{"id":13449,"date":"2026-10-04T18:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13449"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:45:55","slug":"launching-pad-tuesday-october-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/launching-pad-tuesday-october-6-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching Pad &#8211; Tuesday, October 6, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nIf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>John 15:7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Desiring to usher in the first full week of October, Marcia decided to challenge her eighth graders. After writing &#8220;October&#8221; on the board, she divided her twenty-seven students into two teams. Their mission? Creatively build a positive acronym using the letters of the month. To guide them, Marcia offered a few prompts focused on hope and optimism, and then she started the clock. Shortly after, the two groups merged their ideas into a single, powerful anthem: <strong>Optimistically Consider This October Bountifully, Enjoyably Rewarding<\/strong>. Proud of their upbeat outlook, Marcia announced they would launch this positive trajectory with a pizza party the very next day.<\/p>\n<p><em>The mind is the launching pad for wherever you hope to go or become when it releases an optimistic outlook.<\/em> This was the message intended for the opening scenario, using the first full month of autumn to introduce a strategy for fostering positive thoughts. It starts with &#8220;Optimistically Consider&#8221;\u2014by allowing yourself to imagine good things on the horizon, however, not in the far distance, but &#8220;This October&#8221;\u2014and it will be &#8220;Bountifully, Enjoyably, Rewarding,&#8221; trusting that when your aspirations align with God\u2019s Word, then it merits the promise assured in John 15:7.<\/p>\n<p>Striving to maintain a positive outlook is a wonderful strategy for handling the instability that often comes with life, which, like most undertakings, will require God\u2019s help, especially when faced with untimely outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you \u2013 John 15:7 Desiring to usher in the first full week of October, Marcia decided to challenge her eighth graders. After writing &#8220;October&#8221; on the board, she divided her twenty-seven students &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/launching-pad-tuesday-october-6-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Launching Pad &#8211; Tuesday, October 6, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13451,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13449\/revisions\/13451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}