SC004: Seeking or Seeming? – Simply Convivial - Simplified Organization Audio Blog: quick actions, organized attitudes
Summary: Welcome to The Simply Convivial Audio Blog! Releasing weekly on Wednesdays, this podcast brings you short & meaty focus sessions to help you keep your head in the game as a classical homeschool mom. Check out the <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/audio">podcast page here</a> and please <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/review">leave a review</a>. Thanks!<br> esse quam videri, or Virtue<br> <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/season1">Season 1: Education is For Life</a><br> Would we rather look good than be good, than do what is right? What if we prioritized being and doing good over looking good? And I’m not talking about makeup. It is simpler and more immediately rewarding to have people think we are good than to expend the effort and rise to the challenge of really pursuing virtue, regardless of people’s opinion of us.<br> At the park with our children, is it more important to us that we appear like good moms or that we actually do what our children need us to do, regardless of what the other park moms think?<br> When having people over, do we care more about making it seem like we have our act together or actually have our act together enough to prioritize keeping in fellowship with our children over conquering the dust, fingerprints, and crumbs, if we have to choose.<br> Being and doing good does not always give us the payoff of looking good, actually. If we must choose, which will we choose? Being or seeming?<br> Yet, actually having these virtues is hard work. Seeming to have them is easier than actually having them. Seeming to have them will make us more popular than actually having them, than actually obeying God’s commands.<br> To be virtuous, rather than simply seem so, will require diligence and perseverance in the midst of adversity. Virtue isn’t a magic trait that smooths paths and makes life soft and easy. Rather, the opposite is more true. Virtue is forged in the furnace of trial and temptation.<br> You can’t have courage without fear. You can’t have patience without trial. You can’t have self-control without warring desires. Virtue is a fruit God grows in us through adversity.<br> <br> Read the original post: <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/2013/education-is-for-life-esse-quam-videri-or-virtue">Seeking or Seeming – Virtue</a><br> Listen:<br> Resources:<br> <br> * Dr. Perrin’s lecture “<a href="http://insideclassicaled.com/the-eight-essential-principles-of-classical-pedagogy/">Eight Essential Principles of Classical Education</a><br> * <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/2014/classical-homeschooling-virtue">Virtue is the Goal of Education</a><br> * <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/2016/wisdom-leading-virtue-liberal-art">Wisdom leading to virtue is the only liberal art</a><br> <br> Simple Sanity Saver: Brain Dump<br> So you have a thorough brain dump. You have deleted what you can. Now you have a collection of things that you think maybe you should trash and maybe you should save. How do you make that call?<br> Start a fresh list. Make two columns. One column is Discuss and the other is SomedayMaybe. As you flip through your brain spillage, move onto the clean list in the SomedayMaybe column projects, goals, hopes, etc that you can’t do now, but you’d like to do in the future. Once they’re on the new list, cross them out of your brain dump notebook so you don’t need to filter them visually again when you go through for the important things. If you have items in your brain dump that you can’t decide about, if you aren’t sure if it’s an unrealistic expectation or just a hard truth. If you aren’t sure sure if you should be doing this or concerned about that, add it to the Discuss column and cross it off the brain dump.<br> Those issues that make it to the discuss column are now your agenda items. One by one over time or in a big heart-to-heart session,
