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    Total Home Makeover: A 20-Day Plan to Renew Your Space and Spirit
    Total Home Makeover: A 20-Day Plan to Renew Your Space and Spirit
    Total Home Makeover: A 20-Day Plan to Renew Your Space and Spirit
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    Total Home Makeover: A 20-Day Plan to Renew Your Space and Spirit

    By Renee Metzler

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    Get a Total Home Makeover in 20 days. Each day, Let’s Chat (daily coaching session) about one secret to home management, then Get Moving (daily to do list) and apply what you just learned. Stay motivated with a Daily Renewal (prayer, Bible verse and journal) and a Weekly Reward (fun ideas to celebrate your success). Total Home Makeover is a complete home management course. During your journey, get yourself, your family and your home all paddling in the same direction, toward order. Travel through three phases: Phase 1: Transform Self. Learn smart daily and weekly home management routines that create order in the home. Phase 2: Transform Family. Coach your family to learn and maintain healthy home habits that bring order to the home. Phase 3: Transform Home. Organize (clear, sort, store) room-by-room to create a functional home with activity zones that meet your family’s needs. Plus get worksheets (meal planner, chore chart, daily routines, room planner), stories from the author, and a supportive website. Grab a friend, your sister, or your small group and get started on your Total Home Makeover.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmbassador International
    Release dateNov 22, 2016
    ISBN9781620200551
    Total Home Makeover: A 20-Day Plan to Renew Your Space and Spirit

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      Book preview

      Total Home Makeover - Renee Metzler

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedications

      Acknowledgments

      A Prayer

      Welcome

      Phase 1: Transform Yourself

      Day 1

      Let’s Chat . . . about Daily Routines!

      Get Moving!

      Day 2

      Let’s Chat . . . about Weekly Routines

      Get Moving!

      Day 3

      Let’s Chat . . . about Meal Planning

      Get Moving!

      Day 4

      Let’s Chat . . . about Desk Work, Errands, and Laundry

      Get Moving!

      Day 5

      Let’s Chat . . . about Weekly Planning

      Get Moving!

      Your First Reward

      Phase 2: Transform Your Family

      Day 6

      Let’s Chat . . . about You as Coach & Family Expectations

      Get Moving!

      Day 7

      Let’s Chat . . . about One-on-One Training

      Get Moving!

      Day 8

      Let’s Chat . . . about Cleaning 101

      Get Moving!

      Day 9

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing 101

      Get Moving!

      Day 10

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Porch and Foyer

      Get Moving!

      Your Second Reward

      Day 11

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Laundry Room

      Get Moving!

      Day 12

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Home Office

      Get Moving!

      Day 13

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Family Room

      Get Moving!

      Day 14

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Kitchen

      Get Moving!

      Day 15

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Dining Room

      Get Moving!

      Your Third Gift

      Day 16

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Master Bedroom

      Get Moving!

      Day 17

      Let’s Chat . . . about the Master Wardrobe

      Get Moving!

      Day 18

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Children’s Bedroom

      Get Moving!

      Day 19

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Bathroom

      Get Moving!

      Day 20

      Let’s Chat . . . about Organizing the Storage Area

      Get Moving

      Your Fourth Gift

      One Month Bonus Planner

      How to Renew Your Spirit

      Endnotes

      Contact

      Total Home Makeover

      A 20-Day Plan to Renew Your Space and Spirit

      © 2012 by Renee O. Metzler

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN: 978-1-62020-013-1

      eISBN: 978-1-62020-055-1

      Scripture quotations taken from the THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified® Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission.

      Cover Art by Kaysha Siemens

      Book Design and Page Layout by Matthew Mulder

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      TO MY HEAVENLY FATHER

      Thank you for your favor, outrageous plans, presence, and love.

      TO NEVIN

      I’m so blessed to have you as my husband, best friend, cheer leader, and soul mate. Thank you for always believing in me. I love and appreciate you for all that you are. After over ten years of marriage, I am still in like.

      TO DAPHNE

      My dear daughter, I love who you are. I appreciate your leadership qualities, your gifts of speech and art, your fun nature, and just watching you create and imagine. You bring so much joy into my life. I love your presence, and I’m proud to call you my daughter.

