The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWork Your Plan: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm A functional planner depends more on the user than the page templates and formats. You are the secret to your own functional planner, no matter what system you use. Three Rules to a Working Planner: It has a place for projects, notes, and a daily top three You carry it around with you and look at it throughout the day You update it every day, every week, and every quarter It's not the pages, but the process that makes a planner effective and functional. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comStop getting distracted and find the motivation you need to get momentum, find focus, make progress.Moms need to know how to stop getting distracted, because it's too easy to lose track of what's important and what needs to be done. We don't want to waste our time.To stop wasting time, we need better time management skills. Those skills include the simple practice of writing things down.We wonder how to stay focused, but it's as simple as writing things down, as brain dumping, to know what's actually on our plate.SHOW LESS Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comDownload the free guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindumpWe all know the feeling. You can't focus, you can't think straight. You can't get a handle on life.The truth is that your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.Clear the clutter to free up your creative energy.Three steps:Spend 10-15 minutes everyday writing down the 1. thoughts that make you anxious, 2. the thoughts that repeat themselves, 3. the nagging questions and tasksWhen your mind is uncluttered, you come up with out of the box solutions you'd never have been able to think about when your mind was full of junk. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comFind my free brain dump guide here: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindumpWhen you're feeling unmotivated, it's hard to get things done. We want to be more productive, but when we're feeling that lack of motivation we drag and dawdle. This one practice is the golden key to overcoming a lack of motivation and kicking your productivity motor into gear.You might wonder how to be more productive when you're feeling unmotivated, and the answer often comes down to acting in the way you want to feel. Whether you're working from home or working at home or both, you want to feel motivated and productive, but it's easy to feel stuck instead. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comGet help ending overwhelm & stress: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindumpMy quick hack for busy moms will save your sanity when you have so much to juggle. When you're looking for hacks, you usually want a secret you're missing - and I have that for you today.Too often busy moms are go go go and get confused and overwhelmed about what's next. We risk missing life because we were so busy juggling details.My quick and unexpected hack today - a brain dump - is the key process to stopping the cycle and getting clear about what needs to happen next and what is truly important. Your situation is probably not as bad as your imagination is spinning it; brain dump and see reality instead of drama.#busymoms #momlife Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Menu planning doesn't need to take a long time. These tips will get you to meal time peace.

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comMore tips here: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2019/how-to-grocery-shop/Improve your grocery shopping skill! These 3 grocery store tips will save you time and money and make grocery shopping simple. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWatch the "Save Time in the Kitchen" Workshop! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/pantryI know it seems overwhelming.I know even just planning dinner sometimes seems overwhelming.But, seriously, who wants to wake up and decide in the pre-coffee fog what to feed the troops for breakfast?It has to be decided ahead of time.Everyone talks about how much planning out dinners saves you from mental effort and decision fatigue, but that’s only 1/3 of the meals you feed people! Imagine if all the meals were planned – how much mental effort and decision fatigue would that reduce?Personally, I think the reason we balk at planning all the meals is that we build dinner menu planning into this herculean effort. Do we want to do that 2 more times over? No way! But if we simplify not only the two lighter meals, but also the dinner effort, we can have our plan and our peace of mind as well.Make an Easier Dinner PlanYou don’t need to have elaborate dinners every night to have a complete, healthy meal. Try thinking in threes and keeping easy to prepare vegetables always on hand. Rather than browse Pinterest or magazines to come up with dinner ideas, keep a list of your family’s go-to meals. Or, use Simplified Dinners, which is your list and guideline already put together.Make an Easier Lunch PlanLunch, whether you have to pack it or pause the other business of the day to prepare it, it always seems to get in the way. While taking a lunch break is refreshing, taking the time to prepare it is not.Make an Easier Breakfast PlanBreakfast hits us out of the blue, first thing in the morning. Rather than rolling out of bed without a clue about what to feed the troops, you need a plan in order to get things moving without feeling out of control.A solid breakfast starts the day off on the right foot, so planning it is essential. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWatch the "Save Time in the Kitchen" Workshop! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/pantryDoes menu planning seem impossibly hard? It really can be. So today let's talk about a simple way to make it easier. We will talk about building your own meal templates that will take the thinking out of menu planning. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com

Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comDo the Daily Card Challenge: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/daily-card/What if you made a plan, you picked your real top three priorities for the day, and then you did none of them and you have no excuses. There is no good reason why you didn't do what you ought to do. Are we just bad planners or are we just hopeless? No. Neither.How do we make progress without giving up and without making the same mistakes, again, figuring out the mistakes we made so that we can learn from them. That's the important lesson that we need to talk about and need to figure out.What if you just didn't do the right thing? What then you are not worthless or helpless or hopeless. You are just normal human, maybe tired, maybe worn out, maybe burnt out. Maybe there's some kind of roadblock preventing you from getting those things done that you haven't identified. There all kinds of reasons that the top priority things don't happen. Sometimes we just don't have the energy or attention that we need to make them happen. Sometimes the high priority task actually has to take a back seat to catching up on sleep or maybe doing an exercise program. I know, I know don't shoot the messenger, but the reality is that we need to be sure that the fundamentals, the foundation of our productivity is taken care of before we can have that productivity to work in before we can get some of those big things done, we need to have sleep. We need to have energy. We need to have the time available. And sometimes we just don't have those foundational pieces. And so we have to scale back our expectations and focus on building the building blocks of managing life. Before we do the things that give us progress. Sometimes we don't really have any excuse at all, though. It happens. It happens to me. And I know it just happens to all of us. We just don't do what we ought to do. No good reason, no excuses. And that just needs to be confessed repented of before God who has given us the time he's given us the responsibility is he has given us the resources. And when we don't use them, when we just get stuck in self-indulgence or a lethargy or acedia, we can turn to repentance, which is not beating ourselves up and feeling bad. It's confessing and turning from the sin and asking God for the forgiveness and the grace and the motivation to move forward to obey. And he gives us the ability and the strength when we don't have it ourselves. And sometimes that's the lesson that we need to learn. Sometimes we need to recognize that we were trying to move forward and work in our own strength. Sometimes just making decisions or purchasing materials, just little steps that actually have to happen before the big project can move forward before the actual task can get done.Turn what you think is one task into a project and list out every single step and then identify what is the one next thing that needs to happen out of these various steps. Pick one that's next and break that bigger overwhelming task down into just a getting started task. And a lot of times that is all we need to start seeing traction and getting some momentum. We just haven't broken things down into small enough pieces to actually manage and move forward. The daily card is a great way to make that happen because we can just flip it over and use the backside to brain dump, to figure out where you're stuck and why write down a prayer, write down the next, the real next step so that you can figure make a better choice. Tomorrow. The daily card really is the planner that we all need to see some progress in our day to day life. Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.com