific action steps that you generated from reading this chapter?
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    Etsy Find

    I fell in love with this image of basket containers via Martha Stewart and then later that day I saw this basket on the front page off Etsy for $12.50. I snatched it up with my allowance money. But later, when I showed the photo to Matt, he said he really liked it and he was fine if we used our joint funds to buy it. Woo-hoo!

    There are a few parts of our house that need work. Every time I pass by them, they bother me, and yet I haven’t yet done anything about them. Argh! As I said a while ago, it often only takes 15 minutes
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    How to Get a Baby Passport

    Yes, we are getting Henry a baby passport. No, we don’t actually have an out-of-country trip on the horizon.

    Then why the passport? Well, they can take so long to get. By the time we actually plan a trip, we might not have enough time to get one.

    Here’s how to do it:

    1. Find a place that will take baby passport photos: Definitely call ahead! I called ahead and still had problems. When I called the Walgreens photo department, they confirmed that they do take babies’ passport photos. When I actually showed up to hold them to their promise, it was another story. The teenage photo clerk took one look
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