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Loving making these! Sunrise Table Set pattern is quick and fun. Crochet Academy has taught me some new things and tuned up some others. Ready to tackle the Gloria Tote Bag now!

Today's swatch for the 2025 Crochet Academy class... backdropped by the Hudson Tassel Throw I am working on. That pattern is in The Tunisian Crochet Handbook by Toni Lipsey.

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires, you decide." - Tony Morgan
The next level or category of time is Investment time. ⏰ This is time spent focused on becoming more effective or efficient, learning something new, developing a new skill, doing a project, creating systems – anything that gives you back more time, knowledge, experience, and ultimately success in the long-run. Even exercise and planning and prepping healthy meals can be considered investment time because they are providing you and your family with good health in return. 👏
Basically, investment time is anything you do that will improve you as a person – physically, mentally, emotionally or professionally. These are activities that lead you to a more successful life and higher performance and satisfaction in all areas. Obviously, we would want to increase the amount of time we spend on investment. This requires prioritizing, organizing and keeping a schedule. Don’t worry, these are all things we’ll talk more about this month! 👌

For right now, all you need to do is evaluate your investment time.
How much time are you spending investing in yourself?
Do you spend time learning, growing, and working to be better?
What do you want to learn or do more of to improve yourself?
Where and how can you create more investment time?
Make a list of things you would like to do to invest in yourself. Write it down! ✍🏼 You will need it for later so you can properly prioritize and maximize that precious time!