232. Why Your Mindset as a Homemaker Matters | Mystie Winckler of Simply Convivial

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In her early days as a homemaker, Mystie found the role to be more difficult than she had expected. It was in acknowledging how truly valuable the role of a homemaker is that Mystie found joy and peace and purpose in the tasks of homemaking. If you struggle to embrace the role of homemaker or you are drowning in the mundanity, this episode will be a great encouragement to you!

In this episode, we cover:

The mindset that makes homemaking harder than it has to be
What happens when you decide to value the work of homemaking
Breaking down the overwhelming tasks of homemaking into baby steps
Prioritizing your many roles in the home
How to decide what to do first when you are overwhelmed
The power of acknowledging small progress along the way
Ideas for troubleshooting what isn’t working in your homemaking systems
Adjusting your expectations for your season and your specific family
The importance of your mindset in forming new homemaking habits

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ABOUT MYSTIE

Mystie Winckler and her husband Matt live in Moscow, Idaho, and have five children, including two adult sons and three kids they still homeschool. Mystie is the author of The Convivial Homeschool and Simplified Organization. She writes and podcasts at Simply Convivial to encourage moms to tackle their responsibilities with joy.

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Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done by Mystie Winckler

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you keep it small and you practice actually saying noticing the things that you did get done
0:05.8	and taking joy from those things, you're doing the same amount of work.
0:10.6	But instead of focusing on everything that you're not doing, you're focusing on what you are doing,
0:15.2	it just changes everything in that your perspective.
0:18.8	You're noticing what's true, which is that you are getting work
0:23.0	done instead of holding yourself up to a totally false standard. My name is Lisa, mother of eight
0:30.9	and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone, join me as I share with you
0:36.0	my love for creating a handmade home
0:38.0	from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:48.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today, we are going to be chatting
0:52.9	overwhelm in homemaking in motherhood and practical
0:58.0	ways to fix that something about homemaking it's very repetitive in our lives usually prior to
1:05.4	homemaking we have something where we have a project that we complete, we get graded on that or we get
1:12.8	compensated for that. And then in homemaking, all of that changes. And it can be hard to wrap
1:18.1	our brains around figuring out what to prioritize, what foot to put in front of the other.
1:23.3	I had several months back, a guest on the podcast that talked about always just doing the next right thing.
1:32.5	And, you know, I guess it didn't occur to me that it's not always clear what the next right thing is.
1:38.2	So we're going to be talking a bit about that.
1:41.5	And hopefully you'll find a lot of encouragement from this episode. Welcome,
1:45.2	Misty. Thank you so much for joining me. Today we're going to talk about overwhelm as a mom staying
1:50.2	organized. This is something even if we feel like we have that all together, which who does? Nobody
1:55.5	thinks that. But I mean, we talk about it a lot on here. You can always have reminders,
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