      TO CHLOE

      I love your soft, gentle spirit and your sense of humor, my dear daughter. Thank you for being someone who cares about others. I appreciate your gifts of tenderness and peacemaking and how beautifully creative you are. I love being with you, and I’m proud to call you my daughter.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      EVERY GOOD GIFT COMES FROM above, and so I give God the glory for any great idea within these pages. I also want to thank my husband, Nevin, and daughters, Daphne and Chloe, for encouraging me to press on and finish my book. Embracing my love for writing required me to close my home business doors and step out in faith to open a new chapter in my life, pursuing the concept of Total Home Makeover. Thank you, my dear family, for nudging me in the right direction. You’ve taught me that it’s always worth pursuing our dreams, risking failure (though it really can’t hurt or stop us), and going on the walk that requires faith.

      Creating a book is a team process, and so I want to recognize those who have helped:

      All of the wonderful people at Ambassador International, for believing in my manuscript. Thank you for applying your expertise in editing, design, marketing, and publishing. Thank you for the highly professional and godly manner in which your company works and for taking my manuscript from rough draft to book-shelf worthy. I am truly grateful for the experience of developing this project with you.

      Dr. Samuel Lowry, for believing in and acquiring my manuscript

      Tim Lowry, for over-seeing the project with excellence

      Matthew Mulder, for his creative design and direction

      Brenda Covert, for her friendly editing expertise

      Alison Storm, for her marketing expertise

      Shannon, my sister-in-law, for kindly sharing home organizational ideas and tips, some of which I have incorporated into this book.

      Cheri, for giving me reader feedback; that perspective is invaluable.

      Dad and Mom, for praying for the success of this project and for the general support I have felt.

      All the friends and family in my life who have encouraged me, and to Marti Statler, for being first to fall in love with my manuscript.

      Trina, my photographer, for the author picture; you are truly gifted.

      A PRAYER

      DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,

      Thank you for being the giver of all life, all order and beauty, all creativity, all wisdom, all gifts, and all good ideas. I praise you for placing this book in the hands of your beautiful child. I believe this twenty-day plan includes practical keys to living well in the natural. I realize that you have created us with body, mind, and soul. Your gift of practical living is just as much from you as your gifts of spiritual life. I ask for a special endowment of grace, strength, energy, creativity, joy, and problem-solving for this reader, your dear daughter, as she reads and applies this twenty-day plan.

      I also ask that you would guide her every day as she completes this journey from chaos to order in her home. Help her to absorb the concepts, adopt healthy home habits, and see this twenty-day plan to completion. Rally those around her to support her, and place the right support partner(s) in her path.

      We ask that your will for beauty, order, and life come on earth as it is in heaven.

      Thank you for being a supernatural God who can do more than we’ve ever asked or imagined. I love you, Abba Father.

      I pray this in Jesus’ name,

      Renee Metzler, your follower

      I’M RENEE METZLER, AND I am proud to coach you on a subject that can help everyone who dwells in a home: effective home management. I’m also a follower of Jesus, freelance writer, wife, mother, and life management coach through my site at www.totalhomemakeover.com.

      Back in 2002, I found myself in a strange predicament, one that I hope you will never have to experience. I began a brand new career for which I had not trained—as home manager. As I struggled through the first couple of weeks in my new position, I found myself facing an ugly truth. I was lacking in home management skills, knowledge, and discipline. My performance was a C+ at best. You see, I had trained to become a secondary education English teacher, but I had never really trained to manage a home well. I say well, because many of us can manage somewhat, but well is another story.

      When I was pregnant with my first child, I decided to make that drastic career change. I went from full-time teacher to full-time mother and home manager. I didn’t buy into the world’s theory that you’re only important if you have a big paycheck, a big home, lots of stuff, and a high status career. However, I am a believer in doing well in that which we seek out to do. I knew that, as the hours of my day flew by without much structure, I had a few things to learn about how to manage a home. I noticed that some women seemed to struggle like I did, and then others seemed to keep their homes in order without much effort. Thus began my quest for the secrets to smarter home management.

      I began to ask questions, read books, and look for information online. Were there tricks to the trade of home management? Did successful home managers have secrets or a common ground of knowledge and skills that we floundering ones lacked? Did great home management mean I would

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