"1" and "2" Will Get You Through!!

The Personal Progress book recommends at minimum to work on

1 Value Experience per month

and 

2 ten hour Projects per year

That's it!  And from age 12 to 18 it will get a girl all the way through the program.  They can accomplish this!

Coordinating Personal Progress with Young Women lessons

I didn't know this when I started my calling, but the church has already lined up Personal Progress goal suggestions for each lesson in the manuals.

On lds.org, go to the click on the "menu" button and go to "study."  From there click on "manuals" and then choose "Young "Women" on the left.  This will bring you to page where the first manual is:

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Young Women Manual 1 and Online Resource Guide 



This above is the link, if you don't want to do all that. =)

Then open a lesson, and on the right hand side there are all kinds of awesome supplemental suggestions.  The very last one usually is "Accept and Act," under which there is a link to Personal Progress goals associated with this lesson.

Here's how I apply that bit of knowledge:

Each week I print up the goals listed with a cute clip art (actual goals from the Personal Progress book, so they can start the goal without their book if they want) for each girl.  I describe in opening exercises the goals listed, and have told the girls:

Listen to the Spirit and your heart.  When one of the goals jumps out at you, work on that one.  

I remind the girls what the Personal Progress book suggests: One Value Experience a month, and two 10 hour projects a year.  That's not hard!  And they will finish the program on time!

Here is a sample of what I pass out: (and I always add a cute little clip art for fun) and make enough copies for all, like I already mentioned.

 

DIVINE NATURE #3: Make your home life better. For two weeks make a special effort to strengthen your relationship with a family member by showing love through your actions. Refrain from judging, criticizing, or speaking unkindly, and watch for positive qualities in that family member. Write notes of encouragement, pray for this family member, find ways to be helpful, and verbally express your love. Share your experiences and the divine qualities you’ve discovered with that family member or with a parent or leader.

How ever you promote it, remember that the Personal Progress program is inspired of the Lord to help His daughters become what they need to become in these years.  It will help them to know how much He loves them. 

I LOVE PERSONAL PROGRESS!!